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NASA officials reported that, like its crew, the Apollo spaceship experienced only the most minor ailments during the 260-hour eight-minute flight. Some of the spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape...
...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. Now, no one can be sure. U.S. spacemen could only...
Jane sets out in a pink spaceship, complete with psychedelic color effects and a cozy computer reminiscent of 2001's HAL. She heads back a year later in the arms of a beautiful blond, blind male angel (John Phillip Law). In between, she meets some topflight actors who are all too lost in space-Marcel Marceau as the wizardly Professor Ping, Claude Dauphin as the President of Earth, Ugo Tognazzi as a friendly inhabitant of Planet Lytheon. Her only really amusing encounter is with David Hemmings, an inept leader of the Lytheon underground who has a hankering...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. As a spaceship plows the galactic void, Director Stanley Kubrick searches for the meaning of life 33 years from now and turns the quest into a dazzling, and demanding, cinematic experience...
CINEMA 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. As a spaceship plows the galactic void, Director Stanley Kubrick searches for the meaning of life 33 years from now and turns the quest into a dazzling-and demanding-cinematic experience...