Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precious contact between little groups of fearful humans and the awful forces of fertility or famine, prosperity or plague. These magic men were precious possessions, to be carefully guarded against contamination or capture. Sometimes they were incarcerated in darkness to keep them from the influence of the sun and moon, sometimes they were prevented from even touching the ground for fear that the earth might leach out their power. If the magic did fail-when the crops were poor or the hunting bad or the enemy prevailed-then it was time to get rid of the old king...
...Before long, even the Indian Foreign Office was pressuring her to cancel out so as not to lend her country's name to the U.S. war effort. After brooding on the matter, Reita announced: "If the show were going to Viet Nam, the Viet Cong or even the moon, I would go. I would like my government and the people of India to realize that this title has nothing to do with politics...
...South Dakota. But when it was flashed unexpectedly onto a screen at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Boston last week, sophisticated space scientists and engineers recognized the terrain immediately. It was a spectacular closeup shot of lunar landscape. That photograph of the moon's Crater of Copernicus, said NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick, is "one of the great pictures of the century...
...have made ten manned flights, rendezvoused ten times with target vehicles, docked nine times, and set a host of other space records. They have also proved that man can fly as safely in spacecraft as in airplanes, and that NASA's complex plans for placing men on the moon are basically sound...
Their Gemini missions successfully accomplished, U.S. astronauts can now turn their full attention to Apollo, which will make its first three-man orbital flight during the first quarter of 1967 and may carry U.S. astronauts to the moon as early...