Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member nations involved in drawing up the space treaty have already agreed on nine of the roughly one dozen clauses planned for the treaty. Working in Geneva and New York, they have agreed to ban weapons of mass destruction from outer space, make the moon and all other celestial bodies ''the province of all mankind," conduct all activities in outer space under "international law, including the U.N. charter," and even to report to all other nations and to the U.N. "any phenomena they discover in outer space that could constitute a danger to the life and health...
Like Antarctica, the moon was originally thought to be of huge strategic and economic importance, particularly as an invulnerable base for rockets. But, as with Antarctica, the strategists have had second thoughts. First off, the expense of ferrying missiles to the moon and installing them would be literally astronomical. Any rockets launched from the moon would be in transit to the earth for more than 30 hours, ample time for them to be detected, identified and destroyed by an anti-missile system. As for the moon's economic potential, any metal or mineral found there would have...
...while most ominous when they touch upon the military, nonetheless are so broad that space lawyers-a new but growing breed of specialists-have hardly begun to consider their ramifications. What happens, for example, if a civilian British scientist should kill an American or a Russian astronaut on the moon? Who would arrest whom, and what court of what country would have jurisdiction? Despite the fact that nations have forsworn territorial rights on celestial bodies, questions of property rights are bound to arise when exploration and interplanetary travel increase. The French have already raised one question: What happens...
Ratifying the Changes. The code was in tatters by 1953, when the Motion Picture Producers Association refused to grant its seal of approval to Otto Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, because it dealt frivolously with seduction. Preminger thumbed his nose and distributed the picture anyway, benefiting from reams of publicity about the dialogue, which actually dared to use the word virgin...
...still on their first orbit, Conrad and Gordon rendezvoused and docked with an Agena target vehicle that had been blasted into orbit only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little lunar excursion module (LEM); then, after only 11 orbits, they will have to rendezvous and dock with the moon-orbiting Apollo mother ship...