Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turns out that Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men on the moon, not only helped make that giant step for mankind, but made one for Christianity as well. In London, Dr. Thomas Paine, former chief of NASA, disclosed that during radio blackout Aldrin opened two little plastic packages, one containing bread, the other wine. "I poured the wine into the chalice which our church [Webster Presbyterian Church] had given me," Aldrin radioed later to Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side...
Soviet Reticence. In contrast to NASA, Soviet space officials have been far less talkative about their two unmanned probes, Mars 2 and 3. But some U.S. observers have concluded from the size of the spacecraft-which weighed about 8,000 Ibs. more at lift-off than their American counterpart-that the Russians may be attempting an actual touchdown on the Martian surface, perhaps landing an automated Mars rover similar to their highly successful Lunokhod I, which roamed the moon for ten months. (The first U.S. Mars landing mission will not be launched until...
...outside Blair House one day, the visit went off virtually without a hitch. At week's end, Nixon and Tito issued a joint communique heralding Yugoslavia's policy of nonalignment as "an important factor in international relations." Then Tito flew on to Houston for a tour of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center and to Los Angeles for a visit to the McDonnell Douglas plant before returning home via Canada this week...
Echoing Glenn Seaborg's anticipation of U.S.-Soviet collaboration in atomic research, NASA officials announced that the two nations were planning a joint space mission that could come as early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
...tremendous cut in appropriations suffered by NASA at the hands of Congress makes about as much sense to me as Queen Isabella sending Columbus to sea in a rowboat...