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...spindly spacecraft and stepped into the glaring sunlight. In every direction stretched the barren hills and" ridges of a forbidding landscape that has remained virtually unchanged since the moon was created. Alan Shepard could hardly describe what he saw. "It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro," he said. Then, as his image flickered onto millions of TV screens back on earth, the 47-year-old Navy captain took the last two steps down the ladder of Antares, the lunar lander. Finally his heavy boots scuffed the soft, grayish-brown dust of the moon's ancient highlands...
...sixth-G load," Mitchell told Mission Control back home in Houston. Then, with slow, effortless strides, Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing site, set up a $25 million package of scientific instruments, collected 108 lbs. of rocks and soil, and ventured more than half a mile from their ship up the 400-ft.-high walls of a crater...
Ancient Highlands. Apollo 14, scheduled to lift off on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 3:23 p.m. E.S.T., will head for the same hilly region near the crater Fra Mauro that was the target of its ill-fated predecessor. If all goes well, the Apollo 14 astronauts will become the first human visitors to the lunar highlands. There they may be able to recover rocks dating back to the birth of the moon, more than 4.5 billion years ago. The lunar landing maneuvers will differ in important details from the two previous successful manned lunar expeditions. For one thing, the command...
...officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them all out on grounds that the protest was "a provocation." Replied the burly abbot: "So was the Burgos court-martial...
...proceed with the scheduled launch of Apollo 14 in October. And at a planning session in Houston last week, space agency scientists recommended another try for the lunar landing site that Astronauts Lovell and Haise were to have explored last month: the ancient highlands near the crater Fra Mauro...