Jul 24 1966
From The Space Library
Launch crews began erecting Titan II booster on Pad 19 at ETR in preparation for September launch of Gemini XI mission. (AP, Houston Post, 7/24/66)
US. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard and Soviet Cosmonaut Boris Yegorov had same positive response to Parade editor Jess Gorkin's suggestion that an American and a Russian fly together in the same spacecraft. Shepard, contacted at MSC, said it would be of "enormous value." Yegorov indicated that U.S.S.R. might already be preparing for joint space exploration, saying: "If the Americans are really keen on the idea of joint flights, they had better start learning Russian. All of us are studying English already." (Anderson, Parade, 7/24/66, 4-5)
Harris poll indicated that Americans, in case of national emergency, favored first curtailing space and aid-to-cities programs and last curtailing health-assistance and college-education aid programs. (Parade, 7/24/66)
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