Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Rog- er Chaffee, 31, lay dead in the charred cockpit of a vehicle that was built to hit the moon 239,000 miles away, but never got closer than the tip of a Saturn rocket, 218 ft. above Launching Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy...
...Apollo systems, which had already twice been fired aloft without anyone aboard. If things went well, Apollo 204 would lead to two other manned flights later this year, and then, possibly as early as 1968, to fulfillment of man's ancient vision of a landing on the moon...
...propulsion necessary to send it back to earth. The whole capsule is 34 ft. long, weighs about 30 tons when fully fueled. Ultimately, the Apollo will also carry a lunar module, a buglike, rocket-powered ferry that two astronauts will board for the last-leg descent to the moon's surface, while the main capsule cruises in waiting orbit...
...training for the Apollo mission, the boyishly handsome Chaffee came to be especially close to Grissom, at times even seemed to ape some of Gus's mannerisms. Though he prudently stayed in the shadow of his more experienced crewmates, Chaffee shared their burning ambition to land on the moon; in the den of his Houston home hangs a map of the lunar landscape. Last summer, after watching a spectacular launching of a Saturn rocket at Cape Kennedy, Chaffee, father of two, turned to his wife Martha, and exclaimed: "It's going to be a beautiful sight...
...NASA backers are convinced that the race for the moon will continue. Said California Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee: "This is a tragedy; nevertheless, it is one of the hazards that take place. Remember, every new aircraft has cost lives of test pilots, and the pilots know it. I am certain that if Grissom, White and Chaffee could come back, they would be the first to urge that the program...