Word: meteors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon and returning to a lunar-orbit rendezvous with Gumdrop. In addition to plotting their position by star sightings, they became the first spacemen to use the planet Jupiter for a navigational reference. The astronauts also twice sighted and tracked Pegasus, a giant satellite orbited in 1965 to record meteor hits. Pointing their scanning telescope toward earth, they obtained fixes on islands, capes and other landmarks to establish Apollo's precise position in space...
...April 1970, the friction of the earth's atmosphere at high speeds and low altitudes will heat Explorer I until it burns up, much like a meteor...
...METEOR, by Switzerland's metaphysical mystery master, Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit). Paul Rogers (The Homecoming) stars. A dead playwright comes back to life and destroys all he touches...
...SHOWOFF. An unwelcome son-in-law crashes like a wayward meteor into the mundane sphere of the earthy Fisher household and sets it ablaze with his inflammatory manner. George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy is revived...
...Liller left Michigan for a year to head the Harvard Meteor Expedition in New Mexico. He is now a member of the International Astronomical Union, and chairman of the Committee on Astronomical Motion Pictures of the American Astronomical Society...