This was the headline to the feature called 'American Letter' in Electronics Weekly's issue of June 11th 1969.
The story starts: 'In their hour of triumph, NASA's Manned Spacecraft Centre is a study of contrasts. With a successful test run pointing the way to a moon landing next month outwardly personnel are jubilant, but behind the façade NASA administration are deeply concerned for the future.'
The story starts: 'In their hour of triumph, NASA's Manned Spacecraft Centre is a study of contrasts. With a successful test run pointing the way to a moon landing next month outwardly personnel are jubilant, but behind the façade NASA administration are deeply concerned for the future.'
As it turned out, of course, July 20th 1969 was the day Neil Armstrong made his 'one small step for a man but one giant leap for mankind'.
The EW story, six weeks before the moon-landing, continues presciently: 'The space agency has no big spectaculars to follow the Apollo moon landings. The next generation space venture - a long duration earth orbiting space station, is not slated for another seven to eight years.'
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