Word: apollos
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Some time in 1964 three U.S. astronauts will wriggle into a bell-shaped Apollo capsule, strap themselves into contour couches and await the blast-off into a challenging two-week adventure. Through the capsule's windows, they will see the flash and smoke of blastoff, then the approaching clouds, the indigo sky, and finally the star-speckled blackness of outer space. Later, as they view the looming surface of the moon, they will begin another countdown to launch a smaller detachable capsule for a lunar landing. Before the astronauts see earth again, their skill and nerves will be severely...
Calculated Fantasy. Actually, no U.S. lunar landing is expected before 1967-but in 1964 the astronauts will take a test "trip," without ever leaving the ground, in an Apollo simulator built by General Precision's Link Division of Binghamton, N.Y. Link's business is make-believe, and the company has performed it so well that it has moved ahead of competing Curtiss-Wright to become the world's largest builder of simulators that unerringly reproduce the sights, sounds and problems of everything from jets to space capsules...
...Nairobi, newly elected Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta presided over a meeting of his neighbors. On one side sat Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote, grinning cheerfully be neath his toothbrush mustache; on the other, Tanganyika's high-spirited President Julius Nyerere. Present as an observer: Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdullahi Issa. From three hours of talk emerged the decision to work for a federation of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, with Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi also invited...
...figures date from the 1st century and come from the ancient Indian region of Gandhara. The Gandhara artists were imported from the thriving cities of the Near East, and when faced with the problem of inventing a Buddha image, they fell back on the Greek and Roman image of Apollo dressed in a kind of Roman toga. They probably borrowed the halo from the traditional Iranian sun disk that symbolized the heavenly light of Ahura Mazdah. For Buddha's ushnisha-the bump on the top of his head that housed a sort of extra brain that grew...
Beyond that. Project Gemini is already charted-a voyage that will send a two-man capsule to rendezvous with an orbiting resupply spacecraft by the end of 1964. Project Apollo is also in the works -a dream's end program to shoot a full crew of astronauts to the moon...