Word: apollo
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...high NASA officials from Cape Kennedy to the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center mutter about quitting or fret about being laid off once the initial lunar landings are made. Internal feuds, once muted, are beginning to erupt in public; most notable was the resignation of Paul Haney, "the voice of Apollo." The NASA budget is down to $3.8 billion from its $5.9 billion 1966 peak. The army of skilled craftsmen, whom Wernher Von Braun calls 90% of NASA's investment, has dwindled from a high of 400,000 to half that number. At current attrition rates, the force will shrink...
Preoccupied by the Viet Nam war and proliferating troubles at home, the White House has placed a low priority on establishing America's post-Apollo goals in space. Unless stimulating goals are enunciated, the team that made Apollo possible may begin to disintegrate for lack of a sufficiently compelling challenge. For purely technical reasons as well, time may be running out if the Administration is to maintain America's current lead in space. The last of the 15 first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines...
Searching Re-Evaluation. Not since John Kennedy first proclaimed Apollo has the entire space program undergone so searching a reevaluation. NASA's manned flight chief, George Mueller, has even asked veteran newsmen: "Now you tell me how we can sell the country the space program." Other NASA officials fear that too many Americans view the lunar landings not as a beginning but as an end. All the old questions are reappearing with increasing frequency in public debate: Does man have a place in space? Should he establish a base on the moon? Should he explore the planets...
Whatever the size of NASA's future budget, the agency hardly faces bankruptcy. Projects now scheduled, but not yet completely funded, will consume more money in the next decade than the $24 billion that Apollo has already cost. On NASA's list of ventures...
...APOLLO 10. The eight-day mission scheduled to begin May 18 will put Veteran Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young into lunar orbit for 62 hours. Apollo 10, according to Stafford, will "tie together all the knots and sort out all the unknowns" before U.S. astronauts set foot on the moon in a mission that is now scheduled for launch on July...