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...case of the lunar landing that NASA is still planning for 1969, the scientists on the panel believe that the exterior of the returning spacecraft will probably be free of lunar microorganisms. A more likely carrier of moon contamination will be the lunar soil and rock that the astronauts are planning to bring back with them. More than 40 universities and other scientific institutions have already asked for samples of this fascinating material, but the panel thinks their pleas should be rejected. It insists that the potentially dangerous moonstuff must be carried in germtight containers and must be stored when...
...even more dangerous than those coming home from the moon, because Mars is more likely to support life. It has an atmosphere that may carry living spores to the astronauts' clothing and crevices of the space vehicle. But the panel's report insists that even a spacecraft returning from the moon must be kept strictly out of contact with earthly life until its possibly deadly hitchhikers have been found and rendered harmless...
During his 20 minutes outside the spacecraft, White took pictures, traded repartee with his partner and watched the earth slip by from Mexico to Bermuda. He used an oxygen-firing space gun to propel himself about...
With modest fanfare, last week the Russians launched their first space shot aimed at landing an unmanned vehicle softly on the moon. After a successful mid-course correction of trajectory, Tass announced that the spacecraft Lunik V was expected to touch down on the lunar plain called the Sea of Clouds at 10:15 p.m. Moscow time. And there were proud hints that this time the flight might not end in the destructive crash that has marked all previous Russian and U.S. moon shots...
...great deal of information was obtained which is necessary for the further elaboration of a system for soft landing on the moon's surface." No further explanation was offered, but most non-Soviet experts suspected that Lunik V's retrorockets had not ignited, and that the spacecraft had crashed on the moon while traveling at 6,000 m.p.h. Such a failure to slow down would account neatly for the early impact...