Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There may be one more problem facing NASA when they finally do get our man on the moon: steering clear of Russian residential sections there...
...Earth. The Falcon landed first, at 9:55 Wednesday morning, in the hill and desert country near Karaganda, a Kazakhstan city 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow; he had completed 64 orbits, and in four days had traveled 1,663,000 miles, 3^ times the distance to the moon and back. Six minutes later, after 48 orbits and 1,247,000 miles, Popovich landed some miles away in the same region. Both men apparently stayed on board their capsules all the way down, unlike Titov, who parachuted to earth after completing his flight. Helicopters picked up the two cosmonauts...
More important to the U.S. than waste disposal and space sickness, however, was the question of where it stood with Russia in the race to the moon. The most pessimistic view was taken by Britain's Sir Bernard Lovell, director of the Jodrell Bank space observatory: "I think that the Russians are so far ahead in the technique of rocketry that the possibility of America catching up in the next decade is remote." Almost as gloomy...
...Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
...prehistoric men, who observed the influence of the sun on the seasons and the moon on the tides, it was not illogical to believe that the five visible planets of the solar system had their own varied and subtle influences on man. Over the millennia, a system was evolved, assigning certain characteristics to the cosmic forces (Venus, love; Mars, will, etc.) and charting their position in twelve divisions of the year called Signs and Houses. The relation of these elements at the instant of birth (what Sign was rising, which planets were in which Signs and Houses, etc.), astrologers believe...