Word: nasa
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...Other members: White House Science Adviser Lee DuBridge, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine and Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans...
...always immediately measurable -benefits on earth. The most obvious fallout has been economic. At its peak in 1966, Apollo employed 400,000 people, from Long Island to Seattle. The technological impact has been less conspicuous. But in scarcely more than a decade, research has produced hundreds of what NASA calls "space technology transfers" that apply everywhere from factory to surgical ward...
Similarly, the U.S. can probably maintain exclusive use of Tranquillity Base, even though such an act might seem the equivalent of appropriating part of the moon. NASA could claim that admitting any other nation's spacemen might interfere with scientific investigation. The "appropriation" of 60 Ibs. of moon rocks is also legitimate under the treaty, a point not likely to be contested in view of the fact that the U.S. will share the information it gleans from the samples with scientists of all nations. But the U.S. is prohibited from making a profit on the rocks. If commercial mining...
THEY were joyful. They were uninhibited. They were grandly, gloriously drunk. They were puffing cigars, hugging girls, waving miniature American flags, and pushing each other -fully clothed-into pools. The kissing never stopped. The noise level was astronomical. And so it should have been: the NASA communities of Houston, Huntsville and Cocoa Beach had sent three men to the moon and back. The revelry at splashdown time was fittingly feverish...
...Nassau Bay motel, across the street from Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA engineers, secretaries and technicians gathered around the large pool to feast on barbecued chicken and beef and corn on the cob. Before the sun was down the celebrants numbered close to 3,000, and one of them-a shapely blonde-had been heaved into the pool. A man in a business suit dived after her. Another dived after him. A bikini-clad go-go dancer go-goed it on the diving board (to the low-down accompaniment of a group called "The Astronauts"), while leering spectators...