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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket planes, took decisive action. The automatic landing system was taking Eagle down into a football-field-size crater littered with rocks and boulders, Armstrong explained: "It required a manual takeover on the P-66 [a semiautomatic computer program] and flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area." The crisis emphasized the value of manned flight. Had Eagle continued on its computer-guided course, it might well have crashed into a boulder, toppled over or landed at an angle of more than 30° from the vertical, making a later takeoff impossible. Said a shaken Paine...
...check lists and punched out computer instructions, making all Eagle systems ready for a quick takeoff if it should become necessary Aldrin took time to describe the landing site: "It looks like a collection of just about every variety of shapes, Angularities, granularities, every variety of rock you could find...
...with less foresight saw only a forbidding stretch of sand, scrub and fetid marshland that was bypassed even during the land boom of the 1920s. In the 1950s, recalls Space Reporter Al Volker of the Miami News, the space program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come for Verne's idea. With it came a population of 250,000, cinder-block subdivisions, all the effluvia of a boom town and, last...
Those are really two aspects of the same problem. If your country is moving to a higher level of prosperity and the better life, then no one is going to listen to the rabble-rousers. But if you get more and more hungry and angry people, then Communists will find it easier to recruit people as guerrillas. If South Viet Nam is lost, the chances are that whoever forms the Communist government will want to be the successor of French Indo-China, which included Laos and Cambodia. Whether they will be able to go on and create a insurrection...
...liberation wars. Vietnamese, not Chinese, have to die in Viet Nam. The whole world has got to live with China. It is up to the major powers-America, Russia, Japan and the countries of Western Europe-to come to some accommodation first. Then the countries of Southeast Asia can find accommodation with China within the framework of the United Nations, I hope...