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10 cents 38 Pages 1 LAAYETTE WEST LAAYETTE IND MONDAY EVENING JULY 21 1969 AN Cheese Luna 15 Many in Dark About Moon Spotlight i I a Mans irst Moon Steps Like Testing Ice on Pond I Today's Chuckle One substitute for experience is age 15 or 1 years of age for example i Hornet1 Discovers Mountain Range ABOARD USS HORNET (UPI) The Apollo 11 recovery ship USS Hornet made some discoveries of its own Sunday Moving through the South Pa cific en route to the spaceship recovery area the vessel dis covered a new underwater mountain range and named the highest peaks Apollo 11 and Hornet WHERE TO LOOK THIS EDITION: 2 Sections 30 Pages and a 8 Page Adver tising Tabloid Amusements Classified Comics Deaths Editorials Columns rankfort Markets Radio Sports TV Page Weather West Lafayette Purdue Page lot like to take this opportu nity to ask every person listen ing whoever wherever they may be to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own They planted an American flag and saluted it but made it plain they came to the moon as ambassadors for all mankind They unveiled a stainless steel plaque bearing these words: men from planet Earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969 AD We came in peace for all They left on the moon a disc on which messages from the leaders of 76 nations had been recorded They will return to earth with the flags of 136 nations including Russia And they left behind mementos for three Americans and two Rus sians who died for the cause of space exploration he theme was carped through when President Nixon placed an extraordinary radio call to Armstrong and Aldrin as 1014 29 22 6 4 18 23 10 19 21 22J'' 2 12 14 MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Luna 15 swooped over Apollo Ils lunar landing site today and two theories emerged on its mission that it was to spy on the American moonmen or to rescue them in case their takeoff failed The Soviet news agency Tass said latest orbit carried it as close as 99 miles from the surface and over the Sea of Tranquillity where Apollo 11 landed Scientific sources still thought the Soviet unmanned craft was designed to land scoop up some moon soil and return to earth It was too late now to do that before the Americans if indeed that had been its aim Luna 15 was launched July 13 and swung into moon orbit last Thursday There was specula tion the Soviets already might have tried to land the craft and failed Western scientists in Moscow said earth monitoring stations would not have known if that was the case There were unconfirmed re ports the Soviets kept Luna 15 in orbit waiting for the Eagle landing ship to reach the surface The reports speculated Luna then would have served as a rescue ship should the US Eagle landing craft have been unable to take off As they flanked the American flag Nixon said tell you how proud we all are of what you have done for every American This has to be the proudest day of our lives people all over the world I am sure that they too join with Americans in recog nizing what an immense feat this is Because of what you have done the heavens have become part of world ONE one priceless moment in the whole history of the President continued of the people on this earth are truly one in their pride in what you have done one in our pray ers that you will return safely to Although at times it appeared they were on a romp in the park Armstrong and Aldrin carried out a true exploration of the moon Several times they tested their ability to move about in the one sixth gravity field of the moon loping like antelopes and bouncing like kangaroos not difficult at all mov ing about in one sixth commander Armstrong report ed as he flashed before the See APOLLO Page 6 moon and it will never be the same again Now the moon is real and have it for themselves alone In arctic Norway where the midnight sun kept skies bright through the night Laplanders sat around their campfires com posing sing song folk poems about the astronauts as they lis tened to their transistors Poles jammed the lobby of the US Embassy in Warsaw while hundreds applauded outside So viet media reported the landing without but many Rus sians undoubtedly stayed up to listen to Western broadcasts jib bi A See REACTION Page 6 mented earlier that up there is looking at them too? referring to the late Gen Eb senhower Nixon telephoned Johnson at his Texas home White JPress Secretary Ronald Ziegler told reporters the President informed Johnson that thought we ought share this great Johnson told Nixon Ziegler said he had been following the Apollo 11 activities all day and appreciated? call at the historic momferit Like people around the world Nixon watched tfae "'television screen intently' to see first step on the moon an unbelievable thing he was quoted 'as saying at the moment Arm strong putfoot on the moon Ziegler and Astronaut rank Borman presidential A adviser for the mission met with news men just after midnight to go into more detail how Nixon kept in touch with activities on the moon "He' was amazed at the agil ity of the astronauts? in floating Vol 50 N6'J172 There was no word from the Vatican on whether Pope Paul VI stayed up to watch the walk 'but when the astronauts landed the 71 vear old Dontiff hailed them as of the He said man faces 'expanse of endless space and a new destiny NATIONAL HOLIDAY In Venezuela today is a na tional holiday and the bells of hundreds of churches pealed during the walk A Japanese girl in Tokyo said as she watcheda streetside monitor like a dreamy although I know its not a One go a teen ager sounded a dissent: havestolaiihe romance out of the WASHINGTON' (AP) After a super long distance call to tell men on the moon proiid jWe all Presi dent Nixon phdn'ed Mamie Ei senhower and former President Lyndon Johnson to share his jubilation with them certainly has to' be the most historic' telephone call ever made from the White Nixon told astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Jr Millions of television" viewers saw Sunday telephone conversation through a split pic ture showing bdth the President and astropauts 7 One pricetess moment in the whole history of man 'all of the people on this earth are Ltru ly Nixon said diihing his brief message 7 congratulating the astronauts After talking with the' astro nauts Nixon called Eisen hower at the nearby White House mansion where she is visiting He disclosed that the widow of the' late President Dwight Eisenhower had com 1ST EARTH MOON LASER TRY 50 MILES SAN JOSE Calif (AP) Scientists at Lick Observa tory atop nearby Mt Ham ilton tried unsuccessfully Sunday to bounce a ruby la7 ser beam off a reflector placed on the sur face by the Apollo 11 astro nauts Joseph Miller assistant astronomer said wrong coordinates from Space Center caused the la ser to be beamed 50 miles away from the reflector The experiment is de signed to measure precisely the distance from the earth to the moon by the radar like method of measuring how long the quick burst takes to reach the moon and return to earth and to mea sure any wobble in the or bits of each and to detect any shift in the con tinents Miller said television re ports that the laser ex periment was A successful were untrue but said he was optimistic that once the cor rect location of the space craft was determined the experiment would succeed By Th Associated Press Laplanders pasturing their reindeer listened on transistor radios' Japanese stayed up all ninht to watch on television Millions around the world hung i on every word from the two US astronauts walking on the" moon In some" countries many re mained unaware Communist China with one quarter of the population did not broadcast news about Apollo 11 nor did North Vietnam or North Korea I As Neil A boots scuffed the lunar dust it wasjust before sunrise in most of Europe and a crowd of 2000 still clustered around a giant tele pburids'of soil are to be brought back to earth' The earth is seen in the background white the Apollo command module orbits overhead 'i SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) The Apollo astronauts struck paydirt in their prospect ing on the moon Their luck especially was in finding a great variety of differ ent rocks which could tellmuch about the age and origin They saw a curious purple rock and perhaps put it in one of the two treasure chests they are bringing home And they cored out a five inch deep sample of lunar soil that a suggestion there might be water and so perhaps microscopic life be neath the surface But the moist dark appearance could simply be from tight packing of fine particles of ma terial cautions David McKaygeologist of the Manned Space craft Center They found the crust of the moon much harder than numer ous geologists and astronomers expected they would It took work to dig out two core sam ples and to plant the American flag They found rocks that look like basalt bom of volcanoes and rocks resembling biotite a J' dark colored mica that usually al PArtioirtC tuA fifl water They found the surface dusty getting their boots coated cocoa brown with it They set up a seismometer which soon was recording moon tremors although these might be only from the footsteps of the astronauts especially when A they cavorted' on the desert like moon like kids in a playground IT me muon sun snunnues '4 they leave today scientists 4 think the ultra sensitive in struments can tell them if the quakes come from volcanic ac tivity or hits by meteorites Landing Reported JODRELL BANK England (AP) Russia apparently landed its unmanned Luna 15 space probe on the moon today just as American astro nauts Neil A Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr 500 miles away prepared to take off Mopndqy! Waather in area to cloudy and mild orx moon it's all calm dn Page Neil Armstrong Purdue Graduate All Time Hero SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) Neil A Arm strong and Edwin Aldrin Jr blasted off safely from the moon and into lunar orbit today beginning the com plex maneuvers to link up with their mother ship They left behind their footprints in the lunar dust and in the history of man Their liftoff began 69 seconds after the command ship with Michael Collins its lone passenger passed 69 miles above Tranquillity Base Seven minutes later they entered orbit and a 34 hour chase began If all went well the two ships would link up at 5: 32 pm EDT and head for home at 12:57 am Tuesday Their trusty lander which settled them onto the the surface Sunday for a 2114 hour stay served them too at liftoff They left behind the spindly legged lower stage their launching platform as a permanent me mento of July 20 1969 the day man landed on the moon It was the first time a rocket had lifted anything from the moon RESTLESS SLEEPER Mission control awakened the moonmen shortly after 11 am following a six hour rest period Instru ments which monitored Armstrong during the night indicated he slept fitfully There is only one set of bio medical instruments in the cabin so Aldrin was not monitored Sleeping in the cramped quarters of the LM is difficult and Aldrin reported: has been lying on the engine cover and I curled up bn the Checking of systems and switch settings for the critical liftoff was the No 1 priority after wakeup A successful liftoff shoot them into lunar orbit to chase down Michael Collins or biting some 65 miles overhead in the Apollo 11 command ship Once linked up they pln to fire themselves back toward earth early Tuesday ending a space odyssey in which they etched their names beside those of great explorers Co lumbus Balboa Magellan Da Gama and Byrd 500 MILLION WATCH Through television an esti mated 500 million people around the world had a ringside seat to greatest adventure It was unforgettable Purdue University graduate Armstrong climbed through the LM hatch and started backing down a nine rung ladder On the second rung from the bottom he opened a compartment ex posing a television camera The picture was black and white and somewhat jerky but it recorded history Among scientists there was elation that the crew had landed in an area with a variety of that HaIh least the hope of a rich payoff they strolled the surface in the search to learn more about moon and earth AT 10:56 PM As Armstrong planted his size 92 left boot on the powdery surface at 10:56 pm Sunday he spoke words that will be re membered for all time: one small step for man a giant leap for The camera trained on Aldrin as he stepped on the far shore 20 minutes later and exclaimed: Beautiful! Magnifi cent There were other memorable utterances during the day of high adventure There were words when Eagle separated from the command ship to start the dangerous descent: Eagle is There were and first words from the surface after touch down at pm: Tranquillity base here The Eagle has APPEAL TO RELIGION Or when Aldrin "a deeply reli gious man relayed this mes sage to the world shortly after the landing: is the LM pi irst Step on Moon Astronaut Neil Armstrong a Purdue University graduate launches the age of extra terrestrial man as he sets foot on the moon the first human being ever to do so This photograph taken from a television screen shows his foot stepping on the surface Sunday (UPI Telephoto) Moon Not Made Of Liinai Soil Collected Apollo 11 Spacecraft Commander Neil A Armstrong a Purdue University'' graduate scoops lunar soil sample into pouch held by iinar Mndiils Pilot Edwin Aldrin in this illustration produced at the Space Center (UPI Telephoto) Nixon Apolloites Share Jubilation by Phone By SAUL PETT SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) They took their first steps onto the moon cautiously like prudent boys testing the first ice of winter on a country pond When first they walked they walked carefully and slowly leaning forward plodding heavi ly like tired old cops on a beat in Staten Island As they acquired confidence they walked faster now with a slow bounce in the one sixth gravity of the moon And then they ran and their stride was 1zMCTA 4 knn An ZXQ onrl t'hair shoes seemed suspended off the ant leap for man something of the floating quality of figures on slow motion film When they were still they seemecj very still as if frozen and they leaned forward like puppets to be at a lunar form of attention when the president spoke to them from earth All the while the earth was and above them In this first incredible day of an incredible new era (me needs to repeat that: the earth was above them In the distance the lunar sur face looked pocked and leathery like the back of a dead alligator Closer up it looked like rubble like earth levelled roughly after a disaster dead They looked ghostlike on the soundless airless mostly color less moon Over the curving around on the shrface'' Bor man said of the President He said he thoight the moon landing and the'operations on the lunar surfaq: had been so successful because there been no major surprises BQrtnan wasjtwitlr jthe chief executive stirtrngi from the tiine the astronauts were' pre paring to steprfrom their space craft onto surface outlining the procedures There wasome discussion of the future: qP the space program earliervirriffiejday Borman re said the 1 President told lm jw could quote Lim as saying an activist' in apd would have a vital Space program as long as he waschiexecutive Hie sd too thatNixon was aware wTstatements by? Vice President Spiro AgneW that Marsvfould bepext But any decision on that will be up' to Nixon the astronaut said after he receives a report due about Sept fl from a spe cial task force he set up to as sess thefuture of the space pro grams horizon only one and a half miles away on a planet smaller than earth there was the black ness of space and infinity The foreground was starkly lighted by the sun and the men and their vehicle cast long shadows It was dawn on the moon and a dawn in the history of man Neil Alden Armstrong for merly of 601 West Benton St Wapakoneta a town in Ohio a state in the United States a country on the planet earth ex tended his left foot onto the moon: HISTORY CONTENT one small step for with he said The first words were tine History would oe con tent Now for the scientists surface is fine and powdery It adheres like charcoal to the soles of my shoes You go down only about an And for the doctors seems to be no difficulty in moving And for the geologists and the biologists and the others seeking the age of the solar system and the secret of life he immediately began collecting samples of rock in case he had to leave in a hurry And Buzz Aldrin came down the second man on the surface of the moon And together they walked and ran like kids at re cess and then like men with the responsibility of the ages they went to work They gathered rocks they set up a foil panel to measure the solar wind they installed a seis mometer to probe the interior of the moon they set up a small mirror to reflect laser beams from earth to measure the quarter million miles between the two planets to an accuracy of six inches And they planted the flag of their country on the still face of the moon ANYTHING ELSE? inally Aldrin to Earth: for us before I head Earth: Negative neaa on up the ladder Buzz was first up Armstrong stayed a few minutes longer carefully guiding the hoisting of the rock boxes like the last pi rate off an island with a load of gold Then Armstrong climbed up the captain being the last to return from alien land And now the moon was mo tionless again All that re mained was the landing craft looking like a surrealistic crab' and the scientific instruments and the American flag frozen in arrested motion and in the still ness the mystery of the mooft began to end for scientists and the mystique of the moon be gan to end for poets and lovers EAGLE LIES AGAIN MAN SETS OOT ON MOON vision screen in Tra falgar Square At the Jodreli Bank radio ob servatory Sir Bernard Lovell leading space expert stopped tracKing tne progress 01 the Soviet craft Luna '15 over the moon to watch Armstrong just speechless with Lovell said is nothing more I can say than? that it is absolutely fantastic One can scarcely be lieve it is taking jplace as lone Crowds in front of TV screens at Paris sidewalk' cafes and bars in' Rome cheered as Arm strong bounded over the surface and Buzz Aldrin began his descent a i 1 r' MT 3 nJ I i T'U in 2 1 Ji Xi LJMM Plllffllll Ci 17' JTX vt 'f.