Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators. "We'd follow him anywhere." To make sure they do, Olds keeps in top shape, plays squash daily on a court he built himself at Ubon. Well aware that his reaction time is bound to slow with age, Olds practices his flying skills incessantly, and 57 raids over the flak-and-fighter-fraught North have only sharpened them. "Younger guys have to think before they start a maneuver," he says. "With me, it's instinct...
Color photographs of the lunar surface beneath a deep black sky confirmed the findings of Surveyor I that the moon was grey. "The grey varies in shade from pale to very dark," said U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Eugene Shoemaker, "but it appears to be still basically all grey...
...talented duo of U.S. moon robots is making man even more familiar with his nearest neighbor in space. From the prying cameras of Surveyor 3, which landed on the moon last April, and Orbiter 4, which last week was circling the moon, scientists were provided with movies, color pictures and a wealth of new insight into ancient lunar secrets...
Blue-Green Earth. In Washington, NASA showed the first moon movies, pieced together from still pictures shot by Surveyor during its first lunar day. One film strip showed the spacecraft's claw digging a small trench in the soil. Another, taken at sunset, followed the edge of lunar night as it swallowed Surveyor's lengthening shadow and moved on across the crater until only a few high clumps of rocklike material remained lighted against a black...
NASA also released several Surveyor color photographs shot through red, green and blue filters by the craft's black-and-white TV camera and reconstituted on earth to give a good approximation of colors as they appear on the moon. The most striking of these showed a blue-green, cloud-mottled crescent in the dark lunar sky-Surveyor's view of the earth. A color version of Surveyor's black-and-white pictures of the earth eclipsing the sun (TIME, May 5, 1967) showed the dark disk of the earth silhouetted against a yellow-orange halo, caused...