Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-five. Sunrise is 6:08 and sunset 7:39, for 13h 30m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Apollo 13’s damaged Service Module, as photographed from the Command Module after being jettisoned. Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1970, Apollo 13, beset by mechanical problems, successfully returns to Earth with all crew after orbiting the moon:
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module (SM) upon which the Command Module (CM) depended. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to jury-rig the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17.
The flight was commanded by James A. Lovell with John L. “Jack” Swigert as Command Module Pilot and Fred W. Haise as Lunar Module Pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for the original CM pilot Ken Mattingly, who was grounded by the flight surgeon after exposure to German measles.
On this day in 1897, playwright Thorton Wilder is born:
On this date Thornton Wilder was born in Madison. A renowned author and playwright, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1937. His plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of our Teeth (1942) won Pulitzer Prizes and have been performed countless times by school and amateur theatrical companies in the decades since.You can read a 1928 article about his Wisconsin roots in our Wisconsin Local History & Biographies collection. [Source: Thornton Wilder Society]
Here’s Friday’s game in the Puzzability Series Capital Gains:
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This Week’s Game — April 13-17
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Capital Gains
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We’ve got filers all over the globe this week. For each day, we’ve taken the name of a world capital, added a letter, and scrambled all the letters to get a new word that is a type of person or people. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the capital followed by the longer word. The clue includes the lengths of the answer words in parentheses.
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Example:
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Simpletons from Scandinavia (4,5)
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Answer:
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Oslo fools
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What to Submit:
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Submit the phrase, with the capital first (as “Oslo fools” in the example), for your answer.
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Friday, April 17
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