Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the spacecraft was inserted into lunar orbit, the taciturn threesome began to perk up. Gazing at the bleak moonscape, Scott compared it to a great desert. "This is absolutely mind-boggling," he said. The scenery was apparently even more mind-boggling after the spacecraft descended to a lower orbit of only ten by 67 miles. Crossing over the towering Apennines, Scott said: "Why, it's just unreal ... the mountains jut out of the 'ocean.' They appear smooth and rounded. There aren't any jagged peaks that...
...Irwin should dock with the command module Endeavour (named for the ship used by 18th century English Navigator and Explorer James Cook). That will also reunite them with Worden, who will have conducted more scientific experiments than any other command-module pilot during his three days alone in lunar orbit...
Space Walk. Before the Endeavour changes course for home, the astronauts are scheduled to launch a small (78.5 lb.) satellite into lunar orbit. It is equipped to radio back scientific information about the moon's surface and environment for more than a year. Then, after they begin the long journey back to earth, Worden is scheduled to take man's first "walk" in deep space. With a TV camera trained on him, he will climb outside the ship while it is about 200,000 miles from earth and retrieve film cassettes from cameras in an open equipment...
COLONEL DAVID R. SCOTT, 39, Apollo 15's handsome commander, is the only member of the crew to have ventured into space before. In 1966, teamed with Neil Armstrong, he coolly helped land the Gemini 8 spacecraft after it began tumbling wildly in earth orbit. Three years later, Scott was aboard Apollo 9 for another orbital mission. The son of a retired Air Force general, Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas, attended the University of Michigan for a year, then switched to West Point, where he graduated fifth in his class (1954), and later took his master...
...miles of lunar terrain, traveling to the very edge of a winding, quarter-mile-deep gorge called Had ley Rille in the forbidding lunar highlands. Before their return to earth with an expected haul of 250 Ibs. of moon rocks, they will put a tiny scientific satellite into lunar orbit...