Word: apollo
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Despite technical setbacks, and an increasingly tight budget, NASA seems determined to meet the goal set by President Kennedy seven years ago: a manned U.S. landing on the moon during this decade. Last week Apollo's program director, Lieut. General Samuel C. Phillips, announced a revised schedule that will postpone the manned flight of the glitch-ridden lunar module (LM), and may add a manned flight around the moon to the prelanding missions, yet still place astronauts on the moon before...
...moon seemed closer than ever last week when the hatch of an Apollo lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...
...NASA officials, the mock space voyage had particular significance. To prevent a repeat of last year's tragic Apollo fire, they had spent $75 million improving and fireproofing the lunar command ship. And apart from some unexpected itching from the astronauts' new flameproof space suits, and a temporary breakdown of the huge vacuum testing chamber, the modified capsule's first full-fledged ground test was an unqualified success...
Jovian Gases. For all its promise, though, the ground-bound lunar voyage failed to stem rising scientific impatience with the U.S. space program. The scheduled Apollo moon mission is only 18 months away, and space specialists are already demanding that the U.S. start looking beyond the moon to more distant and challenging targets. At the Fourth International Symposium on Bioastronautics and the Exploration of Space in San Antonio last week, scientists repeatedly urged NASA to get on with the job of planning trips to the earth's planetary neighbors. Since unmanned probes have all but proved that the moon...
Badge of Identity. By all the commercial yardsticks used in the trade, soul has arrived?and it has arrived in the hit parade as well as the "race market," in the suburbs as well as the ghettos, in the Midwestern campuses as well as Harlem's Apollo Theater...