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...earth-circling trips of the astronauts and cosmonauts were almost as passive as floating down a river on an oarless raft. Making a rendezvous in space will have to be learned by long, expensive and dangerous practice, The basic trainers will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...mead, a drink brewed from honey. Hengest & Horsa used to love mead, but 1949's perspiring Vikings gave the impression that they would rather have had some cool beer. The Danes plan to sell the Hugin (it cost $12,000) and go back to Denmark on the oarless Danish patrol vessel Thetis.* They have already arranged to sell their beards, for $1,000, to a Danish manufacturer of razor blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: 449 & All That | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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