Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brisk sellers. But not all members of the space cult are storytellers, crackpots or kids. Some serious scientists believe that space flight will surely come, and perhaps soon, but they know that separating facts and fancy about space travel is almost as difficult as a trip to the moon...
...made vehicle can climb briefly into space. The head of the V-2 project, Dr. Wernher von Braun, is still only 40 and is the major prophet and hero (or wild propagandist, some scientists suspect) of space travel. As a boy, Dr. von Braun wanted to go to the moon. He still does...
...clears the atmosphere, it will be sidetracked to an orbit above the earth and will circle around endlessly. The centrifugal force of the rocket's motion around the earth will exactly balance the pull of the earth's gravitation. This same balance of forces keeps the moon on its rails...
Approach with Caution. Astronauts who plot long journeys in space assume that such dull, preliminary steps have already been taken. Later steps are more fun. To reach the moon from an artificial orbit is elementary stuff; voyages to a planet take more figuring. One plan for a trip to Venus, for instance, uses space ships from an orbit around the earth to establish a base on the moon (see diagram). A special ship then takes off from the moon at a moment when Venus is considerably behind both earth and moon on its shorter and faster orbit around...
...Comes First. In trying to find the cause of hardening of the arteries, which is a major factor in 350,000 U.S. deaths each year, doctors have been paying a lot of attention to fats like cholesterol. To Drs. Moon and Rinehart, this looks like the wrong path. Their theory is that fat metabolism becomes important only in the later stages of the disease, and that the original trouble probably lies in how the body uses protein...