Word: towardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, testing a wholly new environment for man. That groping foot, encased in a heavy multi-layered boot (size 9˝B), would remain indelible in the minds of millions who watched it on TV, and a symbol of man's determination to step?and forever keep stepping?toward the unknown...
...second time, just 2˝ hrs. after launch, the spacecraft was cleared by Houston for "translunar insertion" (TLI). Firing for five minutes, the reliable S-4B engine accelerated the ship to 24,245 m.p.h., fast enough to tear it loose from the earth's gravitational embrace and send it toward the moon. At a point 43,495 miles from the moon, lunar gravity exerted a force equal to the gravity of the earth, then some 200,000 miles distant. Beyond that crest, lunar gravity predominated, and Apollo was on the "downhill" leg of its journey...
...Houston during several performances in front of their color television camera?something that apparently can bring out the ham in any man. At one point, Collins said: "O.K., world. Hang onto your hat. I'm going to turn you upside down." As Collins rotated his camera, keeping it pointed toward the earth, the blue and white planet took an erratic 180° turn on earth-based TV screens. "I'm making myself seasick," Collins called to Houston. "I'm going to put you right side up." The earth promptly performed another lazy turn on the TV screens...
...were to overtake the astronauts of Apollo 11, or a later moon mission, men would not be deterred from pressing ahead to explore the universe. Whether excited, indifferent or embittered, few could doubt that in this week in July, A.D. 1969, the planet earth and all its people moved toward new beginnings, in the heavens and quite possibly on earth...
...SPEEDING toward their dramatic rendezvous with the moon last week, the Apollo 11 astronauts were aware that they would have company in the lunar neighborhood. With the aid of periodic news reports from Houston, they were able to keep track of the progress of Luna 15, the unmanned Soviet moon probe launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome three days before their blast-off from Cape Kennedy. The Russians cloaked Luna's mission in characteristic secrecy. Some scientists speculated that it was a "scoopy" shot designed to dig up some lunar soil and return it to earth before a manned Apollo...