Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESS STORY AND WOULD LIKE MAKE ONE CORRECTION: FIRST MEN IN BAGHDAD WERE TWO, STAN CARTER AND MYSELF. WHEN WE ARRIVED ON IRAQI MILITARY PLANE FROM DAMASCUS, OFFICERS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DIDN'T KNOW WHO WE WERE. THEY SEEMED TO THINK WE WERE EITHER AMERICAN OFFICERS OR MOON MEN. I WAS FIRST MAN TO INTERVIEW BRIGADIER EL-KASSIM...
Early one morning last week 30,000 Japanese, carrying wreaths, incense sticks and bits of white paper folded into the shape of flying cranes, poured into Nakajima Park in Hiroshima on the northern shore of the Inland Sea. The waning moon still hung in the brightening blue sky. There was no wind, and the promise of a hot day. Said one Japanese, looking skyward: "It was a morning just like this when the bomb fell...
...missionary, like Albert Schweitzer. Some of television's unseen but much-heard word merchants think he would have made a fine gag writer. Walter Winchell plainly thinks he should have been put into an ablative nose cone on a one-way rocket trip to the moon. Sponsors of late movies think he should have stayed in daytime television, and all across the land, people who like to go to sleep early think he should have stood in bed - and given them a chance...
...about to try to send a rocket to the moon. This week or next, the Air Force will try the first of three lunar probes planned for August, September and October. The Army's rocket team will also get two chances. All five probes, billed as more scientific than military, are supposed to be complete by next March under the International Geophysical Year program. Any one of them could turn out to be that celestial coup, a voyage around the moon by a highly instrumented vehicle. But any probe that reaches a great altitude, even if far short...
...engine, says Rocketdyne, would open new possibilities. Combined with appropriate secondary stages, it could put a 20,000-lb. satellite in a polar orbit 1,000 miles high. It could carry 6,200 Ibs. of payload around the moon, 2,000 Ibs. around Mars. With proper auxiliary apparatus it could land a 1,600-lb. payload gently on the moon, or a 400-lb. payload on Mars. Yoked together, four of these engines should be capable of putting man into space along with enough of his natural environment to keep him alive...