Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, as Apollo raced unerringly on a course that would send it 70.7 miles ahead of the leading edge of the moon, ground controllers decided that all spacecraft systems were in perfect working order. Astronaut Jerry Carr, a communicator on duty in Houston, radioed a terse message: "This is Houston at 68:04 [68 hours and four minutes after launch]. You are go for LOI [lunar orbit insertion...
...earth would know if the SPS engine had fired on schedule (25 minutes after LOS) or fired long enough to place the craft in orbit. Too short a burn, the controllers knew, could send Apollo smashing into the moon. But there was another problem that caused concern on the ground. Apollo's third-stage S-4B rocket, jettisoned shortly after it pushed the spacecraft out of earth orbit and toward the moon, was scheduled to pass the trailing edge of the moon about the same time that Apollo emerged from behind it. Although scientists had calculated that the spent...
...astronauts were entertained during dull periods of the flight by programs concocted by ground controllers...
...moved to Houston as deputy director of the Manned Spacecraft Center. That was his position when, in January 1967, Astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White died during a ground test of an Apollo vehicle...
Home Unscathed. The commandos left behind an expensive rubble of metal. Lebanese authorities admitted to losing all the Lebanese-owned aircraft on the ground at the time, perhaps eleven in number. The Israelis put the figure damaged or destroyed higher, at twelve to 14 planes...