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moonshot
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n. (alternative spelling of moon shot English)
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Moonshot, moon shot or Moonshots may refer to:
- Apollo program, American spaceflight program to land humans on the Moon
- Soviet Moonshot, Soviet manned lunar programs
- Moonshot (Google), a Google project to be realized long-term (10+ years). See also: Google X
- Moon Shot, a 1994 book by astronaut Alan Shepard, with Jay Barbree & Howard Benedict
- Moonshot (album), 1972 album by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Moon Shot (film), 2009 television film of the story leading up to Apollo 11's moon landing
- Moonshot Server, Hewlett Packard's (formerly Compaq)'s ProLiant series of blade server computers
- Moonshot (baseball), home run that travels a great distance vertically
- Moonshots Capital, American venture capital company
Moonshot, released in 1972, is the eighth album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her penultimate album for Vanguard Records.
Moonshot is a 2009 television film depicting the story leading up to the landing of Apollo 11 on the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969.
In baseball, a moonshot is referred to as a home run that travels a great distance vertically, while only barely clearing the fences. The name "Moonshot" comes from Wally Moon whose home runs would be referenced in newspapers as "Moon Shots". Most of Moon's home runs came at the L.A. Coliseum and gained (perhaps overstated) recognition for hitting home runs to the opposite field, where the distance of the fence was merely 251 feet from home plate, but towered 42 feet high - for comparison, Fenway Park's famous Green Monster is 37 feet tall.
Another definition comes from the trajectory of the ball as it travels high and deep into the night sky, as if it were metaphorically traveling to the moon.
<!-- Nearly all of these are based on a misunderstood definition of "moonshot" (perhaps originally used ironically - similar to calling a devastating body check in hockey a "love nudge"), which seems to be solely traced to the single bleacherreport.com article, which - in conjunction with this very article - may be the only source which uses the "long = moon" definition.
Usage examples of "moonshot".
Charlotte laughed and screamed at the same time as the Moonshot launched the two teens ten stories straight up at over three gees.
Corkoran actually caught himself wondering if perhaps, maybe, he should rethink his moonshot methods.
She was almost certain, if she came, to reorganize the University around him, and she would start by canceling his moonshot, Corkoran knew it.
Querida, taking the very reasonable line that no one could do anything about the missed moonshot, was dealing with other matters instead.
Apollo Moonshot program, compares our tiny, overcrowded world to a solitary spaceship on which 4,500 million astronauts are aimlessly journeying to an unknown destination.
The grimy kerchief still obscured his features, and a dusty, wide-brimmed black hat was pulled low over his forehead, hiding his hair, but even in the moonshot darkness there was no mistaking the Irish blue eyes.
The overwhelming silence, the moonshot darkness, the stark landscape that afforded little cover, all were serious handicaps.
They make artificial hearts and moonshot stuff and a gang of other products intended to further the fortunes of the military-industrial complex, most of which Ben has tried to explain to me from time to time, none of which I understand.
TV-spectacular moonshots would somehow coincide with fresh bombing waves in Indochina.
TV Spectacular moonshots would coincide with fresh bombing waves in Indochina.