Word: borman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spot. Said President J. Leland Atwood: "The pad testing seemed to be almost mundane and routine. If I thought of the pad testing, without any fuel aboard and without preparing to launch, as anything potentially dangerous, it would have been a little bit beyond my comprehension." Said Astronaut Frank Borman, a member of the review board who might fly an Apollo himself some day: "We overlooked the possibility of a spacecraft fire...
They have been spurred by publicity about the Government's campaigns to help them find work. Under federal sponsorship, such personalities as Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Astronaut Frank Borman and Mickey Mantle are making televised appeals to businessmen to hire young people. Disturbed that few companies are eager to hire unseasoned or draft-eligible workers, the Government has ordered federal agencies to take on one temporary employee this summer for every hundred regulars on the roll. The program is paying off. Of the 1,000,000 teen-agers searching for summer work, at least two-thirds should find...
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...
...most remarkable shots, taken by Lovell as Gemini 7 soared over the Wadi Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
Back on earth, the astronauts themselves seemed to be pictures of good health. Within three days after their return, Borman had completely regained the 9.6 Ibs., Lovell the 5.9 Ibs. lost during their trip in space. Neither showed any outward signs of ill effects, and while medical studies were still not complete, the early results looked good. Said NASA Dr. Charles Berry: "A quick look at the data available to us indicates that man has fared extremely well in two weeks of space environment...