Word: timesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...