Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronauts Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, the journey concluded as flawlessly as it had begun 195 hours, 18 minutes and 21 seconds earlier. President Nixon, waiting aboard the Hornet to greet the astronauts, hailed their achievement with buoyant enthusiasm. At the same time, over 4,000 miles away in Houston's Mission Control, nerve center of the flight, John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge that the U.S. would land a man on the moon "before this decade is out" flashed on a display board. Near by, a smaller screen carried Apollo 11 's Eagle emblem along...
...having to track Columbia while also making the final descent. "It gave us grave concern," said Director of Flight Operations Chris Kraft. Mission Control quickly spotted the cause and ordered the rendezvous radar turned off to remedy the situation. And then, unhappy with the terrain of the landing site, Armstrong took over the manual controls. Had he not done so, the LM would have set down in an area strewn with boulders...
...Armstrong and Aldrin, the next nerve-racking maneuver was lift-off from the moon's surface. The squat, 172-Ib. ascent engine had been test-fired more than 3,000 times, but this was no test. Houston radioed: "You're cleared for takeoff." Replied Aldrin: "Roger, understand. We're No. 1 on the runway." Seconds later, tension dissolved; Eagle was airborne, headed into a lunar orbit. Within four hours, the module had rendezvoused and docked with Columbia on the far side of the moon. Then Armstrong and Aldrin left the LM so quickly that ground controllers, caught...
...another. Never in its history had the New York Times used such large headline type. New Delhi's Statesman and the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser put large footsteps on their front pages. São Paulo's O Estado de São Paulo ran Astronaut Neil Armstrong's first words after stepping on the moon in nine languages. Rome's II Messaggero covered three-quarters of its front page with three words: "Luna-Primo Passo...
...been found at a smoother landing site. Boulders ejected from craters as far away as 600 miles might well be in the area, he added. Another unexpected dividend, said NASA Geologist Ted Foss, was that many of the rocks may have come from the large crater over which Neil Armstrong flew Eagle just before it touched down. "The crater is probably 50 feet deep or so, and that's just like having samples from a hole that deep," said Foss. "The scientific return will be double or triple because of this...