Word: extravehicular
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Rice represents that passion for an instant purgative that often seizes hopelessly overburdened civilizations. No one in history ever had a better pulpit. While standing on the germ-free lunar surface, Rice departs from his scheduled extravehicular activity to speak directly to TV viewers round the world. "I have seen the earth plain," says the commander. Then instead of listening to the usual astronautical cliches and pro forma prayer, tens of millions hear Rice rage against purposelessness, corruption, pollution and "the murderous vanity that hurls us into space." Before NASA cuts him off, he has called for a Second American...
Much of the lunar material was gathered at the beginning of the week during the third and final EVA (extravehicular activity) by Young and Duke on the plains of Descartes. With helpful navigational guidance from Houston, 240,000 miles away, the astronauts drove their $12 million moon cart to the very rim of a large feature called North Ray Crater, some three miles away from the lunar lander, Orion. As the rover's television camera followed them, they threaded their way down North Ray's steep slopes, going deeper into a large crater than any of the eight...
Although NASA officials had earlier talked of scrubbing the scheduled third EVA (extravehicular activity) because of the extra oxygen and fuel consumed in the delayed landing, they decided that another excursion was possible, and the astronauts prepared to take a final spin on the lunar surface. It would take them north toward Smoky Mountain. Then, after stowing their rocks, film and other paraphernalia in the lunar module and positioning the rover's camera to televise the liftoff, Duke and Young were to fire Orion's upper stage engine and head for a reunion with Mattingly, orbiting overhead...
Unfolding Rover. Young and Duke are scheduled to begin their first EVA (extravehicular activity) on Thursday, April 20, at 7:19 p.m., E.S.T., some 31 hours after their landing on the moon. They are so confident of Apollo's systems that they will not bother to collect the familiar "contingency sample"-a few specimens of lunar rock quickly gathered by previous Apollo crews immediately upon emerging from the lunar module in event their mission had to be abruptly curtailed. Instead, Young and Duke will use the precious time to set up their equipment and experiments, unfold their car from...
Rock Festival. This time the EVA (ExtraVehicular Activity) will include some fireworks-real ones. Earlier lunar seismic experiments have been largely passive; that is, the seismometers have usually depended on the occurrence of moonquakes or other natural rumblings to make readings. Now, with the help of a new gadget called a "thumper," which resembles a heavily weighted walking stick, Mitchell will create some miniature moonquakes of his own. As he walks past three widely spaced seismic listening devices called geophones, he will place the thumper on the surface and detonate one of 21 explosive charges in its base plate...