Word: sunless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from its planned course by only one-tenth of a degree and four miles of altitude. Visible as the brightest stars in the night sky it was quickly sighted by observers in England. Australia and Japan. After it has been bombarded by meteorites and misshapen by the cold of sunless space, it is anybody's guess how long Echo I will remain on course. But this did not diminish the jubilation of scientists. Said T. Keith Glennan of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: "It has been a long, hard road, but it is awfully nice to come...
...with condensed moisture, and their teeth chattering from the cold of sunless water, the Trieste's men stayed on the bottom for half an hour and then started up, taking with them for later study observations and records of ocean depths no man before had ever seen...