Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gazed for a few minutes, until the Moon was completely eclipsed, just about as predicted. No danger of burned-out retinas, such as might characterize solar eclipses. At that point, the relative brightness of the surrounding stars offered a dazzling view, to our untrained eyes, of star clusters, nebulae--and other groups of lights which we had no idea what to call. The names sounded right then...
...society is in serious trouble if, at a prestigious university like Harvard, the ideas of someone are dismissed and ridiculed simply on the basis of the color of their skin or the religion they espouse. Jin Sung Park Moon, Esq. Son-in-law of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
...This thing" is the most difficult and daring space assignment since the Apollo moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like...
...anticipation throughout NASA than the space agency has seen in a long time. Says NASA administrator Daniel Goldin: "We are excited about doing very noble, risky things because that's what NASA is all about." As the mission moves toward countdown, the proud organization that put men on the moon looks forward, with fingers firmly crossed, to recapturing its past glory...
...Just so, O moon," the addict replies...