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Perhaps the biggest surprise of all came from the seismometers left be- hind on the moon by Apollo 12 and 14 astronauts. The sensitive instruments have registered moonquakes every month when moon and earth come closest together, detected meteor impacts and shown that the moon's interior is in. deed unique: it "rings like a bell" when hit by a meteor. In contrast, the earth barely vibrates when it is struck. To Seismologist Gary Latham, the moon's resonance means that the upper 60 miles of the moon are composed of fragmented and jumbled rock. In addition, ) Apollo instruments have...
...Apollo 15 clears up only a few of the moon's puzzles, the perilous mission will be worth the enormous risks. On their homeward journey, the astronauts were scheduled to continue their scientific investigations. Shortly before Endeavour, carrying all three crewmen again, fires itself out of lunar orbit, the ship is to leave behind another memento of Apollo 15's visit. With the press of a button, the small, instrument-packed subsatellite will be automatically injected into an orbit around the moon. The tiny package should swing around the moon for more than a year, radioing vital data about...
...stunning telecasts from Apollo 15's landing site involved an army of technicians, a worldwide network of tracking stations and a remarkable new $582,000 color camera developed by RCA. Yet if any single person can be credited with the success of the lunar sound-and-light show, he is a quiet, cherubic-looking NASA engineer named Edward I. Fendell, 39, who clearly ranks as the space agency's own Captain Video...
...future so bleak. The signs are all too apparent: shops are shuttered in Florida's once-booming Brevard County, the home of Cape Kennedy. Thousands of engineers and technicians are out of work in Southern California and other aerospace centers. Last week, even as Apollo 15 streaked to the moon, Congress sent the White House a compromise $3.27 billion NASA appropriations bill-$1.9 billion below the allocations of the space agency's heyday...
...another five. Plans to land an unmanned probe on Mars have been set back to 1975. The launching of Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station, is unlikely to occur before 1973. Cape Kennedy's director, Kurt Debus, explained NASA's problem on the eve of Apollo 15's launch: Space is enormously important to the future well-being of the U.S., he said, but we have not yet found the way to convince the American public of that...