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...vehicles entered, 14 managed to bulldoze across the finish line. The individual trophy went to Dexter Shultz, an American Airlines flight engineer who clumped over a log barricade to finish first in his ATV Manufacturing Co. Attex model in 36 min. flat (last-place time was 1 hr. 22 min.). Shultz averaged nearly 30 m.p.h. over unspeakable terrain. He came from behind to whip Advey, who drove one of his company's 8-h.p. Scramblers...
...Monday, after another 4-hr. sleep period sandwiched between two meals, Armstrong and Aldrin will fire the LM's ascent engine, using the four-legged descent stage as a launch pad. If all goes well, they will rendezvous with Collins and transfer to the command module, taking their precious rocks with them in sealed boxes and leaving the LM in orbit around the moon. From that point on, they will again follow the path of Apollo 10. After firing themselves into an earth-bound trajectory, they will splash down in the Pacific Ocean some 1,160 miles southwest of Hawaii...
...members of Apollo 11's crew are seasoned, imperturbable astronauts. Armstrong, known as an inscrutable loner, flew Gemini 8 to the first successful space docking. Aldrin, a hard-driving perfectionist, set the record for space walking (5 hr., 30 min.) during the four-day flight of Gemini 12 in 1966. Collins, the most relaxed and outgoing of the three, helped steer Gemini 10 through complicated rendezvous and docking maneuvers...
...Apollo 11 crew has been in full-time training since January, spending 12-hr. days often seven days a week going over and over the 294-page flight plan, rehearsing every move they will make in flight simulators, checking and re-checking the command module and lunar module. They practiced a single maneuver?the powered descent to the lunar surface?at least 150 times. Flight Surgeon Berry was seriously concerned about their grueling schedule. He feared that the men might become so tired that their resistance to disease would be dangerously low and that they would catch...
...hardest part was not the flying but getting to and from the check-in stations atop the Empire State Building in New York and the General Post Office in London. Royal Navy Pilot Peter Goddard, who won $14,400 for the fastest performance (with a time of 5 hr. 11 min. 22 sec.), confessed that things went so smoothly in his F-4K Phantom jet that he got bored and started reading...