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...however, the astronauts made good use of their time to gain experience in navigation and tracking-skills that will be vital for landing Spider on the moon and returning to a lunar-orbit rendezvous with Gumdrop. In addition to plotting their position by star sightings, they became the first spacemen to use the planet Jupiter for a navigational reference. The astronauts also twice sighted and tracked Pegasus, a giant satellite orbited in 1965 to record meteor hits. Pointing their scanning telescope toward earth, they obtained fixes on islands, capes and other landmarks to establish Apollo's precise position...
Although they were all earthbound last week, the U.S. spacemen were still flying high. Apollo 8 Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were whisked along a heroes' route that took them to the White House, an appearance before Congress, a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, a reception at the United Nations and a state dinner hosted by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. And even before the glow from Apollo 8 subsided, NASA named Astronauts Michael Collins, 38, Neil Armstrong, 38, and Edwin Aldrin, 37, as the crew of what could be an even more historic flight...
...Russians may be merely practicing hook-up procedures, a maneuver that U.S. spacemen have already perfected, or building an earth-orbiting space station. Indeed, there were suggestions that before the week ended a third capsule might be launched to join the first two. But the Russians may also be assembling the pieces of a composite spaceship, bound for the moon. U.S. space experts studied that technique years ago and abandoned it as too expensive. The Soviets' last space shot, a circumlunar mission powered by a giant booster, suggested that they too had made the same decision...
THIS week, still hopeful that they can achieve the goal set by President Kennedy but aware that time is fast running out, U.S. spacemen will begin their final lunar thrust. Barring last-minute delays, Astronauts Walter Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele will be shot into earth orbit aboard Apollo 7 in the first manned flight of the spacecraft that will eventually carry astronauts to the moon. If Apollo lives up to NASA's expectations during its eleven-day mission, it will clear the way for a possible flight around the moon in December and the landing of astronauts...
...ridiculous on the face of it; using a camera less does not make it weigh any less. Shortly after the decision was made, however, word began to circulate in Houston that the true reason for the TV black out was heated opposition from some of the astronauts themselves. The spacemen objected strongly to being seen on worldwide TV in the scraggly beards and rumpled underwear that would show when their helmets and space suits were off. More important, they bridled at the idea that TV would enable ground controllers literally to look over their shoulders during the mission, second-guessing...