Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clinging Dust. In one movie sequence, shot through Intrepid's window as the craft settled toward a landing, dust kicked up by the descent engine begins to obscure the lunar landscape. It finally blots out the landing site completely, vividly demonstrating why Conrad had to make an instrument landing. Another strip, shot on the trip home, shows a dazzling eclipse of the sun caused by the earth itself...
...somehow wiggled out to the tip of a big branch with nothing around her for handholds. When the police did get to her, they almost knocked her off the branch- she dangled for several minutes by her hands 100 feet or more above the creek bed. With her descent, and with the lines of cops to hold back everybody else, Erwin could do what he wanted. The tree people had failed in their attempt to hold the creek until the injunction was delivered...
Crater's Edge. Only 500 ft. above the surface, Navy Pilot Conrad took control of the LM for the final few seconds of the descent, while Bean read data from the instrument panel: "Forty-two ft., coming down at three [ft. per sec.]. Forty coming down at two. Looking good. Thirty-one, 30 ft., you've got plenty of gas, plenty of gas, Pete. Stay in there. Eighteen ft., coming down. He's got it made. Come on in there. Contact lights!" Although thick dust kicked up by the LM's rocket engine obscured his view...
...vital life-support pack. In all, Conrad had spent 8 hr. 44 min. outside the LM. Before following Bean on board, Conrad singsonged: "Dum-de-de-dum-de-dum. Have I forgotten anything?" He had. A roll of color film, containing shots taken during Intrepid's undocking and descent, had been left in a bag outside the lunar module. The discovery came too late; the astronauts had discarded their life-support packs and could not emerge again...
...lunar surface. Conrad and Bean would then crawl through the tunnel leading from Yankee Clipper into Intrepid and cast off in the landing craft, leaving Gordon to guide the command ship through 19 solo orbits of the moon. Early Wednesday the two men would begin the gentle, arcing descent to the lunar surface...