Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearing the moon, the astronauts performed yet another new maneuver by firing an explosive tape to knock the panel off a section of the service module called SIM (for scientific instrument module). An innovation on Apollo 15, SIM is literally a high-flying laboratory: it contains eight different scientific instruments, including a tiny (78.5 Ibs.) subsatellite, two spectrometers and two special lunar mapping cameras...
...trajectory steeper (25°) than any moon lander before, Scott and Irwin barely displayed a trace of emotion. By the time they were 50 ft. from the surface, the dust kicked up by Falcon's engine was so thick that Scott could not see the landing site. Relying on instruments, Irwin counted: "Ten feet . . . eight feet . . ." Then Scott cut in: "Contact." On Falcon's instrument panel, a blue light flashed. Said Scott: "The Falcon is on the plain at Hadley...
...risks. On their homeward journey, the astronauts were scheduled to continue their scientific investigations. Shortly before Endeavour, carrying all three crewmen again, fires itself out of lunar orbit, the ship is to leave behind another memento of Apollo 15's visit. With the press of a button, the small, instrument-packed subsatellite will be automatically injected into an orbit around the moon. The tiny package should swing around the moon for more than a year, radioing vital data about the lunar environment. Then Worden was scheduled to climb out-side the spacecraft, edge his way back to SIM and retrieve...
...cannot marry. He is glad enough of their friendship and eager for their approval as "our post-man." But Leo is not strong enough to keep their confidence. Marian's mother (Margaret Leighton) humiliates the boy into revealing the secret, and the messenger of their passion becomes the instrument of their destruction...
...picnic in the country. Minutes later he commits a lurid and unmotivated suicide. The teen-age girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Lucien John) abruptly find themselves at the mercy of the outback, their only companion a sputtering portable radio. Ironies thereupon crowd the air like static: the instrument crackles with irrelevant news of the world while the two urbanized refugees fight elemental dread...