Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...
Jovian Gases. For all its promise, though, the ground-bound lunar voyage failed to stem rising scientific impatience with the U.S. space program. The scheduled Apollo moon mission is only 18 months away, and space specialists are already demanding that the U.S. start looking beyond the moon to more distant and challenging targets. At the Fourth International Symposium on Bioastronautics and the Exploration of Space in San Antonio last week, scientists repeatedly urged NASA to get on with the job of planning trips to the earth's planetary neighbors. Since unmanned probes have all but proved that the moon...
...cynic you. You pulverized potato, you spineless spinach, you mustachioed pistachio, who do you think you are? What gives you the right, let me see your papers, who gave you permission, where is your petition, you have no commission, I bet I know your mission. It's an ill wind brings you into town, and now with your new gown I guess it's legal...
PREMIERE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Call to Danger." first play in this summer dramatic anthology replacing The Carol Burnett Show, stars CBS Regular Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible) and James Gregory as Government agents assigned to recover the stolen master plates for the U.S. $10 bill...
...have just been chucked. Alan Armor of CBS's new western, Lancer, has edited out one shooting and one ambush from his premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered re-evaluation of all scenarios. Bruce Geller, producer of Mission: Impossible and Mannix, says: "We're going to explore other areas of conflict than violence-conflict of emotion and conflict of intellect...