Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight began flawlessly. On Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Fla., Borman, Lovell and Anders lay strapped in the 11-ft. command module that was perched atop a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket. With a deafening bellow, the rocket inched upward on a rising pillar of smoke and flame, then spurted off into earth orbit. During its second turn around the planet, it accelerated from 17,400 m.p.h. to 24,200 m.p.h., enough to escape earth's gravitational embrace and send Apollo 8 on the road of night that would lead to the moon. Almost 69 hours after liftoff...
...telecasts on their outward journey, the as tronauts managed to send back some spectacular views of the earth - from a distance of 207,000 miles. Jim Lovell acted as commentator of the show. "In the center," he explained, "is South America - all the way down to Cape Horn. I can see Baja California and the Southwestern part of the U.S. There is a big cloud bank going northeast of the U.S. It appears now that the East Coast is cloudy. I can see clouds over parts of Mexico, and parts of Central America are clear...
...from the carrier Yorktown, where recovery helicopters spotted the capsule's beacon flashing in the predawn darkness. It was 10:51 a.m. (E.S.T.), just eleven seconds earlier than the mission's predicted splashdown time, and precisely 147 hours after Apollo 8's spectacular launch from its Cape Kennedy launching...
...historic flight had a thundering and auspicious beginning The mighty, 36-story Saturn 5 rocket lifted from tis pad a negligible 65 milliseconds after its scheduled 7:51 am launch time Propelled by an awesome 7,500,000 lbs. of thrust, it soared into the clear Florida sky over Cape Kennedy Two hours and 20 minutes later, as Apollo whirled in orbit around the earth, came the anxiously awaited word to make the translunar insertion-the ma neuver that would send the vehicle to ward the moon...
Transparent Cape. Was Kelley's act a dance-much less art? She appeared on the stage wearing tights and a transparent cape, which she swiftly discarded. To be sure, she moved with music, including such tunes as The Swim and Walking the Dog. Reluctant to act as dance critics, the court majority said that any dance is automatically entitled to First Amendment protection unless the state can prove that it is obscene. Relying on U.S. Supreme Court doctrine, the California justices declared that the state had the burden of proving that the dominant theme of Kelley's dance...