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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 2, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Apollo past midpoint of journey to the moon “Before you go into your room, let me tell you that some of th’ guys picked up several momentos of Guion Hall that they thought you’d like to have!” Bulletin Board TONIGHT South Louisiana Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC lobby to have pictures made for the Aggieland. Texas A&M Model Airplane Club will meet at 8:15 in room 202 of the Physics building to collect dues and plan spring contests. WEDNESDAY Houston Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room of the MSC to elect a sweetheart. Omega Phi Alpha will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 3A of the MSC to discuss a constitution, advisers and projects. Dallas Hometown Club will meet at 8 p.m. in room 3D of the MSC to discuss the Easter party. Port Arthur Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in lounge B, between dorms 2 and 4. North-South Carolina Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in lounge D in the cadet area to discuss future parties. Mid-Jefferson County Home town Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the east gate Ralph’s Pizza for a reactivation meeting. Free pizza for all Aggies from Neder land, Port Neches, Groves and Port Acres. - Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow ship will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 304 of the Physics Building. THURSDAY Student Senate will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the conference room on the second floor of the library. Meeting is open to all students. American Meteorological So ciety will meet at 8 p.m. in room 102 of Nagle Hall. Aggieland picture will be taken at 7:30 p.m. in front of the MSC. SPACE CENTER, Houston CP) —The Apollo 14 astronauts flash ed past the halfway point Mon day of their quarter-million-mile voyage to the moon, with doubts dispelled that a pesky docking apparatus would block their lunar landing. The spacemen, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa, awoke from a day-long sleep only a few hours after of ficials announced that a space craft docking problem had ap parently cleared itself. Mission Control engineers said the problem with a docking me chanism that failed to work prop erly Sunday had apparently work ed itself out and space officials gave a go-ahead for Shepard and Mitchell to guide the Apollo 14 lunar module down into the for bidding Fra Mauro lunar high lands Friday. Apollo 14 sped past the half way point at 6:08 p.m. CST. The spacecraft was then 125,350 miles from both the earth and the moon, and was flying through space at about 3,200 miles per hour. At 9:39 p.m. CST, the astro nauts fired the power service propulsion rocket engine on the back of their spacecraft for 10 seconds. This increased their speed of flight by 48.6 m.p.h. and adjusted their time of arrival and altitude at the moon. The course correction rocket firing will cause the spacecraft to go into an orbit 69 miles above the moon early Thursday morn ing. Without the rocket firing, the spacecraft would have curved around the back of the moon, 2,420 miles above its surface, and headed back toward earth. The astronauts retired about tonight on the tube 15 (12) 3:00 3:30 3 15 (57 (12) Numbers in ( ) denote chan nels on the cable. 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night Sesame Street (PBS) (Repeat of Monday) 3 (5) Gomer Pyle Town Talk University Instructional That Girl Bewitched What’s New (NET) General Hospital Misterogers’ Neighborhood (NET) CBS News Sesame Street (PBS) 6:00 6:30 3 (5) 3 (5) 15 (12) 7:00 3 (5) 15 (12) 7:30 4:00 4:30 3 3 15 (5) (5) (12) 3 (5) 15 (12) 8:30 3 (5) 5:00 3 (5) 9:00 15 (12) 15 (12) 3 (5) 15 (12) 5:30 3 15 (5) (12) 10:00 10:30 3 (5) 3 (5) Evening News Beverly Hillbillies Campus and Community Today Green Acres Know Your Antiques (ETS) Hee Haw Black Journal (NET) All in the Family Viewpoint Marcus Welby, MD The Advocates (PBS) Final News Movie of the Week Bingo—Weekdays at 5, buy. You need not be BCS*TV/9. Nothing to present to win. Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publication; Lindsey, chairman; H. _F. Eilers, Collegi rineerinj are: Jim iberal Arts ; Board Lindsey, chairman; M. Eilers, College of Li! F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, College of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student. Servi Franc: Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising rices, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San ncisco. Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods. 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They awoke about 5 p.m. CST and reported they felt refreshed. Although the world was kept in suspense on whether Apollo 14 would land on the moon, there apparently was no doubt in the astronaut’s minds when they set tled down for a 10-hour rest pe riod early Monday. At a news conference Mon day, Mission Director Chester Lee firmly announced an exten sive analysis of the docking me chanism uncovered no problem now but failed to explain why it did not operate properly Sunday. He said the mission would con tinue as planned. “We’re proceeding with every intention of making a full lunar landing mission,” said Lee. “We can find nothing wrong with the (docking) probe. We are confi dent now that the docking probe is good.” The statement was made at a news conference Monday after noon after engineers on the ground had spent all night ex amining models of the docking mechanism to try to find out why it failed to operate properly in five docking attempts Sun day. Astronaut James McDivitt, manager of the Apollo Space craft Program, told newsmen, “I can’t help but feel there was some foreign object that got into the system. Where the foreign object came from and where it went, we don’t know.” Once the spacecraft had been launched, had orbited earth 1% times and was then fired off in space toward the moon, Roosa pulled the command ship out from the lunar module and spent third stage rocket Sunday night. He turned it around and tried five times to rejoin it nose to nose with the lunar module. And five times three small met al latches failed to capture and hold. Space officials explained Mon day that the two craft finally were linked when Roosa drove the plunger-like docking probe into the lunar module Drogue and the three small latches sprang into place. As the latches engaged they triggered a con traction of the probe. This drew the craft together and 12 large docking latches slammed into place with 3,000 pounds of force, clamping the craft together. The astronauts removed the docking device and brought it inside the command ship early Monday. With the aid of a flash light and instructions radioed from earth, they carefully in spected the probe and the drogue, which is the section of the dock ing device that is attached to the lunar module. But they could find nothing amiss. They were able to latch the two pieces together by hand with ease, trying without suc cess to repeat the earlier failure. The docking mishap had put the astronauts’ chances of land ing on the moon in doubt. Such a landing in the rugged old Fra Mauro highlands of the moon has been scheduled for 3:16 a.m. CST Friday. -.4 3im ptnntce umberaitp men’s; toear 329 University Drive 718/846-2706 College Station, Texas 77840 Rotary Community Series Presents -M W *41 Wm*- naEW H THE FRED WARING SHOW G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM Tuesday Night, Feb. 16, 1971, 8:00 p. m. ADMISSION; Rotary Series Ticket Holders: Reserved Sections—Rows 1-15 Main Floor Rows 1-15 West Balcony (Sec. 104-107) Town Hall Season Ticket Holder and A&M Activity Card Holders: FREE GENERAL ADMISSION OTHER PRICES: Reserved Seats: A&M Student and/or date $2.25 or $2.50 All Others $4.50 or $5.00 General Admission: A&M Student & Date $2.00 Other Students $2,50 All Others $3.50 Tickets, information MSC Student Programs Office Call 845-4671 BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • IlfSURANCE F.H.A.—Veteran* and Conventional Loam Tuesday ARM A HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevndn, Mo. SSSS Tnn* Are. (in Ridfecreat) 846-3708 Town Hall — Artist Showcase Presents 3 CH :i HO F Com! Taco, Beam Hot Chips Rei $1 JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET “Represents the very best model of modem quartet playing at its best.” — New York Times MSC BALLROOM Tuesday Night, Feb. 9, 1971, 8:00 p. m. 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