Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days after the Associated Press's manned missile landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...rocket-to-the-moon got a big early-morning play on radio newscasts, but its short life began after U.S. morning newspapers had gone to press, ended before afternoon papers started rolling. More than seven hours after its first moon-rocket bulletin, the U.P. mentioned the teleprinter theory among others, concluded later: "It was anybody's guess." Said a British engineer quoted by the A.P.: "We get strange noises constantly. A noise might be a hair dryer in Cornwall...
Died. Frank Henry Willard, 64, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate cartoonist, creator of derby-hatted urchin Kayo, somnolent Lord Plushbottom and other cronies of banjo-eyed Moon Mullins in the long-running (since 1924) comic strip; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 19--Moon-watch scientists tonight reported an official sighting of Sputnik II, Russia's dog-satellite, as it sped around the earth some 400 miles in space...
Both of the Sputniks have long been radio-silent, but after Jan. 14 radio hams will have another space broadcasting station to tune in on: the old reliable moon itself. The Army Signal Corps announced last week that it will bounce radio waves off the moon on even-numbered nights when the moon is around. The signals will be on the same frequency, 108 megacycles, that will be used by U.S. satellites-to-come, and they will come down from space in about the same way. So while the hams and the official tracking stations are waiting for another beeping...