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Nixon was inside resting for his trip to Cape Kennedy ('40). Tricia had said earlier she hoped she would have better things to do than watch anti-war protestors. Perhaps watching the Saturn would be better...
...crowd of office workers and salespeople were very quiet when the Saturn blasted off. They had turned on the black-and-white Japanese television set only seconds before the countdown gave up, and there wasn't much feeling of tension-is there anyone in the whole country who has not been jaded by a series of manned launchings...
...rest of the Soviet space effort has not gone as smoothly as Soyuz. U.S. officials, for example, are still awaiting the first successful flight of Russia's Nova-class booster, which is supposed to be nearly twice as powerful as Saturn 5 with its 75 million Ibs. of thrust; Nova's glitches, in fact, may well have cost the Russians the race to the moon. And there is no doubt that they find the loss embarrassing. Musing over the meaning of the Soyuz flights last week, a young Muscovite commented somewhat wistfully: "It's not much compared...
Riding atop a thundering Saturn 5 booster, the Apollo 12 astronauts will use a rocketry system virtually identical to the one that propelled Apollo 11. Yet their nautically named command ship, Yankee Clipper, will blaze its own distinctive path. Halfway to the moon, Apollo 12 Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, a veteran of two earth-girdling Gemini flights, will fire the spacecraft's service propulsion engine, jolting the ship out of its "free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever...
...films make the show. On one screen are fragments of science fiction flicks from Buck Rogers to 2001 . Right along side is some impressive NASA footage of the moon landing, the early Apollo missions in earth and lunar orbit, and Saturn V take-offs. Isolated fragments of these films have been shown often, but to watch them in color at once is an awesome experience. The show also offers a fine series of Neil Armstrong's moon photos. This selection is far clearer and more complete than those published in magazines or newspapers...