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...thrust service propulsion engine and sent his ship into a "hybrid" trajectory. The new flight path was necessary to set the astronauts down at their landing site on the Ocean of Storms at the right time of lunar day. On this course, too, Apollo could loop the moon and head back if its big engine failed to fire again. But, even so, it might miss the earth by 56,000 miles, marooning the astronauts in eternal orbit around...
...More brothers and sisters were shot in the streets today. Some were wounded in the Loop. We couldn't take them to hospitals because the doctors are required by law to turn them in to the police...
Heyburn began to fall back, but Pottetti. who had started cautiously, began to catch several runners exhausted by the fast pace. It was the first time that the opening loop has ever been run in less than seven minutes...
After the first one-and-a-half mile loop, the pace began to wear down Downey and Yunek. Colburn and Koerner, with help from John Heyburn, then tried to break Stafford...
...Yankee Clipper, will blaze its own distinctive path. Halfway to the moon, Apollo 12 Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, a veteran of two earth-girdling Gemini flights, will fire the spacecraft's service propulsion engine, jolting the ship out of its "free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever in an orbit around the sun. But NASA flight planners feel that the maneuver is worth the risk: it will save crucial fuel reserves on the way to the landing site...