Word: apollos
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...three-man moon crew had been aboard, they would still have been safe enough. The makeshift maneuvers successfully inserted the third stage and the unmanned Apollo 6 spacecraft into a 218-mile by 113-mile elliptical orbit (instead of the planned 115-mile circular orbit). But there was more trouble to come...
Mysterious Breakup. When controllers ordered the third-stage engine to restart-in an effort to shove it from its parking orbit to a distance of 320,000 miles on a simulated moon trip- nothing happened. Still attempting to salvage the mission, the controllers next separated Apollo 6 from the dead third stage and used the spacecraft's engine to push it to an altitude of 13 822 miles. From that height, it plunged back into the atmosphere and parachuted to a safe landing and recovery in the Pacific Ocean. Later, NASA reported the orbiting third stage mysteriously broke into...
...Apollo's Revenge...
...letter from a Major Shaw [March 15] criticized an objective and honest commentary on the war as being "shrill with Cassandra's cry." Although misplaced, this classical reference is nevertheless strangely effective. Cassandra, who foretold the doom of Troy, was granted infallible prophetic powers by Apollo. The god later revenged himself upon her by causing every prophecy she made to be totally disregarded. No one ever believed her until it was too late. Perhaps this is true of Americans and the war of today...
Married. Martha Chaffee, 30, widow of Astronaut Roger Chaffee, who died in the Apollo capsule fire 13 months ago; and William Canfield, 41, Texas realtor; both for the second time; in a Lutheran ceremony; in Houston...