Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jules Bergman joining in at 7 and CBS, with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra, at 8. The networks will be going all out in presenting the zenith event of the space program, and plan to spend two days in continuous coverage (Sunday, July 20-Monday, July 21), when the descent to the moon's surface is scheduled. A camera in the lunar module will transmit, live, man's first step on the moon, and Astronauts Aldrin and Armstrong as they collect rock samples. Later, the timetable calls for progress reports on re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific...
Hispano: descendant of the original Spanish settlers of areas now part of the U.S. Used chiefly in New Mexico and Colorado to distinguish such Spanish-speaking Americans from later immigrants of Indian descent...
...incident on which the novel is based occurred in 1942, when the fearful U.S. was so busy remembering the threats and wrongs of Pearl Harbor that it busily forgot the rights of many Americans of Japanese descent. They were cruelly uprooted from their homes and arbitrarily herded together in relocation camps. In a shameful, repple-depple kind of limbo families were sundered and gentle spirits destroyed...
...blazing meteor as it streaked across the predawn sky before being completely consumed by the more than 5,000° F. heat of reentry. Then, silhouetted against the lightening sky, the bulbous command module came into view, dwarfed by the trio of 83-ft.-wide parachutes that slowed its descent. As the module drifted down, the sky brightened enough for viewers to see the orange-and-white segments of the parachutes and pick out details of the rescue helicopters hovering protectively like giant fireflies, their bright running lights flashing on and off. Finally, precisely eight days, three minutes...
...language of the Apollo 10 crew was indeed more earthy than any previously broadcast from space. But the lapses were understandable. When Snoopy began gyrating wildly after its descent stage had been jettisoned, an alarmed cry of "Son of a bitch!" escaped from the startled Cernan. As Astronaut Stafford was preparing to take black and white pictures during Snoopy's low pass at the moon, he suddenly shouted: "You know, this goddam filter has failed on me." Finally, at the end of the day, a ground controller asked: "How are you guys doing?" The reply: "The crew status...