Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times about man's condition. There is nothing "aloof" about Sophocles' Oedipus, and Dante, despite his terza rima, was in there dealing with the nitty-gritty of his day. It's time our scholars met the challenge of a technology that can view the whole earth from the eye of a satellite...
...true teachings of Jesus, we'll find more than Camelot -we'll find heaven. The teachings of Holy Mother Church may be the only force that can keep our children from the evils that surround them today. That, to a mother, can be the greatest force on earth...
Shortly after liftoff, Apollc 8 will go into a "parking" orbit 115 miles above the earth. If mission controllers are satisfied that all the ship's systems are working properly, the final stage of the Saturn booster will be reignited during the second or third orbit. The resulting thrust will increase Apollo's speed to 24,000 m.p.h.-enough to free it from the earth's environment and send it on a curving trajectory toward the moon...
...above the cratered lunar landscape, which the astronauts will survey and photograph. Eight revolutions later, the engine will be called on for a third-and crucial-firing. That jolt will enable the Apollo to escape the moon's gravitational pull and start the three astronauts speeding back to earth. Just 7½ days after takeoff, Apollo 8 should parachute into the Pacific. Total distance traveled (exclusive of the ten rides around the moon): nearly half a million miles...
...effect of separating yourself from the earth mechanically and then letting go of the machine that was holding you away is almost exactly like the effect on a small thumbtack of the largest, most powerful magnet you've ever seen, at a fair or anywhere. You come screaming down to the ground at speeds that are constantly increasing themselves until they have you going much faster than you've ever known anything to move. And remember, when you started out, you, unlike the thumbtack, were not even so far away from what's pulling you in that you could...