Word: gemini
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Doing the principal reporting for this week's cover story has given Wilhelm his best opportunity so far to indulge his addiction. As a science correspondent, he has covered several Gemini and Apollo flights for TIME as well as the death of three astronauts during a 1967 training exercise. Wilhelm found the scientists and the atmosphere at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, home of the Mariner program, different from the men and mood at Houston and Cape Kennedy...
COLONEL DAVID R. SCOTT, 39, Apollo 15's handsome commander, is the only member of the crew to have ventured into space before. In 1966, teamed with Neil Armstrong, he coolly helped land the Gemini 8 spacecraft after it began tumbling wildly in earth orbit. Three years later, Scott was aboard Apollo 9 for another orbital mission. The son of a retired Air Force general, Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas, attended the University of Michigan for a year, then switched to West Point, where he graduated fifth in his class (1954), and later took his master...
...already calling the flight the first truly scientific expedition to the moon. The lunar module Falcon has been packed with 2,500 Ibs. of added scientific and life-support equipment. The two moon walkers, Flight Commander David R. Scott, 39, a veteran of the earth-orbiting flights of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9, and LM Pilot James B. Irwin, 41, a rookie, have had such a heavy dose of geology training that NASA's usually critical scientists say that the astronauts are ready to go for their Ph.D.s. Even the third member of the all-Air Force crew, Alfred...
...watched an impromptu birthday party staged for Patsayev, who turned 38 during the flight. Instead of pouring the customary vodka, his comrades toasted him with tubes of prune paste. Yet as the mission continued uneventfully day after day-first past the American endurance mark of 13 days set by Gemini 7 in 1965, then past the Soviets' own record of nearly 18 days established by Soyuz 9 last year-the initial excitement turned into boredom...
Oldenburg, it was feared, might impair the playland's image as "a family-oriented operation." Fortunately, the Gemini company (TIME, Jan. 18) stepped in to sponsor the icebag. Puffing and rearing to its full 18-ft. height like some cross between Mount Fuji, a tomato and a dinosaur, it has turned out to be one of the key works in Oldenburg's brilliant career...