[News Script: Soviet spacecraft]

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

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[1] p.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) January 15, 1969.

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

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[1] p.

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Transcript of script: "(MOSCOW)--THE SOVIETS HAVE ANOTHER SPACE CRAFT IN ORGIT AND MAY BE BIDDING FOR ANOTHER FIRST--A LINKUP AND CREW TRANSFER IN SPACE. THE PURPOSE OF THE FLIGHT IS BASED ON UNCONFIRED REPORTS IN MOSCOW. EARLY THIS MORNING THE SOVIETS ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCHING OF "SOYUZ FIVE" WITH A CREW OF THREE ROOKIE ASTRONAUTS. "SOYUZ FOUR," WITH A SINGLE CREWMAN, WAS FIRED INTO SPACE 24 HOURS EARLIER. A TELECAST FROM SOYUZ FIVE ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER THE LAUNCH REPORTED THAT THE CRAFT WAS FUNCTIONING PROPERLY. THE CREWMEN SAY THEY ARE FEELING FINE. THE COMMANDER OF SOYUZ FIVE SAID DURING THE TELECAST THAT JOINT EXPERIMENTS WITH SOYUZ FOUR HAD BEGUN."

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS News Scripts (AR0787), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • January 15, 1969

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  • March 4, 2019, 7:16 p.m.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Soviet spacecraft], script, January 15, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1141675/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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