Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enterprise had been staffed with professional firefighters. Better equipment was provided, including improved water pumps, hoses that are less prone to break and special units that combine a chemical called "Purple K" and "light water" to produce a substance that smothers the fire with foam. Most important, the Enterprise crew had been thoroughly drilled in preventive tactics, which they performed superbly last week. As Chief Warrant Officer Helton put it: "That was the ultimate drill...
Khrunov and Eliseev entered the work compartment of their two-room ship and sealed it off from Volynov in the crew's quarters. In the other spacecraft, Shatalov sealed off his own control room. After donning new spacesuits that have individual life-support systems, Khrunov and Eliseev emerged from Soyuz 5 and space-walked across to Soyuz 4. They entered the work compartment, sealed its outside hatch behind them, brought up the pressure and then opened the compartment to join Shatalov...
Docking Crucial. Thus did four rookie cosmonauts perform the world's first crew exchange in orbit, serving notice to Americans that Russia has not given up in the space race. Jubilant Russians could point to their first manned-flight breakthrough in a long while. By the time the two vehicles separated 4 hrs., 35 min. later, Tass was hailing "the world's first experimental space station." Then Shatalov, Khrunov and Eliseev landed Soyuz 4 safely some 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow, within sight of recovery helicopters. This display of reentry accuracy overcame the perils of the snowy...
...would therefore suggest that the North Koreans had the right to defend themselves from this aggression, and to intern the crew members who were, after all, the willing tools of a hostile spying mission against the North Koreans' country. In the light of the crew's activities, I do not think we have a right to complain about "violence" done to them, except that done by their own government. The length of their imprisonment was apparently determined by the Administration's political qualms about acknowledging the facts and apologizing to North Korea before the November elections...
...crew member killed in the capture of the Pueblo, there are indications that he too was a victim of the system he served: that he was destroyed in the crew's frantic efforts to destroy, before its capture, the massive espionage equipment the ship was carrying...