Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the flight proceeded uneventfully in space, there was a near crisis on earth. "We've Apollo just had a little thrill here in the Apollo control center in Building 30 in Houston," reported the Manned Spacecraft Center's Paul Haney For more than a minute, he said, there had been a power failure, knocking out lights, control consoles, screens and instruments at the center. But the essential communications systems and the computers that stored and evaluated flight data were powered by NASA's own generators and continued to operate; they never stopped digesting telemetered information from...
...from inside the craft. Seconds before the camera was to have been switched on, Schirra complained that the crew was running behind schedule because of several operations that had been added to the flight. "I tell you," he said testily, "this flight TV will be delayed without further discussion." Houston controllers quietly acceded and agreed to reschedule the TV for this week...
...Parke-Bernet's auction, other paintings of value brought high prices: a Pissarro went for a record $260,000, a 1906 Picasso for $430,000, believed to be a record for the Rose Period. A fauve-period Dufy, Les Trois Ombrellas, was bought by Houston's John Beck for $140,000, double the auction high set for a Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude...
Scattergunning some 300 jokes and sight gags per show, Laugh-In offers something for-and against-everybody. One week it pelts a Republican: SPIRO AGNEW . . . YOUR NEW NAME IS READY. The next week it zeroes in on the President: "Texas produced some great men: Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Lyndon Johnson. Two out of three isn't bad." And the once risky subjects of race, religion and nationality are treated just as irreverently. "Who put the last seven bullets into Mussolini? Three hundred Italian sharpshooters...
...done, in the short time that is left. But an impressive amount has already been accomplished. Before they are ready to test the performance of their complex craft in space, astronauts put in long months of practice in equally complicated machines at the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston (see color pages). There, in computer-operated simulators, replicas of spacecraft interiors, they go through complete missions. The simulators move at a touch of the controls, actually vibrate during launch, and present changing views of the earth, moon and stars during their simulated missions. Before they blast off, Astronauts Schirra, Cunningham...