moonship

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A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.

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“The space agency has requested the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to develop⟳ a method for controlling trace contaminants inside a spacecraft. […] Unlike the Earth's atmosphere, the air inside a moonship doesn't get⟳ cleaned by rains or winds.”

“Other kits were for making aeroplanes, one a scale model⟳ of the Scandinavian Air Lines Douglas D.C.-8 which was expected to make⟳ the first flight from Britain to Los Angeles in April 1960. There was also a moonship of a type⟳ which the firm said will eventually reach⟳ the moon: all of which goes to show⟳ that sometimes toys precede the actual event and are not necessarily mementoes which come⟳ afterwards.”

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