Word: apollos
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From the tower to Apollo 11. On the other hand, lightning hit Apollo 12 as it left the Earth; and Apollo 13 exploded, failed to reach the moon's surface, and had all it could do to limp back home...
...year 500-and-something B.C., the hero of this sharp and provoking little antihistorical novel finds no difficulty in giving verbatim quotations from the Dryden translation (17th century A.D.) of Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus (2nd century A.D.). It is true that he is a certified Seer of Apollo, and the future drifts before his eyes as effortlessly as the past or the present. So the reader need not be really surprised to find Lycurgus (spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms...
...Music reaches the lefts and the rights with the same good emotional impact." Matsushita, who spends several hours a month delivering his own thoughts to a panel of scribes, provides some "Notes for World Prosperity." Sample: "Peoples from every corner of the earth must get together to launch an Apollo of the spirit." Other contributors include Anne Smol, 8, of London, who offers 108 words on how she enjoyed being a brides maid at her auntie's wedding. Priced at 50? a copy in the U.S., the international PHP needs a circulation of 250,000 to break even...
...panels like petals of a flower, righted itself and exposed its TV camera and transmitter. Luna 16 was a far more sophisticated instrument. Although the Soviets revealed few details, Western space experts believe that the spacecraft that descended to the lunar surface weighed about a ton (compared with the Apollo LM's 8 tons); it was braked first by its main engine and then in the last few yards of descent by smaller thrusters. The landing operation on the Sea of Fertility, an unexplored portion of the moon about 200 miles east of Apollo 11 's landing site...
...head of the Plans Branch for a large staff supporting Projects Gemini and Apollo, I coordinated the development of plans for astronaut recovery. Although recovering astronauts is not your responsibility, I believe the planning, innovating and problem solving necessary for its successful execution is also required in your business...