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...astronauts of Apollo 12-who began their lunar journey yesterday morning-may photograph the moon's surface with a special camera proposed by a Harvard physicist...
Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, said he "helped to get the camera designed and aboard so that close-up, color pictures of the undisturbed lunar surface could be taken." Neil A. Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, used the same camera during his moonwalk...
During their 32-hour moon visit, Conrad and Bean will take two walks, each lasting about four hours. Back on earth, television viewers will see all this in color. Following the advice of the Apollo 11 crew, the two astronauts will perform their own moon dance to get the feel of one-sixth gravity. Then they will go about collecting rocks and carrying out a series of sophisticated experiments. One of the astronauts will be lowered into a crater by his teammate to look around and to gather samples...
...gather this week at the cape to watch the blast-off is Richard Nixon, who will be the first President to witness a launching. It will be Nixon's second space first as President. In July, he was aboard the carrier Hornet to welcome back the Apollo 11 astronauts...
...scheduled flight of Apollo 12 is no less complex or hazardous than the earlier moon shots. This attempt will include a number of dangerous innovations. The trickiest is a free-flying approach to the moon that, if it is marred by an engine malfunction, could send the spacecraft into a deadly sun orbit...