Apollo 13 Vocabulary List | |||||
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a.m. | ABC * | able | aboard | abort | aborting |
about | above | absent | absolutely | Academy | Acapulco |
accept | acceptable | access | accident | acquisition | across |
activity | actual | actually | add | adequate | adjusting |
adventure | advise | advised | affect | affecting | affirm |
Affirmative | aft | after | again | against | agency |
ago | agree | ahead | aim | air | airborne |
aircraft | airplane | Alan | alarm | Aldrin | alert |
algae | align | aligned | alignment | alive | all |
almost | along | already | also | altitude | always |
America | America's | American | ammeter | amount | amp |
amperage | amps | ANCHORMAN | and | Andy | angle |
angles | another | answer | answers | antenna | antennae |
anticipated | any | anybody | anymore | anyone | anything |
apart | Apollo | apparently | appear | appearances | applause |
apple | appreciate | appropriate | approximately | April | Aquarius |
are | area | aren't | argue | argument | arithmetic |
arm | arm's | Armstrong | Armstrong's | around | Arthur |
ascending | ask | asked | asking | asphyxia | aspirin |
ass | assembly | assignments | associated | astronaut | astronaut's |
astronauts | astronauts' | ate | atmosphere | attached | attempting |
Attention | attitude | Audience | auto | aware | away |
awe | awful | awfully | baby | bachelor | back |
background | backup | backwards | bad | bag | baggage |
bags | bail | ball | ballad | ballast | balls |
band | bang | banging | bangs | Banshee | Barbara |
Barbara's | barbecue | barber | Barely | bars | basketball |
bathroom | Batt | batteries | battery | batts | beat |
beaten | Beatles | beautiful | became | because | becoming |
been | before | beginning | beginnings | being | belief |
believe | bell | below | beneath | Bergman | best |
bet | betcha | Bethpage | better | between | big |
bigger | biggest | Biloxi | bio | bit | black |
blackout | blackouts | Blanch | blanket | blasts | bleeding |
blind | blocks | blood | blooming | blow | blown |
blurry | board | book | books | booster | booths |
boredom | Borman | boss | both | bother | bought |
bounce | bouncing | boy | boys | BPC * | bra |
brain | bravo | break | breaker | breakers | breakfast |
breaking | breath | breathable | breathe | breathing | brewing |
bribed | bright | brilliant | bring | bringing | brings |
broadcast | broadcasting | broke | broken | brought | buddy |
budget | built | build | bulb | bulkhead | bullet |
bullshit | bump | bumped | bumps | bunch | bungee |
burn | burning | burst | bus | business | busy |
but | button | buttoned | Buzz | Buzz's | Bye |
cabin | Cadet | CAL * | calculated | call | called |
calling | calm | came | camera | cameras | can |
can't | cancelled | cancer | canister | canisters | CAPCOM * |
capsule | Capture | car | carbon | care | carpet |
carrier | cartridges | Cash | cat | catch | caught |
caused | causing | caution | cell | cells | center |
Chaffee | chair | challenge | champagne | chance | change |
changes | channels | Charbroiled | Charles | Charlie | check |
checking | checklist | cheering | cheerleader | children | Christ |
Christmas | Christopher | CHUCK | churned | chutes | circle |
circling | circuit | city | clap (an STD) | classmates | cleaner |
cleaning | clear | cleared | clearest | Clearly | clicking |
climbing | clock | close | closed | closing | CMC * |
CMP * | CMRCS * | CO2 * | cockpit | coffee | coil |
cold | collection | Colorado | Columbus | combat | come |
comes | comforting | coming | comm | command | commander |
commission | Communication | communications | compare | complete | completed |
completely | compressor | computer | Con | condensation | conditions |
confines | confirm | confirmation | Congress | connect | connected |
Conrad | consider | considering | constellation | consumables | consumption |
contact | contacted | contingency | continuing | control | CONTROLLER |
controllers | controls | conversions | cool | cooling | copy |
Corps | correct | correcting | correction | corrections | corridor |
cost | couches | could | could've | couldn't | count |
counting | countries | country | couple | course | cousin |
cover | cracked | craft | cranking | crashing | Crater |
crew | crew's | CREWMAN | crippled | critical | CRONKITE |
crosses | crosshairs | crossing | CROWD | cryo | CSM * |
curious | curve | cut | cuts | Dad | dad's |
Daddy | daddy's | damage | damaged | damn | dancing |
danger | dangerous | dark | darkness | data | dawn |
day | day's | Daylight | days | dead | deadband |
deadly | deal | death | debrief | debriefing | debris |
decided | decidedly | decision | defect | definitely | degrees |
Deke | Delta | demonstrate | Department | depends | deployment |
depress | depressed | descent | designed | destination | determined |
did | didn't | die | died | dies | difference |
dig | dioxide | direct | director | disaster | disk |
displayed | displays | distance | distract | ditching | divine |
doc | dock | docking | does | doesn't | doing |
dollar | don't | done | door | double | doubts |
down | dragging | drama | dramatic | draw | draws |
dreamed | dreamt | dress | drifting | drill | drinking |
drive | driver's | drogue | drop | dropout | dropped |
drunk | duct | due | Duke | duly | dump |
dumped | dumps | during | dying | each | Eagle |
ear | earlier | Earth | Earth's | Ease | Easter |
Eastern | easy | eat | ECS * | edge | Edison |
editor | EDS * | EECOM * | efficiency | effort | egress |
eight | either | ejecta | eldest | elected | electrical |
electronic | elephant | eleven | else | embarked | emerge |
emergency | encountered | end | endanger | engine | engine's |
engineer | Engineers | engines | enough | enter | entering |
entire | entry | equipment | Essential | estimate | evaluating |
even | evening | events | ever | every | everybody |
everyone | everything | everything's | exact | exactly | excellent |
exchanged | exciting | excursion | Excuse | execute | exemplary |
expanse | expect | expected | expecting | expel | experienced |
experiments | explosion | exposed | extension | extraction | extraordinary |
extravehicular | extreme | eye | eyed | face | faced |
facilities | fact | Fahrenheit | failure | fall | falling |
false | family | fans | FAO * | far | Farewell |
farther | fast | father's | fault | fear | feel |
feeling | feels | feet | fellas | fever | few |
fewer | fewest | FIDO * | field | fifteen | fighting |
figure | figured | file | filter | filter's | filters |
final | find | fine | finest | finish | fire |
first | fit | five | fix | fixed | flame |
flared | flashlight | flew | flight | flight's | flip |
flipped | flirting | float | floating | Floodlights | floor |
flow | flowers | flown | fly | flying | folks |
Follow | followed | following | foolishly | foot | footpads |
footsteps | for | forget | forgot | fortune | Forty |
forward | foul | four | fourteen | Fra | Frank |
franticly | frapping | Fred | Freddo | free | freezes |
freezing | frequency | Friday | from | front | frozen |
fuel | fully | functioning | fund | funny | gain |
gantry | gas | gathered | gauge | gauges | gave |
GDC * | Gemini | Gene | gentle | gentlemen | germs |
get | gets | getting | giant | gimbal | gimbals |
girl | give | given | giving | glad | glitch |
global | glycol | GNC * | God | goddamn | goes |
going | gone | gonna | good | goodnight | got |
Gotcha | gotta | gotten | government | grabs | graduated |
Grandma | grant | grave | gravity | gray | great |
greatest | green | grim | Grissom | grounded | growing |
Grumman | guarantee | guarantees | GUARD | Guenter | GUENTHER |
guess | guessing | guest | guidance | Guide | GUIDO * |
Gum | gun | Gus | guy | guys | gypsy |
H2 * | habit | had | hadn't | haircut | Haise |
half | hand | handed | handle | hands | happen |
happened | happening | happy | hard | harder | hardware |
has | hash | hasn't | hatch | hate | hauling |
have | having | Hawaii | hazardous | he'll | he's |
head | headed | Heads | hear | heard | heart |
hearted | hearts | heat | heated | heater | heating |
heavy | helicopters | helium | hell | Hello | helmet |
helmets | help | helping | Henry | her | here |
here's | heroic | Hershey | Hey | high | Highlands |
highly | him | his | historic | history | hit |
hitting | hold | holding | holds | hole | home |
homing | hon | honey | honor | honored | hope |
horrible | horseshit | hoses | hot | hotel | hour |
hours | house | housekeeping | Houston | how | How'd |
How're | How's | huh | human | hundred | hungry |
Hurt | hurts | husband | hydroxide | I'd | I'll |
I'm | I've | ice | idea | ignite | ignition |
ill | imagine | Imbrium | immediate | immediately | impaired |
important | improvising | IMU * | inboard | inches | incinerate |
INCO * | income | incredible | indicator | indistinct | infection |
inferno | Inform | information | ingenious | ingress | inside |
inspiration | Inspired | inspiring | instance | instrument | instrumentation |
instruments | intended | intense | intentions | interface | into |
invent | IRS * | Isaac | isn't | isol | isolate |
It'll | it's | itch | its | IUs * | Iwo |
Jack | Jack's | Jackie | jammed | JANE | Jannie |
Japan | Jay | JEFFREY | Jeffrey's | Jerusalem | Jesus |
Jet | jett | jettison | Jim | Jim's | Jima |
Jimmy | Jimmy's | job | John | John's | Johnny |
joke | jolt | judgment | juice | Jules | July |
jump | jumped | just | keep | Ken | Ken's |
Kennedy | kept | kick | kicking | kid | kidneys |
kids | kids' | killed | kind | kit | knew |
know | knowing | knows | Kraft | Kranz | lab |
ladder | ladies | lady's | Lago | laid | land |
landed | landing | lands | laps | large | last |
lasts | late | later | laughs | launch | launches |
lawn | lay | layers | LCG * | leader | leading |
leak | leak's | leap | learn | leaves | leaving |
led | left | leg | LEM * | LEM's | length |
lengthwise | less | let | let's | letter | level |
levels | lever | life | lifeboat | lift | lifting |
light | lights | like | limit | Lindbergh | line |
lines | liquid | list | listen | listening | literally |
lithium | little | live | lives | load | lock |
locked | Log | logic | long | longer | look |
looked | looking | looks | loop | loose | lose |
losing | loss | lost | lot | loud | lousy |
Lovell | Lovell's | Lovells' | luck | Lucky | lunar |
machine | machines | made | mag | main | |
maintain | make | making | malfunctioning | man | maneuver |
mankind | manned | manual | manually | many | map |
Mare | MARGARET | margin | Marilyn | mark | marks |
Mary | master | masters | materials | matter | Mattingly |
Mattingly's | Mauro | may | maybe | McDivitt | mean |
means | meant | meantime | measles | measurement | med |
medical | meet | Melancholy | member | members | men |
Mercury | mere | mess | meteor | middle | might |
mike | mil | miles | Military | million | millions |
mind | mine | minimum | minor | minus | minute |
minutes | miracle | mirror | miss | missile | missing |
mission | Mississippi | mistake | mode | module | module's |
mom | Mom's | moment | Mommy | money | month |
months | moon | moon's | more | morning | most |
mother | Mount | mountain | mountain's | mourning | move |
moved | movement | moves | moving | Mrs. | much |
multiple | music | must | Must've | mutiny | myself |
named | narrow | NASA * | naturally | nature | nautical |
navigate | Navy | near | need | needed | needle |
needs | negative | neighborhood | neighbors | Neil | neither |
nervous | network | networks | never | new | news |
Newton | next | nice | nick | night | nights |
nine | Nixon | Nobody's | nominal | Nor | normal |
north | nose | not | notches | noted | notes |
nothing | now | null | number | numbers | nylons |
O2 * | obstacles | obvious | obviously | occasion | occurred |
ocean | odds | Odyssey | Odyssey's | off | offered |
office | offline | okay | old | omni | once |
one | one's | ones | only | onto | open |
opening | operation | operations | optimistic | option | orbit |
orbited | order | ORDERLY | organized | orientation | original |
other | other's | ought | our | out | outer |
outfoxed | outside | over | Overboard | overcome | overloaded |
own | oxygen | p.m. | Pacific | pacing | pad |
Page | panel | panels | paper | paperwork | parachute |
parachutes | park | part | part's | party | pass |
passed | passing | past | patrol | Paul | pay |
peg | penetrate | people | per | perfect | Perhaps |
permission | personally | personnel | Pete | PhDs | phenomenon |
PHIL | Phone | phosphorescent | pick | picking | picture |
pictures | piece | pieces | pig | pilot | pilot's |
ping | pissing | pitch | pitching | Pittsburgh | place |
placed | places | plan | planned | platform | play |
playing | pleasant | please | pleasure | plugged | plus |
point | pointed | poisoning | poisonous | pole | pond |
pop | Pope | port | porters | position | possibility |
possible | possibly | pot | pounds | powder | power |
pray | prayers | precisely | predict | Predicted | predictions |
pregnant | prepares | presence | President | pressure | pressurization |
pretty | prime | Princess | privilege | probably | probe |
problem | problems | procedure | procedures | proceed | process |
program | project | propulsion | prospecting | protects | proud |
provide | provides | psi | PTC * | public | pull |
pulled | pulls | pump's | pumps | punchy | puppies |
purge | push | pushing | put | pyro | pyros |
pyrotechnics | quad | quadruple | qualified | question | questions |
quick | quickly | quiet | quit | quote | race |
radar | radars | radio | radios | ran | Range |
rapid | Rapidly | rate | rates | ratio | ration |
RCS * | reacquisition | react | reactant | read | reading |
readings | ready | real | realize | really | reason |
recall | Recapping | recently | recognize | recommend | reconfigure |
Reconfirm | records | RECOVER | recovery | Recycle | red |
reference | references | regain | regarding | regards | regulator |
regulator's | rehearsal | relative | relief | remain | remaining |
remember | remembering | remotely | Renaissance | reorganize | Repeat |
REPORTER | reports | repress | reputation | request | rescue |
reset | resolutions | respect | responsible | rest | restart |
restraint | reticle | retired | retract | RETRO * | return |
returned | reverse | review | REYNOLDS | rhinoceros | ricochet |
ride | right | ring | ringing | rip | ripped |
rise | risen | risky | road | roaring | rock |
rocket | rocks | Roger | roll | Rolling | Rome |
rookie | room | rooms | round | routine | RTCC * |
ruled | run | running | rushing | Russians | Ruthless |
safe | safely | safety | said | salaries | same |
saturated | Saturn | Savage | save | say | saying |
sayonara | says | scared | scenarios | schedule | scheduled |
school | science | scientific | Scout | scratch | screeching |
scrub | scrubbers | SCS * | Sea | seal | seat |
SECO * | second | secondary | seconds | secure | see |
seeing | seem | seems | seen | select | sell |
Senate | sensors | separation | sequence | sequencing | Sequential |
serious | seriously | service | set | seven | Seventy |
shadow | shallow | shallowing | shame | Shangri | shape |
sharp | she | She's | sheer | Shepard | Shepard's |
shield | shimmies | shimmy | ship | ship's | shit |
shit's | shoots | short | shortcuts | shorted | shorter |
shorting | shorts | shot | should | shouldn't | show |
shut | shutdown | shutting | shuttle | sick | side |
sight | signal | signing | silence | silly | SIM * |
simulated | simulator | simulators | since | single | sir |
Sit | site | sitting | situation | situations | six |
skin | skip | skipping | skyrocketing | SLA * | slack |
slated | Slayton | sleep | slept | slide | slight |
slightly | slingshot | slow | slowly | small | smarter |
smash | smoking | smooth | SMRCS * | sneak | snow |
soak | sock | soft | softball | some | somebody |
someplace | something | Something's | sometime | sometimes | son |
son's | song | soon | sorry | sort | sound |
sounding | sounds | source | South | space | spacecraft |
spaceship | spare | sparked | speak | speaking | special |
specs | speed | spidery | spikes | splashdown | split |
SPS * | square | squeeze | squishing | stable | staging |
stand | standing | standpoint | star | stars | start |
started | starting | starts | state | station | status |
stay | steadily | steady | steely | steep | steer |
step | Stephen | steps | sticking | still | stir |
stir's | stirred | stop | store | story | stow |
Straight | stranger | strapped | street | strength | stroke |
strong | stuff | stupid | successful | such | sudden |
suddenly | sugarcoat | suggest | suicidal | suit | sun |
sunlight | sunrise | supply | support | supposed | sure |
surface | surgeon | surface | survive | surviving | sweeping |
Sweet | sweetie | Swigert | switch | switches | switching |
system | systems | table | take | taken | takeoff |
taking | talk | talking | tank | tanks | tape |
target | taxes | team | teams | tear | TECH * |
technical | TECHNICIAN | TED | telemetry | telephone | television |
tell | telling | TELMU * | temperature | ten | tendency |
terminator | terror | terseness | test | tests | Texas |
than | thank | Thanks | that | that's | the |
their | them | theme | then | there | there'll |
there's | these | they | they'd | they'll | they're |
they've | thick | thickening | thicker | thing | things |
think | thinking | thirteen | Thirty | this | those |
thought | thousands | thread | three | thrilled | through |
throw | throwing | thrust | thruster | thrusters | Thrusting |
tie | tight | till | time | times | tinfoil |
tired | Tires | TLI | toaster | today | toes |
together | told | Tom | tomorrow | tone | tonight |
too | took | top | topping | tore | torquing |
toting | touch | tough | tower | toxic | Tracey |
trade | tradition | tragedy | trail | trailing | trained |
training | trajectory | Tranquillitatis | Tranquillity | transfer | transferred |
transistor | translate | translation | transmitter | transpire | transposition |
treat | trenches | trick | tried | trim | trip |
trouble | true | try | trying | Tsiolkovsky | tube |
tumbling | tunnel | tunnel's | turkey | turn | turned |
twelve | Twenty | two | typhoon | Ullage | umbilical |
under | understand | undervolt | underweight | unfortunately | united |
until | unusual | Upbeat | upchucking | updates | uplink |
ups | upstairs | Upward | urinate | urine | Urion * |
usage | use | used | using | vacation | vacuum |
vacuumed | valve | valves | variables | vast | vehicle |
velocity | venting | verify | very | view | viewers |
vigil | visibility | visible | visit | vitally | voice |
Voiceover | voices | volts | vouch | VOX * | voyage |
Wailing | wait | Walter | waiting | waits | wake |
walk | walked | walking | Wall | walls | WALTER |
wanna | want | wanted | wants | warm | warmer |
warning | warnings | was | wash | washing | wasn't |
waste | watch | watched | watchers | watchers' | watching |
water | wave | way | we'd | we'll | we're |
we've | wear | wearing | weather | week | weeks |
weight | welcome | well | Wendt | went | were |
wes | western | whack | what | what'll | what're |
what's | whatever | wheel | Wheels | when | where |
Where's | whether | which | while | white | who |
whole | why | wicked | wide | wife | will |
window | wink | Wisconsin | wish | wishing | with |
without | withstood | wives | woke | won | won't |
wonder | wonderful | wondering | woods | word | work |
worked | working | works | world | world's | worried |
worry | worse | worst | would | wouldn't | writing |
wrong | Yaw | yawing | yeah | year | years |
Yes | yet | York | you | You'd | you'll |
you're | you've | young | your | yours | yourself |
yourselves | zap | zero | zip | zone |
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ABBREVIATIONS:
ABC: American Broadcasting Company (a news outlet)
BPC: Boost Protective Cover, for the Apollo Command/Service Module
CAL: calibration
CAPCOM: capsule communicator
carbon dioxide: CO2
CMC: command module computer
CMP: command module pilot
CMRCS: Command Module Reaction Control System
CO2: carbon dioxide (gas)
CSM: command service module
ECS: environmental control system
EDS: Emergency Detection System
EECOM: Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager
FAO: Flight Activities Officer
FIDO: Flight Dynamics Officer
GDC: Gyro display coupler
GNC: Guidance, Navigation, and Controls System Engineer
GUIDO: Guidance Officer
H2: hydrogen (gas)
IMU: intertial measurement unit
INCO: Integrated Communications Officer
IRS: Internal Revenue Service (U.S. tax agency of government)
IUs: instrument units
LCG: liquid-cooled garment
LEM: lunar excursion module
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Agency
O2: oxygen (gas)
PTC: passive thermal control
RCS: reaction control system
RETRO: Retrofire Officer
RTCC: Real-time Computer Complex
SCS: stabilization control system
SECO: sustainer engine cut-off
SIM: simulator
SLA: SM/LM adapter
SMRCS: service module reaction control system
SPS: Service propulsion system
TECH: technician
TELMU: Telemetry, Electrical, EVA Mobility Unit Officer
Urion (play on words: combining “Orion” with “urine”)
VOX: voice-operated switch (voice activated, not PTT (push to talk) mode)
SOME EXPRESSIONS:
out of the woods: out of danger or trouble
wink of sleep: a very short nap/sleep
SOME OF THE NAMES:
Barbara Lovell, daughter of astronaut Jim Lovell
Blanch Lovell, mother of astronaut Jim Lovell
Buzz Aldrin, NASA, second astronaut to land on moon in 1969
Fred Haise, Apollo 13 (1970) flight crew member
Gene Kranz, NASA station commander
Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 (1970) flight crew member
Jay Lovell, eldest son of Jim and Marilyn Lovell
Jeffrey Lovell, Jim Lovell's young son
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 (1970) flight crew commander
Ken Mattingly, astronaut who was not permitted to fly on Apollo 13 (1970)
Marilyn Lovell, wife of astronaut Jim Lovell
Mary Haise, wife of astronaut Fred Haise
Neil Armstrong, NASA, first astronaut to land on moon in 1969
Walter Cronkite, well-known television news anchor for CBS news