Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Europe, ideology was cast aside. Russia's Luna 15 was virtually ignored, and Yugoslavia's Radio Zagreb pointedly emphasized the contrast between American candor and Soviet secrecy concerning space flights. Czechoslovakia issued special commemorative stamps, and a Hungarian television commentator talked of "amazing tasks" during the moon walk. Poles unveiled a soaring statue at the Cracow sports stadium in honor of Apollo's astronauts. Said Radio Warsaw: "Let them come back happily. Their defeat would be the defeat of all mankind...
...amazing concept to them." Said Gary Newton, 19, a sophomore at Maine's Colby College: "The astronauts' achievement was great, but I'm sorry that our country doesn't put as much money into solving the problems of war, poverty and sickness." Outside the Manned Space Center, black demonstrators carried the bitter message: "Good luck from the hungry children of Houston...
...single accident, two boxes containing some 60 lbs. of lunar soil and rocks were flown off the U.S.S. Hornet in two helicopters and taken to Johnston Island. From there, they were airlifted aboard two planes directly to Houston, then trucked to the Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL). The space agency gave the rocks such VIP treatment that NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, and Apollo Spacecraft Manager George Low were all on hand to welcome them...
WITH remarkable clarity, the words reached the earth from a quarter of a million miles away in space. "Houston," the distant voice announced, "Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." Though somewhat overlooked in the drama of the lunar landing, the intricate electronics systems that brought Neil Armstrong's voice back from the moon were almost as much of an engineering triumph as the rocketry that carried him there...
...long, electronic link with the earth started with tiny microphones carried inside the astronauts' space helmets. Their voices were fed from the mikes into a small, 3-ft.-sq. box directly behind them in the lunar module. Despite its deceptively simple appearance, the 100-lb. package was the heart of the LM's communications system. Known as a signal processor, it accepted the astronauts' voices as well as 900 other signals-telemetric data on heartbeats, for example, pressure readings in the cabin, data from the computers-and imposed them on a single "carrier" frequency...