Word: spaceship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobody's mentioned it yet, but it seems to me that the possibilities of sabotage or attack by an alien spaceship are not remote...
...three minutes and 38 seconds, the world anxiously waited to learn whether the astronauts had survived the final portion of their perilous voyage. Finally, the answer came. Responding to a call from one of the rescue planes, Apollo 13 replied: "O.K., Joe." A few seconds later, the descending spaceship hove into view of the TV cameras on the Iwo Jima's decks about four miles away. Under billowing white-and-orange main chutes, the spacecraft drifted slowly downward, headed for a splashdown just off target. At exactly 1:08 p.m., six days after its ill-starred journey began, Odyssey...
Earlier last night Apollo Control lost contact with the spacecraft when the moonship looped around the moon on its way back to earth. Radio contact resumed about 8 p. m. when the spaceship emerged from behind the moon...