Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introspection and doubt. Last week the nation's space leaders made it plain that the time has come to focus once more on the moon. America's hopes of a lunar landing by 1970 can still be realized, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Chief James E. Webb told Congress, barring any recurrence of major technical problems...
Direct Voice. To emphasize the space agency's go-go attitude, Webb named the U.S.'s new team selected to land on the moon: Navy Captain Walter Schirra, 44, a veteran of both Mercury and Gemini space flights, and two space tyros, Major Donn Eisele, 36, and Civilian Scientist Walter Cunningham, 35. The three will not only fly the Apollo but-unlike previous crews-will also have a voice in its design and construction. "We'll fly the spacecraft when we, the crew, think it is ready," said Schirra at a press conference at the North American...
...Paeans. Despite what Schirra called the new "cando" atmosphere in the space program, the reverberations of the Jan. 27 tragedy are still being felt. Appearing before the House NASA Oversight Subcommittee and the Senate Space Committee last week, Webb got none of the accustomed paeans; instead, he was nettled at being forced into an embarrassing admission and roundly castigated by several legislators...
Though he had previously claimed that North American Aviation was the original selection of the 190-man NASA board to receive the Apollo contract in 1961, Webb changed his story under questioning by Senator Margaret Chase Smith. The truth was, he admitted to the committee, that the Martin Company had been the first choice because of its superior "technical information." But he and three of his assistants, he said, overruled the board's recommendation-logically enough-on grounds that North American had more space experience, and had submitted cost estimates that were 30% to 40% lower than Martin...
...student leaders strongly emphasize their independence from the New Left-to the point of rigorously denying the radical projects any form of endorsement. They have not only rejected any connection between their own summer project and Vietnam Summer, the national project directed by Lee Webb, an elder statesman of the student radical movement. They have objected to any form of publicity on the part of Vietnam Summer which even vaguely associates the two projects or implies support...