Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solution is to thrust the burden, in whole or in part, back on their families. With the increasing costs of dropping bombs in Southeast Asia, of taking care of the ITTs in our midst, of sending men to the moon, of guaranteeing outrageous agricultural commodity prices, what family is left after taxes with the resources necessary to care for a lifelong dependent...
Although this particular cross-country trip is fictional, the inconveniences experienced by the passengers and crew are all too real. In an age when man can rendezvous and dock spacecraft high above the earth, travel to the moon with pinpoint accuracy and send payloads to much more distant targets in the solar system, the control of air traffic closer to home is still crude and imprecise in comparison. As a result, runways are overcrowded on the ground, air lanes are jammed aloft. Particularly near airports, spacing between aircraft is often so hard to control that near-misses are dangerously familiar...
...Hare Airport goes to about one-half capacity when IFR [instrument-flight-rules] weather moves in," says Dr. Charles Fenwick, an engineering executive at Collins Radio, a leading manufacturer of R-Nav equipment. "And that's in a world that can land men on the moon...
...dream about life on Mars seemed to fade for good in 1965 when the first closeup pictures of the red planet were radioed back to earth by the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4. The photographs revealed a barren planet that looked as dead as the moon. Lately, this view of Mars has been radically revised. Contrary to the first photographic impression, U.S. scientists told an international space conference in Madrid last week, Mars is still undergoing sharp climatic changes. Violent geological activity has left scars all across its crust and, most significant, there may be enough water on its surface...
...heavily cratered region, presumably pounded by meteorites, that scientists are comparing to the lunar highlands. Earlier photographs of this pock-marked area led investigators to conclude-prematurely-that Mars was a planetary version of the moon...