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Scientists at both NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is building Surveyor, the first U.S. lunar soft-landing vehicle, remain skeptical of Barringer's theory. They say it is still largely conjecture. But it is conjecture that has made the problems of radar transparency a vital concern in the design of a sophisticated Surveyor altimeter that should have no trouble distinguishing the true surface of the moon...
Cigar-Sized Jets. The first of seven unmanned Surveyors that Hughes Aircraft built at a cost of $420 million will make a soft landing on the moon early next year, bite into the moon's crust to determine whether it is soft or hard, then use a long-legged TV camera to show observers on earth how deeply it has sunk. After Surveyor reports, Grumman Aircraft's buglike Lunar Excursion Module, for which the company has received a $400 million contract, is expected to ferry two astronauts from the orbiting Apollo capsule for the U.S.'s first...
...Nancy push, paddle, and ride a Victorian wrought-iron bed through London). To a wild, try-anything-a-couple-of-times sense of humor Lester brings an understated visual style. What might be unbearably corny in other hands scores through its restraint. Nancy, for example, seeks directions from a surveyor as he positions an assistant carrying the sighting pole, and as the surveyor gestures vigorously the second man sidles over into an open sidewalk elevator. He is seen, however, only as a tiny vanishing figure in the background, and after a quick shot of his puzzlement in the store basement...
...Missile Industry." But as it separated from its Atlas booster and ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, the 48-ft. Centaur shoved a dum my Surveyor into a perfect flight toward a preselected point in space, 240,000 miles from earth...
...only did the trouble-plagued Pratt & Whitney hydrogen engines take full charge in flight, but the guidance for the General Dynamics rocket sys tem checked out perfectly. Centaur soared into an orbit that was so exact that had Surveyor carried the proper equipment, it could have made a slight mid-course correction and been on its way to the moon...