APACE
Eight days in space will seem like a short mission to the men who go up in the Manned Orbiting Lab (MOL). They will stay in orbit a month or more. Working and walking around in a fairly roomy, pressurized cabin, they will wear ordinary street clothes. Occasionally they will don space suits, step outside for a stroll or a bit of research.
In ordering the Pentagon to start building the MOL immediately, President Johnson made the U.S.'s most important and expensive commitment to manned space flight since the decision to aim for the...
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