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Echoing Glenn Seaborg's anticipation of U.S.-Soviet collaboration in atomic research, NASA officials announced that the two nations were planning a joint space mission that could come as early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
...astronauts themselves seem happy with the idea of training with the Russians for a joint mission. Apollo 15 Commander David Scott recently told the National Press Club that he already knows six Russian cosmonauts, and that communication is never a problem among pilots. Said he: "I'd be glad to fly with them anywhere...
...Your article on the flight of Apollo 15 stated that the moon is .6% as dense as the earth. The true figure is approximately 60%. A moon only .6% as dense as the earth would be like a giant puffball, into which astronauts, TV cameras and all would sink, never to return...
...might not be poetry, but it would be very acceptable prose if the crew of Apollo 16 placed a plaque beside the American flag saying DEDICATED TO THE TAXPAYERS OF AMERICA, WHO MADE ALL THESE FLIGHTS POSSIBLE. Then all of us could feel that our names are written on the moon...
...quarantine. But they used almost every spare moment to help in the preliminary rock analysis. They were especially interested in Scott's white, coarse-grained "Genesis rock"-which may be a fragment of the moon's original 4.6 billion-year-old crust. Indeed, the scientific dividends from Apollo 15 were proving to be so great that NASA announced that it was giving a berth to astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on the final scheduled moon voyage, Apollo 17, next year. Thus, he will become the first scientist to walk the moon...