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...next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...
...from its target crater, Conrad and Bean may not have enough oxygen in their back-up life-support packs for the planned walk to the Surveyor spacecraft. An inaccurate landing would also affect plans for next spring's scheduled Apollo 13 visit to a highlands area near Crater Fra Mauro. Before as tronauts risk landing in such a rugged area, NASA officials must be convinced that a lunar module can be set down on a selected segment of the lunar surface with exquisite precision...
...known of Meister Francke's life. He is believed to have been a Dominican friar who came from the Geldern region of The Netherlands and studied or worked in Paris or Burgundy before settling in Hamburg. Probably he spent his life in monkish seclusion (like his contemporary Fra Angelico in Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away as Estonia and Finland...
...which pilgrims trek, vignettes from major masters, together with larger pictures by significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips to enjoin the monks to silence...
...name they bear. Last week Malta welcomed back its knights, who are members of the Roman Catholic Church's oldest chivalric order. To the crash of a 21-gun salute, a delegation of knights in regal red and black uniforms and feather-plumed helmets, led by Grand Master Fra Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, a Milanese nobleman, landed at the Maltese capital of Valletta -named for the commander who terrified besieging Moslems in 1565 by using the heads of decapitated Moslem prisoners as cannonballs...