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...moon. The lunar module Falcon has been packed with 2,500 Ibs. of added scientific and life-support equipment. The two moon walkers, Flight Commander David R. Scott, 39, a veteran of the earth-orbiting flights of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9, and LM Pilot James B. Irwin, 41, a rookie, have had such a heavy dose of geology training that NASA's usually critical scientists say that the astronauts are ready to go for their Ph.D.s. Even the third member of the all-Air Force crew, Alfred M. Worden, 39, who also will be making his first space...
...Though it will not range more than five miles from the lunar lander, the rover includes enough navigational gear (a gyroscope, an odometer and a computer) that the astronauts should always know their location in relation to the lunar module. Scott and Irwin may find the equipment extremely helpful: last February, the Apollo 14 astronauts became so confused by the moon's baffling, undulating terrain that they briefly lost their bearings...
...HALE IRWIN, 26, a spectacled, soft-spoken golfer, might look like a Sunday afternoon duffer, but at the University of Colorado he was All-Big Eight football defensive back as well as the 1967 N.C.A.A. golf champion. Spurning an offer from the N.F.L. St. Louis Cardinals, he turned golf pro four seasons ago, and has since won $111,151. Nevertheless, he considers himself still in a period of adjustment. "In football, you can get rid of your emotions," he says. "You can tackle somebody hard, for instance. But in golf the pressure keeps building, and you have to learn...
...Irwin Miller, LL.D., philanthropist and chairman of the Cummins Engine Co. As a leading member of the Establishment, you do not want to sink the boat, but you are not afraid to rock...
...EDGE OF HISTORY by William Irwin Thompson. 180 pages. Harper...