Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press is free and performs a social mission," but it must avoid offending "the honor of persons who perform public functions" or disseminating "principles or views of political parties that have been banned." Offending newspapers will be confiscated...
...Donny Brooks sang Mission Bell...
...strange creature of the deep was the Reynolds Metals Co.'s Aluminaut, a man-made sea monster that is helping scientists to unlock the secrets of the sea. On its mission off Florida, it discovered a 100-mile by 150-mile area of -'pavement" apparently swept clean by Gulf Stream currents. Analysis of the 600 Ibs. of ore that Aluminaut brought to the surface indicated that most of the pavement below consisted of a good grade of manganese oxide that might some day be mined commercially...
NASA's $350 million Surveyor program has already tested the bearing strength of the lunar surface and scouted all the proposed flatland target sites for the U.S.'s first manned moon mission. This was accomplished spectacularly in four out of six shots; Surveyor's budget authorized seven. What to do with the last moon robot? As a sort of job-end bonus for a mission brilliantly accomplished, NASA left it up to a panel of lunar experts. They decided to gamble on an exploratory shot to one of the moon's unknown upland regions: the rock...
Even with luck, mission controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gave themselves only a 40% chance of a successful landing. If one of Surveyor 7's three feet landed on a high rock, the craft would tip over, rendering its cameras and testing equipment useless. Or the feet might straddle a rock, which would then smash into the spacecraft's delicate underbelly. In an almost shoot-the-works mood, therefore, Surveyor 7's controllers fired the retrorockets at the end of the 66-hour, 225,000-mile journey last week. The craft obediently braked from...