Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day Johnson extended a paw to Poland after swearing in new U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski. The former Postmaster General, the President observed, "will be an ambassador first of peace and good will, whose mission is to build new bridges, not just to Poland but to the people of Eastern Europe." Then everyone hied themselves over to Hye (pop. 134), an unincorporated crossroads five miles from the ranch. There, Larry O'Brien, the aide who did the most to ram the Great Society legislation through the 89th Congress, was sworn in as Gronouski's successor...
Critics were quick to point out that the Agena had been extensively modified for its docking mission, and many of its components had never been tested in space flight. NASA's calculated risk, it was suggested, had resulted in catastrophe. Test flights, however, would have been both costly and timeconsuming, and the Agena's previous record of reliability made them seem unduly wasteful. An identical twin of the lost rocket had been extensively checked on the ground, fired in a test stand, put in a vacuum chamber to simulate operating altitudes, started and restarted until all the glitches...
This time, unfortunately, the long-shot became more than a remote possibility. If it had been successful, Gemini 6 would have been the first demonstration of rendezvous and docking in space-a maneuver that is absolutely essential to any manned mission to the moon. Now the Russians have a second chance to be first with rendezvous...
...about to give up too much of a lead in the space race. Last week President Johnson announced a hastily revised schedule that includes plans to double up on the next space mission, possibly in early December. Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell will blast off in Gemini 7 for their planned 14-day endurance flight; eight to ten days later, Schirra and Stafford will go up in Gemini 6, rendezvous with Gemini 7 (but not dock), and then orbit the earth in formation. For all the difficulties involved in the mission, the major problems will be on the ground...
...Developer David Sapp. For $200 he won an hour with City Manager Thomas Fletcher, which he wanted in order to argue against high-rise apartments going up near the beach at La Jolla. For another $220, he bought all the space for a day on the marquees of the Mission Valley Shopping Center. His message, to be spelled out on December 17, will be a salute to his son: "Congratulations, Joey Sapp. Happy Bar Mitzvah...