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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...
Polar lee. Debus let his gaze linger on the mighty Saturn V rocket beneath the Apollo 17 spaceship. "The Saturn V is the end too," said Debus. "I don't believe we will build a stronger rocket in this century. The Saturn can boost a payload of 200,000 lbs. into orbit. If you want more payload than that, it is cheaper to launch several Saturns than to develop a new rocket...
...Kasemir and his fellow scientists think that the risks are worth taking. Lightning suppression could be used to help prevent fatalities and forest fires, and might even benefit the space program. NASA could eventually employ suppression techniques at storm-prone Cape Kennedy, where lightning bolts have occasionally hit giant Saturn rockets on their pads and once, during a launch, knocked out the electrical system of Apollo 12, threatening the mission with disaster...
...doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
Perhaps the most important new piece of equipment required for the mission will be a so-called docking module. To be built by the U.S. at an estimated cost of $50 million and carried aloft in the second stage of the Saturn booster, the cylinder-10 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter-will be pulled from the booster by the Apollo command ship. In position between Apollo and Soyuz during the docking, it will act as an essential decompression chamber for men passing from Soyuz's "normal" atmosphere of 70% nitrogen and 30% oxygen (at sea-level pressure...