Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States presently plans to funnel $20 billion and untold man-hours of its best scientists into an effort to put an American on the moon as soon as possible. Sending a man to the earth's nearest neighbor, however, is little more than a huge publicity stunt. The same amount of information could be gained simply by landing an instrument package on the moon--a far easier and less expensive project. Also, such a venture would not need to endanger the life of an American astronaut in a program forced to sacrifice safety for the sake of speed...
...moon race diverts far too many physicists, engineers, and other scientists from more practical and more scientifically valuable projects to the frantic effort to make sure that the man on the moon will be American. And the moon race consumes over $20 billion, money which could be taking many more worthwhile projects off the shelf. Vastly more knowledge would be reaped from money put into solar probes or orbiting geophysical laboratories than will be gained from a manned moon shot...
Some political observers have speculated that NASA had to tie its appropriations requests to the moon race in order to get Congress to approve them. But spending huge sums on ill-conceived projects benefits no one. If parts of the research involved in the moon program are valuable, their financing should be justified on their own merits...
...national prestige has been the chief motive for U.S. participation in this space track meet. In the eyes of many, beating the Soviet Union to the moon would erase its Sputnik triumph of 1957. It would seem, however, that the U.S. could gain more prestige through significant and valuable scientific breakthroughs than through the moon race. Certainly it can gain prestige in ways less financially and scientifically wasteful...
...that Nehru forced the resignations of his ablest ministers in order to clear the way for his daughter, imperious Indira Gandhi, 45, widow of a backbench Congress politician (no kin to the Mahatma), who has long been the Prime Minister's closest confidante (he calls her Indu, or Moon), official hostess and political troubleshooter...