Word: capes
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PHILIPPA MAISTER Cape Town, South Africa...
Other members of our own Apollo-15 crew might be uncomfortable in a glider, but they are veterans of space coverage. Filing extensively from Cape Kennedy and Houston on the science of the flight, lunar geology, and the reactions of the crew and controllers as glitches arose, John Wilhelm, Leo Janos and James Schefter made good use of long experience on the space beat. Fred Golden, who wrote the story, has been our Science writer for two years. Don Neff, who edited the article, was TIME'S Houston bureau chief in 1968-69 and covered Apollo shots 6 through...
...data about the lunar environment. Then Worden was scheduled to climb out-side the spacecraft, edge his way back to SIM and retrieve his valuable film in history's first "walk"' in deep space 200,000 miles from earth. Finally, twelve days after the start of their journey from Cape Kennedy, the astronauts will splash down in the Pacific, ending man's most significant scientific adventure on the moon...
Last week, as final preparations were made for the dangerous journey, hundreds of thousands of tourists thronged the Cape Kennedy area. The great crowds were reminiscent of those that watched the lift-off of the first moon-landing expedition just over two years ago. Isolated in their crew area, Scott, Irwin and Command-Module Pilot Al Worden practiced maneuvers on Apollo flight simulators, underwent extensive medical examinations, took spins in a terrestrial version of their moon rover and reviewed the myriad details of their lengthy flight plans in the final hours of the countdown. Even the Russians helped. In response...
...Just as expected, the gypsy moths (preceded in some places by equally ravenous spanworms) audibly began their leafy banquet on schedule this spring;-"It's awe-inspiring," said Charles S. Wood, chief of Massachusetts' bureau of insect control, when he heard millions of bugs chomping through the Cape Cod woods. "It sounds like a gentle rain in summer." Besides the chewing, naturalists say, the noise is partly the ceaseless drizzle of moth excrement and partly the rustle of falling, half-eaten leaves...