Chasing the Moon
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A new era of exploration Julian Scheer, interview in One Small Step: Man on the Moon, BBC Two television documentary (June 28 and June 30, 1994); Julian Scheer, “The Sunday of the Space Age,” The Washington Post (December 8, 1972), p. A26.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE FINAL FRONTIER
“Forward-thrusting space program”: Spiro Agnew, interview with Roger Mudd, CBS News, “Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11” (July 20, 1969).
Had given her nightmares Marilyn Lovell, interview and DVD feature commentary, Apollo 13 (Universal City, CA: Universal, 2005).
Began worrying John Logsdon, interview with the authors (May 11, 2015).
An opinion poll indicated “U.S. Spending: New Priorities,” Newsweek (October 6, 1969), p. 46; Congressional Record (October 7, 1969), p. 28837.
“I don’t think that the moon” Mike Geoghegan, letter to Joe Consolino, “Memo to General Manager of the Trade Division” (July 20, 1970), Little, Brown & Company papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Could we advertise” Norman Mailer, letter to Ned Bradford (August 10, 1970), Little, Brown & Company papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Too many people” Wernher von Braun, interview with John Logsdon (August 25, 1970), in The Space Shuttle Decision by T. A. Heppenheimer (Washington: NASA, 1999), p. 169.
Global supercomputer and telecommunications network The first message transmitted between two computers on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, occurred on October 29, 1969, eight months before the Wallops Island conference. By the time of the conference in June 1970, nine computer systems were connected to ARPANET.
“Like buying a Rolls-Royce” Richard D. Lyons, “New Cuts for Apollo: ‘No Gas for the Rolls-Royce?’ ” NYT (September 6, 1970), p. 107.
Astronaut Tom Stafford “NASA Cutbacks,” NBC Evening News (September 2, 1970).
Clarke confided to Bernstein Jeremy Bernstein, “The Grasshopper and His Space Odyssey: A Scientist Remembers the Celebrated Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke,” American Scholar (Summer 2008).
Semaphore and smoke-signal era ACC, interview filmed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conference on the Centennial of the Invention of the Telephone (March 9, 1976), ATT 16mm film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vQ_cB0f4w.
Cranks were littering ACC, interview with Malcolm Kirk, Omni (March 1979).
Motivated by anger Bill Kaysing, interview with Nardwuar, aka John Ruskin (February 16, 1996), https://nardwuar.com/vs/bill_kaysing/.
As early as 1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre, “The News Benders,” BBC Two (January 10, 1968).
“In another couple of years”: Norman Mailer, interview with Studs Terkel (January 29, 1971).
“Mass hoodwinking” Norman Mailer, “A Fire on the Moon,” Life (August 29, 1969).
One went so far Bill Anders, interview with the authors (May 13, 2015).
Marvelous achievement Freeman Dyson, interview with Robert Stone (March 19, 2015).
APPENDIX: AFTER A FEW MORE REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE SUN
Buzz Aldrin found it: Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., and Wayne Warga, Return to Earth (New York: Random House, 1973), pp. 38, 43, 45.
He was surprised Bill Anders, interview with the authors (May 13, 2015).
“Here we are” Ron Judd, “With a View from Beyond the Moon, an Astronaut Talks Religion, Politics and Possibilities,” Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine (December 7, 2012).
Informed his other colleagues George Alexander, interview with Robert Stone (June 2, 2015).
Moral substitute for war Lou Cannon, “The Puzzling Politics Of Jerry Brown,” The Washington Post (February 5, 1978).
“I am too busy proving” ACC, correspondence to James Randi (July 11, 2001; published July 20, 2001), http://archive.randi.org/site/jr/07-20-01.html.
Experience was not pleasant Mordecai Lee, “The Astronaut and Foggy Bottom PR: Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Michael Collins, 1969–1971,” Public Relations Review 33, no. 2 (2007).
“I heard we’ve got lots” Clyde Haberman, “Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle,” NYT (August 19, 2017).
Among the first prominent celebrities “Group: Space Program Moon Shots a Perpetual Star Trek,” Longview Texas News-Journal (July 21, 1994).
He used a FOIA request Lynn Darling, “A Rebel Redeemed,” The Washington Post (April 23, 1980).
NASA received a letter Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, and Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo: The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969 (Washington: NASA, 1979), p. 331.
“I resent it” John Carmody, “Astronaut Pans Apollo 13 Movie,” Victoria Advocate (March 2, 1974); James Lovell, letter to James Fletcher (February 11, 1974).
He remained interested John Elder, “The Experience of Hermann Oberth,” in History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics (San Diego: American Astronautical Society: San Diego, 1997); “Wahre Liebe,” Der Spiegel (September 8, 1965).
“Space truck” John M. Broder, “NASA Is Viewed as Deeply Troubled, Uncertain of Its Goals and Purpose,” Los Angeles Times (October 2, 1988).
Powers argued for diverting money “Shorty Powers Preaches Peace,” Toledo Blade (May 12, 1970).
A reported hundred-thousand-dollar contract Edwin Diamond, “The Dark Side of the Moonshot Coverage,” Columbia Journalism Review 8, no. 3 (Fall 1969).
“Walter to Walter coverage” CBS advertisement, NYT (July 24, 1969).
In poor taste Norman Mailer, interviewed on The Dick Cavett Show (July 21, 1971).
“Global warming, if it occurs” S. Fred Singer, “Global Apocalypse Fantasy,” The Washington Times (November 26, 1997).
“Risk for lung cancer” S. Fred Singer, “Anthology of 1995’s Environmental Myths,” The Washington Times (February 11, 1996).
“Granddaddy of fake ‘science’ ”: Tim Dickinson, “The Climate Killers,” Rolling Stone (January 2010).
Turned down positions W. Henry Lambright, Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1995), p. 210.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
“The generation that came of age ” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., interview in “NASA Audio News Feature: Apollo 11 Legacy on the Fifth Anniversary” (July 16, 1974).
IMAGE CREDITS
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4Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM 87-5770)
5NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
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8Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
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13Recruiting posters (Public Domain, private collections)
14San Diego Air and Space Museum
15Cecil Stoughton/White House Photographs/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
16Honeywell International Inc
17Cecil Stoughton/White House Photographs/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
18Courtesy Ed Dwight
19Photograph of Julian Scheer, in the Hugh Morton Photographs and Films #P0081, copyright 1965, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ROBERT STONE is an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. He and his work have been profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Entertainment Weekly, among many other publications.
robertstoneproductions.com
Twitter: @RobertStoneFilm
ALAN ANDRES spent three decades in trade book publishing and managed a small magazine enterprise. He served as a consulting producer and researcher on PBS’s Chasing the Moon.
Twitter: @ChasingMoonBk
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