Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to land men on the moon, some of his technical advisers were favoring a third: LOR (lunar orbital rendezvous). Though LOR at first glance seems like a bizarre product of far-out science fiction, many scientists are already convinced that it will prove easier, quicker and perhaps cheaper than any other system for making lunar landings...
...entry into the earth's atmosphere (TIME, June 1). Even so, he managed to keep remarkably busy at other things; he completed a surprising number of experiments designed to help future astronauts to study the tricks and tribulations they will have to handle as man races toward the moon...
...brilliant shades of blue and green-colors hard to imagine or duplicate because of their wonderful purity. Everywhere the earth is flecked with white clouds. When his capsule swept over the dark side of the earth, the ground was lit only by the feeble glow of the quarter-moon. But he could still see the horizon against the deeper black of the sky, and point his capsule...
Future spacecraft designed to cruise to the moon or Mars will have even more complicated control systems, on-course propulsion that can be turned on and off, and telescopes to track the earth, the sun and the target. If they intend to rendezvous with other spacecraft, they will probably carry radars for judging distances and intricate devices to bring the two ships together. But when their assured, experienced captains guide them into the velvet blackness, they will be using manuals based on the flights-and the mistakes-of such early pioneers as Glenn and Carpenter...
...Sweet Words." To watching Americans, the flight began uneventfully. Sitting in the control center at Cape Canaveral, Gus Grissom, handling the ground-to-space communication, told Carpenter that Aurora 7 was in a near-perfect orbit. "Sweet words," replied Carpenter. "I have the moon in the center of the window, and the booster is off to the right slightly." During his flight, Carpenter was supposed to complete several experiments that Glenn had been unable to carry out because of attitude-control system problems. He was scheduled to photograph cloud formations, test for the polarization of sunlight, look for comets close...