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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the crew returns to the mother ship, the moon module Intrepid will be sent hurtling back to the moon's surface, and the Yankee Clipper will begin the return lap of its ten-day trip...
INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has joined the mea culpa crew with this play that argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins, hardly a startling bit of information. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show alternated with somber accounts of the humiliation and decimation of the Indians, but the segments never seem to gain any harmony of mood or purpose...
During their 32-hour moon visit, Conrad and Bean will take two walks, each lasting about four hours. Back on earth, television viewers will see all this in color. Following the advice of the Apollo 11 crew, the two astronauts will perform their own moon dance to get the feel of one-sixth gravity. Then they will go about collecting rocks and carrying out a series of sophisticated experiments. One of the astronauts will be lowered into a crater by his teammate to look around and to gather samples...
Lonely Day. If the flight goes according to plan, the all-Navy crew will ride the nautically named Yankee Clipper into moon orbit after 83 hours in space. Then Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, and Space Rookie Alan Bean, 37, will board the module Intrepid for their trip to the moon's surface. While his fellow astronauts explore the Sea of Storms 69 miles below, Gemini Veteran Richard F. Gordon Jr., 40, will spend a lonely day and a half in orbit...
...that while there were a few isolated cases of brutality by Federal Marshals, on the whole the troops had been well behaved in the face of a great deal of abuse and provocation. Those who stayed until midnight-when the last reporters had gone home and the last T.V. crew (BBC) had been told that it couldn't use its spot light because it was provoking incidents-went away with an entirely different impression...