Word: earth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence that the launching site for the projectile in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon was distant from Cape Canaveral by only the width of Florida...
With the advent of Explorer, perhaps aggressive man will find a better planet on which to live. Then surely "the meek shall inherit the earth...
When it came time to return to earth, a 10-lb. push would separate a spaceship from its natural merry-go-round. Free of the little moon, it would have satellite velocity, 3,000 m.p.h. in the case of Deimos, so only a moderate additional push would free it from Martian gravitation and start it on the long voyage home...
...Security Check, a science-fiction writer is called on the carpet for his unwittingly explicit descriptions of spaceships and space weapons. He assumes his interrogators to be FBI agents, and they are-but not earth...
...37th Dimension. Outer spacemanship seems to call for large fictional gestures, and before he is through, Author Clarke manages to blow up the sun. the earth, and one or two outlying solar systems. His stories are larded with the lingo and gadgetry of tomorrow, e.g., "gravity inverters," "radiospectrographs," "the thirty-seventh dimension." Spaceman Clarke believes that "space travel is man's next step in evolution with consequences that may be even greater than those of man's evolution as a land animal." His latest book carries glimmerings of the awesome dimensions of that step, but at times...