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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1968
Page
3
In Timber Cove El Lago and Nassau Bay wives wait as Apollo 7 makes its critical reentry. Jo Schirra Har riet Eisele and Lo Ella Cunningham hear the retrofire and parachutes as their husbands near splashdown.
Apollo 7 earns several space records including the most hours in space by a single crew at 780 hours 27 minutes and total U.S. manned flight time at 2 774 hours 10 minutes. Walther M Schirra Jr becomes first to fly three times in space while Voskhod 1 matches with three crew. The mission also achieves first live TV from a U S spaceship and sets new engine thrust at 20 500 pounds.
John P. Craven a 60 year old executive for Babcock and Wilcox in Barberton stabbed himself to death. Summit County Coroner Dr. A H Kyriakides ruled Monday. Craven was found Sunday in the bathtub of his apartment and was vice president of the power generation division of the firm.
Figures show more than 3 000 letters at Space Center and up to 500 at Cape Kennedy along with 50 telegrams in response to the astronauts plea Keep those cards and letters coming Apollo 7 crew Walter Schirra Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele.
Apollo 7 astronauts report full success of an 11 day flight and provide data for a possible Christmas circumlunar mission for Apollo 8. NASA will decide by mid November after studying Apollo 7 results, with the crew planned as Frank Borman Lovell Anders.
Vandals caused about 5 in damage to a backhoe owned by Davidson Excavating Co. of West Chester. Deputies said the equipment was at the Commerce Park Transportation Center off Crescentville Road in Butler County.
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