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Cernan also had reason to be embarrassed. With one swing of his geological hammer, he accidentally clobbered the $13,000,000 moon car, knocking off part of one of its rear fiberglass fenders, which act as shields against the spray of dust churned up by the rover's wire mesh wheels. Cernan tried to reattach the section of fender with gaffer tape. But because of the everpresent, clinging fine-grained lunar dust, it would not stick. As precious minutes ticked away. Mission Control suggested that the astronauts abandon the fender repair work and get on with the more important...
...walked out of his apartment in a Beirut suburb, sat down at the wheel of his Austin 1100 and turned on the ignition. The car disintegrated in a horrendous explosion that killed the occupants and shook the neighborhood. Ten pounds of plastique had been stuffed under the right front fender; a hand grenade that served as detonator was wired to the ignition...
...Betty Ann Fender Cook, 22, barely out of Washington's Howard University and now pursuing a master's degree in sociology at Atlanta University, decided last fall to run for delegate in Georgia's Fifth Congressional District...
...fender plus the rental fee until the car was repaired and on the road again; because of notorious delays in delivery of spare parts, that might mean months and could amount to $777.70 or more...
Parchamovsky faced a total bill of at least $944.35, or 59% of the average Soviet annual wage. Fortunately for Parchamovsky, the agent knew a black-market garage where he could get a new fender installed immediately, so the repair cost a mere...