Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the off-campus Instrumentation and Lincoln labs, which get the lion's share of the Pentagon cash. They operate with so much independence that M.I.T. administrators exercise virtually no control over what projects they undertake. Although they do some civilian work on space projects, including Apollo moon flights, the "special labs" are mainly involved in military research, most of it classified...
...individual and societal problems are still basically technical, that science and government will solve them, that they need only keep the radical troublemakers from making more troubles and defer all power to the experts, the men on top who know best. (After all, they've put Americans on the moon.) The technocracy in the United States retains the security of "a grand cultural imperative which is beyond question, beyond discussion." That old spectre, 1984, seems only minutes away...
...from it. These people were growing wealthy, a little, from the space program from the first American on the moon. One or two of them were even making enough money to send their kids to Harvard, had they wanted them to go, had they been able...
...space race, like heart transplants and war, is good for the encyclopedia business, and these people were in the encyclopedia business. A big selling point of the Collier's Encycpedia these folks sold is that the 24 volume set includes complete schematic diagrams of the moon flight (not to mention Czechoslovakian street fighting photos). So the Colliermen liked the moonshot, the way businessmen were once rumored to like the War, and the Colliermen went out to sell that day with especial eagerness...
...satellite's cameras have photographed star clusters, especially the Orion and Pleides star associations. Ultra-violet pictures were taken of the moon, but they showed nothing surprising, Davis said...