Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just two minutes past touchdown on the moon's surface [July 25]. It is night in my country-and I sit alone, overwhelmed by this fantastic feat. It is great to be alive tonight. I cannot explain what I feel-a sort of pride in this human achievement...
...Dort, tic, iki, bir!" Thus, with a kind of wild excitement, went the countdown for the Apollo 11 moon landing as heard over Istanbul Radio...
...drunk. They were puffing cigars, hugging girls, waving miniature American flags, and pushing each other -fully clothed-into pools. The kissing never stopped. The noise level was astronomical. And so it should have been: the NASA communities of Houston, Huntsville and Cocoa Beach had sent three men to the moon and back. The revelry at splashdown time was fittingly feverish...
...Cape Kennedy, technicians stayed at their jobs, readying Apollo 12 for its November flight, and did not start their partying until the day's work was done. Then they poured into nightclubs and bars, waving flags, singing chorus upon chorus of God Bless America, and toasting the moon shot with potent concoctions called "Armstrong Benders" and "Lunar Cocktails...
Despite the wild enthusiasm, there was little harm done at any of the splashdown brawls. Drunken geologists in Houston paraded around with a decorative boulder they had taken from a motel courtyard, explaining that it was a moon rock. A few barefoot guests at the Nassau Bay motel poolside picked up splinters from broken glasses and bottles. And the four-man police force of the city of Webster (adjacent to the Manned Spacecraft Center) gently arrested a dozen happy drunks. The county sheriff's officers, however, seemed unable to find any wrongdoers. "This was a proud crowd," explained Captain...