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...from out of this world. With the aid of some of the nation's greatest scientists and engineers, that unprobable show was precisely what the TV networks offered their audience last week. Live from the spacecraft Ranger IX came man's closest and sharpest look at his lunar neighbor...
Orbiting Station. It may not be long before Russian cosmonauts have the capability of doing serious work in space-which will be needed on their chosen lunar route. Present U.S. plans call for a giant rocket that will push astronauts near the moon, then send a part of the vehicle into lunar orbit. The Russians seem to be leaning toward the orbiting-platform concept promoted for years by German-born Dr. Wernher von Braun, who is now Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville...
...Tranquillity was the target picked before the launch. Ranger VII had photographed a fairly smooth-looking place now called the Mare Cognitum (Known Sea) and found it to be pocked with small pits apparently made by chunks of rock tossed out of the crater Copernicus. A lunar landing vehicle might have serious trouble with such pits, and the hope was that the Sea of Tranquillity would prove to be smoother...
...first pictures covered a rectangular area 200 miles wide and 400 miles long. In the final second before Ranger collided with the onrushing moon its cameras were snapping closeups of moon segments no larger than a city block. Even so, after scanning the lunar snapshots, scientists were still undecided whether the moon's surface would support a spacecraft. A "personal guess" by Dr. Gerard Kuiper, head of the scientific team analyzing the evidence, was that the moon is coated with a frothy substance that "may hide many treacherous things." The University of California's Dr. Harold Urey argued...
...days of lunar life until his supplies of Scotch and oxygen dwindle. Then he walks into his Zen garden in the rays of the waning earth and commits hara-kiri by slitting his space suit. Since there is no atmosphere on the moon, the results are spectacular: with a sodden poof, Dr. Kanashima dissolves into "clouds of elementary particles hurled into space at a mile a second...