Word: aldrin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., second man on the moon, tantalized a crowd of almost 300 last night with pictures and descriptions of "jelly-like glass objects," lunar soil, an unedited film of the moon-surface landing of the Apollo 14 lunar module, and a taste of what it was like to be there...
Concluding his talk with an explanation and justification of the space program as a quest for knowledge, Aldrin said. "Nations must expand and look outward. We cannot be concerned only with our welfare problems. That is what nations have characteristically done in the past. That is when they crumble and fall apart, and we can't afford to do that...
...Aldrin was joined by Clifford Frondel, professor of Mineralogy: Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany; and Ursula B. Marvin, staff member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and associate of the Harvard College Observatory. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific fraternity...
...sent an unmanned spaceship to the moon. Its probable mission was to land on the lunar surface, scoop up some soil and beat the Americans back to earth with the first samples of moon material. Luna 15 never achieved that ambitious goal. Several hours after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first mortals to step onto the moon, the Soviet spaceship dropped out of lunar orbit, apparently crashed and was never heard from again...
Meantime, home gardeners face the growing problem of what to do with unwanted stocks of hard pesticides-not only DDT but also DDD, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, chlordane, heptachlor and others. Such long-lived chemicals could not be safely buried; they would sooner or later get into the water supply. Nor could they be incinerated; the dangerous fumes would carry a considerable distance. In fact, the most sensible solution, says...