Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until five months after the event. Yet when-and if-the first astronaut sets foot on the moon, he will be observed by a worldwide audience numbering hundreds of millions. Even more remarkable, only 1.3 seconds, the time it takes for radio waves to travel between moon and earth, will elapse between the actual event and its appearance on television screens...
...their epic journey have been aptly named. The lunar module that will land on the moon's surface has been christened Eagle because, Armstrong said, it is "representative of the flight and the nation's hope." The command module that will carry the astronauts back to earth has been dubbed Columbia, a close approximation of Columbiad, the name that Jules Verne gave to his lunar craft in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. Prophetically, Verne launched Columbiad from a site in Florida and brought it down in the Pacific Ocean, where it was picked...
...Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins will follow closely the space route taken by Apollo 10 in May. Until the lunar module swoops to within 50,000 ft. of the moon, the Apollo 11 crew will face familiar challenges and risks. A minor malfunction could turn the flight into a simple earth-orbital mission or a quick loop around the moon. A more calamitous equipment failure could cause Apollo 11 to crash into the moon or leave the craft stranded in lunar orbit. But from the moment that Houston radios, "We are go for PDI [powered descent initiation]," Armstrong and Aldrin will...
...then will they struggle into their bulky space suits, visored helmets, boots and gloves. With their Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpacks, which supply air conditioning and enough oxygen for four hours, each will be encased in 183 lbs. of equipment. But under weak lunar gravity (one-sixth the earth's), the total weight of each fully burdened astronaut will be only about...
Wood, a minerologist, will examine the composition of the samples. The testing procedures will be much the same those used on earth materials and he expects the lunar materials to be much like those on earth...