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...millions of veteran space-shot watchers, last week's televised launch of Apollo 7 had more than the usual elements of drama. It was the first U.S. manned flight since three astronauts were killed in a fire on the same launch pad 21 months before. Any more serious trouble would all but wipe out U S hopes of landing men on the moon before the end of 1969. Thus, as the towering Saturn IB rocket lifted ponderously off the pad after a heart-stopping moment of hesitation, U.S. hopes rose with it. At week's end, the eleven...
Completion of these three missions without any serious problems would seem to violate the laws of probability. Apollo has 2,000,000 functional parts, 587,000 inspection points, and 47 engines (not including the 42 in Saturn 5 and three more in the escape tower that is jettisoned shortly after launch). Any one of those items conceivably could cause trouble. But NASA nonetheless is optimistically planning for success. Says Metallurgist Thomas Paine, who this week replaced retiring NASA Administrator James Webb: "We have put great stress on the ability of the Apollo 9 crew to operate the LM. All subsequent...
Thus, on the eve of the final phase of Apollo's lunar mission, there were increasing hopes that the first men to set foot on the moon, and to look up at a moonlike earth in the sky above them, would, after all, be U.S. astronauts...
Nixon favors tax incentives to bestir private enterprise to build ghetto factories and housing, to train the hardcore unemployed, to promote "black capitalism" and to reduce air and water pollution. As possibilities for budget cuts or stretch-outs, he has cited public works, the supersonic transport, the post-Apollo space program and federal highway construction. With the war's end, part of the fiscal savings should be used to replace the draft with a volunteer, paid "professional" Army. On other issues, Nixon and Humphrey split somewhat less sharply, but keep the economic argument alive. Items...
...foothills approach to the part-he neither climbs high enough at the beginning nor falls low enough at the end. Plummer as King of Thebes is arrogant rather than hubristic; his fate seems more like a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo...