Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communications satellite, Echo II, expanded its aluminum skin and made ready to reflect messages from space. Saturn 5, boosting the biggest payload man has ever lofted into orbit, shot into the vast blue reaches above Cape Kennedy. Soon after, Ranger 6 arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly as men reached outward with more and more...
Slowed by earth's gravitation and not yet accelerated by the pull of the moon, the spacecraft would have to cruise for hours more, exposed to all the known and unknown hazards of space. One hour before impact, according to the plan, when it is about 4,000 miles from the moon, Goldstone would tell it to turn again, pointing its six TV cameras at the approaching lunar surface. With the moon 900 miles away and Ranger approaching at 4,000 m.p.h., the six cameras would start taking pictures-more than five per second. Radioed back to earth, those...
...Glenn explained at a conference, his knowledge from the three-orbit flight of Friendship 7 had long since been assimilated into the space program. Also, by the time the U.S. is ready to launch the Apollo man-on-the-moon shot, Glenn, now 42, will be "near 50-not very old for most occupations, but on the edge of doubt for astronauts." Glenn therefore decided to run for the Senate because "this is an area in which I have had a lifelong interest. I feel that it provides the best opportunity to make use of the experience I have gained...
...boosters that rocketeers are racing to build may soon toss a man all the way to the moon, or out into the vast reaches between the planets. But though their spaceships are well advanced, scientists are still struggling with the problem of what the far-traveling astronaut ought to wear when he takes the big trip. It is far from a question of style; it is a straightforward matter of survival...
Such problems have long since been solved by science fictioneers, but not in real life. But the Hamilton Standard division of United Aircraft has come as close as anyone. Designed for use by astronauts of the Apollo moon project, Hamilton Standard's space suit is made of several layers of rubber-impregnated fabric interlaced with ducts and supporting wires. Put in a vacuum chamber for testing with no one inside it, the suit was "flown" up to simulated altitudes as high as 130,000 ft. It stiffened and swelled, its arms spread outward like a gorilla...