Word: apollos
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Though Goddard never saw a bit of it, credit would be given him, and--more important to a man who so disdained the press--amends would be made. After Apollo 11 lifted off en route to humanity's first moon landing, the New York Times took a bemused backward glance at a tart little editorial it had published 49 years before. "Further investigation and experimentation," said the paper in 1969, "have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well...
TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger is the co-author, along with Jim Lovell, of Apollo...
...high into a deep blue sky--a male-weepie moment to rival Field of Dreams' climax. An entire audience of NASA brass and astronauts was reportedly broken up at a preview screening in Washington, although when I checked this out with former astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, he gave me a cagey "not really" when I asked if he had cried. He also said he didn't cry at the movie Apollo 13, even though it was his story, but admitted to having been made "emotional" by another Tom Hanks vehicle, Forrest Gump, which...
...long wait for Japan's first Mars mission, but timing is everything in space. "Flying from any cosmic point A to any cosmic point B is like leading ducks when you're hunting," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, coauthor of the book "Apollo 13." "You can't aim for where a planet is, you have to aim for where it's going to be." With a Martian year lasting roughly two of our years, missing the rendezvous means you have a while to wait before the motion of the two bodies coincides again. "If an error of one degree...
...natural order of things, this willingness to go off and throw yourself into strange circumstances. I was never afraid to pack up and go off." And when he wasn't going off, he was looking up--at the stars. His obsession with the U.S. space program, which blossomed into Apollo 13 and his own HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, began here...