Upon descent, alarms went off telling the astronauts that the automatic guidance system was steering the lander toward a boulder-strewn crater instead of a relatively flat landing site called the Sea of Tranquility.
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Tensions between the two were heightened in July when North Korea launched seven short-range missiles towardtheSea of Japan.
But they found such evocative gradations of serenity that after their performance of Toru Takemitsu's "Toward theSea, " I found it hard to do my job which is to talk.