Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite man's daring exploration of the lunar surface, the enigmatic moon still conceals the story of its origin and evolution. In fact, the findings of the Apollo astronauts have created new lunar mysteries. Says Apollo 16 Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly: "The first four landing missions have really posed more questions about the moon than they've answered...
...Cape Kennedy on Sunday, April 16. The spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make these explorations even more scientifically interesting is their site: the lunar highlands, considered the moon's oldest...
CAPTAIN JOHN W. YOUNG, U.S.N., 41, Apollo 16's commander, has served on more space crews than any other astronaut. In 1965, along with the late Gus Grissom, Young made three orbits of the earth aboard the first manned Gemini flight. One year later, he commanded the Gemini 10 mission, and in 1969 flew within nine miles of the moon's surface aboard Apollo 10's command module. Young was also a back-up crewman for Gemini 6, Apollo 7 and the ill-starred Apollo 13; in all, he has been undergoing intensive flight training continuously...
...LIEUT. COMMANDER THOMAS KENNETH MATTINGLY II, U.S.N., 36, the COmmand-module pilot, has been the most conscientious member of the Apollo 16 crew during preflight training. With good reason, he leaves nothing to chance. Shortly before he was scheduled to make his first space flight aboard Apollo 13 two years ago, the longtime bachelor (he finally married in 1970) was accidentally exposed to the German measles. Because Mattingly had never had the disease or been immunized against it, NASA replaced him as command-module pilot rather than risk the first case of measles in space. Mattingly, who stayed behind...
...higher prices has not quenched Americans' wanderlust. Last year close to 3,000,000 Americans visited Europe, and travel-industry leaders expect about a 10% gain this year. For those who do go, moneymen offer some advice for stretching dollars. First, carry traveler's checks, which command a better exchange rate than cash does. Second, convert money at banks, which pay more for dollars than hotels do. Finally, pay immediately for foreign purchases rather than charge them. If the value of the dollar weakens further, the bill, when finally presented, may well be higher than expected...