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...Apollo-15 crew might be uncomfortable in a glider, but they are veterans of space coverage. Filing extensively from Cape Kennedy and Houston on the science of the flight, lunar geology, and the reactions of the crew and controllers as glitches arose, John Wilhelm, Leo Janos and James Schefter made good use of long experience on the space beat. Fred Golden, who wrote the story, has been our Science writer for two years. Don Neff, who edited the article, was TIME'S Houston bureau chief in 1968-69 and covered Apollo shots 6 through 13. At Cape Kennedy last...
...stunning news of Apollo 13's trouble first came from TIME'S Veteran NASA Reporter Jim Schefter, who had been called to Mission Control shortly after the initial explosion. That word, flashed to the editors in New York and other world-wide news organizations, set off comprehensive coverage of man's most perilous week in space. In Houston, observing an apparently routine mission, Science Writer Fred Golden immediately headed back to New York to prepare for a far different story. Science Correspondent Alan Anderson, also in Houston, quickly joined Bureau Chief Leo Janos and Schefter. Soon...
...next four days, Janos focused on the ordeal of the three astronauts. Neff reported on how decisions were being reached at Mission Control, while Schefter and Anderson provided commentary on the technical problems of the rescue. Throughout, says Janos, "NASA remained calm, candid and cooperative. Busy Administrator Tom Paine found a quiet corner to talk at length with us about the problems confronting NASA after the accident. Chris Kraft gave Don and me steaming mugs of coffee during one interview, lent us a tape recorder when ours suffered battery problems...
Meanwhile, in Houston, the rest of TIME'S Apollo reportorial team -Correspondents Don Neff and James Schefter and Bureau Secretary Rose Graham-had set up operations in a motel directly across the street from the Manned Space Center. For Rose, it was the 16th time that she has supervised the movement of typewriters, files, Associated Press ticker and Teletype from the bureau offices in Houston's downtown Humble Building. During Apollo 8's pioneering voyage around the moon, she sent copy by Teletype for 20 hours without letup, all through Christmas Eve until noon on Christmas...
...impending moon flight in a SCIENCE cover story written by Associate Editor Leon Jaroff (TIME, Dec. 6), who also wrote this week's story of the astronauts' flight. To cover the shot, Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer Jim Schefter, all veterans of earlier and less ambitious shots, filed from location. Lee and Schefter stayed at Cane Kennedy until the successful liftoff; then Schefter piloted them by private plane to Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, thus escaping the massive migration of newsmen that jams transportation to Houston after a launch...