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EVEN if their mission is a complete triumph, the Apollo 11 astronauts will face a reception far different from those accorded to previous space heroes on their return to earth. There will be no casual camaraderie with the frogmen after splashdown, no lengthy welcoming rites aboard the recovery carrier, no embraces with their wives in Houston. The moon voyagers will be treated-literally-as if they had the plague...
...when the descent to the moon's surface is scheduled. A camera in the lunar module will transmit, live, man's first step on the moon, and Astronauts Aldrin and Armstrong as they collect rock samples. Later, the timetable calls for progress reports on re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific. A final summation of the nine-day journey will be broadcast on each of the three networks on Thursday, July 24, in prime time...
Fact Finding. The trip will start in the mid-Pacific, where, on July 24, Nixon plans to watch the splashdown of Apollo 11 from the pickup carrier, U.S.S. Hornet. He will then visit the Philippines, Indonesia (which no U.S. President has ever visited), Thailand, India and Pakistan, from which he will fly to Bucharest. There he will talk with Rumanian Chief of State Nicolae Ceausescu, at the latter's invitation...
...bellhops, because of the numerous eager amateurs, among them single girls and divorcees drawn to the secretarial ranks of NASA and the space contractors. Liaisons often begin at "Thank God It's Friday" parties that fill the bars until past midnight, or at the frantic launch and splashdown celebrations thrown at The Mouse Trap or The Missile Lounge in Cocoa Beach...
Despite these elaborate decontamination procedures, however, organisms-might well survive in the bodies of the astronauts and in the spacecraft atmosphere. Thus, when the craft is vented upon splashdown and when the hatch is opened twice-no matter how briefly-dangerous organisms could escape into the air and the ocean, perhaps to thrive and pose a threat to life on earth...