Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked one question - about his calculus grades - Wilhelm later became TIME'S science correspondent in Washington, D.C. Now in the Los Angeles bureau, Wilhelm has frequently turned his attention heavenward while following Apollo, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter space missions...
Scorched Planet. Kohoutek's arrival comes at a remarkable stage in man's exploration of the solar system. Scientists are still sifting through the mass of lunar measurements, pictures and rocks brought back to earth by the Apollo astronauts. From the data gathered by Russia's Venera 7 and 8 landers, America's Mariner 2 and 5 flybys, and radar observations by the Mojave telescope, astronomers can now describe in some detail the hellish surface temperature (900°F.), cratered topography and atmospheric conditions of cloud-shrouded Venus. Using the startlingly good pictures transmitted by Mariner...
...couch," said Pogue. There was only one hitch: the astronauts forgot that all conversations in the command module were being taped and later piped to the ground. After discovering the coverup, Chief Astronaut Alan Shepard, who had modestly stretched NASA rules by smuggling some golf balls along on his Apollo 14 moon trip, took to the microphone in Mission Control and issued a mild reprimand. Replied the Skylab commander, Marine Lieut. Colonel Gerald Carr: "O.K., Al, I agree with you. It was a dumb decision...
...Eastern liberal" point of view. CPB directors voted unamimously to begin the financing and distribution of specific programs to affiliates. PBS was to be limited to the operation of technical facilities. CPB's first offering to public stations was 21 hours of strictly non-controversial coverage of Apollo 17. The new policy "was like letting General Motors underwrite and produce a public TV program about car safety," said one PBS official. PBS President Hartford Gunn, pondering government television production, said, "When you have all power in CPB's hands, all the necessary conditions are present for the Corporation to become...
PRESIDENT NIXON, in his speech last Wednesday night, called research and development the long-term answer to the energy crisis. Just as U.S. technology successfully developed the atom bomb and Apollo 11, it will develop an alternative source of energy, he maintained. The problem and the long term answer, however, do not lie in any particular energy source but in the mentality of the American people...