Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, Israel and Jordan seemed willing to go on talking indirectly through the U.N.'s go-between, Gunnar Jarring. But it is questionable how much longer the slim restraints of Jarring's mission can keep the Israelis from resorting to a major retaliation against the newly bellicose Arabs...
...highlights of the flight were the docking maneuver and precise rendezvous with the discarded S-4B booster, and the eight successful burns of the service module's powerful propulsion engine. These operations will be essential on a lunar landing mission. While en route to the moon, the joined Apollo command and service modules must dock with the lunar module (LM), which will be carried inside the opened flaps of the S-4B. Later, should the LM become stranded in a lunar orbit on its way to or from the surface of the moon, Apollo would have to rendezvous...
...until the Soviets, in their own good time, release more information will U.S. space scientists be certain of the significance of the flight. It is the first manned Russian space mission since April 1967, when Colonel Vladimir Komarov was killed in the crash of Soyuz 1. It seems almost certain that it is ultimately aimed at the moon; for one thing, the time is not right for a trip to any of the planets...
...third capsule might be launched to join the first two. But the Russians may also be assembling the pieces of a composite spaceship, bound for the moon. U.S. space experts studied that technique years ago and abandoned it as too expensive. The Soviets' last space shot, a circumlunar mission powered by a giant booster, suggested that they too had made the same decision. Now, no one can be sure. U.S. spacemen could only watch, wait and worry about where they stand in the lunar sweepstakes...
...while most troops were still asleep, promptly ordered all personnel to muster for an alert. Base commanders dismissed Vietnamese civilian employees for the day and sealed off installations to ail outsiders. "We needed a period of limited combat activity," said Colonel Melvin E. Richmond, the man who oversaw the mission. "Operational requirements dictated the timing...