Paleo Future tells us, "The May, 1969 issue of Science Journal features an article by Dr. Rodney Wendell Johnson about lunar colonies of the future. Dr. Johnson was the Advanced Planner for NASA's Advanced Manned Mission Program Office. The illustrations by Roy G. Scarfo that accompany the article are pretty amazing."
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Henry Mancini
Space Age Music Maker tells us about Mancini, "Mancini was probably the most successful film composer of his time. Between 1958 and 1964, Mancini so dominated the television and film music scene that everything else seemed to be either an attempt to clone his sound or a reaction against it. The secret to his success was simple, though: he wrote catchy tunes. If you set aside Mancini's hit tunes like "Peter Gunn" and "Moon River," you find music that's not dramatically different from, say, Elmer Bernstein's.Nelson Riddle once quipped, though, that he'd take the royalties from one Mancini song over everything he'd ever earned on his own arrangements.
Science Clarified tells us,"Long before the existence of spacecraft, people were dreaming about the day when exploring Mars would be possible. Even the most sophisticated, high-powered telescopes count not reveal close enough views of the red planet to thoroughly understand it...In response to the Soviet Union's progress, the United States accelerated efforts to launch its own satellite. On December 6, 1957, the Vanguard, a rocket built by a U.S. Navy team, blasted off from Florida's cape Canaveral."
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