Word: spaceship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want some boy that went to a red schoolhouse and dropped out in the third grade and went off as a road hand like I did when I ran off to California when I finished school, you don't want him to be in your spaceship with John Glenn orbiting the earth. You want somebody that knows where the buttons are and how to mash them and touch them." Mouth in Motion. He talked, talked, talked. During one day-long period, from Tuesday night to Wednesday night, one newsman estimated that he had talked publicly for eight solid hours...
...Soviet launching of a three-person spaceship emphasizes our need to re-elect Johnson, who has already worked long and hard for a better U.S. space program as a Senator and later as Vice President and President. Senator Goldwater is a man who wants to enter the space age wearing a railroad...
...Ivan Benekditov. Central Committee members known to be strong for Nikita were not called, among them Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington. Khrushchev was confidently preparing a speech, which would point to Khrushchevian successes: a good harvest in the "virgin lands" and the successful orbiting of the three-man Voshkod spaceship, even then whirling overhead...
...spaceship Sunrise that circled the earth for 24 hours last week was the first manned Russian satellite to be orbited in 16 months. But the long, launchless period had been a busy one: the Sunrise flight was eloquent technical testimony to the accomplishments of Soviet space scientists. Items: > The capsule was first to carry more than one passenger. Its three-man crew was a sure promise of multiman space stations...
...look at the Sunrise were heavy on its interior decoration and light on its technology. The ship is lined, they said, with "a snow-white, soft, spongelike synthetic fabric." The three seats are close together in a row. The single instrument panel has a clock, a globe showing the spaceship's position, a radio, a telegraph key and many switches and buttons...