Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the moon's escape velocity is lower than the earth's, a lunar-based missile would spend less fuel in blastoff, could use it to increase speed of travel. Even with today's rocket engines, says the Air Force's Singer, a moon-based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours...
...moon's key to the future offers possibilities for mankind far beyond military protection. In the scientific sense, Singer writes, "man can only approach the future rationally in terms of the present and the past. Even so, it is well to recognize that progress is not always attained in terms of today's conventions and reasonings. Man first tried to fly by flapping birdlike wings, but modern aircraft do not use this principle; nor do modern railroad cars bear much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach...
...belief in the necessity of securing space objectives-or so its erratic progress on the space program indicates. Gimmicks, as the President's "voice rocket" proved last year, are shortlived and ineffectual. Prestige for unnumbered years will go automatically to the nation that is successful in reaching the moon and making it a steppingstone to further space exploration. And the nation that first lands men and instruments on the moon will be the one whose political and economic outlook becomes the dominant force on earth, whether it tells its story through a horde of propagandists or lets its accomplishments...
Compelled by the Soviet's purposeful drive for the moon, stirred by the American tradition and man's limitless yearning to challenge the unknown, the U.S. has a new adventure in store, an old promise to keep-to its own pride, to progress, and perhaps to survival...
...Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue to be so. But last week, this convenient arrangement lay in ruin. "Belgium did a very bad business," sighed Premier Gaston Eyskens as he surveyed the latest of Belgium's colonial disasters, "when it took over Ruanda-Urundi...