Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riding in a Volkswagen with her future husband Steven through a rainstorm in Pennsylvania in 1969 when the news came over the car radio: a man had set foot on the moon. They both cheered, but neither had any reason to suspect that the event would someday directly change their lives. Much later she said, "When I was young, women did not fly in space...
...hatch that could be opened in five seconds. As NASA workers last week searched for answers to the Challenger tragedy and pondered the future of manned space flight, they could find some solace in the fact that 2 1/2 years after Apollo 1 burned, Apollo 11 landed on the moon...
...night to his staff. "Let's find somebody--anybody, I don't care if it's the janitor, if he knows how." Kennedy fidgeted, ran his hand through his hair, grimaced at the news that it would take $40 billion and ten years to get a man on the moon--and then he might be greeted by a Soviet cosmonaut. But frontiers are not conquered by cost accountants. Kennedy left the meeting and went into the Oval Office. In a few minutes his aide Ted Sorensen came out and told a friend, "We are going to the moon...
Kennedy's call brought out the dreamers, the tinkerers, the organizers, the suppliers. Lyndon Johnson never tired of telling the story of how Americans had found Teflon "for your old fryin' pan" on the way to the moon. But there was heavy counterpoint to this melody of invention. Nikita Khrushchev raged at Kennedy in Vienna in 1961. The Berlin Wall went up. The Soviets tested their huge hydrogen bomb, the one U.S. scientists had said they would not have for years...
Richard Nixon claimed his part just as soon as he became President. He eagerly plugged into the moon landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe...