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...Writer Arthur C. Clarke, who made his own contribution to the supplement. They are standing before a mock-up of LM, the lunar module, part of a new display in the Time & Life Exhibition Center, which includes models of Saturn V, Surveyor, Ranger and Lunar Orbiter, along with an astronaut manikin standing on a simulated piece of the moon...
...audience, and Queen Isabella did not get the news until six months afterward. In more recent times, the world did not learn of the arrival of Peary's lonely band at the North Pole in 1909 until five months after the event. Yet when-and if-the first astronaut sets foot on the moon, he will be observed by a worldwide audience numbering hundreds of millions. Even more remarkable, only 1.3 seconds, the time it takes for radio waves to travel between moon and earth, will elapse between the actual event and its appearance on television screens...
Soviet cosmonauts have visited the U.S. three times since 1962, but no American astronaut had ever set foot in the Soviet Union until last week when Apollo 8's Colonel Frank Borman flew off with his wife and two sons for a nine-day tour. It was all unofficial -Moscow's invitation came via the Soviet-American Relations Institute-but there were broad hints that Borman would be allowed to see something of the Soviet space complex at Baikonur so far visited by only one Westerner, France's Charles de Gaulle in 1966. In any event...
Married. Laura Louise Shepard, 21, older daughter of Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American into space; and Army 2nd Lieut. Jonathan Churchill Snyder, 23, a former schoolmate at Principia College, Elsah, Ill.; in a Methodist ceremony in Houston...
...Astronaut James McDivitt, it all started with a big night at Paris' plush Lido, where he got the VIP treatment from the club's showgirls. The next morning McDivitt hustled out to the Air Show, where he and fellow Apollo 9 Crewmen David Scott and Russell Schweiclcart showed Cosmonauts Vladimir Shakalov and Alexei Yeliseyev around the American exhibit. The proceedings started somewhat stiffly; then a bottle of bonded bourbon was broken out and things began to loosen up. By the time the revelers reached the Russian exhibit with its plentiful stock of vodka, they were saluting everything from...