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Movie footage taken through a window of the descending lunar module Orion offers a panoramic view of the rubbled Cayley Plains, the craters looming ever larger. Then a black speck appears on the approaching surface, expanding rapidly until it is recognizable as Orion's sharp, spidery shadow, and finally disappearing in a swirl of gray dust as the lander touches on the surface. There are also still shots that strikingly convey the eerie desolation of lunar distances. None is more dramatic than one that shows the Lunar Rover parked on the far edge of a yawning crater while Astronaut...
...view, Orion's upper stage shot up above a spray of colored debris from the lower stage's protective gold foil. The camera worked so well that Houston could follow Orion's ascent for nearly two minutes, until the little craft was no more than a speck of light against the utter blackness of space. Later, after Orion locked with Casper in moon orbit, Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they were bringing with them. Later, having nearly obscured their original check lists with fresh flight...
...High over California, an unemployed Stanford graduate named Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, demanded $500,000 and four parachutes in a plan to commandeer a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 to Miami. But he imprudently left the plane at San Diego to pick up navigation charts for the crew, and was overpowered by police and PSA's hard-nosed president, J. Floyd Andrews, who said: "What these guys really need is to get shot right in the face...
...concentration on his meetings suggests he is a serious man who could be trusted. That is his central mission, and if he implants even a speck of that idea then he will make progress...
Advocates of the death penalty argue that an Aikens -or a Manson or a Speck or an Eichmann-must be cut out of society. If these people are usually poor, friendless or from a minority group, it is because that is the sort of person who commits such crimes. Whatever the reasons for the crime, say those who favor the penalty, it is irresponsible ever to give a mass murderer a chance to go free. Abolitionists point out that life sentences could be imposed without possibility of parole, or that parole need never be granted if the prisoner...