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...value of the expedition. The landing site, especially, pleased geologists. "It is a very much rockier surface than we might have expected," said NASA Geology Consultant Eugene Shoemaker, who thinks that it afforded a far wider sampling of the lunar surface than would have been found at a smoother landing site. Boulders ejected from craters as far away as 600 miles might well be in the area, he added. Another unexpected dividend, said NASA Geologist Ted Foss, was that many of the rocks may have come from the large crater over which Neil Armstrong flew Eagle just before it touched...
Only three oarsmen, Rob Lolff at seven, Fred Fisher at four, and Joe Bragwell at three, return from last July's unsuccessful boat, and together with four sophomores, a senior up from the JV's, and a new cox, from a distinctly different, smoother rowing crew...
Gobs of Cream. After the exhilarating-and occasionally harrowing -experiences with Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the vicinity of the moon, the return flight of Apollo 10 last week could not have been smoother. On the day before splashdown, the astronauts chalked up a space first. Stafford explained to ground controllers that the crew was about to conduct "scientific experiment Sugar Hotel Alpha Victor Echo"-or SHAVE. NASA had spent $5,000 trying unsuccessfully to perfect a small electric razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments...
Females flop onto the smoother ice to bear their offspring. The newborn pups, plump bundles of snow-white fur, with limpid dark eyes and chic whiskers, spend a full month bleating helplessly on the ice and fattening on the richest maternal milk produced by any mammal. At the end of the month, when their fur darkens, they are ready for the water...
...time was wasted settling in, however, and the transfer of tenancy was even smoother than the transition of power. Within three hours-from the minute the Johnsons stepped out the door until the Nixons stepped in-almost all traces of the previous occupants had disappeared. The Johnsons' clothes and personal effects were whisked away; walls were cleaned to remove the telltale rectangles that showed where the predecessors' favorite pictures had hung. Fresh flowers were placed in every room, books were placed on bedside tables, and fires were lighted in every fireplace...