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While Astronaut Ken Mattingly orbited overhead in the command module Casper, Duke and Young stared out their cabin window onto the sundrenched Cayley Plains. Near their spacecraft, they excitedly reported to scientists back in Mission Control, was a large variety of rocks and boulders, some as big as 10 ft. across, glistening in shades of white and pink and gray. "All we have to do is jump out the hatch and we've got plenty of rocks," exclaimed Duke. The astronauts also reported brilliantly gleaming ray patterns -splashes of material gouged from the moon's interior by meteorite...
Some of the questions may be resolved by the flight of Apollo 16, scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy on Sunday, April 16. The spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make...
...basic unit of measure. For example, to the woman's right is the binary symbol for eight (D). Multiplied by 21 cm., the figure yields her height, 168 cm., or about 51 ft., which can easily be verified by comparing her size to that of the spacecraft...
...also noted in binary terms) at which they give off radio signals. The 15th line (F), extending behind the humans, indicates the distance of their star to the center of the galaxy. That information should tell extraterrestrial scientists even a million years from now when and from where the spacecraft was launched. For specific details, they can look at a representation of the solar system (G). It shows that Pioneer left from the third planet from the sun (lower left), swept past the fifth (Jupiter) and then veered off into interstellar space...
...know if the message will ever be found or decoded," the Sagans and Drake write in Science. "But its inclusion on the Pioneer spacecraft seems to us a hopeful symbol of a vigorous civilization on earth...