Luna 15 reportedly crashes into the Moon at high speed
Jodrell Bank tracking station says Russia's unmanned Luna 15 likely plunged onto the Sea of Crisis at about 300 miles per hour, potentially destroying the spacecraft and ending any plan to retrieve lunar soil. Officials note signal loss and no expected survivable landing.
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Jodrell Bank
England
UPI
Russia
Bernard Lave
Sea of Crisis
Sea of Tranquility
Lovell
Earth
Lunar
Medals Placed on Moon Reported by Tass
Tass described the Apollo moon landing and noted American astronauts carried medals commemorating Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov and U S astronauts Virgil Grissom Robert Chaffee and Edward White. The medals honored the space deaths in memory of fallen pioneers.
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UPI
Tass
Nixon
Neil Armstrong
Edwin Aldrin
Yuri Gagarin
Vladimir Komarov
Ussr
Virgil Grissom
Robert Chaffee
Edward White
U. S. Tass
Collins Moonshot Tribute Highlights Cedar Rapids Ties
Arthur Collins of Collins Radio Co praised the Apollo 11 moon landing as a giant win for Cedar Rapids and his company. He credited hundreds of employees and called the achievement the result of many people, not a single individual, while noting clear Cedar Rapids skies and his plans to stay in Dallas during the mission.
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Neil Armstrong
Lunar
Cedar Rapids
Dallas
Cedar] Rapids
King's Brother Drowning Victim in Atlanta
UPI reports Rev A D Willams King, civil rights leader and King family member, found dead in pool at Dallas home. Collings King, Cedar Rapids-based brother, described last contact after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Authorities note he arrived home late and his three youngest children found the body.
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UPI
A. D. Willams King
Collings
Cedar Rapids
Martin Luther King
Dallas
Here
Cedar King
Shadow Rapids
Martin
Colling
Collins
SCLC
Munications Systems
Ebenezer Baptist Church
A. D
Tom Offen
Berger
New Australian Party Formed Over Vietnam War Stance
A group in Australia forms a new political party opposing Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, signaling a bold challenge to government policy and mobilizing antiwar sentiment across factions.
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Canberra
Australia
Apollo work cited by Wulfsberg boosts mission pride
Arthur Wulfsberg, program manager for Collins Radio on the Apollo Program, discusses lunar module communications gear and moon to earth TV transmission work. He notes Cedar Rapids employment, a $130 million contract, seven years on Apollo, and the landing as the mission’s most gratifying moment.
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Arthur Wulfsberg
Wullfsberg
Collins Radio: Co
Moon
Earth
Apollo
Wulfeberg
Kennedy Charged With Leaving Scene In Chappaquiddick Crash
Edgartown Massachusetts police filed a formal complaint charging Senator Edward Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident after the Chappaquiddick crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. The hearing is set for July 28 in the Edgartown courthouse as Kennedy, represented by lawyer Richard McCarran, faces District Court. Kennedy said he tried to rescue Kopechne but could not.
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Mass
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Martha's Vineyard
Kennedy
Domenic Arena
Thomas Teller
Arena
Richard McCarran
McCartan
Teller
Town Hall
Mary Jo Kopechne
Washington
Vineyard
Konewine
Keech
Safe Liftoff For Walkers
Two Americans reached lunar orbit after liftoff from the moon aboard the lunar module Eagle. Armstrong and Aldrin left footprints and planted the American flag as they prepared to rendezvous with Michael Collins in the command ship Columbia. Mission control reported a smooth ascent and a complex chase to join the orbiting command module before returning to Earth later this week.
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Michael Collins
John Carlton
Space Center
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Colling
Earth
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de Gama
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