Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young chemists, physicists and plane engineers. In spare-time work on their hobby, they have laid out a campaign, to start with the launching of experimental rockets 60 miles into space,* and culminating in a three-man jorney in a 1,000-ton space ship, already designed, to the moon...
...M.P.H. Harper's group figures that the 240,000-mile trip to the moon would take only 48 hours; in the celestial vacuum their ship would attain a speed of 20,000 m.p.h. Their vehicle, probably using liquid oxygen and gasoline for fuel, would be propelled by a series of rockets whose shells could be jettisoned as they were used up; the ship would eventually weigh less than a tenth of its take-off weight. Passengers would be protected against acceleration effects by springy hammocks, against extreme heat & cold by rotation of the ship's outer shell...
...Moon Professor. The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University. A stiff, old-fashioned pedagogue, Professor Oberth has long been famed in Europe as a writer on occultism and a pioneer in the study of interplanetary rocket flying. In 1923, when he published one of the first schemes for projecting a rocket into interplanetary space, he was nicknamed "the moon professor." He also predicted murderous rockets capable of being sent halfway around the earth and exterminating whole populations...
...German film trust, hired the Professor to help produce a spaceship movie called The Girl in the Moon. As a publicity stunt for the movie's premiere, Oberth was to launch a tremendous rocket of his own design at a deserted spot on the Baltic coast. The rocket failed to go off and the humiliated professor retired from public view...
...some people, life was pleasant in Rome last week. Bright sunshine and tempering breezes by day, a waxing moon by night added charm to the beautiful, eternal city...