Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon is only the first milestone on the road to the stars. The exploration of space-by man and machine, for each complements the other-will be a continuing process with countless goals, but no final end. When our grandchildren look back at earth, they will find it incredible that anyone there failed to realize so obvious a fact of life...
...them now. There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags will not wave in a vacuum; our present tribal conflicts cannot be sustained in the hostile environment of space. Whether we like it or not, our children will find new loyalties when they set foot on the moon, or Mars, or the satellites of the giant planets. They did so in these United States a hundred years ago; they will do so on the United Planets in the centuries to come...
...like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert Rauschenberg, John Meigs and William Thon at Cape Kennedy to sketch his impressions of this week's scheduled Apollo 11 blastoff to the moon...
Televisions will be available all Sunday night and Monday morning in Matthews Hall, room 6; Union Dining Hall, second floor, parlor A; and Holmes Common Room for viewing the Apollo 11 moon flight...
Sunday, July 20, 1:47 p.m.: beginning of descent toward moon. 4:49 p.m.: landing of Apollo 11 craft in Sea of Tranquility...