Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifty miles above the earth at more than 3,500 m.p.h., America's needle-nosed X-15 barely ruffles the underskirts of space. U.S. and Soviet astronauts have ventured far higher, faster and for longer flights. But for Air Force Major Michael J. Adams, 37, riding the stub-winged X-15 rocket ship on its wild ten-minute flights beyond the atmosphere and back presented a greater challenge. He too had been chosen as an astronaut. Repeated slippage of the Manned Orbit ing Laboratory program left him impatient to get off the ground, and he asked...
Loosened Purse Strings. From Surveyor's success has come man's first detailed knowledge of the consistency and chemical makeup of lunar soil, data and pictures that will influence the choice of the first astronaut landing site, and confirmation that the soft-landing system of the Apollo lunar module-similar to Surveyor's-is well conceived and workable...
Died. Clifton C. Williams Jr., 35, U.S. astronaut in training for the Apollo moon program; when his T-38 jet trainer crashed, possibly because of an oxygen failure; near Miccosukee, Fla., thus bringing to eight the number of astronaut fatalities since the program began in 1959, four in T-38 crashes...
...loner, he seemed to develop a new morbidity. "I feel like now I'm marking time until I join her," he told a friend. To another he said: "I killed her." For $4,400, he bought from a used-car dealer the supercharged Corvette that once belonged to Astronaut Gus Grissom, careened it along Florida roads at up to 135 m.p.h...
...Golf & Astronauts. Though horse racing still accounts for 90% of Ladbroke's take, Stein has eagerly diversified. He now books greyhound racing and football, began posting odds on golf in the early '60s when Arnold Palmer made the pro game popular in England. In 1963, he pioneered the making of book on elections. Current special: 10-to-l odds on an astronaut's landing on the moon next year...