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...face with a fishwifely propaganda harangue. "It seems, sir, both you and we are expecting some big news from up there tonight," began Reston vaguely enough. "What do you call 'Up there?' " snapped Kosygin. "Do you mean from God?" Reston only meant space shots-the U.S. Gemini 7 and the Soviet Luna 8-but the mood had been struck. Despite Reston's attempts at ingratiation ("I agree . . ." "I was certainly not suggesting . . ."), Kosygin laid out a rehash of anti-American propaganda that grew harsher by the minute...
...What a helluva bore," yawned a controller at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center as Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell monotonously orbited the earth last week. By week's end, as Gemini 7 completed its seventh uneventful day in space, the flight had indeed escaped the spine-tingling crises that enlivened-and plagued-earlier shots. But the ennui in Houston and elsewhere in the U.S. was a high accolade. It demonstrated that flawless performance has become commonplace, that near-perfect timing, preparation and execution of Gemini flights have become routine...
...alleviate the silence, Houston also began piping background music into Gemini 7 on a radio band that would not interfere with normal voice communications. Some of the popular tunes, like Fly Me to the Moon, seemed more appropriate for the Apollo program, others for a teen-age hangout. But later in the week, largely at the urging of NASA Secretary Geri Ann Vanderoef, the Kraft Music Hall, as it was called in honor of Flight Director Chris Kraft (TIME cover, Aug. 27), took on an elevated tone with selections from Bach...
...same. "We know where the moon is--perfectly. But no matter how hard you try, you can't compute a rocket's path as perfectly. We just don't know where it is as well." Still he was confident. "If we can just get into the same plane with Gemini 7, we'll be OK. We have all the correcting devices we need to home in--there won't be a near-miss on this flight...
...long ride from the Kennedy Space Center--all NASA's--back to Cape Kennedy--a military complex with some land used by NASA. Bleachers were set up almost 2 miles from pad 19, where Gemini 7 was to take off (because the fuels used in the Titan rocket are poisonous, everyone, even the photographers, are kept at least 7000 feet from...