Word: apollos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only 31/2 hours after its successful launching, Apollo 14 developed trouble which may cause a cancellation of its planned landing on the moon...
...last U.S. flight to the moon, Apollo 13, was aborted in mid-mission when an oxygen tank exploded...
...have dramatically demonstrated that unattended robots like Lunokhod 1 -still alive and moving after eight weeks on the moon-may eventually achieve some of the goals of manned flight at a fraction of the cost and with none of the risks to life. Thus, as it prepares to launch Apollo 14 and Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell on man's fourth mission to the moon, NASA is keenly aware that the future of the manned space program may well be riding on the outcome of that shot. A disaster-or a near disaster like Apollo...
...quite often supply expert and extensive reportage for their assigned sections. Virginia Adams, who has been writing in the Behavior section, produced a report for a cover story on Harlem that set te entire mood and direction of the articke. Sydnor Vanderschmidt traveled to Cape Kennedy to witness the Apollo 9 launch and will do so again for Apollo 14. While studying the nature of religious experience, Clare Mead underwent a consciousness-expanding experiment at Manhattan's Foundation for Mind Research; her report became a feature in TIME'S Religion section. Dorothea Bourne has interviewed cover subjects...
...dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers; some will try to pick up samples from the geologically tantalizing highlands, probably the moon's oldest surface features...