Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups of men have been more carefully picked or enjoyed more widespread admiration than America's astronauts. Before man's first landing on the moon in 1969, the corps totaled more than 50 men. Most of them were extremely skilled jet pilots and had distinguished military records, as well as extensive engineering and scientific training. Now, like the space program itself, this elite cadre is rapidly being reduced in size. By 1974, NASA expects to have no more than 14 astronauts on active flight duty...
...Apollo 8's Frank Borman is a vice president of Eastern Airlines. Mercury and Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper has set himself up as a management consultant. Wally Schirra, of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, when not acting as Walter Cronkite's sidekick during CBS's coverage of moon shots, runs an environmental research firm. Restless as NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, quit last October and became an engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati...
Perhaps the most jarring postflight experience befell Armstrong's fellow moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. Unprepared for the hectic demands on his life (ticker-tape parades, speeches, world tours), Aldrin was on the way to "a good, old-fashioned American nervous breakdown," turned to psychiatric treatment, and resigned from NASA. Now writing his autobiography, to be called Return to Earth, he talks candidly about his illness. He has also become an ingratiating salesman on TV commercials...
Tentatively scheduled for May or June 1975, the mission will begin with the launch of a two-stage Apollo Sat urn rocket from Cape Kennedy into a low (110 nautical miles) orbit above the earth. At a greater tilt to the equator than the orbits used during the U.S. moon shots, it will carry Apollo directly over the Soviets' Tyuratam cosmo drome in central Asia. From there, the Russians will loft a two-man Soyuz spacecraft into a slightly higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise...
Neil Armstrong, Sc.D., engineering professor and first man on the moon...