Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been predicting that the city of San Francisco, perched precariously over the San Andreas fault, would some day be hit by another devastating tremor. Reuben Greenspan, 69, was not nearly so vague as that. Operating on a long-standing theory that certain relative positions of the sun and moon can exert catalytic-and predictable-pressures on the earth's surface, Greenspan announced in 1971 that an earthquake would strike the city on Jan. 4, 1973 at 9:20 a.m. Last week Greenspan delphically hedged on his prediction, saying he wanted to verify the data and didn...
...brief. In less than three months, Eleanor Roosevelt was to tell him: "Harry, the President is dead." The new President spoke to reporters next day: "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on you. But last night the moon, the stars and all the planets fell on me. If you fellows ever pray, pray...
With each mission to the moon, U.S. astronauts have become increasingly skilled as photographers. Apollo 17 proved to be no exception to the rule. Last week, as NASA began releasing pictures shot by the Apollo 17 crew, it be came clear that the last lunar mission had produced the best photography of the entire Apollo program: more brilliant in color, sharper in detail and more imaginative in overall composition...
...lengths to which Space Photographer Cernan went to achieve his goal are particularly apparent in one shot. To crowd his fellow moon walker Jack Schmitt, the U.S. flag and the distant earth into one small frame, Cernan had to drop to his knees in his stiff space suit and thrust himself backward so that the chest-mounted camera could be properly aimed. To obtain a view of Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt...
Early in the mission, Astronaut Ron Evans made his most notable photographic contribution; he took a picture that will rank among the classics of the space program. As Apollo sped toward the moon after blasting into its translunar trajectory, he pointed his camera back toward home and caught a stunning view of the earth, with the side visible to the astronauts completely illuminated. In crystal-clear detail it shows almost the entire coastline of Africa and the offshore island republic of Malagasy, the Arabian peninsula and an unusually thick cover of swirling clouds over Antarctica and the surrounding region...