Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon, but Houston's multimillionaire promoter, Judge Roy Hofheinz, is getting closer all the time. He has the Astrodome and baseball's Houston Astros, has developed an "Astroworld" to rival Disneyland. And now he has Paul Haney, 41, formerly NASA's Voice of Apollo. "The voice of the astronauts will become the voice of the Astros," said the judge, as he announced that Haney would become the ball club's vice president for public affairs. Said Haney: "I understand there are three strikes and four balls. I'll learn the rest...
...still awaiting the first successful flight of Russia's Nova-class booster, which is supposed to be nearly twice as powerful as Saturn 5 with its 75 million Ibs. of thrust; Nova's glitches, in fact, may well have cost the Russians the race to the moon. And there is no doubt that they find the loss embarrassing. Musing over the meaning of the Soyuz flights last week, a young Muscovite commented somewhat wistfully: "It's not much compared with the moon...
Even as the Soviet troika circled the earth, the U.S. was busily preparing a space spectacular of its own. On the morning of Nov. 14, only 117 days after man's conquest of the moon, the eyes of the world will again be focused on Cape Kennedy's pad 39A. Though the flight of Apollo 12 may seem like history relived, the second American effort to land men on the moon should be almost as dramatic as its predecessor. It will demand every bit as much daring from its all-Navy crew...
Riding atop a thundering Saturn 5 booster, the Apollo 12 astronauts will use a rocketry system virtually identical to the one that propelled Apollo 11. Yet their nautically named command ship, Yankee Clipper, will blaze its own distinctive path. Halfway to the moon, Apollo 12 Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, a veteran of two earth-girdling Gemini flights, will fire the spacecraft's service propulsion engine, jolting the ship out of its "free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever...
This country does not plan to construct its own space station until 1972, concentrating in the near future on further flights to the moon...