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ionosphere
pyramid
crew
flight
orbit
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
(Again a surprise, since we hadn’t thought of asking Seth for any data re the astronauts due for reentry tomorrow morning. This is for the Apollo 7, our first three-man spacecraft, in orbit for 11 days—a highly successful flight. We haven’t read of any experiments the crew might have conducted involving the ionosphere; or any other experiments, actually.)
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
(Smile.) As long as he does not attempt to orbit the earth. Now. The activity of the ions, only slightly outside of the expected, will nevertheless make it plain that the scientists do not have predicted activity. Their predictions were based upon hypotheses that were not checked because it was not possible to check them under real conditions until this flight.
To the scientists this will seem to mean that the ionosphere is less stable than they supposed. The error was their own in the past. The flight will simply point out the correction, but it will mean that they will feel less secure about landing on the moon. In their terms it will seem that molecular activity is less predictable than they imagined.
[... 45 paragraphs ...]
(Apollo 7 has landed, & first reports say nothing re the data given in this session. See attached newspaper. On the next page, see the beginning of the flight’s story in The Elmira NY Star-Gazette.)
