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moon shot

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. moon shotnoun

    the launching of a spacecraft to the moon

GCIDE

  1. Moon shotnoun

    The action or event of sending a spacecraft to the moon; -- used of manned or unmanned missions.

Wiktionary

  1. moon shotnoun

    The launching of a spacecraft to orbit or land on the Moon

Wikipedia

  1. Moon Shot

    Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon is a 1994 book written by Mercury Seven astronaut Alan Shepard, with NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict. Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton is also listed as an author, although he died before the project was completed and was an author in name only, and astronaut Neil Armstrong wrote the introduction.

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  1. moon shot

    A moon shot refers to a highly ambitious and innovative project or goal that requires significant investment of resources and great advancements in technology. The term originated from the Apollo mission in the 1960s where the U.S. aimed to land a man on the moon, which was considered highly impossible at the time. The term is used to describe bold efforts to achieve a similar level of groundbreaking success.

Wikidata

  1. Moon Shot

    Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon is a book written by Mercury Seven astronaut Alan Shepard, with NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict. Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton is also listed as an author, although he died before the project was completed and was an author in name only. The book was published in 1994. It was turned into a television miniseries that aired on TBS in the United States in 1994. The miniseries was narrated by Barry Corbin and featured interviews with several American astronauts as well as a few Russian cosmonauts. Slayton died before the miniseries completed production in 1993 and the miniseries is dedicated to his memory.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of moon shot in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of moon shot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of moon shot in a Sentence

  1. Jim Robo:

    It is a moon shot in terms of building, in terms of finding people who actually know what they're doing from a construction standpoint.

  2. Jennifer Garrison:

    It's not a moon shot -- a moon shot would be to get rid of menopause altogether.


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