Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whipple also tried to calm the nerves of jittery moonwatchers who, he warned, would probably be unable to see any rocket hit the moon, even if such a missile had been sent up. Without accurate information on the trajectory, he said, even the biggest telescopes would be unable to track a moon-rocket...
Whipple maintained, moreover, that Russia's inability to prove to the world that it had hit the moon is "a good argument against their trying to do it." He predicted that within a "very few years--five, at the most" man would be able to get a rocket to hit the moon or to go into an orbit around...
United States tracking operations for the second "moon" will meanwhile be based on information from radio contacts, primarily those made by the Naval Research Laboratory's minitrack stations...
Many scientists still believe that the Soviets are planning the announcement of some further scientific achievement for Nov. 7, the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Whipple estimated that "if the Russians want to land something on the moon Nov. 7, they would have had to shoot about five days before --about...
...said that to propel a missile to the moon would require about 40 per cent more power than went into either of the satellites previously launched. An atomic bomb explosion, he suggested, would be the best way to signal a missile's hit on the moon...