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...their earthly ordeal seems slightly annoying and anticlimactic, the astronauts show no signs of regret. To them, the conquest of the moon was far more than a personal triumph. "We've come to the conclusion," said Aldrin on the night before splashdown, "that this has been far more than three men on a voyage to the moon. More even than the efforts of one nation. We feel that this as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. Apollo 11 has surely pointed the way for an era of exploration that carry...
...Goodman, a frequent critic of U.S. institutions, wrote in the New York Times: "It's good to 'waste' money on such a moral and esthetic venture. These are our cathedrals." At Atlanta's Cathedral of St. Philip, the Episcopal priest who married Buzz and Joan Aldrin prayed: "Almighty King of the universe, God of glory, bless Neil, Edwin and Michael, who have ventured into measureless space for the enrichment of knowledge for all mankind...
...NASA geologists gave high grades to both Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin for their descriptions of the lunar rocks, many of which seemed to be basaltic, or of volcanic origin. Though Aldrin originally used the word wet to describe the lunar soil that he extracted with a core sampler, it was later explained that he had meant simply that the material tended to cling together because of the lunar vacuum...
...questions as it answered. "They had more mobility and they were able to move faster with greater ease than some of us expected," said Gilruth. "They only used about half to a third of the oxygen and water that we might have expected them to use." But why did Aldrin have so much trouble penetrating the lunar surface beyond a few inches with his core sampler? Why was he able to plant the stand for the solar wind experiment only a few feet away with such ease? Why did the blast from the LM's engine fail to carve...
...onto the moon. No longer hooked up with the cabin, Armstrong carried in his backpack a 61-lb. unit consisting of two transmitters and three receivers. The portable outfit sent his voice back to the LM, which then rebroadcast it to the world. Once Edwin Aldrin emerged from the cabin, he picked up Armstrong's voice directly by means of a backpack receiver of his own. Aldrin's voice, in turn, was broadcast to Armstrong by a tiny FM transmitter. It was Armstrong's backpack equipment, however, that converted Aldrin's voice back to a standard...