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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1972
Page
6
The Baytowns outline the space era from Kennedys moon goal to Americas orbital milestones. It notes key flights and astronauts including Glenn Grissom Young Carpenter Schirra Stafford Armstrong and Scott with dates and Atlas missions illustrating the decade of achievements and setbacks in the early space program.
The notations list Apollo missions with crew names and orbital counts: Apollo 10 on 11-68 with Schirso Eisele Cunningham and 163 orbits, Apollo 12 on 21-68 with Barman Lovett Anders and 10 moon orbits, and Apollo 33-69 with McDivitt Scott Schweickart and 151 orbits.
A compact chronology notes key milestones from Mercury missions through early Apollo flights. It includes John Glenn's orbital feat in 1962, Gordon Cooper's 22 orbits in 1963, Ed White's spacewalk in 1965, and the 1968 Apollo mission with Schirra Eisele and Cunningham completing over 160 orbits.
The passage lists Apollo 8 to Apollo 13 missions with crew and key dates from 1968 to 1970, noting lunar landings and abortive attempts. It traces NASA funding from 1959 to 1972, compares manned and unmanned missions after Luna 16, and presents arguments for and against manned spaceflight regarding cost, risk, and the value of human observation.
The record cites Alan Shepard as first American in space and notes a lunar landing on January 37 1977 with Apollo T4. It also references David Scott and James Irvin exploring the lunar surface in Apollo 15 aboard the moon buggy on July 26 1971.
Three American astronauts Virgil I. Grissom Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee were killed in a January 27 1967 fire during a full scale Apollo program launch simulation. They were the first U S spaceflight casualties in testing and had previously no fatalities after earlier plane crashes.
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