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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1969
Page
32
Apollo 9 astronauts Dave Scott Rusty Schweickart and Jim McDivitt ended their ten day mission with sea raft stunts as they exited the capsule. The crew faced splashing water wind gusts and near raft loss during the chaotic finale.
David Scott and the Apollo 9 crew were hoisted into a rescue helicopter after splashdown in the Atlantic. The mission, hailed as highly successful, faced a string of mishaps as the astronauts’ rafts overturned and the capsule struck the Guadalcanal side before rescue.
A humorous Newsday column from 1969 humorously catalogs the chaos of finding a pencil at home. The narrator laments frequent misplacement of everyday items and muses on a mysterious pencil that defies normal behavior.
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