Word: apollos
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...rockets under development, the U.S. hopes to launch two-man capsules by 1964, keep them in orbit for as long as two weeks (U.S. scientists estimate that the Soviet Union may try a two-man orbital flight most any day). Most ambitious of foreseeable U.S. space flights is Project Apollo, which aims at putting three men on the moon?and bringing them back?...
...flight across the heavens, John Glenn was a latter-day Apollo, flashing through the unknown, sending his cool observations and random comments to the earth in radio thunderbolts, acting as though orbiting the earth were his everyday occupation. Back on earth, Glenn seemed to be quite a different fellow?an enormously appealing man, to be sure, but as normal as blueberry pie. He had an engaging, small-town charm, a sturdy character that was etched in the lines on his face, an attractive family, and a deep faith in "a power greater than I am that will certainly see that...
Half of Kennedy's $2.4 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will be devoted to "the mastery of space symbolized by an attempt to send a man to the moon and back safely to earth" by 1970, particularly the development of a complex Apollo spacecraft to bear a three-man team. But Kennedy also plans to spend $1.3 billion for space research and technology by the Defense Department, the Weather Bureau, the Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies...
...gilded works, the mood is often different. In his Apollo Belvedere, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), the best of the bronze sculptors at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, produced a figure of almost stylized grace. The Homage to Sculpture is blatantly-though magnificently-contrived. Bernini's 6-in. masks seem at first glance to be pure theater, yet they provide a kind of climax to the show. The Renaissance master, having unlocked the classic secrets of the human face and figure, could now take liberties with nature. It is Bernini's triumph that the masks are mood rather...
...told, the Apollo will weigh between 50 and 75 tons. Whether it will be boosted from the earth in one piece or assembled in space before the final push to the moon is still undecided. So is the target date for the final shot, although a tentative timetable calls for a moon landing...