Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Most of the federally sponsored research in the last decade has focused on space and defense and has had limited practical use. "The supposed technological fallout from the NASA program has been more of a drip-out," says Physicist Ralph Lapp. He characterizes the Saturn F-l moon rocket as a typical example of "techno-giantism," which involves enormous effort and expense to perform an exquisitely specialized task, but so far has almost no application for a civilian market...
...freshman through Ph.D.) at $4,000 per person per year for 50,000 new scientists and engineers ($1.4 billion required); contributions of $200 million each toward the creation of ten new medical schools ($2 billion required)." Former President Eisenhower was more succinct: "To spend $40 billion to reach the moon," he said in 1963, "is just nuts...
...flag of the U.S. has appeared 63 times on the cover of TIME. It embellished a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1942; it provided a backdrop for General Mark Clark in 1946; it rested in the hands of Astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped on the moon in July 1969. Only once before, however, has Old Glory pre-empted the entire cover. That was the issue of July 6, 1942, and it accompanied a story that analyzed the new significance of the freedom that the flag symbolized at a time when the U.S. was newly...
...land where once only wars abroad set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. The old meaning still persists; hardly any American could escape a thrill of pride when Neil Armstrong planted his vertebrate flag on the airless moon. But some Americans could also sympathize with the emotion that moved a student at Kent State to rip down a flag after the shootings. It is as if two cultures, both of them oddly brandishing the same banner, were arrayed in some 18th century battle painting, the young whirling in defiant rock...
...contrast, the U.S. space program was not faring so well. After almost two months of intensive investigation into the oxygen-tank explosion during the aborted Apollo 13 moon flight, NASA's high-level review board confirmed that the accident was probably caused by an arcing short that ignited Teflon insulation on wiring in the tank. The fire in turn damaged the seal at the top of the tank and generated heat that expanded the oxygen. The resulting pressure caused the weakened area to burst. The board also detailed an extraordinary sequence of bungling uncovered...