Word: orions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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's oldest and most rugged terrain...
...lunar module, and then take off on a brief spin, ranging as far west as two small craters that they have named Spook and Flag. Young will put the rover through a driving test that includes "Grand Prix maneuvers" to determine the capabilities of the vehicle before returning to Orion to end the first seven-hour...
...foreign sports cars until successive promotions forced him to start driving Chevrotlets. At any rate, Adam and Erica are suffering from the Great American Angst because each has begun to find inanimate objects more sexually attractive than the other's beautiful body. Adam's attentions have turned toward the Orion, a new model car General Motors is preparing to foist upon the public; Erica, in turn, has taken to shoplifting small items from the local Bonwit-Teller's. Brett DeLosanto, meanwhile, is facing the classic dilemma of the artist-in-society: should he continue to design cars or should...
...ORION A. TEMPLETON Lynchburg...
...night, over the hills, the shadows of the rocks are precise and have their own place, everything is doubled, all of it together, half the sky of clouds came from the north until a great curve of cirrus broke off and wheeled an are beyond the moon and Orion through the whole east and far to open south the mountains of Sangre de Christo, in less than pain after sunset, are pearl and shadow pinon burned sage crushed and spread over skin under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine trees smelling like St. Peter's had a chance to visit...