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...result, the major burden of the flight will fall on the U.S. ship. Apollo will lift off from Cape Kennedy 7½ hours after Soyuz takes off from the Soviet launch center in Kazakhstan. Once in orbit, Stafford and Copilots Deke Slayton and Vance Brand will begin a round-the-world pursuit of the Soviet ship. Eventually they will dock with it, using a U.S.-built docking system to link the ships together. After the hookup, the Apollo will have to stabilize both craft in orbit since Soyuz is not up to the task...
...Your belittling comments on the round-the-world yacht race [March 11] are typical of the feeling in the U.S. today toward anything that is "not invented here...
Those are but a sample of the disasters that have struck a fleet of 17 boats competing in the year's most grueling sporting event-the first round-the-world sailing race. Since they tacked out from Portsmouth, England, last September, the competitors have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some...
Club members vote every three months on where they would like to go. Freelandia has recently obtained landing rights in Hong Kong, Colombia and Yugoslavia, and is negotiating for permission to land in Greece, Turkey, India, Bali, Afganistan, Tahiti and Australia. Eventually the club hopes to offer round-the-world flights for $300 to $400 (on commercial airlines that would cost about...
Billy Mitchell and Eddie Rickenbacker and Charles Lindbergh. He died with Wiley Post, a one-eyed fellow Oklahoman who had twice broken the round-the-world speed record. On Aug. 15, 1935, the two were in Alaska on the first leg of a journey to, of all places, Siberia. They crashed taking off in a nose-heavy plane from a small, landlocked waterway known as the Walakpa Lagoon. The bodies were found by Eskimos, and a world went into mourning. Why? Because the years from World War I to the Great Depression were times for tears. Will Rogers often diluted...