Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there it is!" shouted one of U.S.S. Ticonderoga's sailors. Barely four miles off the bow of the big carrier, Apollo 17's command ship America emerged from the puffy clouds, drifting easily under its three billowing orange-and-white parachutes. Then, while a television-equipped helicopter hovered almost directly above it to give the world its first bird's-eye view of a splashdown, the command ship dropped into the gently rolling Pacific. Less than an hour later, Apollo 17's three astronauts-Navymen Gene Cernan and Ron Evans and slightly seasick Civilian Geologist Jack...
...Challenger, in a dramatic pyrotechnic display, lifted off from the moon's mountain-rimmed Taurus-Littrow valley. Two hours later, Cernan and Astronaut-Geologist Jack Schmitt reunited with Ron Evans, who was whirling overhead in America. Then, after two more days of observing the moon from the orbiting command ship, the astronauts fired themselves out of lunar orbit and began the three-day journey home. By week's end, the final U.S. expedition to the moon was headed for its scheduled splashdown this week in the South Pacific, 400 miles south of Samoa...
...comment" issued by the U.S. Command left open the possibility that more aircraft had been lost in yesterday's raids. The command customarily withholds such information when search and rescue efforts are under...
...sources said that the U.S. Command news blackout was ordered by President Nixon...
...Command refused to comment on the continuation of its heavy bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong area yesterday. The bombing followed the loss of two B52 bombers and an F111 fighter jet over North Vietnam on Monday...