Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working quickly and silently, the six crew members inflated a rubber raft, slipped it into the chilly black waters, and loaded in two small suitcases crammed with two submachine guns, three pistols, a carbine, four hand grenades and ten blocks of explosives. Then four of the six crew members jumped aboard and pushed off for the rocky Cuban coast...
...were kidding before, But not any more. Get your-er-selves into space Or we'll take your place. Stafford and Cernan themselves wryly presented the launch crew with a yard-long red and white baton topped by a light bulb. It was a match, they explained, that the crew was to use to achieve a successful "burn...
...electronic gizmo used by the University of Pennsylvania crew brings to mind a device developed by the Yale crew of 1947, on which I was coxswain...
...election, there was not just one issue; Duncan had other things going for him. A vibrant, crew-cut lawyer, he has put himself over as a colorful, forceful fellow during his two terms in Congress. A former seaman, he still enjoys a pinch of chewing tobacco, proudly wears Duncan tartan ties. He often reminds himself of appointments by jotting notations on the palm of his hand ("If I write myself notes, I lose them"), keeps on scrawling right up his arm when his schedule gets really busy. Morgan, a wealthy cattle rancher and construction executive who was a Kennedy appointee...
...speeds varying from I/10th to 1 m.p.h., the crawler inched along its steel treads while its 16-man crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When...