Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of the Russian moon rocket should teach you Americans a lesson. Concentrate more on science and less on jazz, hula hoops and the almighty dollar...
...days of the New Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist, gone clean out of this world...
Another control problem is how to supply small bursts of power to alter the course of a rocket deep in space, to land it softly on the moon or swing it around Mars. Fuel systems now in use do not operate efficiently at low throttle, and once the fuel is turned off they cannot be re-ignited easily. Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in contact. A feed mechanism (using...
Ever since Soviet Astronomer Nikolai A. Kozyrev reported that he had seen a volcano-like eruption on the moon early in November, non-Russian astronomers have been waiting to see his evidence. Last week they got it: a long, detailed report in Sky and Telescope, published at Harvard College Observatory...
...Kozyrev tells how he trained a 50-in. telescope on the moon on the night of Nov. 2-3 and took spectrograms of the crater Alphonsus. While he was watching, he saw the small, central peak of the crater lose its sharpness and turn reddish. By the time he changed the plate to take the next spectrogram, the peak was white again but much brighter than usual. A third spectrogram showed the crater back to normal...