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Like the Apollo 15 astronauts who toured the mountainous terrain near Hadley Rille last summer. Young and Duke will have the services of a lunar rover equipped with an earth-controlled color-TV camera. The rover's seat belts have been redesigned to anchor passengers more comfortably during the jouncing ride in the moon's weak gravity. The electric drilling equipment that caused Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott to grunt and curse as he tried to cut into the lunar soil has been modified. Other improvements include: new foods (ham steak, fruit desserts), special drugs and liquids...
CAPTAIN JOHN W. YOUNG, U.S.N., 41, Apollo 16's commander, has served on more space crews than any other astronaut. In 1965, along with the late Gus Grissom, Young made three orbits of the earth aboard the first manned Gemini flight. One year later, he commanded the Gemini 10 mission, and in 1969 flew within nine miles of the moon's surface aboard Apollo 10's command module. Young was also a back-up crewman for Gemini 6, Apollo 7 and the ill-starred Apollo 13; in all, he has been undergoing intensive flight training continuously...
...physicists as the so-called "clock paradox." One of the major predictions of the great physicist's Special Theory of Relativity, the paradox is based on the assumption that time passes more slowly for an object in motion than one at rest. Thus, if Einstein was correct, an astronaut traveling at extremely high speeds-say to a distant star and back-would age less during his trip than a twin brother who had remained on earth. Depending on the length of his mission, the astronaut could, upon his return, actually be years younger than his twin...
...Thus to an observer in outer space the airborne clocks would appear to be moving faster (their air speed added to the rotational velocity of the earth's surface) than a reference clock back in Washington; hence, the flying clocks would lose a little time - or, like the astronaut, "age" a little more slowly. On the westbound trip, when they were flying against the earth's rotation, the airborne clocks would seem to the same observer to be traveling more slowly than the Washington clock. (Their air speed would be subtracted from the rotational velocity of the earth...
...story is told in countless versions. Somebody-a saintly rabbi, a mystic caught up in holy ecstasy, even in one version a lost astronaut-chances to see God face to face and lives to tell about it. "What is God really like?" asks an anxious crowd back home. The narrator hesitates. "You'll be shocked," he warns. He is pressed further. "Well," he finally says, "to begin with, she's black...