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Extra Poundage. Less than an hour later, the three Apollo 14 astronauts boarded the helicopter carrier New Orleans, stepped inside a mobile quarantine van and began their 2½-day journey back to Houston. "We have had a terrific flight," said Apollo 14's skipper, Alan Shepard. He and his fellow travelers were in high spirits and apparently good health, and doctors later discovered that Shepard had actually gained weight (1 Ib.) during his 941,825-mile journey. Indeed, the astronauts' condition-and the fact that no alien organisms had been found on the Apollo...
...captain Pat Coleman has got to win for Harvard, and he is favored to start a Crimson resurgence at this point. Dean Shepard (150) should win his match, and either Colin Mangrum or Mike Slutzker will go at 158, where Princeton has its biggest weak spot. Harvard should win in the 167 and 177-pound classes...
...quite. After Shepard and Mitchell made the usual in-flight inspection of the lunar lander, an unexpected voltage drop was discovered in one of the two batteries of Antares' ascent stage, which would take the astronauts off the moon. The reading was only three-tenths of a volt lower than normal; yet mission controllers felt that it might be a sign of more serious trouble-a leakage in the LM's critical electrical circuitry, for example. That too could have barred a moon landing. Happily, a subsequent check by Mitchell, who holds a doctorate in astronautics from M.I.T...
Moments later, Shepard's crewmate, Edgar Mitchell, followed him down the ladder. Twice the 40-year-old Navy commander hopped off the bottom steps. The relaxed grip of lunar gravity left him as exhilarated as a child in a playground. "Mobility is very great under this 'crushing' one-sixth-G load," Mitchell told Mission Control back home in Houston. Then, with slow, effortless strides, Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing...
...hours, comments on the beauty of the receding earth. "I hope we can keep it so inviting," said Mitchell. Still, they were hardly a talkative crew. After one especially long silence, Houston jogged them a little: "Just wanted to see if you all were still around." A little later, Shepard remarked: "Everything is quiet, going along extremely smoothly, and we have a happy little ship here...