Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...acronymic concentrations occasionally lose one. During the Apollo 12 mission, according to The Washington Monthly, controllers discovered that a minor malfunction was due to something called the Digital Uplink Assembly. "We think we've figured it out-your DUA was off," they radioed to the vicinity of the moon. Replied Apollo: "What...
According to the authors of Journey to Tranquility, it was neither the desire for scientific achievement nor hope of economic gain that mainly propelled America's man-on-the-moon program. Instead, this British trio of Sunday Timesmen argues, the program evolved pragmatically from the cold war. The builders and launchers, the technicians and crews of the Apollo missions have always been "soldiers in an age when technology has become warfare by other means. Americans did not go to the moon for mankind. They went for America...
...Houston. Nevertheless, at 27, a Ph.D. in astronomy and a skilled mountain climber, he was selected as a member of the sixth space-training program, the second group of scientist-astronauts. He resigned after seven months' intensive training because, ha decided, he wanted to go to the moon, not spend his time training to fly T-38 jets...
Curious Drive. According to O'Leary, the Apollo moon harvest has been badly handled scientifically and has produced scandalously meager results. Yet as a scientist, O'Leary still champions a space program. "Space," he asserts, "is as cheap as six weeks' fighting in Viet Nam, cheaper than deploying a useless anti-ballistic missile system, and [it consumes] less than 5% of the present annual defense budget...
...Peter's, which represented real sacrifice for many people. The space program, Urey concluded, "is our cathedral." The authors give Urey his due, but they point out that the Parthenon and St. Peter's have for centuries offered the world a certain beauty and utility. The young moon program still...