Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University will establish a $750,000 Aerospace Center at the School of Public Health to investigate the safety of American spacemen and to uncover more efficient ways of winning the race to the moon...
...began when Kennedy asked Von Braun and his fellow NASA scientists about the relative merits of the moon plans. The NASA program calls for a shot into moon orbit, followed by brief exploration of the moon's surface by means of a two-man "bug," after which the explorers will blast back to the orbiting vehicle and return to earth. The alternative, now discarded, called for an earth orbit from which the explorers would shoot directly to the moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner...
Shooting for the Moon. At a time when the orbiting Telstar has created international television and Tiros satellites are predicting the weather, U.S. scientists justifiably scoff at charges that they lack inventiveness. But the consumer has little everyday use for a rocket or a reactor, and many economists fear that so much ingenuity is being spent on space and defense that the consumer sector is shortchanged. More than 70% of the $16 billion which the U.S. invests each year in research and development goes for Government work, with the result that the share of the gross national product spent...
Terrible Terry. Advise and Consent left the nation dangling in perilous circumstance. The Russians had just landed on the moon and ominously summoned the U.S. to Geneva for a conference. The death of the President had thrust command upon Harley M. Hudson, the harmless nincompoop of a Vice President...
...Shade of Difference begins, the demands of the presidency have put some steel into Harley's spine, and the U.S. has put some men on the moon. When the Russians give the U.S. a choice be tween surrendering or being annihilated by an attack from the moon, Harley stands up to the Reds. The Russians are cowed, the West is saved, and Drury, having made a dutiful pass at bridging his two books, turns to a brand-new theme...