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...base canard," said a Soviet spokesman in response to Lovell's statement. But Lovell had strong evidence to back up his story. Zond 5 had been tumbling as it approached the moon, he said, but it was finally stabilized. It passed about 1,200 miles from the lunar surface, radioing back great bursts of data and even voice transmissions-probably from a tape recorder. Finally there was a dramatic change in the transmissions and an enormous increase in power. "The whole exercise-the time of the launching, the content of the signals and the test of the voice transmitter...
Double Slap. The triumphant flight of Zond 5 and the test of its voice-communications system left little doubt that the Russians are racing to send a manned flight around the moon ahead of the U.S. which now plans to fly three astronauts on a lunar mission in December. The number of Russian space launchings announced this year-36 to only 18 for the U.S.-adds weight to the theory that the Soviets are working overtime on their space program...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN is a play for those who are lost and lonely. W. B. Brydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan are a father, his daughter and her almost-lover who see their lives slip away in the course of one lunar arc. Ted Mann's direction transmits much of the tenderness and sadness of Eugene O'Neill's tribute to the isolated...
Mascon Troubles. NASA is confident that it can speedily solve the troubles of the LM, which is designed to carry two astronauts to the surface of the moon while the third remains in lunar orbit in the Apollo command module. Tests have shown that most of the LM's troubles are electrical, and technicians at Cape Kennedy are busily rewiring the spacecraft, shielding circuits and replacing switches...
...Apollo program has also received a boost from scientists at the Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory, who recently discovered the cause of unexpected variations in the altitude and speed of earlier unmanned lunar orbiters. Such flight deviations, which could drop a module several miles off target, were caused by local increases in lunar gravity brought about by areas of dense material beneath the five circular maria, or "seas." The concentrations of mass, called "mascons," may have been caused by the impact of large meteors, which generated enough heat to melt material below the surface of the moon and form regions...