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...played prerecorded videotapes of the ill-fated astronauts, interviewed their own correspondents in Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, trotted out scale models of the shuttle to describe how it func tioned and scrambled to round up "experts" who might be able to explain what had happened. ABC got former Astro naut Gene Cernan to its Houston studios. CBS brought on Leo Krupp, a former test pilot for Rockwell International, and NBC recruited former Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton...
...always, the Italians were there with gorgeous Ferraris, Maseratis, Lamborghinis and Lancias, plus a wicked-looking newcomer: the Bizzarrini G.T. America, which does up to 175 m.p.h. on its Corvette engine, has bucket seats that look more like astro naut couches. Cost...
...dioxide and water vapor, and it also talked-feeding the recorded voice of NASA Communications Engineer Howard Kyle into a microphone to test the Mercury communication system. Out of a porthole and periscope peered two cameras. Special instruments recorded the assorted stimuli that would have assaulted a human astro naut: vicious vibration and gut-wrenching G forces. Automatic apparatus controlled the capsule's flight and descent to earth, just as it would have if a human had been on board...
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