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...ordering the Pentagon to start building the MOL immediately, President Johnson made the U.S.'s most important and expensive commitment to manned space flight since the decision to aim for the moon. He also put the U.S. military into the manned space enterprise for the first time. The Air Force, which will control MOL, plans to test-launch some components in 1967, orbit an unmanned lab early in 1968, and send up a two-man MOL later that year. Altogether the $1.5 billion program calls for a series of unmanned test shots and five MOLS...
...flight director for this week's stories on Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. and Gemini 5 is Senior Editor Richard Seamon, who edits a number of sections including SCIENCE, and for whom this was the sixth cover story on space flight. Working under Seamon's guidance, the key two-man team handling the vehicle was made up of Houston Bureau Chief Ben Gate and Science Writer John Wilford, two young men who, by age, condition of reflexes and general alertness, might well be taken for astronauts...
...great relief of his two-man audience, be immediately established that he neither pretends to be an expert on education nor has begun to make the after dinner circuit. (He ended up next day showing some NASA films of "Ed White's float in space" in lieu of giving a talk...
...These will be missions flown in three-man Apollo spacecraft. Meanwhile, crews for the remaining two-man Gemini nights will be drawn from the 28 pilots still active. Scheduled for the next three shots: Major Gordon Cooper and Lieut. Commander Charles Conrad in Gemini 5 next month, Commander Walter Schirra and Major Thomas Stafford in Gemini 6 next December or January; Major Frank Borman and Lieut. Commander James Lovell in Gemini 7 early next year...
Rough Going. No exceptions are English Actor Terence Stamp, 25, and Actress Samantha Eggar, 25, the two-man cast of Wyler's latest Columbia film, The Collector. Wyler picked them after reading John Fowles's bestselling psychodrama, the story of a repressed lower-class bank clerk (and butterfly collector) who wins the football pool, buys a mansion, then kidnaps a pretty art student and keeps her in the basement for two months while he vainly tries to win her over and she as vainly tries to escape. "I found I couldn't put the book down," Wyler...