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...similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron of F model MIG-21s, which boast greater speed, longer range and a bigger payload capacity than the D models previously supplied to Cuba...
Since April, Soviet long-range Tu-95 "Bear" bombers, with a 4½-ton payload, have made six flights to Havana. The April flights are the first landings that Soviet heavy bombers have ever made outside the U.S.S.R. Washington doubts that the Russians are trying to sneak nuclear missiles into Cuba, as they did in 1962. More likely, the Tu-95 is carrying out reconnaissance missions and delivering military supplies. The flights may also be an effort to test the U.S. response; since there was no reaction following the first two flights in April, four more followed...
From an equipment bay on the other side of the LM, the busy spacemen will remove EASEP (for Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Payload). They will set up one part of the package?a laser-beam reflector?some 70 ft. from the LM. The other experiment, a seismometer for measuring moonquakes and meteor impacts, will be placed 10 ft. farther away. Both will be left on the moon for the benefit of earthbound scientists (see following section...
...astronauts. Lunar modules (LMs) will be set down on two lowland maria, or seas, as well as on two separate highland sites. In Apollo 11, the astronauts will stray no more than 50 ft. away from their craft. Their scientific equipment-called EASEP for "Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Payload"-includes a solar-powered seismometer to check on moonquakes and a mirror to bounce back an earth-based laser beam to measure the distance from home...
...astronauts who make the second, third and fourth landings will carry a far more sophisticated payload called ALSEP, for "Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package." It features a magnetometer to measure the moon's magnetic field, an ion detector to study charged particles reaching the lunar surface, a mortar to fire grenades to determine the elastic properties of lunar rock, and a device to measure any heat flowing out of the moon's interior...