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...higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise its elevation and bring it within sight of Soyuz. When the ships are finally linked up, the astronauts and cosmonauts will begin their joint activities, including an exchange of crewmen (although one man will always remain behind in his home ship). Before they pull away from each other about two days later, the two ships will make several attempts to rejoin briefly, rehearsing a procedure that may one day be used to rescue the crew members of a distressed space...
...project director is 35-year-old Glynn Lunney, until now chief of the flight director's office in Houston and best remembered for his calmly professional performance in Mission Control during the near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13. Neither side has made its final selection of crewmen, but the U.S. front runners include: Tom Stafford, a veteran of Gemini 6 and 9 and Apollo 10; Donald ("Deke") Slayton, the hard-driving 48-year-old chief of flightcrew operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center; and Jack Swigert, a veteran of Apollo...
...bombs were hidden aboard the Queen and ready to detonate, the caller warned. They had been placed there by an ex-convict and a terminal cancer victim who were fatalistically prepared to be blown sky-high along with the ship's 1,481 passengers and 900 crewmen...
...finally cut back, the U.S. was losing 20 planes a month, and North Vietnamese civilian casualties, by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate, were running as high as 1,000 a week. In the days following Nixon's TV address, the U.S. lost three planes and four crewmen. Ten MIGs were brought down by U.S. jets. One U.S. Navy Phantom destroyed three of the MIGs in a fierce dogfight over Haiphong before it, too, was knocked out of the sky. The Phantom's flyers, Lieut. Randy Cunningham and Lieut, (j.g.) William Driscoll, who were subsequently rescued, thereby...
...technology exists to build a modern rail network. The Santa Fe now boasts a $12 million automated yard in Kansas City that can handle switching for 3,000 cars a day with only three men to uncouple them. It is technically feasible to run trains with no crewmen except an engineer to blow a warning whistle in dangerous situations. At present, though, these developments only make more painful the contrast between the advanced rail system that the U.S. could have and the dilapidated one that exists...