Word: gatland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great day for science and a great day for the U.S.," exulted University of Arizona Professor Gerard Kuiper, head of a team of scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, which prepared the shot. From all over the world flowed praise. "A stupendous achievement," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Interplanetary Society. Even Moscow joined the chorus...
...launched Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. But the performance of Vostok III and Vostok IV abruptly reopened the space race and led some scientists to speculate that Russia intended to put a man on the moon within four years. "Once they have achieved orbital rendezvous," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Inter-Planetary Society, "they have taken the vital step toward lunar flight...
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