Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Little Curly, into orbit more than 1,000 miles above earth. Sputnik II weighed 1,120.8 Ibs., six times the weight of Sputnik I, heavier than many types of nuclear warheads. The Soviet rocket generated a total thrust more than enough to power an atomic bomb to the moon (see SCIENCE), more than enough to power a missile around the earth. "The unfathomed natural processes going on in the cosmos," Moscow radio proclaimed, "will now become more understandable...
...rattled over the wires and official Washington, as though by previously stenciled orders, reacted as though it had been socked by nothing more than a soggy sponge; e.g., Pentagon sources were careful to say that McElroy had not even called his personal aides to ask about the air-conditioned moon. "It surely is not surprising to anyone in the government," McElroy told reporters in Cincinnati. "We are already in a pressure program. Our program is in very good shape right...
...those falls where I seem to have a lot of things on my plate, and it is hard to tell which to attack first." Four days later Sputnik II, too, dropped on Ike's plate. The Pittsburgh Press expressed a nation's mood: SHOOT THE MOON...
Operations at the Smithsonian office settled into the daily pattern of frenetic activity that they have followed ever since. The direct teletype line to the Naval Research Laboratory clattered out constant messages back and forth. A special section under Leon Campbell maintained contact with the various Moon-watch teams, receiving their reports, providing them with information, and answering their requests. There was continuous work in the examination and evaluation of reported sightings...
...latter, he said, would be his favorite experiment, as it would result in more accurate measurement of the mass, density, and distribution of mass of the moon...