Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appearing in a CBS television interview, Schirra had a few words about the postorbital activities of Astronaut John Glenn, who has recently been making appearances ranging from the Seattle World's Fair to Everett Dirksen's frivolous Anti-Superstition Society, while sandwiching in some water-skiing with Jacqueline Kennedy and attendance at a Bobby Kennedy pool party...
...Thurs., Sept. 13 Our Next Man in Space (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A filmed profile of Astronaut Wal ter Schirra Jr., who is scheduled to make the next space flight, a six-orbit...
...earth." At that moment the U.S. was behind in the race to get men into space. The Russians had already shot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on an orbit around the earth; blazing a trail for future space travelers, they had taken pictures of the unseen face of the moon. U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard had been forced to settle for a brief 302-mile arc that was sadly short of orbit...
...center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch, SCAMA's operator can talk clearly and instantaneously with NASA stations that belt the globe, including such odd spots as Kano, Nigeria, and Woomera in Australia's desert. When an astronaut is aloft, SCAMA can follow his voice sweeping all the way around the earth...
Barber chair. Adjustable seat for an astronaut...