Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life came two weeks into the summer, in Selma. I had come to Selma to see Ted Dibble, a friend of mine from California who was spending the summer working for a welfare rights project in the Black Belt. On my way through Selma, I stopped at the Silver Moon Cafe to get some coffee...
Zond 5's successful loop around the moon and its safe recovery in the Indian Ocean provided fair warning last week that Russia is well and truly back in the race for the moon. Many scientists believe that the flight was merely a prelude to the circling of the moon by a Soviet cosmonaut, a mission that could be carried out within the next few months. But U.S. space officials are still hopeful that American astronauts can make a lunar landing before the Russians set foot on the moon...
Before making a lunar landing, space experts say, the Soviets will probably want to test two techniques that they have not yet attempted: 1) manned rendezvous and docking in space, and 2) an unmanned soft landing on the moon. Unmanned Russian spacecraft have twice rendezvoused and docked auto matically in earth orbit, but the technique would be far more difficult near the moon, 240,000 miles away from terrestrial control stations. And the Russians have yet to demonstrate a soft-landing system as reliable as the one that lowered five U.S. Surveyor spacecraft gently to the lunar surface...
...plans to launch the first manned Apollo into earth orbit next week on a ten-day mission to check out spacecraft and ground control systems. If all goes well, the following Apollo flight, scheduled for late December, may take three astronauts for as many as ten orbits around the moon before returning them to earth...
Double Slap. The triumphant flight of Zond 5 and the test of its voice-communications system left little doubt that the Russians are racing to send a manned flight around the moon ahead of the U.S. which now plans to fly three astronauts on a lunar mission in December. The number of Russian space launchings announced this year-36 to only 18 for the U.S.-adds weight to the theory that the Soviets are working overtime on their space program...