Word: apollos
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...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
...first three U.S. astronauts to die on duty were motionless and earth-bound when they were killed last week. With helmet faceplates closed and suits pressurized, they reclined in a row on padded couches in their cylindrical Apollo capsule, running through the countdown of a simulated launch, a routine but rigorous rehearsal for the real thing. They had been there 5 hrs. 31 min. when fire exploded in the cabin. Within seconds, Lieut. Colonel Virgil...
Open-End Mission. As it was planned, the flight of Apollo 204 would have tested both the mettle and the technology of the three astronauts beyond anything that men had yet experienced in space. On Feb. 21, the capsule was to be fired off the ground by a Saturn 1-B rocket to go into orbit for as long as Grissom, White and Chaffee could take it, an "open-end" mission that marked a bold departure from the rigidly limited space flights of the past. It was to be essentially an engineering flight, a manned shakedown for the Apollo systems...
...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
...sees it, the most likely targets are the Federal Highway program, public-works projects by the Corps of Engineers, other construction spending that can be stretched out or deferred. In the U.S. space program, the effort to put a man on the moon will not be affected, but post-Apollo projects are likely to be slowed down. Few potential economies have been overlooked: the President expects to save $8,000,000 a year with a regulation that Government autos be driven for seven years, or 72,000 miles, instead of six years...