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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1979 Page 3 Ity ;nment in fed- -nt to a charge rrville, Texas, r arraignment td signed the plea. A Court ie 27, the day on charges o( nite, wires to Ke rrville, lo- who divorced i the mysteri- it. Authorities rt last January which he had ■ Ten year anniversary Aldrin recalls Apollo 11 moon mission ap >ken valves in prepara- lining fora 1 workmen way during rVe are now >co spokes- vellheadof cture from emoved by f Boots and extinguish J oha! protect their i sickout by t. An official said, "Now nt Relations tions in the s officers to inger to the 1 90 percent Edwin Ross The police r car allow- tion against raud i prove that rtune and a mdling of a defendants, e Washing- in y filed for art in June r weeks, is naneuvers. g to manip- glomerate. in of bank United Press International Ten years ago Monday at 9:32 a. m. EDT, three men strapped to form-fitting couches set out on a journey that must rank as one of mankind’s great adventures. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin left the Earth atop a 363-foot Saturn 5 rocket. They were bound for the moon. Ahead was man’s first landing on another body in the solar system, a walk on the lunar surface, a flight back to lunar orbit, and the trip home to a Pacific Ocean splashdown. It was a warm, muggy morning when Apollo ll’s crew rode in an air-conditioned van to the Oceanside launch pad 8 miles from their spe cial quarters at the Kennedy Space Center, named after the dead presi dent who in 1961 established the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely before the end of the decade. Armstrong and Collins were first to board their command module ( atop the three-stage rocket, coated with frost from super-cold propel lants already aboard. Aldrin recalled that he waited alone for 15 minutes on a platform at the edge of the spaceship. “As far as I could see there were people and cars lining the beaches and highways. The surf was just be ginning to rise out of an azure-blue ocean. I could see the massiveness of the Saturn 5 rocket below and the magnificent precision of Apollo above. “I savored the wait and marked the minutes in my mind as some thing I would always want to re member,’’ he said. Finally Aldrin took his place aboard the Apollo. A bridge-like ac cess arm from the gantry swung away from the spacecraft at 9:27 a.m. Then, on schedule to the second, the Saturn’s five massive booster engines ignited with a flash of orange flame. As soon as the five powerplants reached full thrust — 7.5 million pounds — the Saturn slowly left the launch pad. What sounded like prolonged thunder rolled across the flat marsh land to the viewing areas SVk miles away. “For the thousands of people watching along the beaches of Florida and the millions who watched on television, our liftoff was ear shattering,” Aldrin wrote later in “Return to Earth,” his account of the mission and his personal trou bles that followed. “For us there was a slight increase in the amount of background noise, not at all unlike the sort one notices taking off in a commercial airliner, and in less than a minute we were traveling ahead of the speed of sound.” Apollo 11 soared into its prelimi nary 118-mile-high orbit with preci sion, prompting Armstrong to radio mission control in Houston: “This Saturn gave us a magnifi cent ride.” But Apollo 11 had yet to break the bonds of Earth’s gravity. That came at 12:22 p.m. The Saturn’s still-attached third stage was fired a second time to propel the Apollo out of lunar orbit and on the 24,200-mph path to the moon. Apollo 11 was on its way. It hap pened 10 years ago Monday. ALTERATIONS 1 d Dela- emands itdown, > states, no long ; of the ’uesday Jerson, Station ire fire in the •ath toll to lined hos- ported 72 dead but ties, both d Begona Battalion photo by Clay Cocldll Minature monuments? These oblong hunks of concrete that have recently been placed at sidewalk corners near the Academic Center are actually the old campus street signs buried to a height of about 4 feet. Eugene Ray, director of grounds maintenance, said the signs are being tried out as “bollards — physical barriers to keep traffic where it should be.” He said there is about $8,000 to $10,000 a year in damages as the result of vehicles running over sprinkler heads. Look Into Your Future Thousands of career opportunities are listed daily in the nation’s largest CLASSIFIED ad section. Keep abreast of the changing job market with The Houston Chronicle, Texas’ largest newspaper. 1/2 price for students, faculty and staff. 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