Word: anderse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anders: The horizon is very, very stark. The sky is pitch-black and the moon is quite light. The contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.
Anders: The sky up here is also rather forbidding-expanses of blackness with no stars when we're flying over the moon in daylight. You can see by the numerous craters that this planet has been bombarded through the aeons with numerous small asteroids and meteoroids pockmarking the surface...
As the Apollo spacecraft sped toward the terminator (the continually moving line that divides the day and night hemispheres of the moon), the sun dropped from directly overhead toward the horizon, lengthening shadows and bringing out more surface detail. Anders described a new crater with a well-defined ray of...
The entire presentation was appropriate for the men of the Apollo 8 crew. Flying in the wake of Apollo 7, with the irrepressible Walter Schirra and his rollicking "Wally, Walt and Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are...
Lovell was rejected the first time he applied for the astronaut program. But he tried again and was one of the nine men out of more than 200 to become a member of the second group of astronauts. Rookie Anders allows his two senior crewmates to do most of the...