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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brian O'Leary, whom you quote on the dominance of the test pilot at Houston, left the program at an early stage of training. His qualifications to speak on NASA policy and procedures are little better than those of the man in the street...
...EDGAR D. MITCHELL Captain, U.S.N. NASA Astronaut Houston...
...TIME regrets that Astronaut Mitchell was offended, but stands behind its report of the grumblings at NASA...
...Payoff. NASA expects such an enormous payoff from Apollo 15 that it is already calling the flight the first truly scientific expedition to the moon. The lunar module Falcon has been packed with 2,500 Ibs. of added scientific and life-support equipment. The two moon walkers, Flight Commander David R. Scott, 39, a veteran of the earth-orbiting flights of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9, and LM Pilot James B. Irwin, 41, a rookie, have had such a heavy dose of geology training that NASA's usually critical scientists say that the astronauts are ready...
...NASA's Deputy Director George Low and most other space specialists leaned to a far simpler explanation for the deaths: a mechanical or structural failure aboard Soyuz. Because the cosmonauts were not in protective pressure suits at the time of the descent, they could have died from any number of causes-excessive heat, carbon dioxide fumes from a small fire, a nitrogen leak from the spacecraft's atmosphere system, or even a rapid drop in cabin pressure. Such theories got support from some unconfirmed reports that all radio transmissions-not only voice but also telemetry signals-stopped...