Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more sociological and humanitarian themes seems to be the main cause of the growth of interest in science fiction among the general public, said Richard Gruen, a fan who traveled from California to attend Boskone. "A story that used to talk about how to build a colony on the moon today would talk about how people manage under those conditions," he said...
...differences between the American and Soviet approaches to providing electrical power in space make an agreement unlikely. The U.S. has not launched a nuclear-powered vehicle since 1965. Instead, it relies on solar cells for electricity for all purposes except shots to the moon or toward other planets, where the sun's rays are too weak to be converted into sufficient power. In the 18 times in which the U.S. has sent nuclear power packs into space, it has used a much less dangerous method than the Russians...
...Soviet predecessors of 954 broke up on re-entering the atmosphere in 1973 and fell into the Pacific north of Japan. Two Russian moon-bound craft, which used radioactive fuels to heat their capsules, went into earth orbit in 1969, but dropped back into the atmosphere and burned out with some release of detected high-altitude radiation...
...three accidents. A Navy navigation satellite failed to reach orbit in 1964 and disintegrated in the atmosphere over Madagascar. A meteorological satellite was aborted on launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1968, and the nuclear package was recovered intact. As Apollo 13 returned from an unsuccessful moon flight in 1970, the three astronauts had to jettison their unused moon lander, and its power pack plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Australia...
George B. Field, director of the department of Astronomy, said the planned naming is "very appropriate because moon craters are named for great scientists, and Menzel was a great scientist...