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...welcome was so warm that about the only thing missing was balalaika music. Astronaut Tom Stafford greeted the Soviet visitors to the Johnson Space Center in his newly acquired (albeit broken) Russian. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov-who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space-promptly returned the linguistic compliment. Asked whether he anticipated any language difficulties when Stafford's Apollo spacecraft and his Soyuz rendezvous and dock in earth orbit in 1975, Leonov broke into a broad grin and said: "No problem English...
Last week, in a classic comeback story, Slayton got his wish. NASA named him to the crew of the Apollo spacecraft that will rendezvous and dock with a Russian Soyuz spaceship in 1975. His crewmates will be Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Stafford, a veteran of one Apollo and two Gemini flights, and Civilian Astronaut Vance Brand, another space rookie. Though obviously elated, the crewcut, 48-year-old Slayton-who will be the oldest American to go into space by the time of the launch -greeted the news in his characteristic gritty style: "I'd rather...
...ball on an over-the-fence leap. 2. Four. 3. Dan Demichael, .368. a orking for Cooch Owen's father at Owen Motors. 4. Three. 5. McClymond's High. 6. Ray Sadecki, 7. Lee Wall hit it; Willie Mays caught it. 8. Chuck Hiller resituated a Bill Stafford slider for a home...
...credit belongs to Gene Cernan, who had special reason for his all-out photographic effort. During the flight of Gemini 9 in 1966, he took a dramatic "walk" in space as his ship circled the earth. But most of the shots taken of Cernan by his fellow astronaut Tom Stafford were lost when a film pack accidently floated out of the open hatch and disappeared in space. Only one spacewalk picture-showing a partial view of Cernan-was returned to earth. That made Cernan more determined than ever to come home with a superior and complete photographic record of Apollo...
...thumb blotted out the planet earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." To Apollo 8's Bill Anders, seeing the earth from out there evoked "feelings about humanity and human needs that I never had before." Tom Stafford, a veteran of the Gemini 6 and 9 and Apollo 10 flights, puts it more strongly: "You don't look down at the world as an American but as a human being." Other astronauts found the isolation of space exhilarating even when they were behind the moon, out of touch with the earth...