Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awaiting space assignment, "I think I would find about 50 knife wounds in my back." But last week he failed to achieve his goal of walking on the moon and may well request to fly still another mission. Beyond that, Lovell says that he plans to stay on with NASA. Some friends, however, believe that his good looks and winning ways might eventually launch him into a new orbit-that of a politician in his home state, Wisconsin...
...Whatever his original thoughts, he quickly became hooked on flying. After 2½years as a Marine pilot, he went back to school, flying with the Air National Guard while he earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. After graduation, he went to work for NASA. But even before he ventured into space, he had compiled an impressive record for conventional flight in the atmosphere-about 6,000 hours...
...courage of Apollo 13's three astronauts was apparent to all the world. A less conspicuous kind of courage was displayed on the ground. Inside the windowless Building 30 of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center outside Houston, hundreds of engineers and technicians assembled to guide the crippled spacecraft through its four-day ordeal. Perhaps the coolest and most professional of them were the two young flight director-Glynn Lunney, 33, and Gene Kranz, 36-who were at the helm in Mission Control during the first hours of crisis...
Lunney, a lean and sandy-haired veteran of twelve years with NASA, was equally poised. Without loosening his tie or raising his voice, he swiftly executed a series of critical moves. As life gradually ebbed out of the service module's vital oxygen tanks and fuel cells, he ordered valves closed, switches turned off, and countless other emergency procedures. When it became all too clear that Odyssey would have to be evacuated, he made sure to check the lunar module's own critical functions-guidance, oxygen, power-before directing the astronauts to begin their "lifeboat mode" inside Aquarius...
...world of its own-or rather two worlds. In Southern California, aerospace cutbacks have been slashing payrolls for more than two years. The situation is better in the state's central and northern areas, which are less dependent than Southern California upon the whims of the Pentagon and NASA. In the San Francisco area, where the unemployment rate exactly matches the national average, few people are losing jobs, but even fewer are finding new ones. One employment agency is vainly trying to place 32 computer programmers who probably could have written their own ticket a short time...