Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first four days of their climactic mission, Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins will follow closely the space route taken by Apollo 10 in May. Until the lunar module swoops to within 50,000 ft. of the moon, the Apollo 11 crew will face familiar challenges and risks. A minor malfunction could turn the flight into a simple earth-orbital mission or a quick loop around the moon. A more calamitous equipment failure could cause Apollo 11 to crash into the moon or leave the craft stranded in lunar orbit. But from the moment that Houston radios...
Tracking landmarks through the front windows of the lunar module (LM) as it flies face down, the astronauts will fire their descent engine when the craft is 50,000 ft. above the moon and 300 miles east of the planned landing site in the Sea of Tranquillity. Its forward velocity slowed by the blasting engine, the LM will begin dropping closer to the lunar surface. At 39,250 ft., the craft will begin rolling into a face-up position, pitching into an upright attitude at the same time. Twelve minutes later, its rate of fall slowed from...
...Immediately after, he will scoop up some lunar material in a sample bag at the end of a long, telescoping handle and place the bag in his pant-leg pocket. Thus, even if the mission had to be aborted at that moment, Apollo 11 could bring at least some moon material back to earth...
...Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Payload). They will set up one part of the package?a laser-beam reflector?some 70 ft. from the LM. The other experiment, a seismometer for measuring moonquakes and meteor impacts, will be placed 10 ft. farther away. Both will be left on the moon for the benefit of earthbound scientists (see following section...
Before they depart, the astronauts will leave behind three items of symbolic import: a 3-ft. by 5-ft. U.S. flag stiffened with thin wire so that it will appear to be flying on the windless surface of the moon; a silicon disk bearing good-will messages for posterity from world leaders, including President Tito, Pope Paul and Queen Elizabeth; and a metal plaque bearing the names not only of the three astronauts, but also of President Richard M. Nixon, a fact that has stirred some criticism...