Word: aldrin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seven hundred and fifty feet, coming down to 23... "Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin methodically ticked off the readings. "Four hundred feet, down at nine, three forward ... 75 feet, things looking good ... Faint shadow ... drifting to the right a little ... Contact light. Okay, engine stop...
NASA has no intention of letting Apollo 11's birthday pass unnoticed. In Washington, Armstrong, Aldrin and their stay-in-orbit partner Michael Collins will be reunited for a round of ceremonies, capped by a replay of the original moon walk late at night at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. In Texas another old Apollo hand, Christopher Kraft, the director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, will preside at space-day ceremonies; he will open a temporary post office to cancel space-commemorative stamps for philatelists. At the Kennedy Space Center, a giant...
...different it was a decade ago. On the momentous day when Armstrong and Aldrin touched down on the moon, all the world seemed to stand in awe. From Tokyo's Ginza to Piccadilly Circus in London, hordes of people followed the astronauts' progress. "How are they doing?" total strangers asked one another. People prayed for their safety, and countless babies were named Apollo. Millions of people clung to their radios and television sets, and newspapers broke out their largest type. Though beaten in the race to the moon, even the Russians joined in the worldwide chorus of acclaim...
...John Kennedy, stung by Sputnik and later by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's orbiting the earth, decreed that the U.S. should put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. A synergistic exchange of technology among Government, science and industry had Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walking on the moon five months ahead of the deadline...
...files showing that the pesticide 2,4-D caused "increased tumor formation" in rats; as recently as April 1976 it approved what many experts believe to be unacceptably high tolerance levels of the chemical in food products. The agency was also blasted for dragging its feet on aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor. An EPA review revealed as early as 1971 that there were serious deficiencies in the data that had been previously used to register the pesticides; new tests showed that the substances apparently caused tumors to form in laboratory animals. It was not until 1975, however, that aldrin and dieldrin...