Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stories aim to pinpoint trends not yet widely reported, and often turn out to be a scoop when printed. Last month a leader broke the news that a 71-lb. television camera developed by Westinghouse is scheduled to go along on the first U.S. mission to the moon and telecast the trip live. Three times in the past five years enterprising leader writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for such stories as the expose of the commodity market's 1964 salad-oil scandal...
Fertile Crises. Tolchin himself refrained from musing over the possible effect of the full moon on the blackout night-or whether the illegitimate birth rate had also gone up as a result of the long night spent by some in offices. With the impeccable restraint of a good Timesman, Tolchin merely hinted that many Americans apparently require crisis nights to get interested in fertility rites; he found statistics showing that the national birth rate jumped markedly nine months after Pearl Harbor and after the outbreak of the Korean War. In any case, he added, sociologists had predicted all along that...
...orbiting the moon last April, Russia's Luna 10 achieved a first that the U.S. is striving to match. The Soviet spacecraft apparently lacked photographic equipment, and the U.S. now aims to take the lead by orbiting the moon with five picture-taking satellites in a row. Last week Lunar Orbiter 1 soared up from Cape Kennedy and successfully zeroed in on its 237,500-mile, 92-hour trip to the moon...
...orbiter's prime mission is to transmit some 350 medium-and high-resolution pictures of nine possible landing sites for U.S. astronauts near the lunar equator. It will also take an admiring look at Surveyor 1, which now sits silently on the moon's Ocean of Storms after prodigiously transmitting more than 11,000 close-up pictures last June. After dry-developing its own film, Lunar Orbiter 1 will use a light scanner one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair to send pictures back to earth for kinescope reproduction...
...Wednesday the orbiter's Atlas-Agena boosters lofted the 850-lb. craft into a parking orbit, where it coasted for 28 minutes while ground computers honed its next course. Then, high above the Indian Ocean, the second-stage Agena engine reignited and kicked the orbiter into its precise moon-bound path. Two antennas and four solar-power panels snapped out, giving the space craft a windmill look. Guidance sensors aligned it with the sun; some six hours later, a star tracker began hunting for Canopus. When the sensor repeatedly failed to lock onto the guidance star, ground controllers made...