Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four Americans had already trod on lunar soil, and the TV picture-the ghostly figure on the ladder, the sharp contrast between the black sky and the sun-drenched land-was strikingly familiar. Yet, for millions of viewers around the world, seeing a fellow man walking on the distant moon was still a wondrous experience. It was a dramatic reminder of what man, at his technological best, can achieve...
...national mood has changed sharply since Neil Armstrong made the first human footprints on the lunar soil 18 months ago. Public concern has shifted from space to more pressing earthly problems. In addition, the Russians have dramatically demonstrated that unattended robots like Lunokhod 1 -still alive and moving after eight weeks on the moon-may eventually achieve some of the goals of manned flight at a fraction of the cost and with none of the risks to life. Thus, as it prepares to launch Apollo 14 and Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell on man's fourth...
...descend into the crater itself, they will conduct a kind of rock festival on its rim: they will chip stone from large boulders and roll some smaller boulders down the crater's side (the tracks will give earthbound scientists an indication of the mechanical characteristics of lunar soil). At the end of three hours, if all has gone well, the astronauts will be allowed to take a roundabout route home, including further sampling stops at nearby Weird Crater, which was named for its unusual shape, possibly the result of three or more overlapping meteorite impacts...
...also agreed to pay all of the costs of any South Vietnamese operations on Cambodia soil...
...Yale biologist announces he has synthesized a substance that, if placed in the world's water supply, will create peace on earth forever, as well as quadruple the productivity of all soil, clear the nasal passages and the Suez Canai, and act as a non-polluting automobile fuel...