Word: apollos
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...conviction was greeted with great skepticism. But his prophecy proved 100% right, and at each step along the way TIME has recorded the many triumphs-and occasional tragedies-of mankind's journey to the stars. Each flight has produced its moments of breathtaking suspense, culminating in Apollo 11's moon landing and Neil Armstrong's first step on the lunar surface. Yet for sustained tension and high drama, nothing could equal the abortive flight of Apollo 13, which TIME reports in this week's cover story and related articles...
...stunning news of Apollo 13's trouble first came from TIME'S Veteran NASA Reporter Jim Schefter, who had been called to Mission Control shortly after the initial explosion. That word, flashed to the editors in New York and other world-wide news organizations, set off comprehensive coverage of man's most perilous week in space. In Houston, observing an apparently routine mission, Science Writer Fred Golden immediately headed back to New York to prepare for a far different story. Science Correspondent Alan Anderson, also in Houston, quickly joined Bureau Chief Leo Janos and Schefter. Soon...
Armed with Houston's voluminous files, Golden wrote and Sydnor Vanderschmidt researched the main narrative story, "Four Days of Peril Between Earth and Moon," while Peter Stoler and Mary Kelley were responsible for the box on "The Brave Men of Apollo." Those stories were edited by Senior Editor Leon Jaroff. Laurence Barrett, with Ann Constable as researcher, wrote the introduction, "Apollo's Return: Triumph Over Failure." Says Golden: "People forget that earlier shots had their problems too. But they were short-lived, and the happy ending quickly obscured the drama." No one is likely to forget Apollo...
...Apollo 13's failure ended that. The exploding oxygen tank that could easily have cost the lives of Lovell, Haise and Swigert was a cruel but perhaps necessary reminder of the fallibility of man and his machines. The cause of the malfunction will have to be established by a painstaking inquiry. Meanwhile space exploration was humanized again, as it had been during the pioneer flights and on the night when Neil Armstrong made man's first footprint in moon dust. No longer was it an issue of U.S. technocracy, or how many billions the space program costs, or what...
Even so, it appeared for a time before today that the Soviet's commemoration of Lenin would be bleakfully and hopelessly marred. The Americans too, it seemed, had plans for April 22. Until last week, Apollo 13 had been scheduled to splash down in the Pacific yesterday, and today would have been an occasion for great national celebration in the wake of the astronauts' success. But now, Moscow, as cocky as any large auto firm which has beaten its rivals to the public market with a new, spectacular finished product, is eminently pleased that the day of commemoration is entirely...