Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business dealings have helped fuel such sentiments. In 1952, he alienated his friend Prince Rainier of Monaco by quietly buying up a majority interest in the Société des Bains de Mer, which runs the Monte Carlo Casino. His reason: he had been snubbed in his search for office space. When he finally sold his interest back to Rainier, he cleared $5,000,000. In a 1954 attempt to monopolize the Saudi Arabian oil market, he made a deal with King Saud that would have given him exclusive rights to ship that country's petroleum. He thus brought down...
...refired the ship's big rocket engine and practiced sighting stars through a sextant; they tested their computers and cooling system, and transmitted to a ground station the same sort of signals a lunar module would send while returning from the surface of the moon. For astronauts and space watchers alike, the high points of the week were the television shows, shot with the 41-lb slow-scan TV camera developed for Apollo...
...buying a drink for everyone within earshot. "I have recorded my answer," responded Slayton from the control center, after momentarily switching off his microphone. On one show, Astronauts Schirra and Cunningham suddenly floated up from behind their seats and swam toward the camera, vividly demonstrating the weightlessness of space flight...
...everyone who has worked with him is convinced that there are really two Wally Schirras. One will be best remembered for his high jinks in space. On his first mission, he smuggled an unauthorized steak sandwich aboard the spacecraft. In mid-December 1965, during the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7, Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand...
...other Wally Schirra is a meticulous test pilot and engineer. He is an iron-spined Navy captain who has never hesitated to sound off when he is displeased. Early in the space program, he openly criticized John Glenn's NASA-sponsored public relations tours and argued that they had effectively removed Glenn from the program. When it was rumored that NASA might deny Gordon Cooper a Mercury orbital flight, Wally rescued Cooper by threatening to take the issue to the press...