Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibilities for positive national progress. Urging more monies for military programs, foreign aid and civil defense (see following story), the President was on the right track. But it seemed odd that he should confuse those aims by giving top priority to landing a man on the moon...
...clearly leading role in space achievement. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last." Biggest item on the stepped-up space agenda: a project to land a man on the moon by 1971-an undertaking, the President said, that would cost as much as $9 billion more in the next five years...
...With the moon parable, The Explainers has come a long way from cafe humor. Probably because he is an Explainer himself (he is apt to say such things as, "The third act is an affirmative commentary on society in general"), Feiffer knows that he is writing to an audience of Georges. What is more remarkable, each George, as he watches the fable, feels the futility of a crater counter, and is half convinced that he is all alone on the moon...
...looked like a basketball balanced on a bar stool. But the strange rocket that the Navy unveiled last week at its China Lake (Calif.) Ordnance Test Station comes closest yet to solving one of the most difficult problems of space travel: how to make a soft landing on the moon or some even more distant airless planet...
...take the place of guide cables. They will also need sensitive instruments to gauge the diminishing distance to the ground. But when such tricky gadgets have been developed, a descendant of the weird bar-stool-and-basketball may some day descend gently on the rugged surface of the moon...