Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of the world to change the calendar. For man the earth era has gone. We are in the first year after Apollo 11: the space...
...Johnson of NASA's Ames Research Center found the first conclusive evidence of organic compounds on the moon. The presence of these carbon-containing compounds does not prove the existence of life on the moon-simply that its soil contains an element that is basic to life on earth. Johnson found only 25 parts per million of such compounds in his lunar sample, compared with perhaps 10,000 p.p.m. in a typical backyard sample of the earth's soil. The scientists also confirmed a surprising abundance of titanium on the moon. Though this space-age metal, vital...
Chemists also confirmed the possibly volcanic character of many of the lunar samples. The minerals that they have already identified include feldspar and olivine-both found on earth. Other information came by radio from the lunar surface itself. Despite fears that the intense heat of the two-week lunar day might ruin its intricate mechanism, the seismometer left behind at Tranquillity Base continued to function, recording more than two dozen "seismic events." Some of the tracings seemed remarkably like shocks recorded during quakes on earth. Other signals pointed to the possibility of lunar landslides, set off in crater walls...
These findings are beginning to suggest that the moon may well prove to be far more like the earth than many scientists had imagined. Study of the patterns of seismic events, NASA geologists say, seems to indicate that the moon, like the earth, may be a multilayered body with a basaltic crust perhaps twelve miles thick (v. a maximum of 25 miles on earth), and a hot interior core. Apollo's preliminary findings are also persuading some distinguished scientists to consider re-examining their lunar theories. Among them is Nobel Chemistry Laureate Harold C. Urey, long a proponent...
...impact of Japan's industrial machine, the fastest growing and now the second largest in the non-Communist world, is felt in every corner of the earth. In Europe, businessmen simultaneously worry about competition from Japanese goods and depend on Japanese-built supertankers to move Mideast oil to them despite the 26-month closing of the Suez Canal. In tiny mountain towns of Western Canada, long-unemployed miners are going back to work to dig the coal needed to fill a new $600 million order from Japanese steel mills. Ideologically impartial, Japanese industrialists trade with Peking and Taiwan...