Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon-eyed whiz kid from RCA, there seemed no insurmountable challenge in straw-bossing the U.S.'s $20 billion man-in-space program. "I think I'm up to it," said Brainerd Holmes, 42, when he took over as Director of Manned Space Flight for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1961. NASA Boss James Webb heartily concurred and said: "He has every quality it takes to get the job done." And so it seemed. Under Holmes's guidance, the U.S. launched five successful manned flights, developed detailed plans for a race to the moon...
...there were other, earthier problems. Webb quickly decided that Holmes (TIME Cover, Aug. 10) attached entirely too much urgency to the moon race and upstaged Webb's own pet scientific probes as a result. Late last year, Holmes asked an additional $400 million for the moon program. Webb curtly refused to take the request to Congress, and Holmes put up a fuss. After that, Webb began bypassing Holmes and going to other officials for advice in policy decisions...
Last week NASA made it official-the Mercury program was finished and the space agency would now start concentrating on Project Gemini, the two-man, rendezvous-in-space program. As it did, the Soviet Union took another step of its own toward the moon (see THE WORLD). But the whiz kid from RCA was out of the race. Buried in the middle of a three-page NASA release was the news that "The Office of Manned Space Flight will be realigned to permit Mr. Brainerd Holmes, Director, to return to industry...
...Light of the Moon...
...father is in very good health and has no intention of resigning." Rada also explained that, because Communist ideology does not discriminate between the sexes, "the day is not far off when we will send a woman to the moon...