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...Apollo disaster in January plunged the U.S. space program into an agonizing interregnum of introspection and doubt. Last week the nation's space leaders made it plain that the time has come to focus once more on the moon. America's hopes of a lunar landing by 1970 can still be realized, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Chief James E. Webb told Congress, barring any recurrence of major technical problems...
...Conrad's son and head of the Hilton operation in the U.S., figures it's time to start thinking of farther-out sites for another inn. In a speech before the American Astronautical Society in Dallas, Barren launched into a description of his plans for the Lunar Hilton, an underground 100-room hotel to be built just below the moon's crust. "In almost every respect it will be physically like an earth Hilton," he explained, calculating that construction can start as soon as mass space travel gets off the ground. There will be wall-to-wall...
...more information about the death of Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov filters out of Moscow, it becomes increasingly apparent that there were close parallels between the first fatalities in the U.S. and Russian space programs. Like Apollo, whose troubles may have stemmed partly from pressure to achieve a manned lunar landing by 1970, Komarov's Soyuz project was probably pushed into a manned mission to provide a space spectacular for the 50th-anniversary year of the Bolshevik Revolution. And like his Apollo counterparts, Cosmonaut Komarov may well have met a fiery death...
...Apollo-building space division by Vice President William B. Bergen, 52, former president of the Martin Co. and a North American newcomer. After the front-office shakeup, North American President J. Leland Atwood, testifying before the Senate space committee, expressed confidence that "we can effectively accomplish the lunar mission in this decade...
...meteorites also contain carbon compounds that suggest an even more fascinating possibility. They could have been produced, says Urey, by primitive life forms that survived their violent passage from the earth and multiplied rapidly in the lunar waters during the few millenniums that the moon...