Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...information. In years ahead, they may be used to monitor crops and survey mineral resources. In metallurgy, extremely strong and anticorrosive titanium alloys have moved from the launch pad to the machinery of chemical and power plants. Several utilities are already testing chemical fuel cells of the kind that Apollo carried to the moon to determine whether they might offer an efficient, contamination-free method of generating electricity on earth...
...probably unfair to lay the issue out along such sharp either/or lines. All that most Americans contributed to Apollo was enthusiasm and taxes. Rebuilding the cities, attacking poverty and scrubbing the air and water, demand unflagging personal commitment by almost everyone. Such efforts call for an unprecedented exercise in social engineering. They would require the development of new and ingenious management techniques; their expenditure of money and manpower would dwarf the cost of the technical teamwork that put men on the moon...
ASIDE from its value in terms of national prestige and scientific knowledge, the U.S. space effort has yielded some important-if not always immediately measurable -benefits on earth. The most obvious fallout has been economic. At its peak in 1966, Apollo employed 400,000 people, from Long Island to Seattle. The technological impact has been less conspicuous. But in scarcely more than a decade, research has produced hundreds of what NASA calls "space technology transfers" that apply everywhere from factory to surgical ward...
...earth. Perhaps the most exciting promise, they say, is not in the technical achievements themselves, but in the mastery and management of the multiple skills that have produced them. Teams of specialists had to harness their disparate talents in order to make so vast an enterprise as the Apollo program succeed. A similar cooperative effort, they contend, could be equally effective in tackling more earthly problems from urban planning to pollution. To be sure, the vagaries of human emotions are far more unpredictable than even the variables involved in a moon mission. Just defining the problems is a more challenging...
While the rank-and-file celebrated at bars close to the Spacecraft Center, the nabobs of the space industry were rubbing elbows some 35 miles away at Houston's swank Marriott Motor Hotel. There, 25 Apollo contractors kicked in a cool $20,000 for a more sedate bash featuring pâté de fois gras canapés, massive ice carvings (the handsome, irrelevant figures of an antelope, a pumpkin and two dolphins) atop the serving tables, and an all-star guest list of 2,000, including Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the center, was there...