Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past 13 years, Syd, like other staffers in our specialized departments, has had ample opportunity to be both pupil and teacher. She has worked on 17 cover stories, and this week's is her eleventh on space travel. Her job last week involved digesting and summarizing complex NASA flight plans, scientific studies of the moon and background dispatches from our own correspondents. After the story was written and edited, her task was to make sure that the dozens of facts and figures in it were accurate. Throughout, she kept an eye on the human details of drama and suspense...
...Hadley Rille area at the edge of the mountain-ringed Sea of Rains is so varied that scientists are convinced it will prove a geological gold mine offering important new clues to understanding the moon and earth. The mission, to be sure, comes at a troubled moment in NASA's history (see box, page 14). But, as the astronauts crisscrossed the pulverized moonscape gathering priceless new knowledge, it was also a dramatic reminder that man's exploration of the solar system has only begun...
...target. An hour and a half later, Scott donned his suit and poked his head out of Falcon's top hatch. "Oh, boy, what a view," he shouted, and he proceeded to name the features he had so carefully studied on earth. Scott's descriptions were so detailed that NASA Geophysicist Robin Brett said he performed as well as a professional geologist...
...landing site involved an army of technicians, a worldwide network of tracking stations and a remarkable new $582,000 color camera developed by RCA. Yet if any single person can be credited with the success of the lunar sound-and-light show, he is a quiet, cherubic-looking NASA engineer named Edward I. Fendell, 39, who clearly ranks as the space agency's own Captain Video...
...seconds to reach the camera. Another three seconds elapsed before the image arrived back in Houston (the extra time was needed to convert the signals into a standard TV picture). Thus, before he or his assistant, Al Pennington, 27, saw the camera's response to their com-NASA mands, a total of nearly five full seconds had gone...