Word: apollos
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...Star Wars, makes one of the gloomiest central figures in the history of adventure films. Richard Kiel, the giant steel-fanged heavy of The Spy Who Loved Me, beats on many people, including Barbara Bach, who will be remembered from the same James Bond affair. Carl Weathers, a.k.a. Apollo Creed, is an angry AWOL improbably mixed up in the mission. What a bunch...
Wilson, co-author of the book Bicycling Science, is admittedly something of a bike nut. He pedals to class rain or shine. Even before Project Apollo was on the launchpad, he tried vainly to persuade NASA to include a pedal-powered vehicle. But the space agency opted instead for its $38 million, battery-driven lunar rover, a two-man vehicle that took up valuable payload capacity...
...contamination of the atmosphere by Four Corners Power Plant is so pervasive that smoke from the plant was the only evidence of current human activity on earth visible from the moon during the Apollo space program...
...over the past two months. Many of the former inmates immediately went to newspapers with grim tales of the tortures to which they had been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim's screams reverberate inside his head; and such practices as hanging women prisoners naked from the ceiling and burning them...
...three times by remote-controlled ferry craft, they conducted extensive observations of both the heavens and earth, and performed such experiments as growing crystals for electronic components and testing the effects of zero gravity on bacteria, and tried out a new, flexible space suit. All in all, said former Apollo-Soyuz Astronaut Tom Stafford, it was "a significant achievement...