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...rare beauty. The slow blossoming of the spacecraft's three orange and white parachutes against the bright, azure sky seemed designed for maximum drama. Then, in a final demonstration of precision, the spacecraft Casper hit the water only one mile off the bow of the recovery carrier Ti-tonderoga. Once out of its natural element, Casper immediately capsized; it bobbed nose down in the choppy South Pacific for five minutes until the astronauts-strapped in upside-down and rapidly becoming queasy-righted it with three flotation bags. That brief misadventure could not come close to dampening the exuberance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure from the Moon | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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