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...Leary was a real problem. I didn't want the man to come, you know, cause he was such a problem, but he showed up at my pad anyway. It was kind of funny--when Leary announced that he was going to Algeria, the Algerian government got very excited. They didn't know anything abouth him except that he was a big Harvard professor coming to live in their country. So they were really proud, and played it up big on the television news. They were going to have a big reception committee meet him at the plane...
...August when the two Soyuz cosmonauts arrive in the U.S. for a tour. But no reruns of the Apollo-Soyuz space spectacular are possible until the 1980s, when American astronauts again take to orbit aboard the space shuttle, a new generation of reusable craft that launch from a pad and land on a runway...
...surge subsided, and Parker made some notes on a yellow pad. Then he directed Maggie and another woman, Annie Warner, to switch boats. This was it Maggie and Annie moved slowly and carefully, their movements synchronized: hands grasp the boats legs shift over, hips swing down, "Full power...Hoooooo!" Another surge, then another switch back, and a final surge, Maggie didn't do well...
...learned a technological lesson from the Russians, rather than vice versa. How? Low says the joint mission exposed designers of the sophisticated Apollo system to the functional simplicity of less costly Soviet space hardware. On his visit to the Baikonur cosmodrome, Low was astonished to find out that the pad used to send off Soyuz had launched some 300 rockets, including the first Sputnik and the spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first manned voyage into space. Said Low: "We have to learn not to overdo things when they don't have to be overdone...
...Force brigadier general, a coolly gifted pilot and co-author of two basic manuals on test flying. Stafford has logged 290 hr. 15 min. in space, dating back to ins first Gemini flight in 1965 with Wally Scinrra. In orbit, Math Winz Stafford liked to amuse inmself by using pad and pencil to race mission control's computers in solving maneuvering problems; sometimes he won. Stafford was born in Weatherford, Okla., and he and ins wife Faye have two daughters. Though often nettled by Soviet secrecy during preparations for tins week's mission, he managed to handle difficult...