Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steady progression of Russian experiments-from Sputnik to hitting the moon to photographing the moon's far side, to extensive space tests with animals-indicates a Soviet determination to get man into space, and get him there as fast as possible. It also indicates that the moon is the Russians' first space objective...
LIFE ON THE MOON...
There is little question that man will get to the moon. In first landings he will have to bring his own food, water, shelter and tools. But once established, there is ample reason, within the achievements already reached or within sight, to be sure that he can learn to live there. Compared with the planets and stars, the moon probably has a mineralogical composition much like the earth's. In this recognizable state, man could live by means of today's technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer...
...military terms, control of the moon represents the classical concept of the "high ground." Thus the lunar military potential takes on a new urgency in terms of observation and missilery. Says Air Force Brigadier General Homer Boushey: with moderate-sized telescopes, lunar observers could daily "monitor the positions of all ships at sea, all major surface construction, all above-ground missile sites" on the earth. The growing sciences of optics and radar observation already promise the tools to assure continuous observation of the turning earth and the pinpointing of objects as small as 100 ft. across...
...moon, he can eventually transport missiles. Missile sites located underground, or planted in craters on the far side of the moon (never seen from earth), would be beyond observation, and thus beyond target spotting, of earth-based attackers. Even if there were a missile exchange between earth and moon forces, lunar missiles would have the advantage of time and accuracy, and of direct guidance systems that are already in existence...