Word: parachutist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speed, stabilizing and gently guiding Surveyor along the proper trajectory toward its impact point. When it was 13 ft. above the lunar surface and descending at 3.3 m.p.h., the 620-lb. Surveyor shut down its verniers and fell the remaining distance. It struck the moon no harder than a parachutist hits the earth. And even this relatively small jolt was cushioned by hydraulic shock absorbers and crushable aluminum pads under Surveyor's legs and body...
...Italian boot, the water was opalescent last July, as it always is when the Mediterranean sunlight hits the white bottom ooze and is reflected and refracted up to the surface. Thirty feet down, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, Master of Quincy House, sometime archeologist, onetime boxer and parachutist, and would-be aviator, was scuba diving...
...BOLD MEN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tales of specialists in courage, including Parachutist Rod Pack, who falls 10,600 ft. before a mid-air meeting with a fellow sky diver carrying an extra parachute...
Knox was the only jumper to place with out a parachutist's license, issued by the Parachute Club of America to experienced jumpers...
Died. Barbara Keith, 42, Hartford, Conn., widowed grandmother of ten, a sport parachutist and balloon enthusiast who once said, "I go up in a balloon because it's living. Who wants to sit home and knit an afghan when you can sit suspended under a 40-foot bag and be part of the wind?"; by drowning, when her hot-air balloon drifted off course during a race from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California coast, was found 42 hours later...