Word: astronaut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honor to human courage," declared Pope Paul in a litany of praise. "Honor to the synthesis of the scientific and organizational activity of man. Honor to man-king of the earth and now prince of the heavens!" But pity the prince's domain. There was the astronaut with his golf ball, treating the desolate grandeur like country-club grass. Next time the visitors will drive a car. Mundane subjugation would seem complete...
After the film, Aldrin spoke on astronaut training-including learning how not to fall and how to function in the diminished gravity of the moon. He also gave previews of such future space ventures as a space shuttle, which would return to earth for repeated...
...that Russia and the U.S. are racing to blast off for Mars, and that virtually the entire American press, babbling about the nation's social needs, is trying to block the U.S. effort. An American labor leader turns out to be a Soviet agent, and a neurotic black astronaut who has not made his peace with the white world (an attitude the author finds entirely outrageous) goes mental while in moon orbit. The loudest noise to be heard is Drury rubbing his hands together as he exposes the pinko thinking of all those fluoridating reporters. "It was good...
...much that Drury has borrowed Little Orphan Annie's politics, but that he did not sign up Punjab, the Asp and Sandy, too. Given a day or two to learn their lines, they could have substituted with much improvement in subtlety of characterization for the cereal-box astronauts and Comsymp Eastern Establishment journalists who snooze about Drury's stage. An astronaut at play: "There are astronauts," he said, "and sometimes there are astronaughties...
...hurled by a Redstone rocket into a high, arcing 302-mile flight over the Atlantic. For the U.S., that brief, 15-min-ute suborbital ride began the era of manned space flight. Next week, his lean body practically unchanged by the passage of years, the same pioneering astronaut will command NASA's fourth manned assault on the moon. At the age of 47, Captain Alan B. Shepard Jr. is the oldest American* ever to soar into space, the only one of the original Mercury astronauts still on flight status and clearly one of the comeback heroes of all time...