Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value of manned flight. Had Eagle continued on its computer-guided course, it might well have crashed into a boulder, toppled over or landed at an angle of more than 30° from the vertical, making a later takeoff impossible. Said a shaken Paine in Houston's Mission Operations Control Room: "It crossed my mind that, boy, this isn't a simulation. Perhaps we should come back for just one more simulation...
...incredible moment. There were cheers, tears and frantic applause at Mission Control in Houston "You got a lot of guys around here about to turn blue," the NASA communicator radioed to Eagle "We're breathing again." A little later, Houston added: "There's lots of smiling faces in this room, and all over the world." "There are two of them up here," responded Eagle. "And don't forget the one up here," Collins piped in from the orbiting Columbia...
...each astronaut will have a separate room furnished in Sears, Roebuck Early American style with single bed, dresser, night table, chair and lamp. In identical adjoining rooms, there will be three physicians, one for each astronaut, to provide constant medical attention. The astronaut-reception area also contains a recreation room, a shower and locker room, a lounge lined with bookshelves, a dining room and a kitchen. In a nearby complex of rooms, NASA has also put together one of the most complete biomedical centers in the U.S. There the physicians will subject the astronauts to exhaustive clinical, chemical and microbiological...
...ears. After he does so, Chabrol repeates scenes we have witnessed earlier, only this time without sound. As expressed by a slightly closer camera, the visual ugliness which lurks beneath the monied elegance of the boy's surroundings becomes all the more pronounced. The boy finally retreats to his room, with which he has no rapport, and cuts himself off from anything else happening in the house. Unfortunately, his mother has fallen down a long flight of stairs. Having no further ability to hear sound, the boy descends in an elevator, unaware of his mother's dying moans...
Televisions will be available all Sunday night and Monday morning in Matthews Hall, room 6; Union Dining Hall, second floor, parlor A; and Holmes Common Room for viewing the Apollo 11 moon flight...