Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines set up by the strikers. The railroad has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to haul heavy building materials to the cape. As a result of the picketing, 30 projects worth $200 million were closed down, including construction of the site where the Saturn rocket moon shot will be assembled...
Riesman argues that the emphasis in a "post-industrial, over-developed society" has shifted from production (work) to consumption (leisure). Because such a shift has occurred, utopian ideas and long range social goals must be reconsidered. Preoccupation with winning the cold war or beating the Russians to the moon provides no answer; nor can purpose be found in building more superhighways--these threaten to cut us to pieces. The threat of chaos necessitates conscious planning for the kind of society we want...
...level plains on the earth are nearly all caused by erosion, a phenomenon that requires an atmosphere and there fore does not exist on the moon. The flat-looking lunar seas may turn out to be thickly covered with steep-sided pits, or with jagged plates of lava like many of the earth's lava flows, or with fragile rock froth unlike anything that exists on earth...
...moon's surface was formed under nonearthly conditions, and it may be different from the earth's surface in ways that the most open-minded sci entists cannot imagine. To land on it without having seen close-up pictures first would be something less than a prudent space project...
Next Time. While JPL experts are trying to find out what happened to their TV cameras, they can take pride in the rest of Ranger's performance. After completing its complicated mid-course correction without error, it hit the moon within a few miles of the planned target. Its radio transmitter never faltered, and its instruments reported faithfully. In the estimation of many space engineers, this is a greater achievement than sending any number of astronauts on passive trips around the earth. Since the TV cameras are not a notably unreliable part of the spacecraft's equipment, there...