Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also unearthed was a "Venus" stone carving, which may have been related to some sort of "fertility cult." Unlike most "Venuses" of this type, which are usually of very obese women with gross stomachs and breasts, this specimen is more slender and graceful...
...Atlas, but with two additional stages. Vega has a section of the Vanguard for its second stage. Centaur's second stage will burn hydrogen, whose high energy, according to NASA's Dr. Abe Silverstein, "will greatly increase our capability to send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket, it should take...
...Soon we will be able to travel to Mars, to Pluto, to Venus," a professor told his Russian students. "Are there any questions?" A student in the back of the class raised his hand. ''When," he asked, "can we travel to Vienna...
...life at all. Dr. Kuiper thinks that it has no water or free oxygen. Radio waves, which penetrate the murky atmosphere, hint that the temperature of the invisible surface is something like 500° F., which is much too high for the earth's kinds of life. Venus rotates only once in several weeks, making the sunlit side much hotter than the dark side, and causing violent storms that sweep perpetually over its hot, dry deserts...
...will make soft landings on the moon, braked gently to the airless surface by retrorockets. Once they get there, they can look around with television eyes, telling the earth what they see. When the probes get good enough to tackle the planets, they can swoop into the atmosphere of Venus for a look at its unknown surface, swing around Mars looking for signs of life...