Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians this week took a giant new stride in the race toward the moon. From the Soviet rocketdrome in Central Asia, two manned space capsules rose into orbit around the earth and established visual and radio contact with each other. It was the first test of teamwork in space. Russian scientists said that the purpose of the mission was to check the physical effects of weightless flight on two cosmonauts orbiting under identical conditions and-more importantly-to gain experience in contact between vehicles in space...
...anything has gone wrong, they will still have a chance to rejoin the mother ship and return to earth without landing. But if all is well, they will make their landing attempt on their next close approach to the moon. By burning sufficient fuel, they will check the motion of their bug, making it sink slowly toward the surface. They will be able to hover for about one minute and move sideways 1,000 ft. in search of a good landing place. Finally the bug will settle down, steadying itself on four spidery legs...
Later crews may spend as many as four days exploring the moon, but the first men to land will probably take off again promptly. They will wait only for the mother ship to appear overhead. When it is about 3° behind their zenith, they will fire their rockets and rise vertically, leaving their landing gear behind. Because of low lunar gravity (16% of the earth's) and lack of atmosphere, take-off from the moon should be comparatively easy. NASA planners believe that finding the mother ship and joining it will be no more difficult than long-practiced...
...being financed by the New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund. The planetarium's dome will float over a reflecting pool, will house an "intermediate space transit instrument" which will project the heavens not only as they appear on earth but from the moon...
...body has turned entirely to armor. He cannot be wounded in battle, scorns his fellow knights who must care for their flesh. But he often longs for a mortal body. His armor is "pierced through every chink by gusts of wind, flights of mosquitoes, and the rays of the moon." For other knights love is spiritual by choice; Agilulf has no choice. When a maiden he has rescued invites him to bed, poor metallic Agilulf hems and haws, makes and remakes the bed, finally finds a knightly excuse not to disrobe: "Naked ladies are advised that the most sublime...