Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Appropriations Subcommittee last week cut the National Aero nautics and Space Administration appropriation to $5.1 billion, some $600 million less than the Administration had requested. The action closely followed President Kennedy's United Nations speech proposing a joint moon venture with the Russians, which prompted many dollar-conscious Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare...
...believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth...
...sixth took just about every body by surprise. Kennedy proposed that U.S. and Russian astronauts go to the moon together. "Why," asked the President, "should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries - indeed of all the world - cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending some day in this decade to the moon not the representatives of a single nation, but of all our countries...
Kennedy's proposal for a joint moon expedition was known in advance only to a handful of intimates in the White House, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the State Department. Only a few days earlier, discussing joint manned flights, Manned Spacecraft Center Director Dr. Robert Gilruth told the American Rocket Club: "I tremble at the thought of the integration problem. The proposal would be very interesting and significant - but hard to do in a practical sort...
Since nobody expects the Russians to cooperate, the proposal merely confused the real question, which is: Should the U.S. really go to the moon, and if so, how fast and on what kind of budget...