Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...afraid this is going to be the last moon mission for a long time," radioed Apollo 13's commander shortly after one of his spacecraft's vital oxygen tanks exploded. Last week, safely back in Houston, Jim Lovell and his crewmates took a far more cheerful view. "I foresee that we can get this incident over with," Lovell said, "and can charge ahead." The space agency shared his optimism. Despite Apollo's close brush with disaster, NASA officials seem more determined than ever to continue exploration of the moon...
...both are bachelors. Ken Mattingly is serious and studious. Swigert is a not-so-secret swinger with the reputation of having a girl in every (air) port. Swigert's favorite ploy, his friends say, is to invite girls to his apartment to see what he claims are his moon rocks. For all his bachelor antics, however, Swigert is a highly skilled former Air Force flyer and civilian test pilot with degrees in mechanical engineering, aerospace science and business administration. The son of a Denver ophthalmologist, he is a former University of Colorado guard, and one of the biggest...
...business to do. Let's concentrate on the bird." With those firm words, he began the procedures that would fire the lunar module's engines, kick Apollo into a "free-return" trajectory, and head the astronauts toward earth after they whipped around the moon...
...with a plastic "greenhouse," into which ultra-filtered air flowed from above, fast enough to change the air completely ten times a minute. Within it, three surgeons, Doctors John Toma, Charles Bechtol and Charles Hutter, were dressed in space suits with helmets, like those worn by astronauts on the moon. The scrub nurse, who handles sterile instruments, was similarly attired. Their patient was Margaret Fales, 59, a credit manager, who had been so crippled that walking was unbearably painful. By last week Miss Fales was free of the pain that had driven her to surgery; her hips were...
...When the occasion calls for the elevation of a member to a third-grade witch, there is highly formalized sexual intercourse. But Sanders insists that only those who are married or engaged to each other can partake of this ceremony, in which man and woman represent the sun and moon in fruitful conjunction. New witch recruits must be content to kneel before the altar and receive 40 purifying strokes across the buttocks. Some covens use whips made with shoelaces that may leave permanent scars. But Alex's group, Miss Johns reassuringly reports, uses a silver whip with thongs...