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...script called for a spaceman's view of a crash landing on the moon. For background music there would be the high whine of telemetry signals literally coming from out of this world. With the aid of some of the nation's greatest scientists and engineers, that unprobable show was precisely what the TV networks offered their audience last week. Live from the spacecraft Ranger IX came man's closest and sharpest look at his lunar neighbor...
...Last week's landing near Perm was the first apparent error. A late report said that Colonel Belyayev fired his retrorockets while over Africa to check the ship's speed and start it curving down toward the earth. He was said to be the first Soviet spaceman to take over the landing controls himself, but whether this action was planned or was forced by some failure of the automatic-landing system was not made clear...
Besides his challenges in space, Mueller faces an earthly problem at NASA. Holmes was an ebullient manager, ran an exciting shop. Since his resignation announcement, his men have lost a lot of their old moon-ho spirit. "It's no fun to work here any more," a NASA spaceman recently grumbled. Mueller has a big job ahead just getting morale back into orbit...
Korth, 53, is slightly stooped, combs his white hair severely back, wears thick, black-rimmed glasses. When he gets all gussied up in a jet flight suit, he looks like a cartoonist's rendition of a Sad Sack Spaceman. But on the basis of his performance so far, Korth is far from being ridiculous. He is neither the admirals' cabin boy nor one of Mc-Namara's whiz kids...
...speech, Mayor John P. Holloway rose to say: "When you open a highway, you cut a ribbon. When you build a building, you lay a cornerstone. In the case of a pool, the only way . . ." Thus, done with formalities, the mayor and three Boulder officials threw the triple-orbiting spaceman -trim grey suit, white shirt, striped tie and all-headlong into the water, manfully jumped in after...