Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will move next to the opened storage area, called MESA, for Modularized Equipment Storage Assembly. Armstrong will detach the TV camera and place it on a stand about 30 ft. from the LM to provide a panoramic view of the surface activities. While Aldrin is setting up a solar wind experiment, consisting of a 1-ft. by 4-ft. aluminum-foil strip designed to capture particles streaming in from the sun, Armstrong will scoop up another 60 lbs. of lunar rocks and soil and place them in an aluminum sample...
UNCORRUPTED by the swirling gases of an atmosphere, unworn by the erosive pounding of wind and water, the moon has its history written plainly on its face. Geologically, its past and its present are as one, and clues to the events of billions of years are strewn across its surface with tantalizing clarity...
...astronauts will leave a third item, the solar-wind experiment, on the lunar surface for only two hours or so. Soon after emerging from Eagle, they will place on the lunar surface a sheet of aluminum foil suspended from a stand. It will be exposed to the constant stream of particles expelled by the sun and should trap rare gases such as argon, krypton, xenon, neon and helium. Returned to earth in a vacuum box, the captive gases will be analyzed to give scientists new insights into the sun and the "wind" that it blows through the solar system...
...long ago, a critic of the space program suggested that as soon as the first astronauts came safely back from the moon, we should wind up manned flight and leave exploration entirely to robots. This may well rank as the silliest statement of a notably silly decade; to match it one must imagine Columbus saying: "Well, boys, there's land on the horizon-now let's go home...
...high schools that weren't integrated and now the Federal courts have ordered the Alabama schools to integrate or close down. But Negroes no longer get very excited about going to the white schools. 90 percent of them are still going to all back schools. What the courts will wind up doing is to close down a lot of the really good black schools that just can't get any white kids to come. And the black schools have tried everything to be more attractive to whites. One had this huge statue of Booker T. Washington which they couldn...