Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...greeted with great skepticism. But his prophecy proved 100% right, and at each step along the way TIME has recorded the many triumphs-and occasional tragedies-of mankind's journey to the stars. Each flight has produced its moments of breathtaking suspense, culminating in Apollo 11's moon landing and Neil Armstrong's first step on the lunar surface. Yet for sustained tension and high drama, nothing could equal the abortive flight of Apollo 13, which TIME reports in this week's cover story and related articles...
Armed with Houston's voluminous files, Golden wrote and Sydnor Vanderschmidt researched the main narrative story, "Four Days of Peril Between Earth and Moon," while Peter Stoler and Mary Kelley were responsible for the box on "The Brave Men of Apollo." Those stories were edited by Senior Editor Leon Jaroff. Laurence Barrett, with Ann Constable as researcher, wrote the introduction, "Apollo's Return: Triumph Over Failure." Says Golden: "People forget that earlier shots had their problems too. But they were short-lived, and the happy ending quickly obscured the drama." No one is likely to forget Apollo...
...fallibility of man and his machines. The cause of the malfunction will have to be established by a painstaking inquiry. Meanwhile space exploration was humanized again, as it had been during the pioneer flights and on the night when Neil Armstrong made man's first footprint in moon dust. No longer was it an issue of U.S. technocracy, or how many billions the space program costs, or what the funds buy. Rather it was the guts, wits and will of a handful of men matched against the enormousness of space...
...ostentatiously blasé about space?if not downright hostile?succumbed. ."I watched the idiot box," wrote Columnist Max Lerner, "as if, by sheer will, I could mesmerize the TV reporter into telling us that all was well in the best of all possible spaceships, on the best of all possible moon probes. I couldn't and he didn...
...fifth mission to the moon was going well, and from more than 200,000 miles out in space Commander Jim Lovell had just wound up a televised tour of the spacecraft. "This is the crew of Apollo 13 wishing everyone there a nice evening," he said. "We're just about ready to close out our inspection of Aquarius and get back for a pleasant evening in Odyssey." Minutes later, the almost idyllic journey of Astronauts Lovell, Fred Haise and John Swigert turned into a heart-pounding nightmare...