Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S own Apollo 11 team in New York consisted of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss, Associate Editor Leon Jaroff, Contributing Editor Marshall Burchard, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman. Dogging NASA officials, scientists and astronauts from Houston and Washington to Cape Kennedy were Correspondents David Lee and Donald Neff, both veterans of previous launches. Neff, who spent two years reporting from Saigon, finds that space "is all the things that despairing war is not. The space program is affirmation. It shows that man's spirit is just as daring and questing as in the time of Homer...
...risks. A minor malfunction could turn the flight into a simple earth-orbital mission or a quick loop around the moon. A more calamitous equipment failure could cause Apollo 11 to crash into the moon or leave the craft stranded in lunar orbit. But from the moment that Houston radios, "We are go for PDI [powered descent initiation]," Armstrong and Aldrin will be blazing a new trail. They will have begun man's first descent to the surface of another celestial body...
...investigators will receive the samples in mid-September, after a special team of four scientists, including Frondell, has made preliminary tests. They will submit the results of their work at a conference in Houston, Texas, in January...
...become harder to find in the continental U.S. as obvious geological structures have been exploited. Since 1963, Wildcatter Carl W. Van Wormer, who was once worth $300,000, has drilled 20 consecutive dry holes and has moved from a suite of four offices into a cubbyhole in Houston. Keegan Carter, of Kilgore, Texas, last hit oil three years ago. The whole town of Kilgore is in an economic decline, as are such once-wealthy wildcatting communities as Overton, Henderson and Gladewater. "It's impossible to get risk money now," says Carter. Adds Jim Clark, a small operator: "People...
However depressing matters may seem for the wildcatters, there are still some signs of hope. Companies and syndicates have been created recently to finance independent exploration. Among them are Denver's King Resources, Los Angeles' McCulloch Oil Corp. and Houston's Austral Oil. One wildcatter recently discovered a field at Bell Creek, Mont.; it is capable of producing 130,000 bbl. a day in previously unexplored territory, which suggests that some large untapped pools of oil still exist for the wildcatter to find...