Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three exhibition games to watch a bulldozer clear palmetto scrub for a supermarket parking lot? This was equivalent to the thrill of watching the Miami Dolphins sweep to their last two championships. All their games were sold out--who could watch it? It was the space program serving up Apollo 19 for a re-re-run. I hate to say it, but give me the days when Flipper was flipping out of a bucket at the end of the Orange Bowl for every one of Miami's infrequent touchdowns and before Csonka had his NASA-engineered suspension helmet...
...your article on the sale of the passenger ship France [April 8], you mention that "the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige," as though this were a rather unique national trait. Let's see now-just how much did the Apollo program cost...
...imagination and determination more than the U.S. goal set in 1961 by President John Kennedy "of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth " by the end of the decade. Yet less than five years after that seemingly impossible mission was accomplished, the Apollo program is ended, and there are no plans for Americans to return to the moon in this century. TIME
...questions about the moon remain unanswered. Indeed, some scientists feel that they may never completely learn the origin and history of the earth's immediate neighbor. Yet as a result of painstaking analysis of the 838 Ibs. of lunar rocks and the wealth of data collected by six Apollo crews, a fundamental understanding of the moon as well as of the early years of the earth is now finally beginning to emerge...
...billion years ago, during the birth throes of the solar system. In fact, one of the most significant findings disclosed at last month's fifth annual lunar-science conference in Houston was a report by scientists from the California Institute of Technology that a rock collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts during the final moon voyage apparently traces back to that awesome event. It first cooled off and solidified some 4.6 billion years ago, making it older than any specimen previously found on the moon or earth...