Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chapin seeks by graphic inventiveness to "accent the point of a story, not just to produce a reference map." He avidly enjoys charting space exploration, and looks forward to "real detailed maps of the moon to work with...
...Horses. In fact, many professional military men-particularly in the Air Force-insist that specialized military requirements demand specialized space technology. The civilian officials and scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are shooting for the moon, and they tend to shrug off the military aspects of space. In contrast to the moonshooters, the Air Force foresees the need for a manned spacecraft, rugged and simple in design, that will be ready to go any time in any weather, reach orbit, maneuver in space, and return to earth as a matter of combat routine...
Popovich said that Nikolayev's capsule "looked like a very small moon in the distance." Vision was so clear aloft, added Nikolayev, that he could see the main streets of cities on earth; at times, he added, moonlight flooded into his cabin, illuminating the switches before him. Popovich said that each time he finished eating, he switched on a vacuum cleaner to clear away the lint from his paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water...
Sculptress Nevelson made her first real splash four years ago with sinister black-massed woodworks, given such titles as Moon Dial and Cathedral in the Sky. She denies that she is presently in a gold period, although most of her work, after being lacquered with several coats to seal the wood, is lavishly spray-bombed with a metallic product called Spray-O-Namel...
...light of the sun or in moon shine...