Word: moonwalked
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...those evenings when you walk into the dining hall and see a chamber orchestra and ten deans lined up in black tie to greet you for an "elegant meal," or those Saturdays when you roll out of bed and into the Square and slowly realize that there is a moonwalk the size of your dorm sitting in the middle of Mass...
Which helps explain why, by Apollo 13--just the third moonwalk flight, nine months after the Eagle had landed--Americans were already sated with their star-cruising stars. Jim Lovell's little TV show on the third night of the mission, intended for the whole country's viewing pleasure, was not carried by the networks; it was a rerun of a rerun. Fly me to the moon? Yawn--no thanks. A vicarious lunar trip was now no more exciting than a seaside vacation with the kids...
Neil Rudenstine: Breakdancing, basically the Moonwalk...
CHARLES DUKE became an evangelical Christian six years after his 1972 moonwalk. Today he speaks to religious groups around the world...
This week we will relive the excitement of the first Apollo moonwalk. We will argue what it all added up to for the average person. This was not like Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system, which meant a new freedom for all Americans. Apollo's meanings are more difficult to grasp but may be more important. Historian Melvin Kranzberg insists that "man's most abiding quest is the effort to understand himself in relation to the cosmos...