Word: aldrin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have fulfilled the dream of millions. But why dp some Americans play it down by calling it a universal feat? It is the finest tribute to the most dynamic people in the world and their system...
...Would Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin or Mike Collins have left that drowned girl at the bottom of a pond and gone looking for his lawyer...
Perhaps the most fascinating find, geologically, was the discovery of tiny beads or grains of glass in the lunar dust -which seemed to explain what Astronaut Buzz Aldrin meant when he described the lunar surface as slippery. Geologists tentatively ascribed the abundance of the glassy material to meteors. Because of the immense heat generated on impact, speculated Harvard's Clifford Frondel, the invading material would have been vaporized, along with chunks of the lunar surface. After cooling, the vapor may have rained back in the form of glass spheroids. But that explanation raised a baffling question: Since lunar gravity...
...health of the astronauts was described as excellent. Armstrong has lost just under six pounds and Buzz Aldrin three, but neither man has displayed any obvious ill-effects from the gravity-free flight, the lunar stroll or the lunar environment. Mike Collins, who remained behind in the command ship, lost no weight at all. Locked away with 16 other men-including two doctors and a NASA public relations man-the astronauts spent their free hours playing pingpong, watching color TV and reading the accounts of their voyage (which are sent through an air lock and sterilized by ultraviolet light). After...
...seemed ho-hum in Nashville-the holy see of Grand Ole Opry and country show biz -then it seemed likely that the cast would be greeted anywhere else in America by bags of chicken feathers and cauldrons of tar. In a TV summer season stolen by Armstrong and Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite, Laugh...