Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project Rover, one of the nation's most ambitious space programs, is designed to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine that could carry man to the moon or beyond. Nerva is the engine itself. Rift the vehicle that Nerva will push. President Kennedy had just returned from a tour of Jackass Flats, 90 miles out of Las Vegas, where work on Rover is under way. He had gone because New Mexico Senator Clinton Anderson, former chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and now a member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, had warned...
...turn, will be directed out of the rear of the rockets to provide thrust. Because the reactor and the hydrogen take up relatively little room, scientists estimate that Rover will be able to haul triple the loads of conventional rockets, could be adapted to shuttle flights between earth and moon...
Memory's Tricks. The contenders in one case were the B. F. Goodrich Co.. developer, with the Navy, of the Mercury astronauts' suits, and International Latex Corp.. which recently underbid Goodrich on a NASA contract for Apollo moon-exploration space suits. In an Akron court, Goodrich asked that its former manager of space-suit engineering, Donald H. Wohlgemuth, be enjoined from taking a similar job at International Latex. Wohlgemuth, 36, had worked six years for Goodrich, rising after 15 pay increases to a salary of $10,600. Shortly after International Latex won its NASA contract...
...Madison Avenue has taken the enemy out of American life. We don't know who the enemy is with a capital E. This is a frightening thing. Who gives a goddam about moon shots when you see zombies walking around with lost souls? This is why I have to write plays...
...radio sights visible through these varied telescopes would fill an enormous book, but radio astronomy is developing so fast that no such book is likely to be written for years. Still, the radio window has already brought the universe to life in numberless unexpected ways. Even the moon, just about the deadest object in the solar system, sends out radio waves that tell something about its temperature and about the material on its surface...