Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting a man to the moon, they gonna need the money...
Founding a colony on the moon will be enormously difficult, and it looks worse the more it is studied. These facts do not discourage General Electric Co.'s Missile and Space Vehicle Department from a firm belief that now is none too soon to start planning. This week it issued a massive report on how, and how soon, the lunar colony can be established and what it will cost...
...engine Saturn (1,500,000 lbs. of thrust), which has been ground-tested already, should be good enough. Two hundred Saturns will be needed, together with massive upper stages and a host of other fancy equipment, to soft-land ten colonists and 500,000 lbs. of equipment on the moon...
Afterward, the visitors toured the Observatory's facilities, viewing solar movies, photographs of the skies, the moon through a telescope, and the IBM 70-90 computer in operation...
...Moon (Michael Relph; Trans-Lux) is a noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired...