Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scheduled for December, the sixth and last manned Apollo mission to land on the moon began the long process of gearing up last week as its spacecraft and Saturn rocket were positioned on the launching pad at Cape Kennedy. TIME Correspondent Donald Neff filed this report...
...crew that will make the last flight watched the 363-ft. vehicle moving at less than a mile an hour toward its pad 3½ miles away. "This is going to bring to a close the Apollo program," said Flight Commander Gene Cernan. "I hope by the time we get back home from the moon, we can convey that this is just the beginning of man's movement into an infinity of time and space...
Within six hours Apollo 17 was snugly on its pad and workers were scurrying around it to prepare for the Dec. 6 launch. Cernan and Schmitt will spend three days exploring the moon, while Lieut. Commander Ronald Evans orbits above them. They are scheduled to return to earth on Dec. 19. Then, what President John F. Kennedy called "great, new American enterprise" when he launched the Apollo program in 1961 will finally be over...
...blame for much of this may be laid to the English dubbing and adaptation, done by Titan Productions in New York. The voices, borrowed straight from a stable of TV commercial actors, leave the viewer in some doubt as to whether he is listening to Pink Pad or Lorenzo the Magnificent...
...money a problem. The national highway program, which stresses safety, provided $1.2 million to get things started. Local support proved equally easy to enlist. The state merely set standards for participation in the program (fulltime emergency-room physician, an intensive-care unit, radio communications and a helicopter landing pad); local communities decided which hospitals would be best suited to be trauma centers. Opposition to the plan from local physicians or ambulance operators quickly disappeared. Says Flashner: "It's the type of program that's difficult to be against...