Word: makes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apollo 11 crew has been in full-time training since January, spending 12-hr. days often seven days a week going over and over the 294-page flight plan, rehearsing every move they will make in flight simulators, checking and re-checking the command module and lunar module. They practiced a single maneuver?the powered descent to the lunar surface?at least 150 times. Flight Surgeon Berry was seriously concerned about their grueling schedule. He feared that the men might become so tired that their resistance to disease would be dangerously low and that they would catch...
...barrier that set Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins apart from their questioners was highly appropriate. When?if all goes well?the three make their next public appearance, they will do so as mankind's first voyagers to an extraterrestrial body. They are only men, chosen for their role by fate as well as by their own unquestionable talents. But by virtue of their momentous experience, they will also be men set apart from their fellows...
...estimate that more than 10,000 separate tasks would have to be performed before the U.S. could put a man on the moon. James Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration between 1961 and 1968, compared the problem to "having to take a caterpillar and make it into a butterfly when we had never seen a butterfly...
...give us a charter to continue turning earth into a planetary garbage dump; in an ecological sense, we must put our own house into order before we expand into others. But it is good to know that they are there-even though extensive alterations will be required to make them comfortable. Our generation has learned how to kill a world; the same powers can bring life to worlds that have never known...
...intellectuals continue to make their voices heard. A group of 42 journalists, lawyers, professors and five lower-house deputies have formed the Committee for the Establishment of the Progressive Nationalist Force. Their professed aim is to set up a "reconciliatory government composed of nationalists and acceptable to all sides concerned"-which does not imply coalition with the Communists, the group insists. Several members of the committee have been questioned by police, however...