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...full-size train to come. When that vehicle, powered by a steam locomotive, gets under way, it will be carrying such diverse samples of the national heritage as the first Bible printed in the U.S., George Washington's copy of the Constitution, a slave bill of sale, a lunar rover and a copy of the Louisiana Purchase deal...
Normally a woman of childbearing age ovulates once every lunar month, an average of 14 days before the expected onset of menstruation. Her ovaries then expel one or more egg cells, ripe for fertilization. An individual egg (ovum) is drawn into the fallopian tube (oviduct) to begin a four-day journey toward the uterus. After intercourse, the husband's spermatozoa swim upstream through the uterus into the fallopian tubes, and if one sperm succeeds in penetrating an ovum, conception has occurred. The conceptus, repeatedly doubling the number of its cells, enters the uterus and imbeds itself in the lining...
...Berry, the Apollo moon landings and the Skylab missions are only the first small steps. He predicts that by the next century, attempts will be made to establish lunar bases-perhaps as astronomical observatories unhampered by the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mining and other industrial activities will soon follow. Eventually there may be "low-gravity" lunar hospitals, where ailing limbs and organs would be under less strain than on the earth...
Rice represents that passion for an instant purgative that often seizes hopelessly overburdened civilizations. No one in history ever had a better pulpit. While standing on the germ-free lunar surface, Rice departs from his scheduled extravehicular activity to speak directly to TV viewers round the world. "I have seen the earth plain," says the commander. Then instead of listening to the usual astronautical cliches and pro forma prayer, tens of millions hear Rice rage against purposelessness, corruption, pollution and "the murderous vanity that hurls us into space." Before NASA cuts him off, he has called for a Second American...
Corridors to Nowhere. At the space center in Houston, now renamed after Lyndon Johnson, the room where Neil Armstrong slept during his quarantine after man's first moon landing on July 21, 1969, has been turned into a commissary storeroom for ketchup and cookies. The massive lunar receiving laboratory, designed to analyze the 838 lbs. of rocks hauled back from the moon, has been dismantled and turned into a medical research laboratory. The seven ultraviolet showers built to cleanse astronauts and technicians of unknown moon bugs are now stainless steel corridors leading nowhere...