Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...when Aquarius had been discarded?the astronauts would have been doomed. The lunar module, lacking a heat shield to withstand the awesome temperatures of reentry, could not carry the crew back to the earth's surface. But its oxygen, electrical power and descent engine were vital to the safe return of Odyssey...
...astronauts could use a small burn of the Aquarius descent engine to jog Apollo 13 back into a "free-return" trajectory, the combination of the spacecraft's velocity and lunar gravity would do the rest, slinging the ship around the moon and hurling it back on a direct course to the earth. Ironically, Apollo had been on a free-return trajectory, but its course was changed in preparation for the lunar landing...
Thus, five hours and 25 minutes after the service-module explosion, the lunar module's descent engine was fired. Had it not burned, Apollo 13 would have swung around the moon but missed the earth on the return trip by 2,951 miles and gone into a wide-ranging earth orbit, stranding the astronauts. But the lunar module engine performed reliably. With only a 30.7-second burn, it put Apollo 13 on a course that would carry it toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Houston?and the world?breathed easier, but Mission Control knew that the burn was only...
...everybody," he told his controllers. "Let's be quiet. We've got a lot of 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...
...America's abiding myths has been that a citizen's individual income tax return is a confidential matter. Even Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien thought so, and he should know better. Two weeks ago, O'Brien, who was John Kennedy's congressional liaison, and Mortimer M. Caplin, J.F.K.'s Commissioner of Internal Revenue, piously deplored White House Investigator Clark Mollenhoff's seemingly unlimited access to individual tax returns. Illegal, huffed O'Brien. Unless President Nixon withdraws Mollenhoff's snooping privileges, they warned, "We are prepared to initiate legal action...