Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Poher and Pompidou had conducted campaigns that promised something for everyone. Poher, the folksy Frenchman who in the short space of six weeks had come from the obscurity of the Senate to make a bid for Charles de Gaulle's vacated job, presented a 12-point program that amounted to a New Deal for France complete with the ringing promise to make telephones available to every home.* Pompidou promised only slightly less, and added the guarantee that his promises would be kept, thanks to the fact that only he commands the Gaullist majority in the National Assembly. Carrying...
...last week, Apollo 10 Astronauts Tom Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young had erased just about all doubt that the U.S. can meet its goal of landing men on the moon before the end of 1970. Even as the astronauts were being welcomed aboard the recovery carrier Princeton, American space officials were looking confidently ahead to the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission now scheduled for July. Said Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston: "Today, this moment, with the Apollo 10 crew safely on board, we know we can go to the moon. We will...
...addition to clearing the way for a summer landing on the surface of the moon, the exploits of the command module Charlie Brown, the lunar module Snoopy and the Apollo 10 crew brought the nation and the world the most revealing views of space flight that have ever been available. Remarkable as they were, however, the televised pictures that came across nearly a quarter of a million miles could not begin to match the quality of the movie and still photographs taken by the astronauts...
...language of the Apollo 10 crew was indeed more earthy than any previously broadcast from space. But the lapses were understandable. When Snoopy began gyrating wildly after its descent stage had been jettisoned, an alarmed cry of "Son of a bitch!" escaped from the startled Cernan. As Astronaut Stafford was preparing to take black and white pictures during Snoopy's low pass at the moon, he suddenly shouted: "You know, this goddam filter has failed on me." Finally, at the end of the day, a ground controller asked: "How are you guys doing?" The reply: "The crew status...
Gobs of Cream. After the exhilarating-and occasionally harrowing -experiences with Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the vicinity of the moon, the return flight of Apollo 10 last week could not have been smoother. On the day before splashdown, the astronauts chalked up a space first. Stafford explained to ground controllers that the crew was about to conduct "scientific experiment Sugar Hotel Alpha Victor Echo"-or SHAVE. NASA had spent $5,000 trying unsuccessfully to perfect a small electric razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments...