Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston," Armstrong called. "Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." The time: 4:17:41 p.m,, E,D.T., just about H minutes earlier than the landing time scheduled months before, It was a wild, incredible moment. There were cheers, tears and frantic applause at Mission Control in Houston "You got a lot of guys around here about to turn blue," the NASA communicator radioed to Eagle "We're breathing again." A little later, Houston added: "There's lots of smiling faces in this room, and all over the world." "There are two of them up here," responded Eagle...
...Aldrin set out on that last, epochal one-hundredth of 1% of the outbound journey. Some nine hours later, while Columbia was out of contact on the far side of the moon, Armstrong and Aldrin stepped down from the ungainly looking Eagle?and into history. It was a moment that would surely survive long after the criticism that has accompanied every step of the space program is forgotten?understandable as that criticism may be in view of the pressing problems back on earth. It was, too, a moment that symbolized man's wondrous capacity for questing, then conquering, then questing...
Most people seemed as awed by the colossal scale of the undertaking as they were baffled by its complexity. To many, the long series of space shots had become routine-until the moment that the mission of Apollo 11 finally struck home. Across the land, at the instant of launch and landing, women dabbed their eyes and men blinked back their emotions. In Alaska, Newspaper Publisher Larry Fanning observed: "Intellectually and emotionally, man is incapable of parsing out the stunning implications of this fantastic voyage...
Opportune Moment. Approved by the House and an important Senate committee, the surtax bill by any traditional standard would appear to be progressing smoothly. In this case, however, appearances are no guide at all. Mansfield does not have to bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote. And from everything he said last week, he will not do so unless Long's committee couples it with reform...
...lunch I was allowed to go with the other patients to the cafeteria. Like a child who has been cooped up in school all day I charged outside--much to the amusement of the hospital staff. Phoebe, who had been asleep only a moment before, ran to catch up, and both of us, celebrating sunshine and fresh air, jumped over a hedge...