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...moon's surface. There were shots of majestic mountains with profiles softened by billions of years of erosion, midnight-black rocks that glittered like jewels in the harsh sun of the airless moon, and helmeted figures toiling in areas of almost unbelievable desolation. "Although a dead world," said Astronaut Irwin in his published report, the moon "can be beautiful to anyone who loves the mountains of earth." The mountains of the moon, he remembered with pleasure, "were not gray or brown." The reflection of early morning sun gave them a "glow of gold." Even Al Worden, orbiting aloft "like...
Lunar Tumble. To Egyptian-born Geologist Farouk El Baz, who helped train the astronauts, the layering meant that the rille was not created by the collapse of a single lava tube, as some lunar scientists have suggested, but by a number of separate lava flows. Not so, said Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a professional geologist himself and a member of Apollo 15's back-up crew. He insisted that the rille could just as well have been the result of faulting, or cracking, of the moon's surface as it cooled...
APOLLO 15 Astronaut Dave Scott was hardly exaggerating. As he stepped off the ladder of his moon ship Falcon to become the seventh man to walk on the lunar crust, Scott faced the most awesome terrain ever explored: stark mountains, treacherous gorges, strange mounds and craters. "I can look straight up and see our good earth there," he said. A quarter of a million miles away, the world looked up and saw Scott, his peculiar light-footed movements carrying him across color- television scenes of stunning clarity...
...Astronaut Jim Irwin bounded down the last step of the lunar-module ladder to join Scott, he kicked up a spray of fine black moon dust and shouted: "Oh boy, it's beautiful out here. It reminds me of Sun Valley." Scott reported the dust was 6 in. deep and "like soft, powdered snow." But it presented no problem to the astronauts. Together, the two men quickly launched into the now familiar unloading rou-tine of moon landings. Then they turned their attention to a machine that all the world was waiting to see: the first man-driven vehicle...
...TIME regrets that Astronaut Mitchell was offended, but stands behind its report of the grumblings at NASA...