Word: astronautics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes drivers feel that they are at Daytona Beach and not on highways." G.M. markets a limited-production Chevelle Z-16 that revs up to 160 m.p.h.; Ford last month also brought out a Galaxie that races up to 160 m.p.h., and Detroit sold the first one to Astronaut Gordon Cooper...
...then, the mission itself was far from O.K. It had not achieved such scheduled goals as Astronaut Scott's two-hour walk in space, the first vise of a power tool in space and a host of other scientific experiments. In Houston the next move was obvious: Arm strong's decision to use his vital re-entry rockets prematurely meant that the spacecraft must be returned to earth before it ran out of the necessary fuel for controlling reentry...
...days in space, Russian scientists reported that they gradually became acclimated, and apparently suffered no permanent ill effects from weightlessness. Doctors were still watching for any radiation effects, because at the apogee of each of their 330 orbits they were at a height of 560 miles-higher than any astronaut or cosmonaut has ever flown, and well within the lower reaches of the Van Allen radiation belt...
...deaths of See and Bassett brought to three the number of astronauts killed since the U.S. launched its manned space program in 1959, though not a single life has been lost during the 1,355 hours of U.S. space flights. The first fatality was Astronaut Theodore Freeman, who died in October 1964 when a flock of geese disabled another T-38. As for Gemini 9, the space center plans to send it off on schedule, with Stafford and Cernan at the controls...
Died. Elliot M. See Jr., 38, civilian astronaut slated to command next May's Gemini 9 mission; with his capsule copilot, Air Force Major Charles A. Bassett II, 34, in the crash of their T-38 jet trainer at St. Louis' Lambert Field (see THE NATION...