HERO’S WELCOME
(N.Z P A.-Reuter-—iCopyright) ABOARD U.S.S. INTREPID AT SEA March 25.
The astronauts, Virgil Grissom and John Young, headed back today to Cape Kennedy base—and a hero’s welcome.
But they revealed that after their triple-orbit space triumph they became seasick when their tiny Gemini capsule bobbed and pitched while waiting for a helicopter after the Atlantic splashdown.
Relaxing later on this stable, 38,500-ton aircraft carrier, however, they showed no ill effects either from their five and a half hours of weightlessness or their 45minute experience in the ocean.
At Cape Kennedy they will give a news conference tonight when re-
porters will attempt to get the “taciturn twins” as they have been called, to describe their experiences.
Tomorrow they go to Washington to meet President Johnson and on Monday the City of New York will honour them with a ticker tape parade on Broadway.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30709, 26 March 1965, Page 9
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