Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen sixty-eight was tragedy, and horrific entertainment: deaths of heroes, uprisings, suppressions, the end of dreams, blood in the streets of ) Chicago and Paris and Saigon, and at last, at Christmastime, man for the first time floating around the moon...
...moon is essentially grey, no color. Looks like plaster of paris, or sort of a greyish deep sand . . . The Sea of Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does on earth. There's not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off." Astronaut James Lovell skimmed less than 70 miles above the lunar surface as he gave that matter-of- fact first impression of the earth's great, ghostly satellite. Lovell waxed more metaphoric as he described the great blue ball, 233,000 miles away, that he, Frank Borman...
...flight of Apollo 8 accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded...
Appleton housed some strange characters Saturday, including the famous singing moon from those McDonald's commercials. So that's where he lives...
Consequently, STAR students use a variety of props. With 3-D models of the universe, they can visualize just how the light of the sun on the moon produces different moon phases. They make their own telescopes from cardboard, paper-towel cylinders and plastic lenses. (The result is a telescope more powerful than the one first used by Galileo.) They record in journals the movement of the moon and sun and chart the arrivals and departures of the constellations...