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...have Marshall McLuhan and Bob Dylan, and who can forget Colonel "Shorty" Powers, sometime Voice of Project Mercury, describing Gus Grissom's first landing? "The drogue parachute is deployed, and the astronaut has a visual indication of it" (The drogue chute is open, and Gus can see it), and "The astronaut has indicated that he will proceed to effect egress" (Gus says he's coming...
Gemini's finale and Astronaut Aldrin's record-breaking total of 5 hrs. 36 min. of EVA (extra vehicular activity) relieved NASA officials of the nagging fear that they had overestimated man's ability to work in space. During two stand-up photographic sessions through his open hatch and a 129-minute "space walk," Aldrin experienced none of the difficulties encountered during earlier EVAs. He completed his assigned tasks without becoming overheated or exhausted...
...Agena while the crafts were docked, Aldrin was able to maintain his equilibrium. With frequent two-minute rests, he first moved forward to the Agena and secured its 100-ft. tether to Gemini's docking bar, an assignment that had proved exasperating and difficult for unanchored Gemini 11 Astronaut Richard Gordon...
...flight plan next called for a boost to a 460-mile-high orbit, but that had to be canceled when telemetry disclosed problems with Agena's propellant pump. Instead, the astronauts made another and equally remarkable rendezvous-with the moon's circular shadow, which was racing across the Pacific at 1,060 m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform...
Into a higher corporate orbit goes U.S. Astronaut John Glenn, using a 12-oz. bottle of Royal Crown Cola as a launch vehicle. Royal Crown's vice president for corporate development, Glenn last week was also named chair man of the company's international subsidiary. He and Morgan J. Cramer, a former president of P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and now R. C. International's president, aim to increase foreign sales 25% next year. Other U.S. soft-drink makers are also training some of their highest-priced executive and promotional talent on the foreign market, whose growth rate...