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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...
...Aldrin narrated movies of Apollo 14 and the barren surface of the moon. The film began with the lunar landing, and then showed the two astronauts deploying scientific equipment, in between wild, floating races across the surface of the moon. These antics brought a word of explanation from Aldrin, who said. "Well you don't have to wonder where the term lunatic came from...
...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...