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...moon rock brought back by Apollo astronauts. The crowds are also taken with an Andy Granatelli turbocar and, in baseball-crazy Japan, by Babe Ruth's old Yankee uniform and locker. The space display is understated and effective. Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft, Gemini 12 and the command module of Apollo 8 are suspended just above visitors' heads; a lunar landing vehicle perches like a water bug near the moon rock. There is plenty of Pop art, courtesy of Andy Warhol and sundry American artists, but they have been upstaged by an American exhibit (Winslow...
Bonsack's bathtubs, on the other hand, encourage togetherness. In addition to the Sagittarius, there is a "Gemini" tub (in which bathers sit face to face, using built-in armrests on either side) and a completely round "Moon Bath" for "the young elegant man with lots of girl friends." The line is so successful that Bonsack has exported it to the U.S., opening department-store bathing boutiques at Woodward & Lothrop in Washington, D.C., John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago and Halle Brothers in Cleveland. The bridal suite at the Springbok Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa...
...second shortest of the astronauts. A pilot since the age of 14, he is still fascinated with flying, particularly acrobatics (he was stunting in a jet over Florida only two days before the launch). In 1966, he commanded a three-day Gemini flight that soared to a then record altitude of 850 miles. Totally immersed in the space program, he feels no envy of the astronauts who have quit for more lucrative callings. "I don't want to be president of a company or run for politics or be an engineering manager," he says. Conrad is married...
...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...
Conrad's Parking Lot. Leaving Gemini Veteran Richard F. Gordon Jr., 40, behind in the mother ship, Conrad will descend with Space Rookie Alan Bean, 37, to the moon's surface in a lunar module called Intrepid, namesake of seven fighting ships from U.S. naval history. Conrad is so confident of Intrepid's navigational gear that he plans to fly a "heads up" approach. He will face the darkness of space until he is little more than a mile from the lunar surface; then he will pitch Intrepid forward for his first glimpse of the small, rockless...