Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Continental Air Lines. In Houston, passengers had to pass through picket lines on their way to flights. All across the U.S. last week, the normally routine business of air travel was suddenly overtaken by confusion and uncertainty. "People are scared," said Kathy Prezas, manager of Chicago's Apollo Travel. "They used to choose an airline for its food, or fares, or times. Now they are deciding which carrier to take by guessing which ones will be flying...
...Apollo program featured similar safety measures, but not all disasters can be handled so smoothly. In 1967 Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, and his two crew members were asphyxiated in a launching-pad fire at Cape Canaveral...
...ghostly, white-clad figure slowly descended the ladder. Having reached the bottom rung, he lowered himself into the bowl-shaped footpad of Eagle, the spindly lunar module of Apollo 11. Then he extended his left foot, cautiously, tentatively, as if testing water in a pool. That groping foot, encased in a heavy multilayered boot (size 9½B), would remain indelible in the minds of millions who watched it on TV, and a symbol of man's determination to step-and forever keep stepping-toward the unknown...
Although the Apollo 11 astronauts planted an American flag on the moon, their feat was far more than a national triumph. It was a stunning scientific and intellectual accomplishment for a creature who, in the space of a few million years-an instant in evolutionary chronology-emerged from primeval forests to hurl himself at the stars. Its eventual effect on human civilization is a matter of conjecture. But it was in any event a shining reaffirmation of the premise that whatever man imagines he can bring to pass...
Walter Schirra, 60, lives with his wife of 37 years in an exclusive development southwest of Denver, travels frequently and especially enjoys big-game hunting. The only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, he does TV commercials and other promotion for Tang, the orange drink that the astronauts slurped in space, and for Actifed cold tablets. Although he sits on the boards of several companies, the affable Schirra says he works only when he wants to: "I'm through punching time clocks...