Word: liftoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8 crashed and burned after an aborted take-off from New York's Idlewild Airport on Jan. 19, 1961 (4 dead, 102 survivors), apparently primarily because Eastern Air Lines Pilot William B. Poe closed the throttles just after liftoff. Poe, on hand to check out the plane's Mexican crew, was misled by an evidently faulty airspeed indicator which made him think the aircraft was not picking up speed fast enough to sustain flight...
...Though the wives of Astronauts Shepard and Glenn had stayed away during their husbands' flights, she decided to go to Cape Canaveral last week ("The Navy brought me down, and friends gave us a house stocked with food"). She spoke to Carpenter on the phone just before liftoff, then took her children to the beach to watch the shoot. She said no prayers. "I feel the same way as Scott," she explained, referring to Carpenter's conviction that it is presumptuous to pray for oneself. After blastoff, she turned to watch the rest on television. She later admitted...
Eerie World. After liftoff, the next crucial stage of the flight was the separation of the rocket and capsule at the proper angle to put Glenn into the programmed orbit. When his orbit was confirmed at the Cape, Glenn jubilantly radioed back: "Capsule is turning around. Oh, that view is tremendous! I can see the booster doing turnarounds just a couple of hundred yards behind. Cape...
Voice: 15, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. Liftoff...
Shepard: Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started...