Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind them are the flight director and planning and operations officers. "Flight" is the captain of the team, the man who makes the crucial decisions. Head flight for Apollo 11 was Cliff Charlesworth, 37. His green team handled liftoff, translunar insertion and the moon walk, known in space jargon as "Extravehicular Activity," or EVA. Charlesworth admits he liked EVA least of all the mission's activities, "because there just wasn't much I could do." Other flight directors for Apollo 11 were Gene Kranz, 35, who wears a white vest to match his team's color; Milt...
...they may be used to monitor crops and survey mineral resources. In metallurgy, extremely strong and anticorrosive titanium alloys have moved from the launch pad to the machinery of chemical and power plants. Several utilities are already testing chemical fuel cells of the kind that Apollo carried to the moon to determine whether they might offer an efficient, contamination-free method of generating electricity on earth...
...price tags under consideration are no more precise than early estimates of the cost of putting man on the moon. NASA officials, who have always worried about being accused of underestimating costs, used to quote figures as high as $40 billion, but the actual cost of Apollo to date has been $24 billion. As for Mars, New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson, head of the Senate Space Committee, guesses that the bill for a manned mission would run from $25 billion to $40 billion...
...water, demand unflagging personal commitment by almost everyone. Such efforts call for an unprecedented exercise in social engineering. They would require the development of new and ingenious management techniques; their expenditure of money and manpower would dwarf the cost of the technical teamwork that put men on the moon...
Some critics of the space program point out that the potential of such techniques is often exaggerated. Nonetheless, many scientists are convinced that the fresh technical ideas that helped send man to the moon will ultimately make his material life far better on earth. Perhaps the most exciting promise, they say, is not in the technical achievements themselves, but in the mastery and management of the multiple skills that have produced them. Teams of specialists had to harness their disparate talents in order to make so vast an enterprise as the Apollo program succeed. A similar cooperative effort, they contend...