Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Observatory prepared experiments for the Apollo-Soyuz mission and is presently doing work on experiments and instrumentation proposed for NASA's future spacelab and retrievable space shuttle, and for future missions with the Soviets...
...spacecraft is scheduled to send still another lander to the Martian surface on Sept. 4, either to expand the search or to stand in for Viking 1 should something go amiss with the first lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could be maneuvered out of harm's way by the astronaut pilot as it neared the moon's surface, the unmanned Viking lander must descend along a preprogrammed path all the way to its touchdown. If it encounters a large boulder, a deep crevice...
...first half of the play, Leontes unjustly accuses his queen, Hermione, of adultery with his boyhood friend, King Polixenes. He denounces them both, brushes aside the oracle of Apollo, loses his wife and both children, realizes his folly and vows repentance. A number of Freudian commentators have diagnosed Leontes, in the words of W.H. Auden, as "a classical case of paranoid sexual jealousy due to repressed homosexual feelings." The diagnosis is accurate, but the causation I find unconvincing. In the context of the entire play it seems a distortion to claim that Leontes is projecting his own childhood guilt...
Falling Bricks. The ignorance is understandable: the Soviet Union keeps itself as difficult to read as a Five Year Plan. Partly for that reason, the American curiosity persists, especially in the ambiguous atmosphere of Soyuz-Apollo, grain deals, Angola and the apocalyptic visions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in exile. Also involved, of course, is the fascination of one great power with its rival...
...passing on everything from Astro 1 (" ... the Harvard freshman course, which at one time, ahem, was a gut or football course") to the nature of astronomy (...there is a great deal of continuity in this science, unlike many others...") to the influence of the space race on astronomy. "The Apollo program, plus bad publicity, killed off public interest; it was extremely ill-advised to sell such things on TV, which, after all, goes for the lowest common denominator of mentality, because as a result, space programs became a bore; they were not astronomically illuminating to the few, and the many...