Word: cernan
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...short time later, Schmitt will probably be seen carrying off the familiar dumbbell-shaped package of scientific gear called ALSEP (for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package). At a site some 300 ft. west of Challenger, Geologist Schmitt, with Cernan's help, will set up the five ALSEP experiments, giving space scientists their fifth automatic observatory on the moon (see Lunar Science, page 44). The ALSEP experiment that the scientists are particularly eager to monitor involves two probes that measure the flow of heat from the moon's interior. During Apollo 16, that $1,200,000 experiment was ruined...
...crew that will make the last flight watched the 363-ft. vehicle moving at less than a mile an hour toward its pad 3½ miles away. "This is going to bring to a close the Apollo program," said Flight Commander Gene Cernan. "I hope by the time we get back home from the moon, we can convey that this is just the beginning of man's movement into an infinity of time and space...
Within six hours Apollo 17 was snugly on its pad and workers were scurrying around it to prepare for the Dec. 6 launch. Cernan and Schmitt will spend three days exploring the moon, while Lieut. Commander Ronald Evans orbits above them. They are scheduled to return to earth on Dec. 19. Then, what President John F. Kennedy called "great, new American enterprise" when he launched the Apollo program in 1961 will finally be over...
...understandably ill at ease making small talk with Presidents and Prime Ministers. "It's the 29th, isn't it?" she asked nervously, as she signed the guest book at the presidential palace. Judy's shyness was offset by the easygoing enthusiasm of Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, who accompanied the Agnews on the first week of their tour. With an arm around Judy Agnew, Cernan told Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos: "We feel the moon belongs to everyone." "Ah," beamed Mrs. Marcos, "as in the American song...
...education by travel. He has said that his grounding in international affairs derives from his peripatetic years as Vice President. So it was only a matter of time until Nixon pinned wings on his own Vice President. Last week Spiro Agnew, his wife Judy, Apollo 10 Astronaut Eugene Cernan, ten newsmen and a score of aides and Secret Servicemen boarded Air Force Two to begin a 25-day, 37,000-mile tour of Pacific and Asian countries...