Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spit of land overlooking Manila Bay, a glistening, 205-ft. tower spewed steam one day last week-and the technicians who watched could hardly have been more excited if they had just launched a moon rocket. The tower is the heart of the first oil refinery in southeast Asia to be controlled and managed by Asians. Sprawled across 230 acres 22 miles south of Manila, the Filoil refinery will ultimately turn out 17,000 barrels of high-octane gasoline and other products daily. "This," said Filoil President Ramon V. del Rosario. "is a dream come true...
...younger men are needed to perform the difficult tasks that deeper space exploration demands. Last week in Houston the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unveiled its second batch of astronauts-nine young spacemen on whose shoulders will ride much of the success of the U.S. race to the moon...
...astronauts will begin their training on Oct. 1. The first phase will be catching up with the Mercury program, but they will not be trained as pilots of the Mercury capsule. As potential Gemini and Apollo pilots, who may rendezvous around the moon or even land on it, they must learn esoteric subjects-including computer theory and celestial mechanics -that have to do with active space navigation. Their capsules will maneuver more or less freely, changing their orbits and trying to join other orbiting objects. The new astronauts will carry along their own propulsion systems and navigation instruments, and will...
...camera could record a scene like Still Life with Paper Moon: a mutilated doll stares blindly at a Nevelson-like collection of wooden chair legs and newel posts, one of which supports an abandoned bird's nest, while a paper ball-the kind that used to pop out of old-fashioned valentines-dangles above. Flaking paint, wood grain, wormhole and lathe scar are meticulously recorded in sharp focus, yet there is an eerie, aching loneliness about the scene that no camera could ever convey. In Lady Fair the mood is pure fun. with its symbolic scrap of lace...
Ross A. McFarland, professor of Environmental Health and Safety, will direct the greatly expanded program. He will conduct exhaustive tests to determine at what point in outer space a man's senses, thinking, and body efficiency begin to be impaired by travel towards the moon. McFarland is now director of the Center established...