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A1 and Pete returned to their
[earthly playground Wednesday
ht, as full of zip and laughter
the first time they touched
mr soil. It wasn’t a moon-
ilk. It was a romp.
The television camera that as-
jmauts Alan L. Bean and
paries “Pete" Conrad put on
ie moon still didn’t work. “That
pg-a-ling camera," Conrad call-
it.
lut even without television,
ment one and segment two
the moonwalk, made a price-
is radio show. Bean, the
ight man. Conrad, the come-
in and his own delighted audi-
There never was a sound from
ace like Pete Conrad’s cackle.
He hummed while he worked
the moon. He sang. He
dstled, he laughed and he
ackled. He bubbled with job
every new wonder. But most-
he cackled.
They were being very business-
e, when suddenly Conrad ex-
imed: “Man, have I got the
apefruit rock of all grapefruit
:ks.’’
Bean joined in. “That’s gotta
me home in the space vehicle.
never fit in the rock box."
A. few minutes later they were
roll a rock down a crater to
jotograph its track and to al-
(v earth to read the squiggles
a seismometer experiment.
f’Let me ask you a question,
uston,” said Conrad. “How
a rock?"
||Misson Control said whatever
e was convenient.
“I’m still standing still, Hous
ton," said Conrad as he let his
favorite rock tumble: “Hit. Hit.
Now! It’s just rolling. Roll, roll,
roll. Still rolling.”
His happiness sang across
240,000 miles of space.
“It’s really a shame, Houston,"
he said. “We could work out
here for eight or nine hours.”
And Bean said, “The work is no
strain at all.”
The whole time on the moon,
Conrad was the kid let loose in
the toy store, the burglar with
the key to the mint, the only boy
on the block with Joe Namath’s
autograph.
He was Pete Conrad, delighted
to be on the moon.
“Whooo," he shouted, picking
up a rock. “Just like the one-
sixth-G airplane, Al. Flies up
in the air. Chase it around. Wild,
I’ll tell you. You know this sun,
it really is just like somebody’s
got a superbright spotlight.”
And he laughed. Never mind
that nobody on earth knew what
he was laughing about because
the television conked out just
after it showed Conrad and Bean
getting out of their lunar taxi.
It was like radio of the 40s
where you got caught up in the
thing whether you knew what
was happening or not. Pete and
Al were having their adventure
and you zipped along with them.
You laughed when Pete laughed,
even when nobody said anything
funny.
Mission Control, like an indul
gent mother, urged them to start
getting back to the spaceship.
Put away the toys and come in
boys.
“Hey,” Conrad shouted, “I just
threw something, and it bounced
up and must have gone 300
feet.” The stuff discoveries are
made of.
Bean admonished: “Hey, quit
playing and get some work done.”
“We suggest you go at a re
laxed hustle,” was Mission Con
trol’s reply. Mother was getting
more insistent for the moonwalk
to end.
So they head back, and from
the hard breathing it was a hus
tle that was not too relaxed but
then something else got Pete’s
attention.
“Halt, halt, halt!” he said.
“Look at that! Never saw one
like that before. Look at that!
That green? What is it?”
“Let’s see it,” said Bean.
“No, it was green,” Conrad
said. “I mean, that’s why I
stopped. Heck with it. Bring
the rock back.” More heavy
breathing. On radio it’s obvious
they are carrying it.
The boys were almost back
home. Mother, that big Mission
Control Center on the earth, has
got them back. Bean climbed
back in first.
“Hey Al and Pete,” said the
man from Mission Control.
“That was a hell of a show.
Too bad the TV didn’t work.”
Obviously, Mother was too young
to remember radio.
READING IMPROVER
Students have at their fingertips 50 of the reading pacers
used here by Chris Gavlak, Counseling and Testing Cen
ter secretary. The mechanically-operated bar moves down
a page of reading material, forcing the reader to improve
speed and comprehension through more efficient eye move
ments. Fred Dodson, who runs the Reading Skills Pro
gram for counseling and testing, noted pacers, reading
material and instructions are available to students through
civilian hall advisors and unit scholastic officers. Chris
is the wife of forestry major Joe Gavlak.
Intrepid Soars From Moon
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APO SELLING PAPERWEIGHTS
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17. “Old Sarge” stands more than nine inches tall, weighs
t least two pounds, and costs $3. He can be obtained
rom any APO member or by writing the service frater-
lity at Box 7454, College Station. Cronrath said APO will
Iso have a booth set up in the Memorial Student Center
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meter, the astronauts loped about
in the one-sixth gravity field, and
Mission Control told them their
steps were thundering on the
recorder.
“You ever see those pictures
of giraffes running in slow mo
tion?” Conrad laughed. “Exactly
what I feel like.”
Scientists in Houston asked
them several times to look at
Management Coed
Wins C of C Grant
Mrs. Diane Valera, senior
management major, has been
awarded a $300 Bryan-College
Station Chamber of Commerce
scholarship.
The scholarship was presented
to the first A&M coed recipient
by Lowell Jones, vice president
of the Chamber’s commercial di
vision.
Business Dean John Pearson
noted Mrs. Valera, a Distingush-
ed Student whose grade point ra
tio “is one of the best anywhere
at A&M,” praised the college’s
scholarship committee for her se
lection.
“Mrs. Valera was chosen over
a number of quality applicants,”
the dean said. “We feel that the
commercial division of the
Chamber of Commerce should be
pleased with this investment of
their funds.”
The award rotates annually
through the chamber’s divisions
and to appropriate colleges at
A&M.
certain craters or to take pictures
of various objects, and the astro
nauts were happy to comply.
But they balked when asked to
climb down Head Crater to in
spect what they said looked like
melted rock in the center.
“That crater is a little too
steep,” Conrad explained. They
didn’t go.
They had some advice for fu
ture Apollo crews.
“If we had a belt to strap to a
guy’s back,” Conrad said, “one
guy could hold on to it and the
other could bend over and pick
up rocks. It would save a lot of
time.”
Because of the bulky space
suits, the astronauts have to use
scoops or tongs to collect samples.
And for his counterpart on the
Apollo 13 mission, Bean had this
advice: “Tell Fred Haise that he
might quit working on running
and start working on holding
things. You don’t get tired walk
ing, but you get tired holding
these tools.”
They regretfully ended the
second excursion at 2 :45 a.m. EST
and re-entered Interpid’s cabin to
eat, rest and prepare for blast
off. They could look out the
window at the array of scientific
instruments they deployed on
their first moonwalk.
Looking ahead, Conrad asked:
“What’s up with Yankee Clipper
this morning?”
“Yankee Clipper is doing real
good,” Mission Control replied.
“Now all we have left is a little
rendezvous,” Conrad said, looking
to the reunion with Richard F.
Gordon Jr., whom they last saw
Tuesday night before the third
and fourth men went to the moon.
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