Word: contacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, after a terse "Roger" from Borman, all was silent. Apollo would be behind the moon and out of contact for 45 minutes. Until it emerged, no one on earth would know if the SPS engine had fired on schedule (25 minutes after LOS) or fired long enough to place the craft in orbit. Too short a burn, the controllers knew, could send Apollo smashing into the moon. But there was another problem that caused concern on the ground. Apollo's third-stage S-4B rocket, jettisoned shortly after it pushed the spacecraft out of earth orbit and toward...
Finally, from Houston came the message that everyone had awaited: "We've acquired a signal but no voice contact yet. We are looking at engine data and it looks good. Tank pressures look good. We got it! We've got it! Apollo 8 is in lunar orbit...
...oxidizer) tanks. When valves to these tanks are opened, fuel flows from one tank and oxidizer to the other to meet in the combustion chamber, pushed by pressurized helium that takes the place of potentially troublesome pumps. Because the propellants are hypergolic-they react chemically and ignite on contact-no ignition system is needed. And to avoid including a complicated throttle, the engine burns only at its fully rated thrust...
Robert Mackle, who has one other child-a 24-year-old son-made it clear that he wanted to deal with the kidnapers as fast as possible to ensure his daughter's safe return. Contact was made and Mackle stuffed a large suitcase with old $20 bills to the amount of $500,000. Following orders, he dropped it into Biscayne Bay on Thursday morning, just offshore from a stretch of overgrown lots south of downtown Miami. A local resident, wakened at 5 a.m. by the sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached...
...Episcopal cleric who resigned as Bishop of the California Diocese in 1966 to pursue philosophical research; and Diane Kennedy, 30, who met Pike two years ago in Berkeley and collaborated with him on his most recent book, The Other Side, an account of his spiritualistic adventures in trying to contact his dead son; she for the first time, he for the third (his first marriage was annulled in 1941, his second ended in divorce); in what Pike termed an "ecumenical Christian service" at a Methodist church in San Jose, Calif...