Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with mental retardation, an aberrant brainwave pattern and evidence of neurological disorder, led Bartholomew to conclude that when Hannell killed the widow, "he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." After deliberating only eleven minutes, a Melbourne criminal-court jury found Hannell not guilty on the ground that he was insane at the time of the crime...
...Eisele fought off ennui as they plodded through the humdrum housekeeping and engineering duties necessary to prove their craft moonworthy. They fired and refired the ship's big rocket engine and practiced sighting stars through a sextant; they tested their computers and cooling system, and transmitted to a ground station the same sort of signals a lunar module would send while returning from the surface of the moon. For astronauts and space watchers alike, the high points of the week were the television shows, shot with the 41-lb slow-scan TV camera developed for Apollo...
...daily 7-min. to 11-min. Wally, Walt and Donn Show, as it was nicknamed, was scheduled once each morning during a 2,000-mile Apollo pass between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Cape Kennedy, the only two ground stations equipped to pick up the transmissions. The astronauts held up crudely lettered signs that read "Hello from the lovely Apollo Room, high atop everything" and "Deke Slayton, are you a turtle?" In accordance with a bar room tradition that has been adopted by the astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty...
Plagued by a head cold aboard Apollo 7, Schirra was unusually testy during some of his exchanges with ground controllers. But when problems are crucial, Schirra has always demonstrated remarkable coolness...
Schirra's decision to retire from spaceflight will allow him more time for the ground-bound activities he enjoys-parties around the Houston space center, water skiing and sailing with his wife, Josephine, and his children, Walter, 18, and Suzanne, 11. "I've been gone one heck of a lot," he says. "It takes...