Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are men of good will who remain unconvinced. Moon money, they say, would be far better spent on earth-in the war against poverty, for example, or in much needed medical research. Dr. Warren Weaver, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has calculated that the probable cost of the lunar project could provide, among other things, 10% annual salary raises for ten years to every teacher in the country, a $10 million grant to each of 200 small U.S. colleges, the endowment of universities in more than 50 new nations. New York...
Besides, every dollar spent on the lunar program is spent on earth, not on the moon. The money goes into buildings, employee payrolls, training programs. It has become a vital part of the national economy. No project in years has contributed so heavily to so many areas of the country. By its very expenditures, the space effort has effectively helped to reduce poverty...
...point out that in any event, lunar funds are only a small portion of the national budget; they are not taken out of money meant for medical research or antipoverty drives. The truth is that, for all the intricate problems that must be met before man gets to the moon, planning the trip is far easier than organizing to fight poverty. For space, scientists can draw up a logical program; they have clear goals, few variants. It is lack of technique, not lack of money, that is stalling the Great Society...
...scientists in such fields as astronomy, earth science, oceanography and physics. He quotes one geophysicist: "Sheer lunacy! We are spending more on Mars than we are on studying the earth." Columbia's Professor I. I. Rabi, a Nobel prizewinning physicist who is in favor of the moon program, points out that Congress recently made a sharp cut in appropriations for a new nuclear accelerator and for the cosmotron at Brookhaven, But it refused to slice into space allocations. "Disgraceful," says Rabi...
...spacemen themselves file a strong demurrer. To them, the commitment of man to the moon is essential. Says Chris Kraft, director of NASA Flight Operations: "After the canned man and the monkey flights, we found that by adding a man, you've added a tremendous tool. We now have man in the loop-and that's made the difference." Without a man on board a spacecraft, there is no judgment aloft, no freedom of choice, no chance to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, less chance than ever of getting past unforeseen trouble. Ranger's pictures...