Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A last week, the cause of all the commotion, America's mighty Saturn 5, spewed brilliant flames and rose majestically on a flight that revitalized the lagging Apollo program and raised hopes that the U.S. may yet land men on the moon before 1970. Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust and one of the loudest sounds ever produced by man,* the first-stage engines lifted the 3,000-ton, 363-foot-high vehicle to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,100 m.p.h. only 21 minutes after liftoff. During...
When he was not covering space shots at Cape Kennedy, Reporter John Wasik's fascination with the sky took him to nearby Green Air Park. With a parachuting club called the Falling Stars, Wasik, 29, a reporter for the Melbourne, Fla., Daily Times, made 17 weekend jumps, finding in his eerily placid descents a sense of euphoric freedom...
Acquaintances recalled Wasik's traumatic reaction to the deaths of Astronauts Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee in the Apollo fire last January. Wasik wept, slashed his wrists, and at one point drove around Cape Kennedy pointing a pistol at his head...
...paracide's broken body, which struck the earth two miles from the spot where Rickie's had fallen, were three meticulous notes apologizing to the club and detailing burial instructions. At his apartment in the town of Cape Canaveral, a newly pressed suit was laid on the bed for the burial. Two days later his body was buried beside Rickie's in a silver casket that he had selected himself. Wasik had hoped to be buried on his first wedding anniversary, but a county-ordered autopsy delayed the drama...
...flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...