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Buoyed by the presence of human companions after 27 hours 47 minutes of solitude, Collins took over as Apollo's star performer. During a telecast to earth on the second night of the homeward voyage, Collins hammed it up by showing earthlings how someone could drink water in space. Turning a spoonful of water upside down, he left the globules eerily suspended in the gravity-free cabin. Then, like a trout snapping at a fly, he "captured" the drops with his mouth...
Columbia's homeward heading was so accurate" that only one of the three scheduled course-correcting rocket firings was needed. The uneventful journey also gave the astronauts unusually long periods of sleep and relaxation. "Apollo 11, this is Houston," crackled the ship's radio during one particularly long silent stretch. "Are you still up there...
Although scientists are fairly certain that the moon supports no life, NASA has taken care to guard against lunar infection. During the homeward voyage, Columbia's environmental-control system circulated the air within the capsule more than 100 times, passing it through special filters. On earth, the precautions were equally stringent. Besides the astronauts, the only persons allowed in the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) were a doctor and an engineer. During the next three days, about all that relieved the tedium was a video-tape replay of the moon walk. The most interested viewer was Collins...
...year. For sheer propaganda, however, nothing the activists are planning or doing is likely to equal the summer project of ex-S.D.S. Organizer Rennie Davis and Detroit's Linda Evans, an S.D.S. leader. They are presently in Hanoi as members of the U.S. delegation invited to escort homeward the three U.S. prisoners of war whose release was promised by the North Vietnamese early in July in observance of America's Independence...
Nixon will leave Asia bound for Rumania and the first visit of a U.S. President to a Communist capital in history. On his homeward flight, he will make a refueling stop at a U.S. Air Force base in Britain, pausing long enough to hold a meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. But the trip is designed primarily to give the President a solid grounding in Asian current affairs. In the unlikely event that he does not bring back enough homework of his own, he will get quite a bit more information from Secretary of State William Rogers, who will leave...