Word: lunar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moon's orbit at a spot equidistant from earth and moon. Simultaneously, the space colonizers would set up a small mining base on the moon. Its purpose: to provide most of the building blocks for the colonies. Rich in aluminum, titanium, iron and other essential materials-including oxygen-lunar rocks could be fired off by a continuously catapulting device. Slowing as they climb out of the moon's gravity, these building blocks would eventually arrive at the construction site in free space. That would be much cheaper than carrying the materials from earth, where mineral-rich ores...
About 70 scientists will examine preliminary plans today for an unmanned moon-orbiting spacecraft proposed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Edward D. Martin, manager of advance programs for NASA's Lunar Programs Office, said yesterday...
...contemporaries labeled him "a political Jules Verne." The term was pejorative; Verne, after all, was producing outlandish fictions about lunar voyages and undersea exploration. Theodor Herzl was even more absurd. He helped create Zionism and predicted the return of the Jews to their homeland. Yet the comparison with Verne was more than superficial. Both men began as romantic visionaries who sought careers in law, then in the theater, then in literature. Verne went on to science fiction; Herzl went on to Palestine. That bizarre journey has all the qualities of fin-de-siècle romance. It might have been...
Small as it is, there is something for everyone in New Jersey, including some things nobody really wants. The state possesses some of the finest beaches on the Atlantic coast, and one of the most dismal lunar landscapes of swamp, industrial waste, and smelly oil refineries to be found in the U.S. Its nearly 8 million people live in communities as diverse as the grinding black ghettoes of Newark, the elegant $200,000 homes of Short Hills and Princeton, and the Rockwellian small towns of Cumberland County that preserve the life-style of an earlier, simpler America...
Even by the standards of war-torn South Viet Nam, the internal rumblings in Saigon seemed like a poor way to prepare for this week's lunar New Year's holiday. Catholic leaders, aided by students and opposition politicians, denounced South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu as an "enemy of peace." Proclaimed their "indictment," which was reprinted in several Saigon newspapers: "It is impossible to obtain peace with Thieu, because he is a product of war, was nurtured on it and survived with it." The President's response was swift and predictable. The Saigon government confiscated nine...