Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world will also be watching the end of a historic episode, and this week we provide detailed program notes for the drama in the form of a seven-part special section on space exploration. One article, reported by Correspondent Leo Janos, discusses how their experiences on the moon have affected the men who walked there. Correspondent Jerry Hannifin described the Apollo 17 flight plan, while Correspondent John Wilhelm assessed the scientific rewards of lunar exploration...
...people from Cuba to as far north as the Carolinas. The magnificent display will serve as a fitting farewell not only to the departing astronauts but to the entire Apollo program. For with the launch of Apollo 17, the U.S. is bringing to an end its exploration of the moon...
Three additional manned missions to the moon originally planned by NASA have been canceled for lack of congressional funding and public support. Though the U.S. spent $5.9 billion to develop the complex Apollo system of rockets, the production of Saturn boosters has been halted. The painstakingly assembled team of skilled technicians, engineers and scientists that made Apollo possible is slowly being disbanded...
...amity between the two great space rivals and also help develop space-rescue techniques. Finally, in the late 1970s NASA hopes to fly its vaunted space shuttle-a hybrid of spaceship and rocket plane that could ferry men and supplies to orbital launch pads for journeys far beyond the moon...
...America and elsewhere, there are those who have branded the moon landings as brazen propaganda ploys or technological stunts. They are prisoners of limited vision who cannot comprehend, or do not care, that Neil Armstrong's step in the lunar dust will be well remembered when most of today's burning issues have become mere footnotes to history...