Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, "seemed to me the most thrilling thing I had ever seen." That was in 1959, and Neff has been searching for more expansive superlatives ever since. He has watched other space shots, and as each one traveled farther or stayed in orbit longer, Neff was more and more impressed by the skill and dedication of the engineers and scientists whose work he reported. He was on hand at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory when word was passed that Mariner 4 had made a successful flight past Mars, and the electric tension...
...went back over the history of the U.S. space effort, she was reminded of how much has been accomplished in so short a time. And having worked on so many of TIME'S stories about the age of space, she felt a new involvement. The hurried effort to orbit the little Explorer satellite in 1958, John Glenn's historic orbital ride, the first space walk ... all man's halting steps suddenly seemed to have brought him within reach of his lunar goal. And by now, every member of TIME'S Science section has a personal stake...
Unfortunately, Miss Vance's direction of the play does not soar into orbit. Perhaps the shift in sheer playing space from the postage-stamp stage of the old Alley Theater was intimidating. A risky lark tends to become a sobersided responsibility when culture receives the imprimatur of opulence. In this production, everything that was raging and revolutionary in Brecht has been quietly domesticated. The central confrontation of the play, the direct clash between the authority of divine revelation and the authority of scientific observation, is muted...
Stranded in Orbit...
Long Shot. For all the meticulous planning, NASA acknowledges that Apollo 8 involves greater risks than any of the previous manned space flights. Not only will the spacecraft be as many as three days away from a safe landing (v. no more than three hours in earth-orbiting missions), but it will be entirely dependent on its own propulsion system to break out of lunar orbit. If that lone engine should falter, the astronauts would be stranded, circling the moon with absolutely no hope of rescue...