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AFTER $24 billion in production costs and a series of poor reviews from liberal critics across the country. The Moon Show rolled into M. I. T. last Sunday a few months ahead of its 1970 deadline. It has three components: a small sample of lunar dust collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts, a series of films on space exploration, and some full-scale mock-ups of space hardware. Wavne V. Anderson, chairman of M. I. T.'s Committee on Visual Arts helped design the show to restore "the tradition of imagination and fancy that nurtured the technological achievement...
...films make the show. On one screen are fragments of science fiction flicks from Buck Rogers to 2001 . Right along side is some impressive NASA footage of the moon landing, the early Apollo missions in earth and lunar orbit, and Saturn V take-offs. Isolated fragments of these films have been shown often, but to watch them in color at once is an awesome experience. The show also offers a fine series of Neil Armstrong's moon photos. This selection is far clearer and more complete than those published in magazines or newspapers...
...full-scale mock-ups of the Apollo 11 command module, the lunar module ascent stage and other space hardware may interest engineers and kiddies, but most county fairs have displayed similar NASA road shows for years...
...lunar sample on display is the show's big letdown. As might be expected, the stuff is displayed dramatically in the center of a dark room, seated atop a black plinth and bathed in a single spot-light. This display conjures up an image of a 21st century altar complete with priceless relic-or a showcase of industrial diamonds at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, the sample contains no more than a few grams of the gray dust, and without a microscope to reveal the amazing green, brown and white colors of the individual glass shards or the weird dumbell and spheroid...
...test pilot astronauts, among them aging Alan Shepard, have been slated for their second, third or even fourth space flights. Four of the 17 scientists in this program have quit, and so have the director of science at the Manned Spacecraft Center, the chief scientist in the Office of Lunar Explorations and the curator of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory...