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...newsmen covering a major story, a succession of 18-and 20-hour days is not in the least unusual. But for TIME'S Apollo space team, the days have grown into weeks. Associate Editor Leon Jaroff and Senior Editor Ronald Kriss had no sooner wrapped up our 14-page special Moon Supplement than they were right back at work, with only one day of rest, writing and editing this week's cover story on the historic mission itself. And this time the work stretched on for eight uninterrupted days. Although TIME ordinarily closes on Saturday evening, we felt...
...from the bureau offices in Houston's downtown Humble Building. During Apollo 8's pioneering voyage around the moon, she sent copy by Teletype for 20 hours without letup, all through Christmas Eve until noon on Christmas Day. The bureau's Apollo 11 file to Jaroff, Kriss, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman made even that effort seem pale by comparison...
TIME'S own Apollo 11 team in New York consisted of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss, Associate Editor Leon Jaroff, Contributing Editor Marshall Burchard, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman. Dogging NASA officials, scientists and astronauts from Houston and Washington to Cape Kennedy were Correspondents David Lee and Donald Neff, both veterans of previous launches. Neff, who spent two years reporting from Saigon, finds that space "is all the things that despairing war is not. The space program is affirmation. It shows that man's spirit is just as daring and questing as in the time of Homer...
...close to the long, echoing corridors of the Pentagon. Laurence Barrett, who wrote the cover story, put in three years covering the Pentagon for the New York Herald Tribune. He claims no added skills from his Army career as a private first class. Nor does Senior Editor Ronald Kriss, who served as a specialist three in Korea...
...aside his editor's pencil long enough to write the lead story of the flight's significance, had to deal with four children whose godfather, a space scientist involved in getting man to Mars, had made them extremely sophisticated about the precise details of the voyage. Ronald Kriss, whose own two children were no less fascinated by the event, coordinated and edited the stories that, the editors of TIME hope, put into proper perspective last week's historic flight by the Men of the Year...