Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Temple, complete with 15-ft.-high cherubim. He also hopes to organize tours of the space center, shuttling the customers on double-decker buses between his own celestial shop and NASA...
Only slightly less overjoyed were high NASA officials, who badly needed a morale booster after congressional cuts in the space agency's appropriations, the near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13 last April, and the recent successes of Soviet space robots. Indeed, the unmanned moon rover, Lunokhod 1-which came back to life last week on the lunar surface 900 miles north of Apollo 14's Fra Mauro landing site-seemed very much on the mind of Acting NASA Administrator George Low. The flight of Apollo 14, Low said, "demonstrated that man belongs in space, that man can achieve...
...astronauts spotted on the slope of Fra Mauro's Cone Crater. The odd white sample, which contains a few dark flecks and streaks, may be as old as the moon and solar system: 4.6 billion years. As insurance against any loss of Apollo 14's precious cargo, NASA divided the rocks into two batches for the trip to Houston, shipping one with the astronauts and the other by special courier plane. So expertly had the astronauts operated as field geologists, that on future trips, said Paul Gast, the space center's chief lunar scientist, moon visitors should...
This time there was no dispute. Acting NASA Administrator George Low praised Venera's mission as "a significant achievement." And Dr. Charles Sheldon, the Library of Congress expert on the Soviet space program, predicted that the Russians would now launch a modified version of Venera, perhaps as early as April, in an effort to make a soft landing on Mars. That could put the Russians four years ahead of the U.S., which now has no plans for an unmanned landing on Mars before...
...reader of only moderate paranoid tendencies might easily persuade himself that this pop-lit fantasy about a NASA Mars flight sabotaged by left-wing skul-duggers is a deliberate attack by Author Drury on the vital fluids of his audience...