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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next lunar show should be even more spectacular. The $400,000-camera abandoned by Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon could transmit only in black and white. In the months ahead, NASA hopes to have ready a color camera capable of withstanding the extremes of lunar temperatures for the Apollo 12 flight in November...
...that, space technology is only beginning to show its terrestrial worth. Lofted into orbit high above the earth, satellites even now are relaying radio and TV signals across thousands of miles of ocean and gathering a wealth of weather information. In years ahead, they may be used to monitor crops and survey mineral resources. In metallurgy, extremely strong and anticorrosive titanium alloys have moved from the launch pad to the machinery of chemical and power plants. Several utilities are already testing chemical fuel cells of the kind that Apollo carried to the moon to determine whether they might offer...
With space contracts dwindling, the aerospace industry is beginning to show signs of atrophy. Although few of the major companies involved are overwhelmingly dependent on the space program, most of them are experiencing a slump. At North American Rockwell, principal contractor for the Apollo capsule, 5,200 research and development staffers have been laid off or shifted to other projects. The Boeing Co., builder of the first-stage Saturn boosters, must soon let go part of its 10,000-man Apollo team. The impact would be most severe in towns like Huntsville, Ala., where Saturn rockets are assembled. Space...
Novelist Jacqueline (The Love Machine) Susann was propped up in bed in her Manhattan apartment sleepily watching Johnny Carson chat with Author Truman (In Cold Blood) Capote on the Tonight Show. Suddenly she realized that they were talking about her. "A truck driver in drag," Capote was saying. "A born transvestite" who wears "marvelous wigs and sleazy dresses," he continued, "would have been so great" as Myra Breckinridge. Before the angry authoress was out of bed next morning, she had lawyers on the phone discussing damage suits against Capote and NBC. As for why Capote chose to attack...
...months since shooting began, the show has run through three producers...