Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Be?, in which she makes up an impossible situation, asks herself "How can that be?" and is disappointed if she cannot concoct a way it could be. She is unable to explain, for instance, why "an upside-down-speedboat made of rose petals was in orbit around the moon...
...know more about the to pography of the moon than about the earth's topography," said British Astronomer Zdeněk Kopal. None of the other 1,000 astronomers gathered in Prague last week for the 13th meet ing of the International Astronomical Union disputed him. They had just seen giant new U.S. and Russian charts of the moon's hidden farside. Together with familiar maps of the lunar near side, the charts did indeed give man a clearer view of the moon's features than of the earth's surface, large portions of which...
Engineers and technicians began working on fireproofing soon after the tragedy. Since then, just about every conceivable combustible has been removed from the moon-bound spacecraft. Flammable components that could not be replaced have been isolated by fire-confining barriers. "It's been an extremely difficult job," says George Low, 41, who was appointed Apollo program manager in April. "But we'll have a spacecraft in which we probably won't be able to even start a fire when we try to this winter...
...earth-oriented face. They only seem fresher and more numerous because the far side has not undergone the vast, more recent flooding of dark, possibly volcanic, material so evident on the near side. The disparity should prove a boon to scientists, since the result is that the moon's early history is that much more legible on the hidden side...
...likely future landing site near a permanently shaded area in a region adjacent to the Lunar North Pole. "In such shaded areas," says Harold Masursky, of the U.S. Geological Survey at Menlo Park, Calif., "we can find out what the present escape heat is from the center of the moon, whether there is radioactive material, and whether it was hot in the past and is still cooling...