Word: apollos
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...CHARLES TOWNES, 53, of the University of California at Berkeley, is the inventor of the laser. His area of study is to determine what should come after the Apollo program. His ideas will be coordinated with those of DR. HORTON GUYFORD STEVER, 52, president of the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who will look at the whole field of science policy...
...first journalistic assignment Dickey covered the Apollo 7 blast-off for LIFE. While other reporters filed millions of words on the event's scientific and political import, the prolific poet (six collections in the last eight years) turned instead to the human drama: as they plunge with...
Nursery rhymes, too, began to reflect man's growing lunar interest. One, printed in 1805, even closely anticipated Apollo 8's timetable...
...mission to the moon, Apollo 8 will carry a three-man crew that is unusually well qualified, both by experience and temperament, for the pioneering flight: they are Veterans Frank Borman and James Lovell, both 40, and Rookie William Anders...
...Gemini 7 on man's longest space flight - a 3301-hours' orbital mission that included the history-making rendezvous with Gemini 6. Both took their long confinement in the cramped spacecraft with equanimity and quiet humor, and displayed competence and stability that helped win them their Apollo 8 assignments. Eleven months later, Lovell .and Edwin Aldrin were the crew on the 941-hour flight of Gemini 12, the last U.S. manned flight before Apollo 7. Between them, Lovell and Borman have a total of 7551 hours in space, about 125 man-hours more than all the Russian cosmonauts...