Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage's protective gold foil. The camera worked so well that Houston could follow Orion's ascent for nearly two minutes, until the little craft was no more than a speck of light against the utter blackness of space. Later, after Orion locked with Casper in moon orbit, Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they were bringing with them. Later, having nearly obscured their original check lists with fresh flight data radioed by Houston, Duke and Young apparently overlooked one item and forgot to close a circuit...
...worrisome glitches on its way to the moon. First, there were minor troubles -the mysterious flickering of a computer warning light, the mid-flight peeling of protective paint off the lunar module and the recalcitrant zipper on Young's space suit. Then, after the Apollo had gone into orbit around the moon and Orion, with Duke and Young aboard, had separated from Casper, came real cause for alarm...
...take them north toward Smoky Mountain. Then, after stowing their rocks, film and other paraphernalia in the lunar module and positioning the rover's camera to televise the liftoff, Duke and Young were to fire Orion's upper stage engine and head for a reunion with Mattingly, orbiting overhead in Casper. Later, Casper's own powerful engine would be fired to hurl the command ship out of lunar orbit and start the three astronauts on their three-day journey home...
...lift off from Cape Kennedy on Sunday, April 16. The spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make these explorations even more scientifically interesting is their site: the lunar highlands, considered the moon...
Gyroscope. The possibility of monsoons is not as farfetched as it seems. Mars has an eccentric orbit that causes large variations in the planet's distance from the sun. The Martian north pole is currently tilted toward the sun only when the planet is also at its greatest distance, or aphelion, from the sun. In contrast, the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun at the planet's closest approach, or perihelion. As a result, the southern polar cap gets warm enough to evaporate almost completely each summer, releasing most of its dry ice into the atmosphere...