Word: earthmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolutely convinced He was one of them." During a service at the new Church of Christ, Astronaut, which Brown attends along the way, the preacher exhorts his flock to behave better or else: "When we get there, to the Kingdom Come Motel, there will be banners reading NO EARTHMEN NEED APPLY...
...feasible are trips by earthmen to other solar systems? They're practically impossible, according to Nobel-prize-winning physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor...
...rocks, finally in craters. But all this is inadequate. At last he notices space, and decides to believe in that. Then rockets erupt from Earth. At first George is happy; he will have friends, and be the greatest moon expert in the universe. But inevitably, doubts sneak up. Earthmen will patronize him, and give him their bags to carry. Whipping himself into a meaningless fury, he decides to fight: "I don't care how many rocks they have. I know the terrain...
Though the U.S. weather satellite Tiros I still circles the earth every 99 minutes, it is electronically dead. Yet during its active life of 78 days, Tiros I transmitted 22,952 cloud-cover pictures that still keep meteorologists in a state of round-eyed euphoria. Never before had earthmen seen so sweeping a view of their planet's splotchy atmosphere...