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...disturbing to read "Apollo 17: Farewell Mission to the Moon" [Dec. 11]. The destiny of man involves the search for truth. What can be the fate of a nation that has the means to further the search for knowledge and understanding through the exploration of space, yet does not dp so because of its own seeming loss of spirit...
...there it is!" shouted one of U.S.S. Ticonderoga's sailors. Barely four miles off the bow of the big carrier, Apollo 17's command ship America emerged from the puffy clouds, drifting easily under its three billowing orange-and-white parachutes. Then, while a television-equipped helicopter hovered almost directly above it to give the world its first bird's-eye view of a splashdown, the command ship dropped into the gently rolling Pacific. Less than an hour later, Apollo 17's three astronauts-Navymen Gene Cernan and Ron Evans and slightly seasick Civilian Geologist Jack...
...fitting finish to what the director of the Apollo program, Rocco Petrone, called "the most perfect mission," and to America's remarkably successful manned assault on the moon. Between the December 1968 mission of Apollo 8 and the final flight of Apollo 17, a dozen U.S. astronauts had walked on the lunar surface and-as President Nixon noted last week-"of 24 men sent to circle the moon or to stand upon it...24 men returned to earth alive and well." Said Christopher Kraft, director of Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center: "Apollo was the greatest engineering feat...
Orange Soil. Scientists shared the enthusiasm of NASA'S engineers. In Houston, they eagerly anticipated examining Apollo 17's 250 lbs. of moon rocks, 3,000 photographs and reams of scientific data. Every sign pointed to the likelihood that the Taurus-Littrow landing site had fulfilled the greatest hopes of the scientists who selected it, that the findings in the area would help fill important gaps in the lunar chronology. Apollo's cargo of rocks includes fragmented specimens called breccias that may have been formed far back in the moon's history, perhaps as long...
...rising costs are not the company's fault. He blames unexpectedly rapid inflation and the steady loss of other defense work, which made remaining projects more costly by forcing them to absorb more of the corporation's overhead. Grumman was hurt by termination of the moon-exploring Apollo program and the loss earlier this year of the prime contract for the $2.6 billion space-shuttle. Grumman sales in the first nine months of 1972 dropped 26% below the 1971 period, to $475 million, and profits dived 90%, to $1.4 million. Bankers are holding back loans, and the company...