Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of pictures that Ranger sent home from its final dive began with a view of the Crater Alphonsus and its neighbors, a picture that just about matched the best that have been taken by the biggest telescopes on earth. Then, as the spacecraft plunged toward its impact point, the lunar landscape expanded. Slowly at first, then faster and faster, the field of view narrowed (see cuts), and details emerged that had never before been glimpsed by human eyes...
...nearly 6,000 m.p.h. Its cameras never faltered. They sent their pictures to the end, giving countless millions of televiewers a look at the crater floor as it might be seen from the cockpit of a spacecraft about to land. The last pictures were transmitted just .45 seconds before impact from three-quarters of a mile above the lunar surface. They showed objects as small as ten inches...
...they intended to do much better than that. When the spacecraft was 175,000 miles from the earth, they sent it radioed orders to fire a small rocket in a specified direction for 31 seconds. Soon their computers had calculated Ranger's new course and predicted that impact would be within a few miles of the desired point...
...telescoping of my remarks in Saturday's CRIMSON regarding incapacitating gas left the image of what I had said unrecognizable. Quite apart from the distress that I share in the failure to recognize the moral and psychological impact of this needless local action, I had wished to emphasize the unfortunate strategic consequence. This is that by such use the tacitly accepted barrier against one more type of warfare had been removed. Practically all nations can produce or procure a great variety of chemical and biological warfare agents ranging from those which produce incapacitation through those that maim to those that...
...future, urban renewal "will not do the whole job." Grants for construction of "social public facilities," and improvement of mass transportation. Weaver concluded, "will have even greater impact on people...