Word: apollos
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...daily 7-min. to 11-min. Wally, Walt and Donn Show, as it was nicknamed, was scheduled once each morning during a 2,000-mile Apollo pass between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Cape Kennedy, the only two ground stations equipped to pick up the transmissions. The astronauts held up crudely lettered signs that read "Hello from the lovely Apollo Room, high atop everything" and "Deke Slayton, are you a turtle?" In accordance with a bar room tradition that has been adopted by the astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty...
...astronauts also shot some scenes from the spacecraft windows, catching glimpses of clouds and coastlines racing by. They panned Apollo's interior as they described equipment; they demonstrated how loose drops of water are collected with a vacuum hose and how water is added to their dehydrated food...
...flight continued without serious problems, an air of heady optimism began to pervade the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Said NASA's Christopher Kraft: "The performance of the vehicle to date has been very close to perfect." At week's end, officials were hinting that if Apollo 7 continued to perform faultlessly all the way through its splashdown this week, the planned lunar-orbital mission of Apollo 8 might well be advanced by two weeks...
...three stars of The Wally, Walt and Donn Show shared equal billing, but each performance, like the flight itself, really belonged to the spacecraft commander, Wally Schirra. The impressive efficiency of Apollo 7 and its crew was fitting tribute to the 45-year-old veteran who is making his last flight...
Plagued by a head cold aboard Apollo 7, Schirra was unusually testy during some of his exchanges with ground controllers. But when problems are crucial, Schirra has always demonstrated remarkable coolness...