Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S "space team" monitored the moon mission at the side of NASA officials, there was little time for Christmas observances. "It could have been any working day," Neff reported. Watching the shots with their families, TIME'S editors shared the awe of the younger generation. Senior Editor Champ Clark, who edited Jaroff's story, was astonished when his wife and four children, aged eleven to 19, insisted on rising with him in the middle of the night to keep check on Apollo transmissions. Senior Editor Michael Demarest, who laid aside his editor's pencil long...
That realization may take a long time coming. Its harbinger, the odyssey of Apollo 8, was the product of centuries of scientific conjecture and experimentation. The mission's fantastic precision could never have been achieved without the creativity and dedication of the greatest task force ever assembled for a peaceful purpose: 300,000 engineers, technicians and workers, 20,000 contractors, backed by $33 billion spent on the nation's space effort in the past decade. Nor could Apollo's galactic galleon have ventured forth without the knowledge amassed by the earlier astronauts, from Alan Shepard and John...
Below them, less than 70 miles away, lay a desolate, pock-marked landscape. In the black sky above hung a half-disk -the earth-its blue and brown surface mottled by large patches of white. Thus, incredibly, they were there, precisely where the mission planners had predicted, finally living the dreams of untold generations of their ancestors. In orbit around the moon and 230,000 miles farther away from home than any humans had ever before traveled, the Apollo 8 astronauts conveyed impressions of their pioneering adventure with words that at times were poetic. Their telecasts gave earthbound viewers...
...Christmas Eve, during their ninth revolution of the moon, the astronauts presented their best description of the moon in the longest and most impressive of the mission's six telecasts. "This is Apollo 8 coming to you live from the moon," reported Borman, focusing the TV camera on the lunar surface drifting by below. "The moon is a different thing to each of us," said Borman. "My own impression is that it's a vast, lonely, forbidding-type existence-great expanse of nothing that looks rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. It certainly would not appear...
...Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are deadly serious men, cool under pressure and addicted to speech filled with space jargon. Borman, 40, is a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, and during the Apollo 8 mission read a prayer addressed to "the people of St. Christopher's [his church], actually to people everywhere." He also inspired the Christmas Eve reading of Genesis from deep space. Lovell, also 40, whom Borman converted to the Episcopal faith, minds his civic responsibilities too. He is Special Consultant...