103:00:44 Duke: Tranquility Base, Houston. All your consumables are solid. You’re looking good in every respect. We copy the DPS (Descent Propulsion System) venting. Everything is copasetic*. Over.
103:00:58 Armstrong: Thank you, Houston.
*Copasetic, also spelled copacetic or copesetic, means very satisfactory or acceptable. It is an unusual English language word in that it is one of the few words of seemingly unknown origin that is not considered slang in contemporary usage. It is used almost exclusively in North America, and is said to have been first widely publicized in communications between the astronauts and Mission Control of the Apollo Program in the 1960s.
July 25, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Copasetic – an obscure brand of antiseptic used at the Copacabana Lounge in 1957 when Lola the dancing queen came down with a herd of drug-resistant wild crabs.
Little known fact: Her taxi-cab driver Neal Armstrong provided the antiseptic “for a small fee.”