Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State of the Art. When Brainerd Holmes and his NASA associates talk about the C5, the basic tool of their moon mission, they are not bothered at all that it is still unfinished. No F-1 engine has been fired except on a test stand, and the J-2 hydrogen engine (also made by North American) is even farther from flight. None of this worries Holmes. Like most engineers, he is used to forecasting the technical future by figuring what can be accomplished with combinations and modifications of existing equipment. There is nothing in the C-5 Advanced Saturn...
...prospect was not wholly reassuring. Making a manned voyage to the moon and back is far more difficult than cartoonists, space fictioneers, or even most engineers think. It is more hazardous than the six-orbit Mercury mission scheduled for this summer. It involves almost every science known to man−including microbiology, astrophysics, and the farthest-out varieties of chemistry. It demands massive knowledge in such fields as lunar geology, as yet practically unexplored. The project is full of unknowns, threatened with unimagined perils, and it calls for money in war-sized chunks. Before the first American flies...
With these funds, the intensely mission-minded Adventists deployed a task force of 1,861 missionaries, maintained 13,000 globe-girdling churches, supported 5,091 denominational schools, financed 108 hospitals and in clinics, including leper colonies. They are strong in the South Pacific, and have breached the Iron Curtain, counting among their members 20,000 in Communist China and 40,000 in Soviet Russia. But Adventists are proudest of all of the tropical growth rate of the South African Division: 70,000 converts in the past four years...
Charles A. Coolidge, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said that "in aiding WGBH, Harvard is extending the scope of its primary mission of education and is thus pleased to make the land available to the station." It is expected that the gift will strain the University's land reserves...
With that. Thompson, who will be 58 this month, his pretty wife Jane, their three daughters, and a boxer named Valya climbed into a C-130B Flying Boxcar loaded with two tons of belongings and left for the U.S. Mission accomplished...