Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solar system. To obtain a sample for such a study, some scientists suggest, an unmanned spacecraft should be shot into the orbit of a regularly reappearing comet. The craft would rendezvous with the comet, land and scoop up some surface material. Then, after a brief, blazing ride through the sky, it would blast off for earth, bringing back a sample of the stuff the comet is made...
...York. When the cause has moved him, he has also gone beyond his expressly constituted authority with noteworthy results. At Yorty's prodding, the city's completely independent Airports Department set up a project aimed at providing a system of flying buses-bus pods toted by helicopter sky cranes-between Los Angeles International Airport and downtown. When an impasse developed between the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the U.S. Interior Department, Yorty personally intervened to negotiate a go-ahead on a nuclear-powered
...show can be spectacular. Every night, more than 1,000 rounds of heavy artillery thump into the paddies and jungles surrounding Saigon to discourage Viet Cong activity. Their explosions light up the sky and shake the city. Five miles from the downtown Caravelle Hotel, the air buzzes with "lightning bugs" -helicopters fitted out with powerful spotlights to pick out Charlie-and the soft sizzle of parachute flares. Rocket-bearing choppers and DC-3s bristling with rapid-fire miniguns patrol the perimeter, waiting to pounce...
...first glance, it seemed to be merely a photograph of a quarter moon in the night sky. What made the picture remarkable was that it actually showed a quarter earth, reflecting sunlight in the dark lunar sky. It was the first photograph of earth ever taken from deep space, and it was shot by Lunar Orbiter 1 from a point only 27 miles above the surface of the moon. Clearly visible in the foreground was part of the lunar surface marked by its familiar craters. But most of the visible portion of the earth was covered by swirling white clouds...
...denouement cannot be far away," Edwards warns. But before the reader is quite prepared to meet this day, he must accept a weird record of incidents in which hundreds of people at different times and in different parts of the world have seen something buzzing about in the sky, silently or with a low humming, shining by day or glowing by night, scorching the earth or disturbing the water under its burnished bottom, sometimes plunging into the sea or a river, but mostly zooming off, presumably back to where it came from...