Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report in THE NATION on the schedule for the Apollo 12 astronauts, whose five hours on the moon will "allow time to talk with the Vice President, the Chief Justice and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
While photographing the moon's surface with a special stereo camera, Astronaut Neil Armstrong was fascinated by several glassy patches that glittered like tiny bright mirrors. "I noticed them in six or eight places," Armstrong explained, "always in the same kind of place-at the bottom of a crater." Last week Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold offered a dramatic explanation. The moon, he says, may have been scorched by a huge flare-up of heat and light within the solar system...
WITH THE big engineering hurdles to manned space flight overcome, this year NASA headquarters was eager to mend its fences with space scientists. So when the moon rocks, the first tangible scientific payoff of the Apollo program, arrived, NASA went overboard. The agency received hundreds of research proposals and eventually narrowed them down to 142 projects. Some NASA consultants wanted to eliminate still more proposals, to avoid the hassle of two or three principle investigators claiming priority for the same discovery. Headquarters overruled them. "They wanted to spread the goodies around the country," said one researcher. "It's damn plain...
Admittedly, The Moon Show's organizers could not have involved themselves in rock polities, but at least they could have provided a little more information on what is known of the rocks' makeup and history. The fullest description so far appears in the 19 September issue of Science Magazine (the last two pages contain the essentials...
...flicks at the Moon Show are well worth the bus fare down to M. I. T., as are the lunar samples if you have done the reading. At $24 billion, Moon is the most expensive free show in town...