Word: sky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scored a near bull's-eye landing just three miles from the recovery carrier. TV camera crews aboard the Princeton first caught a spectacular view of what probably was Apollo 10's jettisoned service module, glowing like a blazing meteor as it streaked across the predawn sky before being completely consumed by the more than 5,000° F. heat of reentry. Then, silhouetted against the lightening sky, the bulbous command module came into view, dwarfed by the trio of 83-ft.-wide parachutes that slowed its descent. As the module drifted down, the sky brightened enough...
...dominant work on display is a tableau featuring eight torsolike constructions made of wire netting swathed in plaster, lined up against a wall painted to look like a strikingly blue Greek sky. The figures are bound to the wall by strands of concentration-camp barbed wire. Another piece consists of a plaster "torso" wearing a bloodstained gray jacket, its arms flung out handless in the posture of a crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared...
After another perfect launch and a three-day journey to the vicinity of the moon, Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Tom Stafford climbed into Snoopy, left Astronaut John Young in Charlie Brown, and streaked off across the lunar sky in their spiderlike module. As they approached the moon's surface at a speed of 3,700 m.p.h., Cernan cried: "We're right there! We're right over it! I'm telling you, we are low, we're close, babe. This is it!" At one point, the astronauts swooped to within 47,000 ft. of the moon...
...live transmission 4,120 miles from earth. "This has got to be the greatest sight ever," said a capsule communicator in Houston. Turning toward the receding earth, the TV camera captured a breathtaking view of a blue, white and brown globe, trailing wispy clouds and suspended in a black sky...
WHAT a sight met our eyes! As far as we could see, there were ships of all kinds and sizes, and above floated silvery big balloons. Big bombers were passing and repassing in the sky. What a noise everywhere and the smell of burning. Tanks and soldiers are on the road to Asnelles. Is it really true? We are liberated at last...