Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some anxieties have been dissipated since TIME'S first cover story on space exploration, but the "navigation feat" involved in the Apollo-Soyuz orbital linkup involves a new challenge. As Timothy James, who edited our cover story, puts it: "Apollo-Soyuz is an example of former enemies cooperating to achieve something that could benefit both sides." Indeed, the spectacle of Soviet and American space scientists working in tandem would have astonished our 1952 cover writer who reported that "the cold war has thrown a blackout over all rocket research. Not one man on earth who knows the latest developments...
...Associate Editor Frederic Golden, the story caps years of reporting preparations for the mission, beginning with a tour of Soviet scientific institutions. Golden joined our Science section in 1969, the week that Apollo...
...proper folksiness. He is not afraid of pauses, whether to light his pipe or to contemplate what he wants to say next. In a couple of places he changes Wilder's words, updating a reference to "the treaty of Versailles and the Lindbergh flight" to "atom bombs and Apollo flights...
...understand. Commemorative china plates issued in high-priced limited editions by the schlock art industry -displaying grackles by Boehm, farmhouses by Wyeth, Wedgwood heads of Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent, and so on-have become the back-up currency of the overheated U.S. economy. Another complication is that Athena, Apollo, that bisexual twit Hermes, and Zeus, 42 ft. tall but disguised, more or less, as a skirt-chasing municipal court judge, have settled in above a Greek restaurant on 18th Street, hoping to get some of the action...
...start of the next century. Its early inhabitants would probably be "hardhat types," O'Neill says, but after the initial construction is finished almost anyone with a spirit of adventure could live at L5. The cost would be somewhat more than that of the $25 billion Project Apollo, which placed men on the moon, but no more than a fifth of the estimated minimal $600 billion tab for Project Independence, the U.S. effort to free itself from dependence on foreign energy sources long before the year...