Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already the U.S.S.R.'s gregarious new Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail Menshikov, making his rounds of visits from the White House to Capitol Hill, was making headlines with meaningless proposals for a U.S.-U.S.S.R. friendship pact as a step toward "peace on our planet...
With the advent of Explorer, perhaps aggressive man will find a better planet on which to live. Then surely "the meek shall inherit the earth...
...Mars would cost practically nothing. The outer moon, Deimos, is about five miles in diameter, and has hardly any gravitation. The spaceship could drift toward it and, without expending fuel, come aboard as gently as thistledown. Then the crew would get a free ride around Mars, circling the planet every 30 hours and studying its surface from the fairly convenient distance of 12,500 miles. For a closer look they could shuttle to the inner moon, Phobos, which circles Mars only 3,700 miles away...
...Cosmic Casanova, an intergalactic lover boy tunes in a cute pinup on his rocketship TV screen. He makes an unscheduled landing on her tiny home planet, only to be disappointed when the hatch door opens. The girl turns out to be a giantess, and "I'd have looked like such a fool, standing there on tiptoe with my arms wrapped around her knees...
...step in evolution with consequences that may be even greater than those of man's evolution as a land animal." His latest book carries glimmerings of the awesome dimensions of that step, but at times, the dialogue interferes. One line, at least, should be permanently retired. A minor planet is graced with the unexpected landing of a giant rocketship. The flustered local dignitary goes forward to greet the visitors. For a moment words fail him, and then he blurts out: "You're from Earth-I presume...