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Moonwalkers turn
ship toward Earth
SPACE CENTER, Houston (A>)
— Apollo 16 astronauts rocketed
out of lunar orbit Monday night,
smoothly firing a once-trouble-
some rocket engine, to begin their
66-hour 240,000-mile voyage home
with a record cargo of rocks.
Astronauts John W. Young,
Charles M. Duke Jr. and Thomas
K. Mattingly II fired the main
engine of their command ship,
Casper, while they were behind
the moon—and out of radio con
tact with earth.
That engine had delayed the
lunar landing and almost forced
cancellation of the final moon ex
cursion which provided Apollo 16’s
major findings.
Eleven minutes later they re
appeared from behind the lunar
backside.
They had burst out of the
moon’s orbit and were speeding
home.
“Coming up like thunder,’’ said
Young. “Burn completely nomi
nal.”
“It’s really beautiful,” he added.
“That baby really pops out of
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While Duke and Mattingly were
busy taking pictures of the rap
idly receding moon, Young looked
toward the earth, and said:
“Spectacular. The earth rise
is just beautiful. It just came
up like gangbusters.
“It’s just a crescent earth, a
sliver,” he added. “We can hardly
wait to get there. We know we
got a couple things to do before
we get there, but we’re really
looking forward to it.”
Tucked into Casper’s hold were
245 pounds of rock and miles of
black and white and color film
taken on the moon. Geologists
believe the rocks may tell the
story of how volcanoes wracked
the moon 4 to 4.5 billion years
ago to mold lunar mountains and
carve canyons and valleys.
Young and Duke collected the
moon material during their 71-
hour stay in the Descartes Moun
tain region. They lifted off Sun
day night from the highlands, a
major portion of the moon never
before visited, in their lunar mod
ule, Orion.
With their science cargo, they
had achieved the primary goal
of the mission.
Apollo 16’s stay in moon orbit
was shortened 25 hours because
of the engine problem discovered
just before lunar landing last
Thursday. Between that time and
the crucial firing Monday night,
the engine fired properly twice,
but to guard against the possi
bility of the engine’s condition
worsening, officials ordered the
Apollo mission cut short.
Orion was discarded in orbit
Monday afternoon, but it went
into a tumble which could not
be controlled by radio signals
from Mission Control.
The tumbling, which was not
explained, forced cancellation of
plans to smash the spacecraft into
the moon to excite seismometers
at the Apollo landing sites.
“That Orion was a mighty good
spacecraft,” said Young as the
lander spun away. “Real beautiful
flying machine. And a real great
lunar base, too. We'll miss her.”
Splashdown is set for 2:44 p.m.
EST Thursday.
Tuesday afternoon on the way
back to earth, Mattingly will walk
in space to recover film from a
$ 1.2-million array of cameras and
scientific instruments in an out
side bay of Casper. The astronaut
will leave the hatch of the com
mand ship, inch back along the
craft’s side, remove two canisters
of film and return them to the
safety of Casper’s cabin.
In another space development
Monday, officials at the Manned
Spacecraft Center announced that
American and Soviet space ex
perts have agreed to construct a
scale model of a proposed com
mon space docking system. The
move is viewed as a forerunner
to a possible U.S.-Russian joint
manned space flight in 1975.
The agreement came in a set
of reports springing from a meet
ing last year in Moscow of Amer
ican and Soviet space engineers.
It was the third such meeting and
another is planned for this sum
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War protests are scattered
lARE EARTH almost became a rare band Saturday night when they failed to show on
lime for the Civilian Weekend concert. They finally did arrive, two hours late. An
pset crowd booed them when they appeared on stage but later crowded around the
ftage at the group’s urging. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Scattered protests against re
newed bombing in North Vietnam
continued on Monday with dem
onstrations at Columbia Univer
sity, Westover Air Force Base in
Massachusetts and the McDonnell
Douglas corporation at St. Louis,
Mo.
Columbia president William J.
McGill announced he would use
“all appropriate means” to keep
university facilities open after
demonstrators closed eight build
ings at the New York City school
Monday morning, refusing entry
to faculty or students.
“All of us at Columbia are
sensitive to the divided state of
American society and to the
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their school, state and nation.
“Some of us are known world
wide. Others of us have lower
roles in life,” he continued. “But
we all go out and strive to climb
a mountain.
“The point is how we strive, and
how did we do it better than
anyone else,” the Aurora, Colo.,
resident said.
Kirk lost both legs and his
right arm when a land mine rip
ped his body in Vietnam in 1968.
He is able to walk with the aid
of prostheses and crutches.
While he slowly walked alone
to the microphone, the 3,000 at
tending gave Kirk a standing ova
tion, and another when he finish
ed his talk.
Kirk related that four years
ago, in July, he lay wounded in
a medical tent and never thought
he’d be back.
“I was called to the door of
death . . . went . . . looked in . . .
didn’t want to go ... so they
sent me back,” he quipped.
He said the Aggie heritage he
received while a student gave him
the will to fight for life.
“We’re lucky to have inherited
the Aggie tradition,” Kirk said.
“It is an honor to those who
have given it. I’m especially proud
of our men lost in combat, be
cause they gave their lives for
love.”
The 32-year-old Dallas native
who spent almost two years in a
hospital said the Texas A&M
heritage showed the strong to
give stamina to the weak, the
weak to give encouragement to
the strong and all was an unself
ish love for fellow Aggies.
He contended the love of school,
state, nation and friends was
hard to find in today’s world.
Noting the many changes at
the university, Kirk said A&M’s
greatest challenge is it gives ex
cellence for other schools to try
to beat.
Kirk noted the Aggie heritage
gave him strength to live life
“one step at a time.”
“Thank God for giving us all
those good Aggies,” he concluded
in a cracking voice.
Also participating in the Mus
ter were Dr. Jack K. Williams,
A&M president; Robert Latimer
of Dallas, president of the Asso
ciation of Former Students, and
student leaders.
strong emotion generated by the
peace movement,” McGill said in
a statement.
“But an old evil in southeast
Asia will never be corrected by
a new evil at Columbia. Militant
blockades of the doorways to some
Columbia buildings as a gesture
toward peace are an incredible
contradiction. Such action sug
gests to the people we are seek
ing to reach, only that we are
irresponsible and irrational.”
The school moved in Manhat
tan Supreme Court for the ar
rest of two men and other un
identified protestors who defied
an April 19 court order banning
demonstrations on the campus.
The defendants were ordered
to show cause Tuesday why they
should not be arrested for crim
inal or civil contempt for defying
the order.
Meanwhile, at a McDonnell-
Douglas stockholders meeting at
St. Louis, Mo., a 24-year-old stu
dent who holds one share in the
aerospace corporation, submitted
a list of demands including pay
ment of $500 million to Vietnam
for damage done to that country
by McDonnell-Douglas war planes.
Richard Bangert, a University
of Missouri student who said he
was a Vietnam veteran, also de
manded that the company cease
all military production and rehire
18.000 workers laid off since 1967.
Corporation President Sanford
K. McDonnell answered that
14.000 employes have been laid
off since 1967, their layoffs due
to a cut back in military produc
tion. He also said the company
last year produced just one-tenth
of the Phantom jet fighters for
the U.S. military that it produced
in 1967.
After the meeting, about 225
persons gathered in a ballpark
near the company property to
hear antiwar speakers at a rally.
Spme of the demonstrators car
ried signs saying: “Lay off the
war—not the workers.”
Police arrested 35 persons at
Westover Air Force Base in Chic
opee, Mass., Monday. The dem
onstrators, who handed out leaf
lets claiming that 16 Westover
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esolution given city council
asking campus polling place
Student senator Bruce Clay presented a resolu
tion to the College Station City Council Monday
night asking for a city polling place on the A&M
campus.
Clay told the council the senate realized there
was no city ordinance dividing voting wards accord
ing to population. He said the senate asked that
the county law be followed.
According to that law, set down by the Election
Code of the State of Texas, “no election precinct
shall have residents therein less than 50 nor more
than 2,000 voters.”
The senate resolution said, “the population den
sity center of Ward III has changed with the voter
registration of Texas A&M University campus stu
dents, and election polls are established to facilitate
casting of votes by the voting public.”
It continued saying, “Ward III is presently too
large according to county precinct election standards
set by the Election Code of the State of Texas.
“Thei’efore the students of Texas A&M Univer
sity respectfully request the establishment of a new
election poll on the university campus or moving
of the present election poll to a canjpus location,
whichever is most favorable to the College Station
City Council and abides with the Election Code of
the State of Texas.”
Clay said the basic aim of this resolution is to
make A&M a polling place so that students can
vote in city, county, and state elections.
The A&M campus is located in precinct nine
which has a population of 3,178. This is 1,178 over
the county maximum allowed by the code. Precinct
12 is the only other precinct in the county with
over 2,000 voters registered in it.
Mayor J. B. Hervey said the legality of the
resolution will be checked with the city lawyer,
Tom Giesenschlag. The resolution will be put on
the agenda for the next council meeting scheduled
TIGHT WAS THE WORD, Saturday morning at the motorcycle races held around the
Systems building. The races carried on with few mishaps, none serious, which was un
usual considering the quality of the course—the usual A&M street. (Photo by Mike
Rice)
Coordinating Board approves
six new curricula proposals
The Coordinating Board, Texas College and
University System, has approved six A&M curricula
proposals, including establishment of the state’s first
undergraduate degree program in bioengineering.
Board approval also was given for creation of a
general academics department within TAMLPs College
of Marine Sciences and Maritime Resources at Galves
ton and for offering new B.A. programs in biology
and chemistry and B.S. programs in applied mathe
matical sciences and medical technology.
All the programs have previously been approved
by the A&M System Board of Directors.
The bioengineering program is viewed by uni
versity officials as an opportunity to apply the
capabilities of engineering and technology to the
needs that are arising in all medical and allied fields.
University officials noted the general academics
department at the College of Marine Sciences and
Maritime Resources will complement offerings of the
marine engineering and marine transport departments
in the Texas Maritime Academy, part of the Galves
ton-based college. The new department will be staffed
by faculty members whose academic assignments are
unrelated to marine engineering or transport.
The new B.A. programs in biology and chem
istry will be offered along with the traditional B.S.
programs in the two fields.
The medical technology program, offered
through the biology department, is designed as a
three-year program on the TAMU campus followed
by one year at a major medical technology school
approved by the university and the Council of
Medical Education of the American Medical Associa
tion.
University officials said the new undergraduate
program in applied mathematical sciences will be
jointly offered by the Institute of Statistics and the
mathematics department.