Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...lost face in Viet Nam, it is going to lose its ass in Cambodia." He could hardly be taken literally when he also vowed: "If they find Bobby, Erica and the Panthers guilty, we're going to pick up that building [the courthouse] and send it to the moon." Even Panther Miranda declared that it was not a time "to kill pigs. When you walk around the campus tonight, walk hiply, walk quietly...
...absurd for them to be spending billions of dollars going to the moon for some rocks, when every common sense and human person can see that it's necessary to solve the social injustices and evils that exist...
...Center in Hampton, Va. After ordering a schedule of 14-hour work days, Cortright predicted that an explanation for the mysterious blast in Apollo's service module would soon be found-perhaps within three or four weeks. The investigators-including Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon -will be extremely busy. During the six-day voyage, Apollo 13 radioed back more than 7,000,000 feet of taped data, all of which will have to be carefully combed for clues to the mishap. In addition, the board will have to examine the films and still photographs brought...
Martian Microbe. Though the effort to reduce the likelihood of such failures could delay next October's flight of Apollo 14, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine thinks that the moon program can be kept on schedule. Indeed, the space agency got some rare encouragement to press ahead with Apollo from an often critical scientific community. Reporting puzzling age differences in lunar dust gathered at the Ocean of Storms and at the Sea of Tranquillity, Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg made a strong plea at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union for continued manned lunar exploration. "The moon," he told...
Some Congressmen may be harder to convince. Far more interested in terrestrial problems, these critics are cool toward both the moon program and deeper manned probes into space. Apollo 13's flight cost $380 million. And the flight's failure has made them even more dubious about space exploration. "I cannot justify approving moneys to find out whether or not there is some microbe on Mars," complained Manhattan Democrat Edward Koch, a member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, "when in fact I know there are rats in Harlem apartments...