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After another perfect launch and a three-day journey to the vicinity of the moon, Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Tom Stafford climbed into Snoopy, left Astronaut John Young in Charlie Brown, and streaked off across the lunar sky in their spiderlike module. As they approached the moon's surface at a speed of 3,700 m.p.h., Cernan cried: "We're right there! We're right over it! I'm telling you, we are low, we're close, babe. This is it!" At one point, the astronauts swooped to within 47,000 ft. of the moon...
...cash. The feisty little writer has just been promised $800,000 in advance royalties against a projected book on the Apollo 11 moon landing this summer. Mailer says he plans to combine some flavorful reportage on the Cape Kennedy takeoff with his own ideas on the possible repercussions of lunar landings. The book, which will be published by Little, Brown & Co. and excerpted in LIFE, is also likely to net Mailer another large chunk of money in movie rights-that is, when it finally gets written. "I'm devoting all my time to my candidacy for mayor," said Mailer...
...constant vigil. In addition, Pioneer, Vela and other patrolling satellites will report any changes in solar radiation. Should SPAN report a suspicious-looking flare during the Apollo mission at the same time the satellites signal a corresponding increase in high-energy proton radiation, the astronauts in the vulnerable lunar module would be ordered back to the command module forthwith. They should need no more than four hours-well before the deadly mainstream of protons arrives-to dock with the orbiting command module (whose walls provide protection equal to one-fifth of an inch of lead, more than enough to withstand...
Despite the hostile environment of the lunar surface, scientists cannot fully discount the possibility that living organisms exist on the moon. To guard against the possibility that potentially dangerous bugs will hitch a ride back to earth, NASA long ago devised a costly system to quarantine astronauts returning from the moon until it could be determined that they were not harboring alien diseases. Now, to the concern of some scientists, NASA has lowered its guard against a possible invasion by lunar organisms...
...their spacecraft until it was lifted to the deck of the recovery carrier. There, they would walk through a plastic tunnel running from the hatch of the spacecraft into a hermetically sealed van on the carrier deck. Following a similar transfer from the van to Houston's sealed Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), the astronauts were to continue under strict quarantine for a total of 21 days. Recently, however, NASA officials began to have second thoughts about the discomforts the astronauts would endure if they were confined too long in a hot spacecraft buffeted by ocean waves...