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...want to be a blockbuster like Marilyn Monroe," piped Genevieve Waite, 26. So her husband and co-founder of the Mamas and Papas John Phillips, 38, tailored his long-planned musical Man On the Moon to her talents. She plays an angel on a planet invaded by an errant moonship. Genevieve, still puzzling over her characterization, changes her wardrobe frequently and is not above trying to pinch Co-Star Monique Van Vooren's best songs as well as all the attention. "Genevieve," marveled an onlooker, "has an almost perfect working relationship with the spotlight." She has had a hand...
...terms of its scientific payoff, the last Apollo mission will probably turn out to be the best. During their record 22 hours outside their moonship, Cernan and Schmitt collected some 250 lbs. of lunar rocks, more than any of the ten moonwalkers before them. They set up the moon's fifth scientific station and drove their battery-powered rover across 22.5 miles of the cratered valley. They took more than 2,000 photographs, and turned up what may well be the first positive evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the moon. Said Schmitt, the first scientist to walk...
...final moments outside the moonship, Cernan held up what he called "a very significant rock, composed of many fragments of all sizes and shapes and colors." Speaking directly to youngsters of 78 nations who had been invited to Houston for the final moon shot, Cernan said that the rock would be divided among their countries "as a symbol that we can live in peace and harmony in the future." Then, after moving back to Challenger, Cernan unveiled a plaque on the ship's descent stage, which would remain behind on the moon. Evoking the words of a similar plaque...
This is the last moonship. After Apollo 17, America's manned voyages to the moon come to an end. Though there is speculation that Russia may begin moon landings this decade, no American is likely to return to the moon in this century. That realization cast a nostalgic sadness over the spectators, most of them space workers and their families...
...above the fluffy clouds over the Pacific, it became apparent that one of its three big orange-and-white chutes was fouled and thus not supporting its share of the load. Dropping into the calm seas 300 miles north of Hawaii several feet per second faster than planned, the moonship created a mighty splash. But despite the jolting landing the astronauts were safely home. Man's fourth and most productive moon-landing mission had ended successfully...