Apollo 13
True stories are often the best, and the story of Apollo 13 is no except (1). The story of the
luck (2) mission was made into a successful feature film. It is a tale of the mission that went horrible (3) wrong after just two days in space.
The crew had just finished a TV cast (4) when the pilot pressed a button for a routine exercise. There was a loud
explode (5) and the spaceship went out of control. For the next six hours the crew despair (6) tried to identity (7) what had gone wrong. They had to work fast because they knew if they ran out of oxygen and electrical (8), they would not stand any chance of survive (9). They also needed water, not even for themselves, but special (10) to cool the spaceship electron (11) systems.
With the help of the ground-based engineers from NASA, they managed to resume control over the ship and safe (12) guided it back to earth. When the parachutes final (13) brought the module back, nobody could believe that they had really done it. It was a tale of credit (14) imagination, intelligence and brave (15) – absolutely perfect for a film.
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Moon walk
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On July 20 1969, the (1) ___ imagination of the planet was (2) ___ by the images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. Yet, there is very little (3) ___ paid to the third astronaut who missed this (4) ___ moment of man setting foot on the moon. The astronaut in question Michael Collins left behind in the spaceship (5) ___ above them waited for what must have seemed an (6) ___ for the safe return of his comrades. Collis was (7) ___ in the Columbia spacecraft for 22 hours. Actually he did not even get to hear the most famous words (8) ___ in the 20th century – “That’s one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind”. At that point the spaceship “Columbia” (9) ___ behind the far side of the moon and lost the moon-earth-moon (10) ___. Neither had he (11) ___ the moment of when Armstrong and Aldrin planted the American flag on the moon (12) ___ as there was a technical (13) ___ that kept him cut off.
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In and out of space
Armstrong took his destine (1) in his hand and retreated volunteer (2) from the glare of celebrate (3) to a remote home in rural Ohio. Aldrin struggled with maniac depress (4) before finding a new role of a one-man think-tank, designing everything from new launch vehicles to scene (5) for returning to the Moon.
Rusty Scheweickart, known to his patriot (6) as “the hippy astronaut” brought a collection of quote (7) of this favorite authors secret (8) into space, attaching them to the side (9) of his spacesuit. He also experienced something that no other astronaut, before or after him, has: due to a technology (10) hitch that occurred just as he stepped side (11) the craft, he had to wait for 5 minutes while it was corrected. Instead of working at his tasks quickly and intense (12), as he had been trained to, he suddenly got an expect (13) opportunity to take in what he was doing. He held on to the rail of “Apollo 9” and for 5 long minutes glided through the vast (14) and silence of space. It was a life-changing moment, he has lived in its shadow ever since.
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SPACE TOURIST
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A Russian spacecraft crew docked flaw (1) and ahead of schedule at the nation (2) space station. The docking was conducted automate (3); in the past, technology (4) problems have forced capsule pilots to dock manual (5), a tense procedure that risks damage to the station.
The spaceship delivered an American space tourist and a new two-man Russian-American space crew. The passenger is a US million (6) scientist Gregory Olsen. His return to earth is scheduled on October 11 on another Soyuz craft.
At the station at least two spacewalks are scheduled during the crew’s six-month mission as well as number (7) scientific experiments, including medicine (8) checks and tests on various metals and build (9) materials.
Since the 2003 Columbia disaster grounded the US shuttle fleet, the U.S. total (10) depended on Russian Soyuz and Progress craft to ferry its astronauts and supplies to the orbit (11) space station. Discovery visited the station in July, but the problems with insulate (12) on its external fuel tank cast doubt on when the shuttle would fly again.
The cash-strapped Russian Space Agency has turned to space tour (13) to generate money. Olsen is the third non-astronaut to visit the orbiting station, report (14) paying $ 20 million. Olsen has said he preferred the term ‘space flight participate (15)’ to ‘space tourist’.
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