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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 19, 1972
THE
THE BATTALIQ
Apollo 16 overcomes minor problem
SPACE CENTER, Houston CP)
— Apollo 16 astronauts heading
toward a moon landing worked
with ground controllers Tuesday
and overcame a guidance prob
lem that briefly froze their
spaceship in one position and an
antenna problem that affected
radio communications.
Systems worked out at Mission
Control were promptly put into
effect by the spacemen to cor
rect both deficiencies.
“One of the things we need in
this program is some octopuses,”
astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly
II commented at one point while
the men were busy resetting a
series of switches.
The men thus spent part of
the day dealing with the third
and fourth problems they have
encountered since they were
launched Sunday. The others in
volved peeling paint and a faulty
latch, neither of which turned
out to be of serious concern,
either.
Their spacecraft has been
gradually slowing since it rock
eted out of earth orbit. But it
will begin picking up speed Wed
nesday morning when the moon’s
gravity starts tugging it for
ward.
The command ship, Casper, and
its lunar lander, Orion, will hurtle
around the moon Wednesday aft
ernoon and the astronauts will
fire a long rocket burst to settle
the spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Astronauts John W. Young
and Charles M. Duke Jr. will
guide Orion to a landing on a
crater-scarred volcanic plateau
high in the southern mountains
of the moon Thursday. Touch
down is scheduled for 3:41 p.m.
EST.
Officials said an errant elec
trical surge confused a space
ship computer early Tuesday
and caused it to send commands
which locked the guidance sys
tem. This, in effect, wiped out
the basic reference needed by
the spacecraft to locate and steer
itself in space.
Mattingly fed instructions to
the computer which then rea
ligned what is called the inertial
guidance system platform.
The system was operating
properly again within 18 min
utes.
The astronauts were in no dan-
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Moon may have had volcanic past
SPACE CENTER, Houston (A>)
— The moon is calm and peace
ful now but Apollo 16 astronauts
think they’ll find evidence on a
rugged plateau where they land
Thursday that she had a hell
raising past.
The site is interesting and im
portant, says Dr. Leon Silver,
lunar geologist at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasa
dena, because in the highlands he
believes there are clues that the
moon was violent and exciting in
her youth.
Astronaut John W. Young is
scheduled to set the landing ship
down in the Descartes region, on
a tableland 8,000 feet above the
level of the lunar mares. With
fellow moonwalker Charles M.
Duke Jr. he believes he will step
down on a bed of lava spewed
out in the explosions of ancient
volcanoes.
Dr. Paul W. Cast, chief of the
NASA Planetary and Earth Sci
ences Division, says that in the
first billion years of the moon’s
life, when she was being battered
by tbe fiery impact of countless
meteors, volcanic rock boiled up
through fractures in the lunar
surface.
Many scientists are convinced,
he added, that a boiling, bub
bling sea of lava with a scum of
rock on top may have covered the
moon’s mares at a depth of 30
to 60 miles and in cooling it
formed the lunar crust.
But if such a layer existed, it
had to be 4.6 billion years ago,
Cast believes, and “Descartes
almost surely is not any older
than 4 billion years.” By that
time, he thinks, volcanic rock on
the moon was being formed like
that on earth — melting deep
below the surface, being squeezed
out like a boil, and erupting
through volcanic cones.
The Cayley Plain on which
Young and Duke will touch down
is believed to be a layer of lava
that poured out of such cones.
Although the moon has cooled
from the outside, it is believed
that it still has a hot, active in
terior like the earth.
“But I doubt that there is still
volcanic activity,” Cast said.
“There may be cold gas eruptions
coming out of the moon today.
But the liquid material could be
800 miles deep. It couldn’t come
all the way up without freez
ing.”
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in its first test of a tough new
antipollution provision, has order
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William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA
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