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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was good reason for both exhilaration and apprehension. As they began their pioneering journey, Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were pushed into space by a rocket that had never before been used in manned flight. Only minutes after they were propelled out of earth orbit toward the moon, they were farther than man has ever been from his home planet (the previous record of 850 miles was set by the US. Gemini 11 mission...
...moon? Congressman Olin Teague, a member of the House space committee, answers with a question: Why did Lindbergh go to Paris? "He didn't give a damn about Paris," says Teague, "but he gave a damn about how he got there. The same applies to the moon." During a debate about a small appropriation for aircraft research 60 years ago, Teague notes, some Congressmen predicted that the airplane would never contribute anything to the economy and would remain only "a toy for millionaires...
...Sunday, after another opportunity for correcting their trajectory, the astronauts were to make their first live telecast from space. They were also to conduct navigational tests. Other major events this week...
After Cambridge University astronomers announced the discovery of pulsars last February, scientists conjured up widely differing theories about the nature of the mysterious radio sources. There was unanimity about only one point: pulsars beeped with clocklike regularity. The pulses from space seemed so precisely timed that some scientists advocated their use as a universal time standard more accurate than even an atomic clock. Others suggested that the signals could provide a reliable timing device for astronauts on distant missions or for experimental checks on the theory of relativity. Now new discoveries have undermined these imaginative plans: pulsars, like clocks that...
...hear artists tell it, art these days is almost anything that strikes the eye. Framed empty space, neon bulbs, rooms with booming loudspeakers, a deliberately ill-tuned radio set-all qualify. But one kind of art that has been around quite a while has been all but ignored-animated film. Though now sophisticated in its techniques and clearly unlimited in its subject range, animation as an art form has been largely confined to exercises in television commercials, kiddie cartoons, and a few arty shorts that are of the kind that are only noticed at film festivals...