Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dilemma. The White House still wants to push on to the moon with "the utmost urgency," says one Administration official. But such are the differences between Webb and Holmes that the whole program is in danger of bogging down...
While officials squabbled 'about the trip to the moon, the least known of the astronauts was tapped for what may be the last flight of Project Mercury. Next April Air Force Captain Leroy Gordon ("Gordo") Cooper, 35, is scheduled to make an all-day, 18-orbit trip...
...moon's visible face has long been mapped, its plains and craters named, its cold curves charted. But as U.S. engineers continue their multibillion dollar effort to get the first man-carrying spacecraft to the moon, U.S. astronomers study the earth's only natural satellite with steadily increasing intensity. For if its visitors are to survive, science must provide them with lunar information that has so far defied centuries of observation...
Photographs taken through the great telescope at California's Lick Observatory, and released last week, reveal the moon's pockmarked crust in astonishing detail (see cut). Forbidding mountains loom above broad valleys and sharply defined crevasses, just as they will appear to approaching astronauts. But for all their clarity, the pictures leave a vital question unanswered. What is the moon actually made...
Even the finest optical telescope has yet to supply an answer, so Astronomer David D. Cudaback peered beneath the moon's surface with a vastly different type of instrument. Using the 32 dish-shaped antennas of a Stanford University radio telescope, Dr. Cudaback spent three months measuring the moon's own electronic transmissions. He traced the variations in the moon's electrical characteristics, tracked its composition through yards of abstruse equations and decided that its outer surface is just barely denser than the empty space around...