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...height of the space race, NASA ambitiously scheduled ten lunar landings, planning to send Americans to the moon every four months or so until the end of 1972. As public interest in the moon program faded and Congress chopped away at NASA's budget, however, the space agency began having second thoughts. Earlier this year, it canceled the last of the scheduled missions, Apollo 20, and spaced out the remaining landings to twice a year. Last week, the space agency reluctantly scrubbed two more missions-Apollo 15 and Apollo 19-leaving only four more scheduled flights to the moon...
...cancellations bitterly disappointed NASA's 49 highly trained active astronauts, 35 of whom are still waiting for a flight. The cutbacks are also a severe blow to lunar scientists, who have only begun to tackle some of the questions raised by the findings of the successful Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. Perhaps the only consolation for NASA is that the money saved from the two canceled shots (at least $350 million) may be applied to its Skylab program, which, beginning in late 1972, will place a crew of three into earth orbit for 28 days to determine...
Once man had finally stepped onto dusty lunar soil, scientists thought that they would easily be able to dispel all mysteries about the moon's composition. Alas, not so. Both seismic tests on the moon's surface and experiments on earth have shown that lunar material transmits sound at a perplexingly slower rate than ordinary terrestrial rocks...
Investigating the puzzle, two scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory checked what they drily called "much earlier speculations concerning the nature of the moon." Geophysicists Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson carefully compared the sound-conducting properties of two lunar rocks with those of a wide assortment of cheeses. The result: Wisconsin muenster conveyed sound slightly faster than one moon rock; Norwegian goat cheese responded almost precisely like the other rock...
...headache." Whatever hormonal imbalances occur can be treated with medication, much like diabetes. But Berman, an early heart-transplant experimenter, soon drew blood again. He termed the Mink letter to Humphrey "a typical example of an ordinarily controlled woman under the raging hormonal imbalance of the periodical lunar cycle...