This time means when the plane leaves the gate, not when it takes off
departure
"Me want a cookie!"
Sesame Street
The flag of this other country appears in an upper corner of New Zealand's flag
United Kingdom
Brought by the last 3 manned missions, vehicles called these are still there & ready to go
a (lunar) rover
From the Latin for "sword" comes this word for arena fighters of ancient Rome
Gladiators
4-letter monster that eats humans
an ogre
"When the going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer... you want a--criminal--lawyer"
Breaking Bad (Jesse Pinkman)
Afghanistan is up there with U.S. breadbasket states in producing this, & has sheaves of it on its flag
Wheat
A gold replica of one of these natural symbols of peace
an olive branch
Around 1500 B.C. the kings who ruled from the city of Knossos on this Greek island dominated the Aegean
Crete
The way you hold your body; as a verb, it can mean to adopt a blustering attitude
posture
"Chaos is a ladder"
Game of Throne (Littlefinger)
In a nod to its Irish settlers, Montserrat's flag shows a woman in green holding one of these musical instruments
a (Celtic) harp
"What if the Soviets got to the Moon First?" is the premise of Apple TV+' show "For All Mankind", a title from a plaque left by this mission
Apollo 11
Ranging from about 2600 to 1000 B.C., its 3 major kingdoms are termed the Old, the Middle & the New [DJ]
Egypt
Before you leave our website, would you mind taking a brief one of these to help us improve our customer experience?
a questionnaire
Always blue, always blue, always blue, always blue, always blue, always blue, always blue...
Kyrgyzstan's flag depicts one of these tentlike dwellings of central Asian nomads [DJ]
a yurt
Thanks to Alan Shepard, 2 of these small sports items
golf balls
Dating back to the 3rd Millenium B.C., the Iranian city of Rayy was sacked by Mongols in 1220 & the survivors moved to this new capital
Tehran
Calmness & coolness; under pressure, some keep it & some lose it
composure
"Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually it comes far too f***ing late."
Peaky Blinders (Aflie Solomons)
St. Pierre & Miquelon's flag depicts the ship of this man who claimed the islands for France in 1535
Jacques Cartier
A feather & a hammer dropped by an astronaut in 1971, confirming a theory of this man, four centuries before
Galileo
It's the name for the pyramidal stepped temples of Babylon that may have inspired the story of the Tower of Babel
ziggurats