Word: copernicus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extravehicular activity), the astronauts will collect rocks and try to obtain a 15-in. core of the lunar soil. One prize that geologists hope they will bring home: some of the debris showered on the landing site billions of years ago when a huge meteor gouged out the crater Copernicus, 230 miles to the north. That may well be possible. A three-mile-wide "ray" of material apparently ejected from Copernicus cuts directly through Apollo 12's base at the Ocean of Storms...
...will range over increasingly rugged areas. The scheduled Apollo 12 flight in November will take them to the Ocean of Storms. On subsequent missions, they will touch down near the Crater Censorinus, the Sea of Serenity, the Crater Tycho and finally such forbidding abysses as the craters Aristarchus and Copernicus...
...that he knew very well what such views could mean for him. "I am alone, my slanderers are hundreds," he said. "Naturally I will never succeed in defending myself, and I cannot know in advance of what I will be accused. If they say I am a supporter of Copernicus' solar system, and that I set the fire that burned Giordano Bruno at the stake, I will not be very surprised...
...snapping lines in the Atlantic Ocean in the night off New Jersey, we're sailing south to Norfolk to load on for Italy, everything is washed away by the clean sea . . . The stars are big, they rock side by side like Galileo drunk and Kepler stoned and Copernicus thinking, like Vasco da Gama in his bunk in thought, the wind, the cleanness, the dark, the quiet blue light in the bridge where hand holds wheel and course is set. The sleeping seamen below...
...first products of the mind-did. And because the mind is father to the hand, it can reverse the mechanized march to doom. How that might happen will have to wait until Mumford's sequel; this book ends in the 16th century with Kepler, Tycho Brahe and Copernicus metaphorically anticipating the end machine-the bomb...