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[i]Mike Wallace is trying to recall where he was when Apollo 13 blasted off and then nearly fell apart with three astronauts aboard. "I probably was on an airplane, traveling for 60 Minutes," he says from his vacation home on Martha's Vineyard. "Or maybe I was watching it in a hotel room. But you know, I really don't remember." Mr. Wallace says he "covered a lot of space" for CBS News until 60 Minutes was launched on Sept. 24, 1968. Apollo 8 was his last close brush with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which brushed him off when he asked why the spacecraft was passing over China "two or three times" on its return flight. "I was told in effect to shut up," Mr. Wallace says. He later learned that what was then "Red China" was on the receiving end of top-secret satellite surveillance.[/i]
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