Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELENOLOGY Water on the Moon? For a decade, McDonnell Douglas Geologist Jack Green has stoutly argued that there is water on the moon. Not free-flowing, gurgling water, to be sure, but water that is chemically locked within rock. Now, with the aid of a half-century-old observation, he reported to an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics meeting in Los Angeles last week, he has found additional evidence of lunar water...
Green has long believed that most of the major lunar features are volcanic in origin. Since volcanic formations on earth contain hydrous rocks, Green reasons, they may well exist on the moon. Merely heating such rocks to between 500°F. and 800°F., he says, will release as much as a gallon of water per cubic foot of rock...
Exploration of the moon also provided a good topic for discussion ultimately connected with integration. One Negro boy said, "Aliens probably look like us, but maybe they're a bit bigger, with an extra finger ... maybe just a glob...
...this situation, through the articulation of previously hidden fantasies, whites had the opportunity to learn that, on another planet, they might be the aliens, the intruders, the "Negroes." With no aid from the leader, the group members saw this implication from the boy's speculations about moon creatures...
Before Cape Kennedy technicians fire a space vehicle at the moon nowadays, much of its inner workings has been washed in distilled water. Southern California orchid growers give their plants water supplied by bottlers because the chlorinated stuff that comes out of taps wilts the delicate flowers. Across the U.S., the growing pollution of water supplies and the increasing sophistication of manufacturing processes have uncorked a surprising industrial market for companies whose traditional field is supplying bottled water for homes and office coolers...