Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incoming Interior Secretary Hickel unveils plans for a 60-lane automatic bowling alley atop famed Niagara Falls. As work continues on the lunar landing module, America launches Apollo 9, the first successful attempt to place three men and a dog in orbit around the moon...
Mission control proclaims a perfect launching for Apollo 11, the first successful attempt to put three men and a diabetic otter in orbit around the moon. Rhody McCoy throws his hat into the New York Mayoralty race...
...What the rebels and dissenters ask will not be found on the moon: social justice, peace, an end to hypocrisy-in short, Utopia. But to the extent that the rebels really want a particular kind of tomorrow-rather than simply a curse on, and an escape from, today-the moon flight of Apollo 8 shows how that Utopian tomorrow could come about. For this is what Westernized man can do. He will not turn into a passive, contemplative being; he will not drop out and turn off; he will not seek stability and inner peace in the quest for nirvana...
That is Western man, and with these qualities he will succeed or fail. It is possible to look at the moon flight and shudder at the vast, impersonal, computerized army of interchangeable technicians who brought it about. It is also possible to see in this endeavor the crucial gifts for organization and cooperation that alone will make survival in the post-industrial age feasible. It is possible to look at the moon flight and be dismayed at the crass expenditure of money, sweat and time, the sheer materialist effort, the ultimate triumph of gadgetry, the unabashed hubris of technique...
...hope is conditional and still remote. The triumph of Apollo 8 cannot erase the irony that it is easier for man to go to the moon than to wipe out a ghetto, easier for him to travel through space than to clean up his own polluted atmosphere, easier for him to establish cooperation in a vast technological enterprise than to establish brotherhood on a city block. Yet as man has conquered the seas, the air and other natural obstacles, he has also at each stage, in a small way, conquered part of himself. Therein lies the hope and the ultimate...