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Underwater Workouts. In an attempt to familiarize Aldrin with weightlessness, which until now has been simulated for astronaut trainees in an Air Force KC-135 for only 30 seconds at a time, NASA has been giving him workouts in a Baltimore swimming pool that contains a full-size mock-up of Gemini's equipment section. Dressed in a special pressure suit rigged with weights and floats that enable him to remain buoyant at a specific level underwater, Aldrin has spent hours practicing his EVA assignments under conditions that approximate but do not exactly duplicate weightlessness. Astronaut Cernan has also...
Tanker Base. Part of a $75 million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American...
...caught Kasler's wingman, and he ejected. Kasler circled the area to protect him until rescue helicopters could get in. When Kasler's fuel gauge hit "bingo" (minimum remaining to get home), instead of leaving the protective watch to others, he elected to refuel from an orbiting KC-135 tanker and return to his downed buddy...
Route to the Interior. The airfield itself will be ready this summer, large enough to hold at one time three squadrons of fighter-bombers, 20 KC-135 jet transports, one squadron of air-defense fighters and 120 C-123 transport planes, not to mention the B-52s which could fly from its extra-thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway...
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