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...where all manned flights begin and end, including training, medical preparations and postflight debriefings. "All of us [cosmonauts] started from Star City," recalled Shatalov, a veteran of three orbital missions...
...space, Skylab 1 Astronauts Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin still had time to act like ordinary tourists. Clicking away with their Nikons, Hasselblads and automatic cameras, they took 50,000 pictures -more than any space travelers before them. Last week, as they returned to Houston for continued postflight medical examinations and debriefings, NASA began releasing their splendid shots, some of the best ever taken in space...
Enough air crewmen were brought in from the U.S. to keep the number of missions per crew to a level of about three per week. Each mission involved a 17-hour workday, including twelve hours in the air as well as pre-and postflight briefings and debriefings. Meals were taken on board: some flyers preferred the older D models because they have a small stove on which a TV-style dinner can be cooked. On the Gs, cold box lunches are the rule. Crews are rotated home after a maximum of 179 days under a program code-named "Bullet Shot...
...alone in the command ship Endeavor while his crewmates explored the lunar surface. Since his return, he has been moved to put his feelings about space flight into verse, some of it deeply personal and soul searching. Worden's new interest is only one example of an extraordinary postflight phenomenon. In spite of their undeserved reputation as unemotional automatons, many of America's 32 space travelers have been profoundly moved by their experiences away from earth. In some cases, they have returned to begin entirely different lives. Says Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart: "I am not the same...
Perhaps the most jarring postflight experience befell Armstrong's fellow moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. Unprepared for the hectic demands on his life (ticker-tape parades, speeches, world tours), Aldrin was on the way to "a good, old-fashioned American nervous breakdown," turned to psychiatric treatment, and resigned from NASA. Now writing his autobiography, to be called Return to Earth, he talks candidly about his illness. He has also become an ingratiating salesman on TV commercials...