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...still pictures shot by Surveyor during its first lunar day. One film strip showed the spacecraft's claw digging a small trench in the soil. Another, taken at sunset, followed the edge of lunar night as it swallowed Surveyor's lengthening shadow and moved on across the crater until only a few high clumps of rocklike material remained lighted against a black...
...hill. She stopped long enough to record one particularly poignant sequence-a corpsman bending to help a wounded buddy, jerking upright in anguish when the man died, and plunging away, yelling "I'll kill them! I'll kill them!" At the summit she flopped into a bomb crater, kept on aiming her camera. At 22, Cathy is used to such scenes. She spends more time at the front-three weeks a month-than any other woman in the Saigon press corps. Despite her diminutive figure, she has a reputation as one of the most stubbornly persistent, bullheaded photographers...
...seekers, there is the Gyrotron, a $3,000,000 contraption that allows tourists to strap themselves into miniature rail cars and then be hurtled through a maze of environments that begins with a terrifyingly realistic "orbit" among the stars, careens on through the hellish jaws of a live volcano crater. On opening day, the mechanism broke down, stranding passengers in the volcano and providing Expo with its first mishap...
Three Bounces. Surveyor's pictures also showed that the spacecraft was resting on a gentle slope inside a saucer-shaped crater about 150 ft. across and 20 ft. deep. Although the camera could not peek above the crater's rim, it revealed that the crater floor was relatively smooth, pockmarked with some smaller craters and littered with pebbles and a few rocks no larger than a foot across. All in all, it appeared that the area, one of the eight selected as possible targets for the Apollo mission, was level and uncluttered enough to allow the Apollo lunar...
...three times (the first time 35 ft.) after its initial impact on the moon-lifted by its vernier rockets, which had failed to shut down. The unexpectedly rough landing occurred, scientists believed, when the approach radar that controls the rockets became confused by the difference in elevation between the crater bottom and its rim. But the rugged spacecraft quickly proved that it had not been unduly shaken up. Shortly after it landed, it looked down and coolly photographed a nearby "footprint" made on the last bounce by one of its own footpads...