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...display of old-fashioned realistic special effects, which convince viewers not that they are in a cartoon but that they are inside a real rocket with real people who really might die. The result is that rare Hollywood achievement, an adventure of the intelligent spirit. From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride...
...MANKIND. By combining NASA footage of the Apollo missions and voice- over interviews with 13 astronauts who visited the moon, this award-winning documentary recreates the exhilarating experience of exploring earth's satellite from pre-launch to splashdown...
...flight of Apollo 8 accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded...
...launching pad in Texas last week was not very long (37 ft.) or, by modern standards, very fancy. The flight of Conestoga I, an arc 192 miles up and 326 miles out over the Gulf of Mexico, was perfect but fleeting, less than eleven minutes from blastoff to splashdown. The dummy payload was just a 1,100-lb. tank of water. Said Donald ("Deke") Slayton, the former astronaut who was flight director for the launch: "We didn't have a single anomaly in flight...
Chafing under inflation and budgetary setbacks, NASA officials took delight in Reagan's presence at Columbia's return from space. Though Reagan has shown only a lukewarm interest in space so far, he is the first President to watch a space landing since Richard Nixon viewed the splashdown of the Apollo 11 astronauts on their return from the moon in 1969. But Reagan in his speech at Edwards disappointed space officials by failing to order up a fifth $1 billion orbiter, or support what NASA sees as its next logical step in space: the construction of a permanent...