Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of Hollywood's recent flights into science-fiction, combines a glimpse into the futuristic marvels of outer space with a thoughtful look at the seedy old earth of 1951. Like The Thing (TIME, May 14), it is the story of a visitor from another planet. But Klaatu (Michael Rennie) is no villainous monster; he is an ultra-civilized human being who makes the earthmen, by contrast, look like a monstrous race of Yahoos...
...intermediate refueling and supply bases. The first satellite station would revolve around the earth and form the starting point for the interplanetary voyaging. The second would be established in an orbit around Mars. Then specially designed "landing boats" would descend into the thin Martian atmosphere to explore the planet's surface...
...atmosphere, carrying cargo (39.4 tons of pay load per trip) and fuel to build and stock the satellite filling station. On this base, ten orbit-to-orbit spaceships would be assembled. Taking off for Mars, they would establish a second filling station in an orbit around that planet. Enough fuel and supplies would remain to set 50 men down on Mars in three landing craft and maintain them there for a year. Then two of the craft would bring them back to the Mars orbit station to start the long voyage home...
...high ethical level that the deceased shall not have been annihilated without furthering the project - that this group . . . shall implement a new source of unhampered activity- and that political supervision composed of the integrated units, for the integrated units, and by the integrated units shall not perish from . . . this planet...
...predatory kans grass. For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail. With less & less yield from each sowing, the peasant would at last abandon his kans-infested wheatfield, blaming his ill luck on Saturn, considered an evil planet by Hindus. Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands...