Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the Apollo 10 crew has been criticized for profane language [May 30], the fact is that Eugene Cernan merely called the attention of the universe to his ill-behaving craft. What better thought could he have had than to remind "Snoopy" of his dog-mother in order to straighten out his puppylike behavior...
...Astronaut James McDivitt, it all started with a big night at Paris' plush Lido, where he got the VIP treatment from the club's showgirls. The next morning McDivitt hustled out to the Air Show, where he and fellow Apollo 9 Crewmen David Scott and Russell Schweiclcart showed Cosmonauts Vladimir Shakalov and Alexei Yeliseyev around the American exhibit. The proceedings started somewhat stiffly; then a bottle of bonded bourbon was broken out and things began to loosen up. By the time the revelers reached the Russian exhibit with its plentiful stock of vodka, they were saluting everything from...
Gobs of Cream. After the exhilarating-and occasionally harrowing -experiences with Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the vicinity of the moon, the return flight of Apollo 10 last week could not have been smoother. On the day before splashdown, the astronauts chalked up a space first. Stafford explained to ground controllers that the crew was about to conduct "scientific experiment Sugar Hotel Alpha Victor Echo"-or SHAVE. NASA had spent $5,000 trying unsuccessfully to perfect a small electric razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments...
...question of whether life as we know it on earth can exist on the moon and planets. The answer is yes. Man can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system." If Paine's flat assertion sounded somewhat premature, or unduly optimistic, there was good cause. Apollo 10 was the sort of flight that can inspire even cautious men to let their words take wing...
This small, highly mechanized volume has been timed as perfectly as the moment of Apollo 10's splashdown. It is as up to date as this week's man-in-the-moon headlines, as plausible as the current plan to place returning U.S. astronauts in bacteria-proof "biological isolation garments." The book's thesis: puny man, poised on the edge of the new world of space, runs a great danger of upsetting the old world of earth. Each space capsule re-entering from orbit in the unknown is a potential bearer of extraterrestrial organisms capable of unleashing...