Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon walk itself raised almost as many questions as it answered. "They had more mobility and they were able to move faster with greater ease than some of us expected," said Gilruth. "They only used about half to a third of the oxygen and water that we might have expected them to use." But why did Aldrin have so much trouble penetrating the lunar surface beyond a few inches with his core sampler? Why was he able to plant the stand for the solar wind experiment only a few feet away with such ease? Why did the blast from...
...reached the earth from a quarter of a million miles away in space. "Houston," the distant voice announced, "Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." Though somewhat overlooked in the drama of the lunar landing, the intricate electronics systems that brought Neil Armstrong's voice back from the moon were almost as much of an engineering triumph as the rocketry that carried him there...
...Mike Collins in the command ship, some 70 miles above their source on the lunar surface. The reason for the round trip of nearly half a million miles: Collins was in direct radio line with the LM for only 15 minutes during each two-hour orbit of the moon...
...system became still more complex after the astronauts stepped out of the LM and onto the moon. No longer hooked up with the cabin, Armstrong carried in his backpack a 61-lb. unit consisting of two transmitters and three receivers. The portable outfit sent his voice back to the LM, which then rebroadcast it to the world. Once Edwin Aldrin emerged from the cabin, he picked up Armstrong's voice directly by means of a backpack receiver of his own. Aldrin's voice, in turn, was broadcast to Armstrong by a tiny FM transmitter. It was Armstrong...
...next lunar show should be even more spectacular. The $400,000-camera abandoned by Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon could transmit only in black and white. In the months ahead, NASA hopes to have ready a color camera capable of withstanding the extremes of lunar temperatures for the Apollo 12 flight in November...