Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous. The more daring the project, the more attracted they are; and before man reaches the moon (see cover story), the effort to get him there is relocating a lot of people here on earth...
COVER Artist Boris Artzybasheff is well known for his gift of playfully animating spaceships, big drill presses, power lawn mowers and other solemn objects. On this week's cover, he has not only given life to the moon rocket, but left a hidden message on the moon for taxpayers to ponder...
...many a moon had Senate Republicans had such a marvelous time. All they had to do was sit back to enjoy−and heckle−the spectacle of Democrats embroiled in a messy and embarrassing intraparty wrangle...
...first real target was boldly defined on May 25, 1961, when President Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." At that moment the U.S. was behind in the race to get men into space. The Russians had already shot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on an orbit around the earth; blazing a trail for future space travelers, they had taken pictures of the unseen face of the moon. U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard had been forced...
...billion to $9 billion during the next five years), supplied a new and powerful boost to the U.S. space campaign. Just as basic was the choice six months later of a round-eyed, enthusiastic electrical engineer named Dyer Brainerd Holmes to head the U.S. effort to reach for the moon...