Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...
...suit has what the Air Force calls "get-me-down capability." Something much better will be needed for exploring the moon or for climbing around, science-fiction fashion, outside a spaceship or inhabited satellite. The present suit has no joints in its arms or legs, and so it has little flexibility when inflated. Since it is meant to be worn for short periods only, there are no provisions for taking food, and no latrine facilities. Little attempt has been made to protect the wearer against the fierce temperature effects of empty space. If he were exposed to full sunlight...
Robert Graves (Caedmon) reads his prose (from The White Goddess) with passion and his poetry with clean detachment, but both in the measured tones of a man setting the world straight. For lovers of magic and the Moon Goddess...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Another effort to launch the Vanguard rocket will be made today and the deputy director of the project said last night there is "a good chance" that it will boost the American "moon" into orbit around the world. The time of launching was not announced as of last night...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 3--The Navy's mighty Vanguard rocket was reportedly ready tonight for a predawn shot that may hurl the first American "moon" into space...