Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gemini, White became smitten with a single overriding ambition: to be the first man on the moon. "His goal, says his father, "is to make that first flight...
...case of the lunar landing that NASA is still planning for 1969, the scientists on the panel believe that the exterior of the returning spacecraft will probably be free of lunar microorganisms. A more likely carrier of moon contamination will be the lunar soil and rock that the astronauts are planning to bring back with them. More than 40 universities and other scientific institutions have already asked for samples of this fascinating material, but the panel thinks their pleas should be rejected. It insists that the potentially dangerous moonstuff must be carried in germtight containers and must be stored when...
Infected Astronauts. The returning astronauts themselves will be much more difficult to deal with than moon soil. Slow-growing germs or viruses may be lurking in their intestines and respiratory passages. The very least precaution that must be taken against them, says the panel, is to quarantine them rigidly for at least three weeks. But Deputy Surgeon General Dr. David E. Price, a member of the panel, believes that even this inhospitable welcome will not be enough. Says Dr. Price: "Quarantine is a crude approach to a problem of this sort. I would not feel safe in placing a large...
Expeditions returning from Mars will be even more dangerous than those coming home from the moon, because Mars is more likely to support life. It has an atmosphere that may carry living spores to the astronauts' clothing and crevices of the space vehicle. But the panel's report insists that even a spacecraft returning from the moon must be kept strictly out of contact with earthly life until its possibly deadly hitchhikers have been found and rendered harmless...
...prepare for that job, NASA has borrowed Dr. Lawrence Hall from the U.S. Public Health Service and given him the fanciful title of Planetary Quarantine Officer. A small project is getting under way in Houston to keep moon soil behind biological barriers while it is studied. But nothing yet has been done about quarantining the most likely carriers of extraterrestrial plagues: the returning astronauts...