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...reached the moon Tuesday night, but it never came closer than 158 miles. As it emerged from behind the far side, the astronauts prepared for the crucial "hurry-home" burn. But there was a hitch. So much debris was still floating outside the spacecraft's windows that a star sighting???to align Apollo properly for the burn?was impossible ("It looks like we're in the middle of the Milky Way," the astronauts had remarked earlier). But the spacemen neatly improvised by taking rougher fixes on the moon and the sun. Then they fired Aquarius' descent engine, increasing Apollo...
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