Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earnest, self-effacing civilian engineer who was to have commanded the Gemini 9 mission, had spent six years checking out the hottest planes aloft as a General Electric test pilot when he became an astronaut in 1962. Bassett, an outgoing Air Force major who was to have taken a 60-minute walk in space during the flight toting an instrument-crammed, 166-lb. pack on his back, served as a fighter pilot in Korea and a test pilot at California's Edwards Air Force Base before joining the space program...
...test turned to Apollo coasting through space at 15,000 m.p.h. Inside the 24-ft. spacecraft and its service module was virtually everything that will go to the moon-except the three astronauts, their couches and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), for which ballast had been substituted. At an altitude of 310 miles, a programmer-filling in for the astronaut pilot-ordered the Apollo's own 22,900-lb.-thrust engine to head the craft back to earth, increase its speed, then separate the module just before reentry...
...women law students as if they were new members of the Special Forces undertaking their first Vietcong reconnaissance. "It takes courage, real physical and moral courage, to aspire to full dignit," she told them. "Aspire, again," she said. "No little girl wants to be a millionaire or even an astronaut...
Back home in Indiana, Astronaut Frank Borman, 37, had a pilot's caution about the U.S. space program. "It is inevitable," he warned in Gary, "that we must lose a crew in space some day. All of us have lost friends in flying. I hope the public is mature enough to know that we must pay with money, and certainly with lives...
Born. To Captain James A. Lovell Jr., 37, Gemini 7 astronaut, pilot in last month's rendezvous with Gemini 6, and Marilyn Lovell, 35: their fourth child, second son; in Houston...