Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strapped down inside the huge projectile -but the drama has become familiar from so many past launchings. The voyage of Apollo 8 was an event, of another magnitude altogether, and it transfixed a blase world Three U S astronauts were about to soar 230,000 miles to the moon, circle it ten times and return to earth In the eleventh year of the space age, man stood on the very threshold of exploration of the solar system...
...thrust, it soared into the clear Florida sky over Cape Kennedy Two hours and 20 minutes later, as Apollo whirled in orbit around the earth, came the anxiously awaited word to make the translunar insertion-the ma neuver that would send the vehicle to ward the moon...
APOLLO 8 LUNAR SPACE MISSION. ABC, CBS and NBC begin network coverage at 7 a.m. (takeoff: 7:51 a.m.) of the space shot that is scheduled to send three astronauts around the moon. Reportage will continue with bulletins and spectacular space telecasts until splashdown Friday morning...
...right step to get off, afraid to reveal his panic to the other shoppers by bolting too soon and the whole time crushed by visions of what would happen when he shreds under, riser and tread, all his ribbon and wrapping adangle down the dark side of the moon." This is Turpin-college graduate, widower, veterinarian, and part-time lobster fisherman-forging flinchingly ahead in three days of misadventure that resembles a manic sleepwalker's nightmare...
Among the ladies, only Chalyce Brown can match his performance. As Mad Margaret, an envious witch and later wife to Sir Despard, she charges happily from wild laughter, to perfectly-controlled song to dreamy, moon-struck soliloquy. Sad to report, her part is smaller than her gifts...