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...NASA strictly forbids any commercial exploitation of such mementos...
Last week, after an elaborate investigation, NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts, David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden, had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back. Through an intermediary, 100 copies of the moon mail were eventually purchased by a German philatelist named Hermann Sieger, who in turn sold 99 of them for a reported $1,500 apiece...
Part of the money was to go into a trust fund for the education of the astronauts' children. The astronauts be gan to feel a bit queasy about the arrangement and finally cancelled plans for the trust fund. They never actually profited from the sale. Still, NASA officially reprimanded the trio and suggested that their future assignments were in jeopardy. Irwin has already announced his retirement, and Worden is being eased out of the space program. But Scott was reportedly in line for a general's star, and the job of chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston...
Built by General Electric for NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center under a $174.6 million program, ERTS cannot see objects smaller than 300 ft. across, but it has very acute color perception. Each of its three RCA TV cameras responds to a distinctly different wave length of light-green, red and near-infra-red. Transmitted to earth, the three separate images can readily be combined into a single, detailed color picture, and ERTS can produce a total of 9,200 pictures a week...
Chemical Choice. That sudden change in carbon ratios was highly significant to Schopf and his collaborators, Dorothy Z. Oehler of U.C.L.A. and Keith A. Kvenvolden of NASA'S Ames Research Center. In a recent report in the journal Science, they proceed to explain...