Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incurred the injury while trying to push his car in order to jump start it early Sunday morning on Cape Cod. "My mother won the car in a contest," Cosentino said. "It's a Volvo and is supposed to last 11 years, but it only lasted 11 days." The car is still on Cape...
...discussions, no major differences developed, either, and Brandt in particular had good cause to be pleased. He had come to Washington to impress upon both Nixon and Congress the necessity of greater cooperation between the U.S. and Germany. As he left Washington to view the Apollo 13 launching at Cape Kennedy, with Administration assurances still ringing in his ears, he had good reason to believe that he had succeeded...
...shots. But to the thousands of spectators in Florida and millions in front of TV sets around the world, last week's Apollo launch-televised from close up for the first time-had obviously lost none of its awesome drama. "Good luck, and head for the hills!" called Cape Kennedy launch control to the Apollo crew. Apollo 13 did just that. It lifted off into the hazy Florida skies in a cloud of flame and, only six-tenths of a second late, headed toward the hilly highlands near the lunar crater Fra Mauro, 246,000 miles away...
...Orbit. Against the objections of Lovell, who wanted to risk taking Mattingly along, NASA officials decided to put Swigert to the test. He was substituted for Mattingly in mission simulator tests and quickly proved that he was master of his assignment. So while a delighted Swigert lifted off from Cape Kennedy, a bitterly disappointed Mattingly watched from the Mission Control Center in Houston...
...Friday morning, the moon walkers will rejoin their fellow astronaut Mattingly, still orbiting in Odyssey, send Aquarius crashing into the moon about 42 miles from its original landing site, and head for home. Ten days after the launch from Cape Kennedy, the astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific about 200 miles south of Christmas Island, bringing back samples that should add immeasurably to man's knowledge of his nearest celestial neighbor...