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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a cursory examination, of course, could not answer fundamental questions about the age, origin and composition of the moon. Those problems would have to wait for the painstaking studies that will be conducted at the LRL and by 142 "principal investigators" in the U.S. and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: SOME MYSTERIES SOLVED, SOME QUESTIONS RAISED | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...NASA geologists gave high grades to both Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin for their descriptions of the lunar rocks, many of which seemed to be basaltic, or of volcanic origin. Though Aldrin originally used the word wet to describe the lunar soil that he extracted with a core sampler, it was later explained that he had meant simply that the material tended to cling together because of the lunar vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: SOME MYSTERIES SOLVED, SOME QUESTIONS RAISED | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Some scientists are hoping that unexpected clues in Apollo's samples will lead to new and more satisfying theories about the moon's origin. Complains Astrophysicist Ralph Baldwin: "There is no existing theory that gives a satisfactory explanation of the earth-moon system as we know it." Nobel Laureate Chemist Harold Urey wryly notes that it would be easier to prove that the moon did not exist than to get agreement on how it came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON: SECRETS TO BE FOUND | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...talking to each other. The older guys had been drinking, and were drinking then in their cars parked around the gas station. It was all pretty groovy, so I sat up on the back of my seat behind the wheel and leaning over the windshield answering questions about origin and destination. They were poking each other after a while and saying coded little things to each other that I really couldn't understand. I think they were making cracks about how they'd like to get the other of us, who is a girl and was standing there looking...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...account for this biological anamoly in Homo sapiens, Storr proposed that the majority of humans posses a latently paranoid character, accepting absurd delusions about enemies and consequently projecting hostility. The origin of this paranoid state is an unconscious "memory of early infantile helplessness...

Author: By Raymond V. Sidrys, | Title: Storr Says Men Are Paranoid | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

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