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...least ten lives were lost in Northern Ireland last week. Five men were killed when their Land Rover struck a terrorist mine in County Tyrone. On the Ulster-Eire border, a bomb destroyed a customs post. Belfast suffered the greatest destruction. There have been more than 160 bombings during the past year; one suspected fire-bombing lit up the night sky as nearly $4.8 million worth of cut timber burned in a lumberyard...
Only slightly less overjoyed were high NASA officials, who badly needed a morale booster after congressional cuts in the space agency's appropriations, the near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13 last April, and the recent successes of Soviet space robots. Indeed, the unmanned moon rover, Lunokhod 1-which came back to life last week on the lunar surface 900 miles north of Apollo 14's Fra Mauro landing site-seemed very much on the mind of Acting NASA Administrator George Low. The flight of Apollo 14, Low said, "demonstrated that man belongs in space, that man can achieve...
...lies some 1,400 miles northwest of the Sea of Fertility, where Luna 16 landed two months ago to scoop up 3.5 oz. of moon dust for later study on earth. At first, the Russians gave only the vaguest hints about Luna 17's mission. But once the rover demonstrated its maneuvering ability, they began revealing details of their moon machine...
...clamlike lid to sunlight. One or more electric motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free...
Lunar Mapping. One thing Lunokhod cannot do is come back to earth. Even though it was built of extremely light materials, its undisclosed weight is apparently too great for the lift-off capability of Luna 17. In that respect, Lunokhod resembles NASA's own lunar rover,* which will be carried to the moon by Apollo...