Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure points, the Pentagon gained new important experience in the actual practice of cold war on both its fighting and its psychological fronts. The Army put up the U.S.'s first Explorer space satellites. The Air Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under the North Pole, made...
Exploring Space. "We may as well go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within...
Rocket Passes Moon...
...latest announcement said the 1 1/2ton missile was 296, 250 miles from the earth. An earlier announcement had placed it 262,500 miles away from the earth and 37,500 miles from the center of the moon...
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). The celebrated Protestant Episcopal churchman, who believes that man has trouble enough below, poses a good question: "Why go to the moon?" His guest: Chemist Linus Pauling...