Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent wide-ranging debate over the United States moon-shot and the importance of the space program seems to have confused the American people. Before the debate began this fall, most of the country enthusiastically supported the race to the moon against the Russians. Now that the fireworks are over, the United States is still officially in the race--but with very little backing and with questionable justification. The Administration has failed to convince critics of the moon program that the United States should land a man on the moon before 1970, or even that we should land one there...
Treated as a political problem, the confusion over the "moon shot" has stemmed from the huge gap between the professed goals of the Administration and Congress, and what their programs have actually accomplished. The House cut $612 million from the NASA appropriations bill last month but also reaffirmed its determination to race the Russians to the moon. Kennedy, in equally mysterious fashion offered to cooperate with the Russians at the United Nations, and then said his speech meant nothing when he returned to the White House. Neither the Administration nor Congress has made clear why the United States should reach...
...confusion began on Sept. 20, when President Kennedy spoke to the United Nations. He suggested that the U.S. and the Soviet Union consider cooperating in the exploration of the moon. The speech surpriased nearly everyone, including many of Kennedy's most "intimate" advisers. Democratic Congressmen who had supported the President on the urgency of beating the Russians to the moon were especially perplexed, suddenly he didn't seem to care if we beat them or joined them...
...speech, the Administration went out of its way to deny the proposal's importance. On his return to Washington, the President immediately wrote a letter to the chairman of the House independent offices subcommittee explaining that his U.N. proposal had no effect on the priority of the moon shot in U.S. research and development plans. One high Administration spokesman suggested that the proposal at the U.N. was "a master stroke of diplomacy;" the President had made a significant gesture of peaceful cooperation while managing to avoid any change in American policy. A better explanation of the speech's rationale...
Used as a radar, it has 40,000 times the power of the Air Force radar at Millstone Hill, Mass., which bounced electronic pulses off Venus. The mighty pulses from Arecibo will study Venus and the other planets more intimately. Turned on the moon, they will penetrate many feet below the surface. Their reflections received on earth will help predict what sort of rock or dust the first human explorers will find...