Word: apollo
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...APOLLO 11 (ABC, CBS, NBC). Hugh Downs and David Brinkley will start off NBC's coverage from Cape Kennedy at 6 a.m.,* with ABC's Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman joining in at 7 and CBS, with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra, at 8. The networks will be going all out in presenting the zenith event of the space program, and plan to spend two days in continuous coverage (Sunday, July 20-Monday, July 21), when the descent to the moon's surface is scheduled. A camera in the lunar module will transmit, live...
...from 20-line shorts to two-page essays, as well as the weekly five-or six-page cover articles. Occasionally, an event is of such extraordinary importance that it demands special treatment. This week, to mark what may well be the most momentous journey since 1492, TIME tells of Apollo 11's odyssey to the moon in a 14-page Special Supplement. It is our second supplement this year. The Jan. 24 issue carried the first, "To Heal a Nation," when Richard Nixon was inaugurated 37th President...
TIME'S own Apollo 11 team in New York consisted of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss, Associate Editor Leon Jaroff, Contributing Editor Marshall Burchard, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman. Dogging NASA officials, scientists and astronauts from Houston and Washington to Cape Kennedy were Correspondents David Lee and Donald Neff, both veterans of previous launches. Neff, who spent two years reporting from Saigon, finds that space "is all the things that despairing war is not. The space program is affirmation. It shows that man's spirit is just as daring and questing as in the time of Homer...
...questing spirit is no less important to journalists. In May, Editor Jaroff heard rumors that NASA had quietly changed its quarantine plans for the Apollo 11 astronauts. The May 16 issue of TIME brought out into the open a behind-the-scenes debate on the possible dangers of lunar organisms and helped influence NASA to tighten its quarantine procedures. During Apollo 10, Correspondents Lee and Neff questioned NASA's announcement that ground controllers had tracked the lunar module to a point 9.4 miles above the moon's surface in its lowest pass. The definitive figure should have come...
...Cambridge scientists have been selected to examine the lunar material collected by the astronauts of Apollo 11 and subsequent moon shots. The investigators, two of them Harvard professors, will test the samples lunar crust for such qualities as mineral content, age, and possible traces of life...