Word: blastoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across the last patches of blue in the Florida sky; a drizzling rain turned into a heavy downpour that virtually blotted pad 39A from view. But NASA officials, buoyed by a long string of space successes, were undaunted by the dangerous omens. The order was given to proceed. More reliable than any commuter train, the 11:22 moon rocket departed from Cape Kennedy. It was on schedule...
...Editor Peter Bird Martin and Contributing Editor Larry DuBois, who had flown down from New York to record firsthand impressions of the massive press, radio and TV coverage-and indeed share the feelings of the million or more other space watchers at the Cape during those awesome moments of blastoff...
...know whether it is like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert Rauschenberg, John Meigs and William Thon at Cape Kennedy to sketch his impressions of this week's scheduled Apollo 11 blastoff to the moon...
Riley sat at a blinking console in Mission Control, listening in on the space talk and efficiently translating the alphabet soup of acronyms and numbers to newsmen for nine or ten hours at a time. Getting ready before blastoff, he waded through the documents generated by Apollo 10 (a stack of paper more than a foot high) and interviewed the key men involved. For a month before the mission, he spent 30 hours a week watching flight simulations...
...latest goody is the "Space Food Stick." Derived from the concentrated foods developed by Pillsbury for U.S. astronauts, the stick looks like a Tootsie Roll and is soft and chewy. It comes in chocolate, peanut butter or tomato flavors. The stick, promoted with TV spots showing a Cape Kennedy blastoff, is being test-marketed in seven U.S. cities. Packs of 14 sell for 490. Space fans, candy addicts and weight watchers seem to eat it up (each stick has only 41 calories), and marketing will be expanded...