Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NASA orbiting laboratory, which is planned for flights of as long as 30 to 90 days sometime in the 1970s. However, the group's 18 to 24 months of exhaustive training will be principally aimed at following up the first manned landings of Americans on the moon. The class will travel to Mexico, Iceland and Alaska to familiarize itself with lunarlike topography. Among Class 5's possible missions: lunar excursions lasting up to a month, using portable living quarters and "moonmobiles," and an as yet undefined program for a manned landing on Mars...
...eerie electronic whistle whined through Moscow's huge Hall of Congresses, and suddenly the unmistakable bars of the Internationale floated through the hall. The music was transmitted from Luna X, a Soviet moon probe that had been launched a week before and only twelve hours earlier had become the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the moon. At the sound, tears welled in the eyes of Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Jumping to his feet, he led the 6,000 Soviet and foreign delegates in rhythmic applause...
...latest Russian space feat came, as usual, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a greying British scientist. Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of Manchester's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, to track the Soviet spaceship Luna 10 on its successful moon mission, jumped at the chance of providing a maneuver-by-maneuver account that enabled the free world to learn of the first lunar or bit before most Russians...
When the Russians finally broke their silence, they revealed that Luna 10 was in an orbit that took it around the moon once every two hours and 58 minutes. Though the Russians described several devices aboard the craft's 540-lb. instrument capsule, and reported that they were sending back useful information, they made no mention of a television camera, thus lending support to Lovell's conclusion that no pictures were being transmitted...
...strong, flew to the desert mountain fastnesses of Big Bend National Park, where she was greeted by a crowd of 4,200, including, one local noted, "every living critter around here." So stark and jagged that astronauts have visited it to see what they will encounter on the moon-yet fiercely beautiful withal-Big Bend receives far fewer visitors than most other national parks, was thus a prime spot for one of the First Lady's See America First promotion trips...