Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it rose no higher than 266 miles above the earth during its eleven-day mission in space, Apollo 7 and its three-man crew last week lifted U.S. space officials to new heights of optimism. "Apollo 7 goes down in my book as the perfect mission," said Lieut...
...booster (see color pictures). More important, by checking out Apollo's control, navigation, communications and life-support systems, they confirmed that the craft was completely spaceworthy. If no unexpected difficulties are uncovered as technicians decipher the mountain of data that ac cumulated during the flight, an Apollo 8 crew composed of Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders may be sent into orbit around the moon with in as little as six weeks...
NASA officials reported that, like its crew, the Apollo spaceship experienced only the most minor ailments during the 260-hour eight-minute flight. Some of the spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape...
Three Harvard heavyweight fours finished sixth, seventh, and tenth in the "senior fours with coxswain" competition, won by a Yale crew...
...Came In from the Cold, has been sent from London to find Harting and recapture the missing documents. So far, a familiar situation. But Turner's main antagonists are not foreign spies; they are the British embassy officials themselves-a caste-conscious, emotionally aborted, washed-out crew of professional liars...