Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fails to grasp the cold-war challenge of space, the prediction of Hungarian-born Physicist Edward Teller may come dismally true. Asked what he expected the first U.S. spacemen to find when they get to the moon, Teller gave the grim reply: "Russians...
...Cover) When the Soviet Lunik raced past the moon and free of the earth last week, it did more than win a triumph for its designers. It also marked a turning point in the multibillion-year history of the solar system. One of the sun's planets had at last evolved a living creature that could break the chains of its home gravitational field...
...Clark University in Worcester, he built solid-propellant rockets, and won a $5,000 grant from the Smithsonian Institution. In 1919 the Smithsonian published a brief Goddard report which predicted, among other things, that a multistage rocket weighing only ten tons could land a small payload on the moon...
Near the rim of the earth's gravitational pit is a much smaller pit belonging to the moon. An object shot away from the earth at 24,800 m.p.h. will reach the boundary, about 34,000 miles short of the moon, where the moon's pull is as strong as the earth's. If it reaches this point with a small velocity, it will fall on the moon. If it crosses the line at good speed, it will shoot past the moon, its course merely deflected. This is what happened to the Lunik...
...overall aim was good. U.S.'s Pioneer III deviated from its planned course by 3.5°. If it had reached the moon's orbit, it would have missed the moon by about 14,590 miles. The Russian miss (4,660 miles) was an error of only slightly more than...