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...sure, what propelled the Apollo crewmen to the moon was more than just "Kilroy was here" egoism. Over the course of the half a dozen landing missions, the astronauts pried loose and carried home 838.2 lbs. of lunar rocks, providing Earthbound scientists with rare tissue samples of a nearby body whose geological origins mirror the solar system's own. Priceless as the artifacts were, however, in the days of Apollo, geology was always trumped by poetry, and everybody within the space community knew...
...something he had no control over, self-preservation takes over. "One person has the controls of the plane," says Thompson, "and even though military tradition holds that they bear equal responsibility for situational awareness, the guy flying the plane is culpable." After Seagraves' immunity deal, the two front-seat crewmen were charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy for allegedly destroying the videotape. In exchange for avoiding charges including negligent homicide, Seagraves will tell what was on the erased (not blank, as has been reported in some quarters) videocassette found in a camera on the plane, and what happened...
...members. ?There?s only one set of flight controls on that aircraft,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. ?Pointing the finger at all four men suggests there may have been a pact among them to engage in some sort of horseplay. The Marines were not impressed that all four crewmen initially refused to testify, allowing them to collude and present a common account...
...Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...mean nothing happening on the screen. Following Tsibliyev's now worried gaze, both Lazutkin and Foale could see that the station had all at once become huge, practically filling the screen at a distance of barely 150 ft. from Progress. "Try to get another range!" Tsibliyev shouted to both crewmen. As Foale sped toward Kvant, Lazutkin looked out his window and froze. There, at last, seemingly at arm's length, was the fast-closing Progress. "There it is already!" he shouted...