Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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APOLLO VII (NBC, 10 a.m. to conclusion). NBC News coverage of first manned earth-orbital flight in Apollo lunar capsule, Launch time: 11 a.m. Barring difficulties, the first live television pictures will be flashed directly from Apollo VII next morning...
...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 and Eisele will have spent an impressive 1,200 hours in preparing for their mission. They have had an unexpectedly long time to practice; this week's flight, scheduled...
...Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party will launch a campaign to gather 8000 signatures for a petition calling for a city-wide rent control...
...meanwhile is proceeding with plans to launch the first manned Apollo into earth orbit next week on a ten-day mission to check out spacecraft and ground control systems. If all goes well, the following Apollo flight, scheduled for late December, may take three astronauts for as many as ten orbits around the moon before returning them to earth...
...picketing at Harvard is part of a campaign announced yesterday by the Young People's Socialist League to launch a consumer boycott in the Harvard Square area "in support of the demands for justice of farm workers...