Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place for heroes. Every time men rocketed into space, they took a greater risk than on their previous flight, reached for a more audacious and dangerous goal--and almost always succeeded. But after the four extraordinary years between 1968 and 1972, when the U.S. was sending crews to the moon, the agency retreated to the familiar backwaters of near Earth orbit. Aside from a few high notes like the Hubble-telescope repair mission and the horror of the Challenger explosion, human space travel became downright dull. And with the first components of the NASA-led International Space Station...
...According to Derek Sears, the journal's editor, the clincher came when AH 84001 was compared with rocks from the moon -- the control experiment of lifelessness. "Within an hour of looking at the lunar meteorites, we knew," said Sears. "We found objects on the lunar meteorites that we cannot distinguish from the Martian meteorites." What's more, iron oxide crystals on the rock suggest it was formed at temperatures eight times higher than boiling water -- too high to support life. Not that this means the Red Planet is and always was a dead planet; we just have to look...
...title--you can finish the book without knowing whom "she" refers to, let alone where she has gone). Heavy with the pressure of the unspoken, yet vividly immediate, this tale of detonations proceeds like the fishing boats we see at the end, taking off into a "moon-crusted sea," with bonfires behind them on shore, a "strange moonlit flotilla like some whispered night-time setting out for the beyond...
With Shepard's death, time seemed less elastic than we thought it was. The old outleaping moment of the race to the moon, science and technology's heroic counterpoint to the '60s' rage and mess, was now, as embodied in the first young all-American leaper, dead of leukemia at the age of 74. You may rescind the laws of gravity but not of mortality...
...Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...