Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disturbing to read "Apollo 17: Farewell Mission to the Moon" [Dec. 11]. The destiny of man involves the search for truth. What can be the fate of a nation that has the means to further the search for knowledge and understanding through the exploration of space, yet does not dp so because of its own seeming loss of spirit...
...against the TV screen to see the coloring for himself. NASA'S Egyptian-born geologist Farouk El Baz, who had helped train the astronauts, beamed proudly. Even the space agency's cautious Australian-born Geochemist Robin Brett exulted: "We have witnessed one of the important finds in Apollo geology...
...symbol that we can live in peace and harmony in the future." Then, after moving back to Challenger, Cernan unveiled a plaque on the ship's descent stage, which would remain behind on the moon. Evoking the words of a similar plaque left behind by the Apollo 11 astronauts, it read: "May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind." It carried the engraved signatures of all three astronauts as well as that of President Nixon. But before boarding the moonship for the last time, the astronauts could not resist...
...connecting tunnel and rejoined Evans; the moonwalkers had so much dust on them that Evans told them jokingly that he would make them sleep in the passageway. Its job done, Challenger was sent crashing into the moon, bringing the total cost of equipment left on the moon during the Apollo program-including the still operative scientific observatories-to $517 million. The craft landed only nine miles from the valley it had just left. Two days later, on America's 76th revolution of the moon, the astronauts fired the spacecraft engine to blast themselves out of lunar orbit and start...
...rising costs are not the company's fault. He blames unexpectedly rapid inflation and the steady loss of other defense work, which made remaining projects more costly by forcing them to absorb more of the corporation's overhead. Grumman was hurt by termination of the moon-exploring Apollo program and the loss earlier this year of the prime contract for the $2.6 billion space-shuttle. Grumman sales in the first nine months of 1972 dropped 26% below the 1971 period, to $475 million, and profits dived 90%, to $1.4 million. Bankers are holding back loans, and the company...