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Meantime, home gardeners face the growing problem of what to do with unwanted stocks of hard pesticides-not only DDT but also DDD, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, chlordane, heptachlor and others. Such long-lived chemicals could not be safely buried; they would sooner or later get into the water supply. Nor could they be incinerated; the dangerous fumes would carry a considerable distance. In fact, the most sensible solution, says...
...Apollo 11 sped back to earth last July, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin kept seeing strange flashes of light in the darkened spacecraft, even though his eyes were closed. "I think I'm going out of my mind," Aldrin told Neil Armstrong. While Armstrong and other astronauts confirmed the mysterious flashes, NASA scientists were at first inclined to attribute them to an optical quirk. Now they have proposed a more plausible explanation: cosmic rays. Though only some of these high-speed particles-mostly protons-manage to break through the shield of the earth's magnetic field, they can easily penetrate...
...growth rate. In mixtures containing surface samples from both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 and core samples from 12, the single-celled plants continued to reproduce normally. But when Taylor used Apollo 11 core material, taken from as deep as eight inches below the surface by Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, the bacteria encountered something lethal...
...astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., Richard Gordon, Alan Bean...
...press and country at large. It is an office that has been vacant since the Johnson Administration left town. Now President Nixon has found a man with a delicate touch to take on the assignment: Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, who minded the command module while Comrades Armstrong and Aldrin descended for the moon landing. Though the post usually goes to a newsman, Collins believes he has some unique qualifications for the task. "We can talk very clearly from a quarter of a million miles out in space," said he at his first press conference...