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Word: moone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ikeya, 24, and Seki, 37, each of whom has now discovered five comets that are wholly or partially named after him. Ikeya became obsessed with astronomy in junior high school, where he had an opportunity to peer through a small telescope one night and saw the craters of the moon and the rings of Saturn. "I was so excited," he recalls, "that I couldn't sleep nights and would stay outdoors staring at the stars. My mother was convinced that I had gone mad and talked of taking me to a doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Another for the Amateurs | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...still troubled by the fatal Apollo fire and influenced by polls reporting slipping public interest in space flight, congressional economizers have been slicing away at NASA's space budget. Their efforts have been so successful that the U.S., while still committed to landing men on the moon by 1970, has virtually scrapped its once ambitious planetary exploration program. Alarmed by the trend, an eminent U.S. space scientist has forcefully spoken out, warning that the U.S. is in effect abandoning the planets to Russia. In a signed editorial in Science, University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen contrasted the "ambitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Abandoning the Planets to Russia | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Plastic tunnels. To guard against moon viruses and bacteria, NASA will not allow the astronauts to open the Apollo hatch until a plastic tunnel has been extended to the spacecraft from a 35-ft., hermetically sealed van placed near by on the carrier deck. Carrying 50 Ibs. of lunar rock and soil samples in steel vacuum cases, they will walk through the tunnel into the van. There, in the company of a doctor and an engineer, they will be completely isolated from the outside world. When the carrier reaches a U.S. port, the van will be flown intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Quarantine for Moon Travelers | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...during the quarantine period, examining the lunar material without ever coming in direct contact with it or the astronauts. The samples, maintained in a constant vacuum to protect them from terrestrial contamination, will be analyzed in LRL biology, chemistry, mass-spectrometer and gamma-ray spectroscopy labs. Tiny amounts of moon material will be injected into germfree mice, which will then be observed for signs of strange or unknown illnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Quarantine for Moon Travelers | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

What business is really most concerned about now is federal policy. In its simultaneous effort to fight a war in Viet Nam, send a man to the moon, erase poverty at home and help struggling countries overseas, the U.S. has strained its resources. The resulting budget and balance-of-payments deficits are promoting inflation. Higher taxes would attack these problems, and so would reducing expenditures at home or abroad. Business wants to see the main emphasis on the latter course because it avoids the risk of expanding government to the detriment of the more productive private sector of the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: -BUSINESS IN 1967-THE NERVOUS YEAR- | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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