Eastern Exposure
Ted deals with insecurities about how he ended up a Pan Am pilot as he grapples with the fact that he could’ve joined the Space Program had he not been discharged following a mechanical error based crash.
Kate is on her next assignment after the Berlin debacle and struggles to complete it when Laura, not knowing it’s significance, takes the camera Kate needs to see the assignment through. Meanwhile Maggie takes Laura under her wing and, after the sisters fall out, invites her to broaden her horizons and stay with her when they get back to New York.
Laura gets a second look at Ted after rejecting him in Berlin as she helps him get a clear viewing of the latest Mercury launch on tv.