Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script called for a spaceman's view of a crash landing on the moon. For background music there would be the high whine of telemetry signals literally coming from out of this world. With the aid of some of the nation's greatest scientists and engineers, that unprobable show was precisely what the TV networks offered their audience last week. Live from the spacecraft Ranger IX came man's closest and sharpest look at his lunar neighbor...
Faster and faster fell Ranger IX, tugged by the moon's gravitation until it reached the speed of nearly 6,000 m.p.h. Its cameras never faltered. They sent their pictures to the end, giving countless millions of televiewers a look at the crater floor as it might be seen from the cockpit of a spacecraft about to land. The last pictures were transmitted just .45 seconds before impact from three-quarters of a mile above the lunar surface. They showed objects as small as ten inches...
...triumph of tight coordination between computer-armed men on earth and an incredibly delicate spacecraft, outbound at the end of a far-ranging radio beam. The takeoff from Cape Kennedy developed no trouble at all; the original aim was so good that Ranger IX would have hit the moon without course correction. But the scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are well practiced by now; they intended to do much better than that. When the spacecraft was 175,000 miles from the earth, they sent it radioed orders to fire a small rocket in a specified...
After consulting with her agent, Miss Albright decided that she was "very interested." The agent said that this was "one offer she would accept out of the many that wore made." "It's like Moon Maid coming to Harvard, if you read "Dick Tracy," Rogers crowed...
Advanced as the process sounds, it is already at the point of becoming routine and outdatedly slow-good enough for such bread-and-butter missions as re laying messages, photographing the moon, measuring micrometeoroid impact, sending space vehicles past Venus and Mars, monitoring radiation and watching the earth's weather. For the first manned Gemini mission, scientists have bred a new generation of fuels designated "hypergolic"-powerful liquids that explode on contact with one another but require no delicate refrigeration for storage...