Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was about as close as Collins, the affable, relaxed Air Force lieutenant colonel, would get. Before the trip, he complained good-humoredly that because he would be piloting Columbia during the moon walk, he would be "about the only person in the world who won't get to see the thing on television." He asked Houston to save a videotape for him. At least, said Collins, "I'm going...
...thing the astronauts did not observe was Apollo's companion in lunar orbit?the Soviet Union's unmanned Luna 15 moon probe (see p. 17). Arriving in the neighborhood two days before the U.S. spacecraft, Luna went into an orbit as close as ten miles from the moon and eventually landed. The chances that Luna would be visible from Apollo 11?much less collide with it?were estimated by Houston's Christopher Columbus Kraft, director of flight operations, as about "one in a billion...
...some, Apollo 11 's mission to the moon means hope for a less anthropocentric view of man and a new perspective on the human condition. "I think if we can get so far away from ourselves, we should be able to look back down here and see how tiny the earth is," said Rita Moore, an Atlanta secretary. "Maybe we'll be able to see now that we're all on a small planet and we ought to be working together." Said famed Biochemist Isaac Asimov: "It will teach us to be humble. The earth...
...gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble. Few men take risks for gain alone if glory does not follow, and most see in their glory a benefit to all mankind...
...stems from the relatively recent Western belief that individualism equals virtue. The notion is contrary to the older (and Eastern) conviction that virtue lies in seeking balance with the community on earth and with the universe beyond. Especially in America, where individual courage once tamed the wilderness, pessimists now see an antlike mass society. There is no West to be wild in; the only terra incognita is under water. The plains are paved, farms are corporations, and, with too many of the young, dreams of adventure have been replaced by the haze of pot. Even in war, the brave...