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...performance after the three-day stay on the moon. Their lunar work done, Young and Duke will then pack up for the night. Next day they will lift off from the moon's surface, rendezvous with Mattingly aboard Casper and prepare for the long voyage home. Splashdown should be in the central Pacific near Christmas Island on Friday, April...
...Houston, mission controllers jubilantly lit up traditional splashdown cigars, bottles of champagne were uncorked, and celebrations expanded at the homes of the astronauts. After watching her husband Stu on TV, Joan Roosa bubbled: "He looked like the most handsome man I have ever seen in my life...
This prediction is bolstered by an increasing Chinese naval interest in Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere last month laid the foundation stone for a Chinese-built naval base at Dar es Salaam. The Indian Ocean waters off Tanzania are a natural splashdown area for ICBMs test-fired out of western China and over India, and Peking might just be looking to the day when it is ready to monitor a missile test...
...rescue planes, Apollo 13 replied: "O.K., Joe." A few seconds later, the descending spaceship hove into view of the TV cameras on the Iwo Jima's decks about four miles away. Under billowing white-and-orange main chutes, the spacecraft drifted slowly downward, headed for a splashdown just off target. At exactly 1:08 p.m., six days after its ill-starred journey began, Odyssey's wanderings had come...
...Houston, cheering and applauding flight controllers joyously lit up their customary cigars as a heartfelt message flashed on a big screen: WELCOME BACK. A few minutes later, NASA's Tom Paine arrived with greetings from President Nixon ("Wonderful team. A job well done"), who also smoked a splashdown cigar in Washington. An especially apt comment came from J. Leonard Swigert, the astronaut's father. Sipping champagne with reporters in his Denver home, the 67-year-old doctor said: "It was a wonderful beginning and a beautiful landing. But I wouldn't give you two hoots for the interim...