Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
...Briton Hadden, a fiercely competitive boy from Brooklyn. Hadden became editor of the school paper; Luce (he tried to shake off the nickname "Chink") took charge of the literary magazine. Both excelled in Greek, and Hadden's fondness for such Homeric epithets as "rolling-eyed Greeks" and "far-darting Apollo" prefigured his later introduction of such double adjectives into the young TIME. The two boys did not become close friends until they reached Yale, where Hadden became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his sophomore year, an unusual honor prompted by the call of war for his seniors. Luce...
Testifying before the Senate and House space committees last week, top NASA officials admitted that they had not fully anticipated the violent nature of the fire that took the lives of three Apollo astronauts in January. "Continued alertness to the possibility of fire," said NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans, "had been dulled by the previous ground experience and six years of successful manned missions...
Thus it was that the ill-fated Apollo was equipped with a hatch that took 90 seconds to open-much too long to save the astronauts, who died within 20 seconds of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide. Thus it also was that the spacecraft contained materials that had been tested for flammability under pure oxygen at a pressure of 5 Ibs. per sq. in. but not under the more dangerous 16 Ibs. used in the ground test...
...prevent another such disaster, the space officials said they were working on a new Apollo escape hatch that could be opened in two seconds in a ground emergency. Less flammable materials are also being studied for space suits and the spacecraft interior. As a further precaution, the Apollo cabin during future ground tests will probably be filled with normal air, rather than the pure oxygen that fed the fire...