Word: apollos
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...nominate the Apollo 15 astronauts and their colleagues as Men of the Year, for they convey a message of peace and understanding between all races and people...
...provocative report came from Physicists John Freeman and H. Kent Hills. They have been keeping track of signals from extremely sensitive devices left behind at the Apollo landing sites and capable of detecting positive ions, atoms or molecules carrying a positive electrical charge. On at least three occasions, the scientists say, the detectors registered activity that was unusual on the atmosphereless moon: clouds of gases were passing by. Analyzing the data, the scientists determined that the gases had the unmistakable characteristics of ionized water vapor...
...water is in fact locked inside the moon, its presence may be confirmed by electronic surveying gear aboard next year's Apollo 17 flight. Such water could have significance for future lunar explorers and colonizers, who would be relieved of the considerable problem of bringing their supply all the way from earth...
...just about to strike a populated area could save lives and prevent millions of dollars of property damage. But the information gleaned from Ginger is complex and will not be fully deciphered for months. As Gentry's associate director Harry Hawkins once explained: "Stormfury is meteorology's Apollo moon program. The difference is that we won't know for six months whether we've landed...
...associate of the Harvard Observatory, Wood got a whopping 50 milligrams of moon rock for study and testing in a Russian-American exchange on July 13. Soviet scientists were given material collected by Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts in return for their lunar samples...