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Winding up his visit to Russia, Astronaut Neil Armstrong delighted Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin with gifts from America-a small Russian flag that was carried on Apollo 11 and some chips of moon rock mounted in Lucite. Later, touring the Kremlin Armory museum with Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy, he joked that there had been no fair exchange. Beregovoy indicated the museum's display of czarist crown jewels. "Pick one," he said. Armstrong pointed. "Fine," said the Russian. "That will cost you $300 million." Replied Armstrong: "I think I'll wait until they sell it at half price...
ROCKHURST COLLEGE James A. Lovell, D.Sc., astronaut. We have here a worthy model for modern man as he struggles against seemingly insurmountable odds, searching for the way and the truth to set his life and the world in order...
...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...
...perils of space travel and walking on the moon are one thing, but federal bureaucracy is something else. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who will take over a NASA desk in Washington as a coordinator of aeronautical research between Uncle Sam and industry, was asked whether he had sold his house in Houston. "Maybe I'd just better keep it," he grinned, "in case I need a hiding place from the Washington people...
OHIO "It's a bitter pill," Astronaut Glenn confessed. He had to withdraw from the Democratic primary for Senator six years back after a household injury...