Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Platinum-haired Rene Carpenter, 35, wife of Triple Orbiter Malcolm Scott Carpenter, lunching with a Rotary Club group in Austin, Texas, admitted some drawbacks to being a highly publicized astronaut's lady whose husband is "sealed up in that paperweight." However, added Rene, "we do no more than the wives of helicopter crews in Viet Nam or the women the Thresher left behind. They risked just as much and lost a great deal more. Don't feel sorry for us. It's great to whisper at liftoff, 'Don't look back-we're with...
...routine night patrol that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked just like West Side Story...
...game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab office where a horn-rimmed boss-lady screams into a jangle of telephones and thrusts envelopes to a flunky with: "Wrap it, lick it, and mail it!" She represents The Present, and is far too busy to help. An astronaut, who is The Future, offers a cup of tea but little sympathy: "Your key? But why look for key or door, with so many stars to explore?" A mute bellhop prances in and out of doors, leers at the bride, is finally stabbed by a voluptuous lady spy who sings...
...fact that Mariner carried its intricate cargo so far, made so many observations and radioed its reports to earth with such singular success marks the most important accomplishment in the annals of space exploration. It is a proud first for the U.S. No achievement by Russian cosmonaut or U.S. astronaut, no experiment made by any of the myriad other satellites that have been shot aloft has taught man nearly so much as he has learned already from the improbable voyage of Mariner...
...nearby moon, which has high priority because of the project to land live astronauts there, will be examined later this year by improved Rangers, and then by more elaborate craft. They will study the lunar surface so that larger craft, eventually carrying humans, can land there safely. Any astronaut touching down in a spaceship needs to know whether the surface below is hard rock or deep, soft dust, whether it is radioactive or made of wholly unknown moon-stuff that cannot exist on Earth...