Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard against the remote possibility that they are harboring unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth, the astronauts will be forced to exchange the isolation of space for a terrestrial variety nearly as lonely. For 21 days after Apollo leaves the moon, they will be in quarantine...
...mission to the moon means hope for a less anthropocentric view of man and a new perspective on the human condition. "I think if we can get so far away from ourselves, we should be able to look back down here and see how tiny the earth is," said Rita Moore, an Atlanta secretary. "Maybe we'll be able to see now that we're all on a small planet and we ought to be working together." Said famed Biochemist Isaac Asimov: "It will teach us to be humble. The earth is a small body, a tiny thing...
...unmanned Soviet moon probe launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome three days before their blast-off from Cape Kennedy. The Russians cloaked Luna's mission in characteristic secrecy. Some scientists speculated that it was a "scoopy" shot designed to dig up some lunar soil and return it to earth before a manned Apollo mission could accomplish the feat. Others thought it might be a "snoopy" shot aimed merely at orbiting the moon and returning with photographs and telemetered data. Many Westerners suggested that it was, above all, a sour-grapes shot...
...with enough fuel to land on the moon and take off again. They also believe that Russian space techniques are still not sophisticated enough to detach a craft from the orbiting Luna, land it and launch it again to rendezvous with the mother ship for the return trip to earth...
...shape and scope of the post-Apollo manned space program remained hazy, and a great deal depends on the safe and successful outcome of Apollo 11. But well before the moon flight was launched, NASA was casting eyes on targets far beyond the moon. The most inviting: the earth's close, and probably most hospitable, planetary neighbor. Given the same energy and dedication that took them to the moon, says Wernher von Braun, Americans could land on Mars as early...