Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave the President a 30-second static test blast from one of the Saturn booster engines. Von Braun pointed to a huge first-stage booster (prone, but pretty impressive all the same). Said he: "This is the vehicle designed to fulfill your promise to put a man on the moon in this decade." He paused for a moment, then cried: "And, by God. we'll do it!" At the St. Louis plant of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., Board Chairman James McDonnell bounced over to the microphone and announced: "This is Mac calling on the team! We have the President...
...Houston, where the new Mercury astronaut space center is abuilding, Kennedy got a briefing on orbital and moon-flight tactics from the Mercury astronauts, wound up the Texas phase of his trip with a ringing pep talk to 50.000 people at Rice University Stadium. Said the President: "Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to flounder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean...
...That's No Good." But the U.S. race to the moon is still fizzed up by bickering scientists who are still not agreed on the best way to land there. This was made painfully evident in a strange episode that confronted the President at Huntsville...
...instrument of divine destiny? History is but the enfoldment of a divine pattern ... If not this, it can only be materialistic drift. If there be a creative hand behind this universe, there must be a creative hand in its unfoldment and direction. Everything in it -sun, moon, stars, planets, their distances, the calibration so that people will neither freeze nor scorch to death, the procession of the seasons, man's subsistence-all rise to testify to the amazing adjustments in the universe to preserve life. And surely the creative force would not provide it all in such meticulous detail...
...excited states of the chromium atoms. After a time the stored energy is emitted in a powerful short flash, which in some cases has reached the, equivalent of 1,000 kilowatts in intensity. Already this has been used to illuminate an area of two-miles diameter on the moon." In the face of such Bell-style research achievements, Sir John warned his British colleagues: "We are losing too high a proportion of our best scientists to America-20% of our Ph.D.s in physics-and this proportion is likely to increase as the U.S.'s giant space travel program accelerates...