Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their splashdown, the astronauts held a press conference in space, answering newsmen's questions , relayed to them by Mission Control. How did they feel about the decision to end the Apollo program and manned exploration of the moon? Cernan was outspoken, calling it "an abnormal restraint of man's intellect at this point in time." Next day, however, Richard Nixon had some reassuring words for the astronauts and NASA: "The making of space history will continue, and this nation means to play a major role in its making...The more we look back the more we are reminded...
...last of the moon men are back; the gantries are idle now, stark and skeletal against the Florida sky. On the moon there are flags from the earth, and on earth there are pieces of the moon. The Apollos have passed from the evening news into an assured place in history. They have opened a chestful of scientific riches that researchers will need years to assay fully. They have not solved the problems of the earth, nor were they meant to. But, as Bradbury suggests, they may have provoked man into asking anew some of the old questions about...
...each methodical moment of successive flights, but the best of the images grew into a frieze of transcendence, chiseled on the edges of the mind like Wordsworth's intimations of immortality: the readings from Genesis as Apollo 8 spun toward its rendezvous with the dark side of the moon; the "giant leap for mankind" as Neil Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision of the earth from space, a milky sapphire hanging alone and fragile in the blackness; and then Apollo 17 -a pillar of fire cutting up into the night, spreading a carpet...
...surge has come from many more sources than the space program. Though the Stanley Kubrick-Arthur C. Clarke spectacle 2001 was packing in aficionados at movie theaters months before Apollo 8, the film gained a prophetic impact after man reached the moon. Even among the scientific community, such astonishing celestial phenomena as supernovae and "black holes" have become a subject for metaphysical conjecture. Harvard Astronomer Charles A. Whitney, writing in his 1971 book The Discovery of Our Galaxy, suggests that black holes might be "the passageways to another universe," a possibility that throws him back on the language of religion...
...horizon in Tromsø or in the rest of Norway's far north, leaving the region in darkness except for an hour of gloomy twilight at noon. TIME's Oslo correspondent, Dag Christensen, describes the scene at midday: "As the jet speeds northward, you see the moon shining brighter every minute. You glimpse small, isolated settlements, clusters of fishermen's houses along the rugged coast, and little farms at the foot of the towering mountains. As you approach Tromsø the faint, fading twilight turns lakes and fjords, islands, snow-capped mountains and the sky itself into...