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...went into hibernation last week for the 14-day lunar night, were even more remarkable. As the sun slowly sank toward the moon's horizon, the lengthening shadows cast by Surveyor itself appeared with startling clarity in shots of nearby terrain. In one picture, the 10-ft.-high spaceship's shadow stretched 50 ft. away. At sunset, the camera, aimed directly at the solar fireball, captured the brilliant halo of the sun's corona-usually invisible on earth because of the terrestrial atmosphere. After nightfall, Surveyor successfully took the last of the 10,338 photographs...
...whirled in orbit around the moon, the instrument-crammed Soviet spaceship Luna 10 was busily recording and reporting man's first continuous supply of data about the lunar environment. Though the Russians did not tell all they learned, the information they did release confirmed that their distant capsule was carrying out its fact-finding mission with singular success...
...first word about the latest Russian space feat came, as usual, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a greying British scientist. Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of Manchester's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, to track the Soviet spaceship Luna 10 on its successful moon mission, jumped at the chance of providing a maneuver-by-maneuver account that enabled the free world to learn of the first lunar or bit before most Russians...
...Gemini been within range of a tracking station when trouble began, ground controllers could have immediately diagnosed the problem and told Armstrong how to solve it. But the spaceship was in a dead zone between stations, and in all its maze of instruments, none was designed to report when thrusters were firing. Though the short circuit might have required early termination of the mission anyway, such on-board instrumentation would have enabled Armstrong to bring Gemini under control much more quickly...
That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success. Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA technicians followed the approaching capsule by radar and urgently queried Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott for additional information. In the Mission Control Center near Houston, flight controllers huddled over their consoles and studied telemetered data in a desperate effort to track down the trouble. Millions of Americans listened in startled silence as NASA's Paul Haney, his usually calm voice urgent and shaken, announced over television and radio that...