Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thank TIME for an exceedingly interesting article on D. Brainerd Holmes, his team, and the progress of the United States in their efforts to reach the moon [Aug. 10]. Your article shows, in a concise and easy to understand way, the problems that must be solved before the big day arrives...
American reaction to the Soviet spectacular ranged from grudging admiration to scoffing irrelevance. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians for their fine "technical feat. " NASA Director James Webb insisted that Americans would still be the first men on the moon. Dwight Eisenhower, who recently deplored "the mad effort to win a stunt race " to the moon, seemed removed from the troubling reality: "I don't admit there is a[space] gap. I'm a little tired of that word. I've heard enough of it. " A Different Feeling. But much more will be heard. The official U.S. position...
...Malinovsky crowed: "Let our enemies know what techniques and what soldiers our Soviet power disposes of. " Beyond question, President Kennedy has taken a much more serious view of the space competition than did President Eisenhower. In his May 1961 speech to Congress, the President committed the U.S. to the moon race, added $500 million to NASA's budget for that purpose. In the current fiscal year, total space expenditures will run to about $5.5 billion. For advanced man-in-space projects, Kennedy has boosted funding from $6,000,000 in 1961 to $863 million...
...cheering echoed from Moscow, the world was assessing what the space duet meant in terms of positive scientific achievement, the cold war, and the race to the moon. Though there was no evidence of a basic new technological breakthrough, the dual orbiting of manned space capsules was a long step toward space rendezvous-the major way station on the road to the moon. Of more immediate concern to U.S. military leaders was the clear suggestion that manned Russian space capsules might soon be capable of observing, intercepting, and possibly even destroying U.S. scientific and military satellites whirling around in space...
...intervals, Nikolayev and Popovich reported that they unstrapped themselves from their harnesses and shifted weightlessly in their cabins, stretching their muscles as much as .their bulky orange space suits would allow. Through the portholes of their spacecraft, they photographed the moon and other celestial bodies. "The moon looked not flat, as from the earth, but like a ball hanging in empty space," said Nikolayev later. In their logbooks, they noted the temperature, pressure and humidity of their vehicles, as well as their own pulse and blood pressure. Soviet scientists on the ground received electrocardiograms direct from sensors attached...