Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement was truly cosmic. After examining data transmitted from OAO-II, its second Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-which is still functioning effectively after a year in space -NASA this month declared that "astronomers are contemplating the possibility that the universe may be several times larger than previously believed." And how large is that? Some 40 billion lightyears* in diameter, concluded newsmen after talking to NASA. Breathlessly they reported that the most distant galaxies might be twice and even four times as far away as anyone had expected...
Margaret Mead, Kingman Brewster, and Thomas O, Paine, NASA Administrator, will also deliver special lectures...
...failure of the television camera on the moon [Nov. 28] points to NASA's inability to accept the technical expertise of those of us outside the space industry. Had they asked for my assistance, I would have recommended the Light Energy Neutralization System Cover and Protective Shielding. Of course, NASA might want to follow its well-known penchant for acronyms and rename the system LENS CAPS...
Released with them was Clifford Frondel. Harvard professor of Mineralogy, who had joined the quarantine when NASA technicians noticed a hole in one of the protective plastic gloves he was using to handle lunar material...
...week's end, as Apollo 12's astronauts bedded down in the LRL for the remainder of their 21-day quarantine, NASA was making plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...