Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...three-James A. Lovell, Jr., Fred W. Haise, Jr., and Jack L. Swigert-fired the main engine of Aquarius, their moon lander...
...lunar craft must circle the moon before the astronauts can start back to earth. At the earliest, Apollo 13 will start its return trip at 9:40 p.m. tonight and splash down at 1:20 p.m. Friday afternoon if everything goes right...
Wetting the Whistle. Three hours after touchdown, Lovell will descend the LM's ladder and become the fifth man to walk the dusty surface of the moon. He will be joined by Haise 20 minutes later, and the two will proceed with the now familiar lunar routine-unfolding the umbrella-shaped S-band antenna, setting up the American flag, preparing the package of nuclear-powered experiments for deployment...
During their two lunar walks, the astronauts may stay out as long as five hours and venture nearly a mile from Aquarius. Besides the usual rock collecting and photographic chores (movies and stills), they will take several cores of moon material with a battery-powered drill that can penetrate as far as 10 ft. below the surface. But the most adventurous part of these excursions should be the climb to the 250-ft.-to-400-ft.-high lip of Cone Crater, where the astronauts hope to chip away at the car-sized boulders that may be part of the rook...
...Friday morning, the moon walkers will rejoin their fellow astronaut Mattingly, still orbiting in Odyssey, send Aquarius crashing into the moon about 42 miles from its original landing site, and head for home. Ten days after the launch from Cape Kennedy, the astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific about 200 miles south of Christmas Island, bringing back samples that should add immeasurably to man's knowledge of his nearest celestial neighbor...