Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merry Pranskters were born, including in their number such people as Neil Casady (Dean Moriarity of Kerouac's On the Road), and many other luminaries. Their mission was to freak out each other and the straights. Their tools were colorful clothes, painted faces, odd expressions, strange names for each other, and the secret weapon...
...flow warning light flashed on, but the astronauts quickly determined that a sensor, not the oxygen flow, was at fault Astronaut Cunningham, 36, a civilian physicist on his first flight, reported increasing pressure in a radiator that cools the spacecraft. The trouble was not serious enough to affect the mission. Astronaut Eisele, 38, an Air Force major also making his first space mission, reported radio interference that sounded like a commercial. "I', getting a hot tip on some hostpital-insurance plan from some guy," he said. "Maybe they're trying to tell you something," a ground controller cracked...
...mission headed into its third day, the astronauts had missed only one of their scheduled operations-a live TV transmission 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...
Such problems seemed minor indeed, and they did not materially change the sentiment voiced several hours after liftoff by the chief of the Apollo lunar-landing program, Lieut. General Samuel Phillips: "It is a pleasure to announce that Apollo 7 has, up to this moment, conducted a perfect mission-absolutely perfect. Bigger events are coming soon...
...towns in which they teach, eliminating the common practice of faculty commuting. Students also won one of last spring's most insistent demands: the right to hold political meetings on campus. But the law stipulates that these must not interfere with the institution's educational mission...