Word: rendezvouses
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Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan went to Helsinki in mid-July to find out in advance the schedule for the hectic 54 hours of the summit. Thus he got a head start on most of the 2,000 journalists expected to cover the event. "There will be 35 heads of...
Drifting lazily to earth under its canopy of three red and white parachutes, the Apollo spacecraft hit the gentle Pacific swells northwest of Hawaii just 4½ miles off the bow of the recovery carrier New Orleans. The only visible problem aboard the craft as it returned from its historic...
With that simple exchange, the Apollo and Soyuz crewmen celebrated an impressive technological achievement: the first rendezvous and docking of spacecraft of two different nations. Next on their agenda was a round of high-altitude, high-budget diplomatic theater carefully scripted for maximum political impact. Thus three hours after the...
At noon, when the ships came within range of a tracking station in Santiago, Chile, one of Apollo's four television cameras began sending pictures of the history-making rendezvous. Plainly visible outside Apollo's left window were the curved earth, one of the large finger-like petals...
Other prickly points of national pride and prestige came up. What language would Leonov and Stafford use for the greeting that would be heard round the world? Moscow and Wasinngton solemnly agreed that Stafford would use ins nasal Russian, Leonov ins casual English. Where would the instoric rendezvous occur? The...