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THE HARTFORD CO RANT: Monday, July 21. 1969 17 tandin Shared in Hearts, Homes of Proud Americans By United Press International FLIGHT INDICATOR AND CONTROL PANELS America held its breath Sunday and then let it out in a GLARE SHIELD BOTH SIDES DOCKING WINDOW day were many and varied. Those which highlighted the services at the White House were the first 10 verses of Genesis, read by astronaut Frank Borman to President sigh of pride and relief. The countdown bringing Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin to the moon was shared Nixon and his guests.

FORWARD INDOW SHADE in the homes and hearts of At Raleigh, N.C., the pastor of the United Church of Christ WINDOW millions of their countrymen. BOTH SIDES- They prayed for their success Tstt- v-; XUh if Mm chose the 8th Psalm as his text. 'BOTH SIDES' at Sunday morning services, "What is man, that thou art Then they stayed close to then- mindful of him? And the son of television and radio sets, man, that thou visitest him? "For thou hast made him a rooting for Armstrong and Aldrin during the last, tense little lower than the angels, and moments of their "perilous, incredible CRASH BAR And cheered when they reached the moon. BOTH SIDES' When that word came, the CIRCUIT BREAKER AND CONTROL PANELS STOWAGE waiting back home on earth was just beginning. Moon Watchers The moon watchers in the living, rooms- settled down to CIRCUIT BREAKER AND CONTROL PANELS wait the most moment of all Armstrong's first step on the moon, and the hast crowned him with glory and honour.

"Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all tilings under his feet." Holiday Air If in some respects America's celebration of the moon landing was reverent, in others it had almost a carnival air. In New York City, it amounted to a happening. There was a 15-foot-square television screen for moon watching in the Time-Life Plaza and Mayor John V. Lindsay invited all New Yorkers to watch the first step's on the moon on three large color TV screens provided by the city in Central Park.

The park's open Sheep Meadow was dubbed "Moon Mea chance that they might catch a glimpse of them on their home television set. The day man came to the moon was a warm, lazy day in much of the United States a COMMANDER'S CONTROL PANEL typical Sunday in July with one tremendous difference, the ex-hiliration of knowing that two STOWAGE Americans had gone where no man had ever set loot oeiore. There was a holiday air in dow" for the occasion and the the nation. President Nixon's call for a National Day of Participation meant millions of Americans wouldn't have to city chipped in providing for a FORWARD HATCH FOR MOON CENTER CONTROLS PANELS PILOT'S CONTROL PANEL "blue cheese moon picnic." A midtown pub, not to be show up for work today. Even if they came in late, red- outdone by civic officials, announced it would break out free "moontinies" at the eyed and yawning from a night of staring at the television set, Interior of Lunar Module This artist's diagram by the Washington Star shows the interior of the Lunar Module which carried man from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon Sunday (AP).

they could be pretty sure tne moment of Armstrong's boss would be understanding. walk. TV Shortage Constant vigil As the long, historic after Lunar Observatory Is Planned Anybody named Armstrong, noon wore on, Americans went Aldrin or Collins was promised about their usual Sunday ways a free ride during the weekend 'Tranquility' Now Word For History SPACE CENTER, Houston on the 300-foot astro tower at nal preparations for lunar landing, Page observed Sunday aft By DAVID H. RHINELANDER Staff Reporter Coney Island. In major league baseball ernoon: "Now that they re land HOUSTON As the first men ing everyone is beginning to ask parks, Sunday doubleheaders were halted while the field what should be done from now on." walk the moon, plans are being made here for future missions.

A Wesisyan astronomy professor is one of half a dozen ex announcer proclaimed man was (ffl "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." These the stars. The ultraviolet and inferred detectors would report precisely on what elements are being emitted by the light of the stars observed. Step three perhaps in 1978 or 1979 would be to put up a manned 100-inch telescope in a permanent lunar observatory that would be part of the moon colony. "We will be able to get much, on the moon.

Crowds came to their feet cheering as lustily as were the first words from the lunar surface. ft i7 a ft- ri 'IT i if the home town star had hit a home run. perts at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center working on a scheme to put a 20-inch remote-controlled telescope on the Other famous first words through history: Moon watching was geared to Charles Lindbergh, on arriv with the world of space always within sarshot, sometimes before their eyes the calm, staccato voices of the astronauts and their ground controllers as Armstrong and Aldrin maneuvered their way to the floor of the moon. The voices from space and their televised images followed Americans to the beaches, the golf courses, the ball parks, the camping sites, all the places where they would normally spend a summers afternoon away from Sunday night, there were moon watch parties planned. Many vowed they would stay in front of their sets for the duration of the great adventure.

Prayers The prayers which began the a quieter pace elsewhere across moon within four or five years. the nation, but interest was so Thornton L. Page, who ar ing in Paris May 21, 1927, after the first solo flight across the much better observations from rived here from Middletown a the moon," Page said Sunday, intense that it became hard to impossible to rent television year ago and has just decided to Atlantic: "I'm Charles Lindbergh." The lunar night of deepest darkness lasts 15 days and so sets in such cities as New York, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, on Springfield, 111., and San extend his leave another 12 months, explained the telescope project in an interview Sunday meeting Dr. David Livingstone is perfect for long observations. The night temperature is down Francisco.

in Ujiji, central Africa, Nov. 10, The 20-inch telescope is the answer proposed by the astronomers consulting NASA. It will cost $4 million to $5 million, Page predicts. "This moon landing opens up a whole new frontier for the United States a frontier that we have not had since the old West. "Space exploration gives the frontier back and we're going to go with it," Page commented.

The Connecticut astronomer talked briefly of the exploration of Mars. Two American unmanned spacecraft, Mariner and Mariner VI, are duo to arrive at their goal the last two days of July and first few days of August. They will send back photos of the surface and do soma other detective work as well. "Todny we know as much about Mars as we did about the 'We should have a moon shot about minus again ideal for 1871: Doctor Livingstone, I pre Smile Son! Mike Collins reacts to a scratch by his pet kitten while playing at his home near the sume?" as Apollo 11 's Eagle ship broke away from Columbia and started its landing maneuvers. Page, at the center through a grant from the National Academy of Science, says a lunar tel every day," the happy proprietor of a Cranston, R.I., television repair shop said.

"It's good for business." Gen. Douglas MacArthur, ar Manned Spacecraft Center, riving in Australia March 24, 1942, from Corregidor and the Philippines: the precise mirrors and optics of a telescope tiiat are distorted by: heat. The lunar two-week day, of course, gets hot so that the equipment will have to be protected during those periods. The plan is to draw the needed power for runnig the computer, detectors, cameras, steering equipment and other stuff from a nuclear-powered escope is needed oecause mere THORNTON L. PAGE The lunar observatory project comes in three steps.

Page and his colleagues hope Houston, Sunday. The lad played around the yard while is a ring of hydrogen clouds some 80,000 miles above the "I shall return." Samuel F.B. Morse, in trans his dad, Astronaut Michael Col White House Prays For Safety, Success earth that distorts observations lins orbited the moon in Apollo 11 command module (AP). that Apollo 13 will carry up a mitting the first long distar.ee message over the first telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore, May 24, 1844: generating station programed "What hath God wrought." Adm. Richard E.

Byrd, as na light fair. "0 hear us when we lift our vigator with Floyd Bennett in first airplane flight over North special camera that will be able to photograph this cloud of hydrogen from the moon and determine its exact size and shape, shape. Then in 1973 or 1974, Apollo 19 or 2fl, the 20-inch automated reflecting telescope would be sent up. The 150-pound lunar observatory package they talk of, which weigh one sixth of that on the moon, would have reflecting mirrors, a television camera, computer and two spectro Pole, May 9, 1926: prayer "For those In peril in the air!" Hatfield prayed for the safe return of Neil Armstrong, Ed "The dream of a lifetime has soon for the moon. The 20-inch telescope, the same size as Wcslcyan's at Middletown, will be set on a flat platform.

Its mirror-holding tube will be mounted on swivals that will allow the scope to be turned from the ground in every direction. The plan is to place it as near to the lunar equator as possible, where the lunar nights are their longest. Amid the excitment of the fi moon two or three years ago. And within a year, we'll know everything we can about it short of bringing back samples," Page said. Then, he said, NASA can decide if a manned trip to Mars .3 possible or necessary.

And by then, it wouldn't be surprising if Pago and his colleagues were ready to move off the moon and put observatories deeper into space. at last been realized." Byrd, returning from first win Aldrin and Michael Collins flight over South Pole Nov. 20, and for the thousands of support 1929, in his journal: "Well, it's done. We have seen from space stations and satellites in earth orbit. Hydrogen Ring This ring, or geocorona of hydrogen, appears to float about 80,000 miles out on the sun side of the earth and extend out even further behind the earth being blown back by the solar winds.

No one yet knows how thick it is, Page said, but they do know it interferes with pure observations just as earth's atmosphere gets in the way of land-based telescopes. So the project Is to get a telescope out beyond this geocorona and the easiest place after today's historic achievements seems to be the moon. "It's nonsense to think that with this landing the space program has done its job," Page said. "This was the first challenge, huge engineering feat. Now we go on to scientific experiments and perhaps exploring the universe Mars and personnel who are "their brothers." "Excite our imagination," the senator asked, "to transfer this genius of cooperation and the the Pole and the American flag has been advarxied to the South graphs to analyze the lifiht of Houston Has Its Hats Off SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) There was no doubt about the sentiments of the communities surrounding this space center as Apollo 11 neared its historic moon landing.

"Mankind reaches out with the courage of three men," said an illuminated sign in front of a bank in Clear Lake, just northwest of the center. "Hats off to three brave-hearted Christian men," said a bank sign in Webster, just west of the center. "Let your flags fly for our heroes in the sky," said a business sign in Nassau Bay. Quarantinr Pole." Alexander Graham Bell, on March 10, 1876, in the first intelligible words transmitted by telephone, to his assistant: "Mr. Watson, come here, I spirit of framework to our many other needs lest our success on the moon mock our failures on the earth.

Even as our astronauts eo to the moon in the Shield Ready for Moon Bugs want you." By DAVID II. RHINELANDER name of peace, our world aches from the pain of wars." Hope in Mankind Bngham Young, on reaching the Great Salt Lake in Utah Reporter HOUSTON When the three July 24, 1847, with vanguard of In the benediction, Buchanan asked that the Lord crown the AdoIIo 11 mission with success, Apollo 11 astronauts splash down in the Pacific Ocean at about 2 p.mrn. Thursday, they will start a complicated quaran Mormon pioneers seeking a new home for their church: "This is the place." bring the astronauts safely back and help the nation "in this ex tine procedure to guard Mother Earth from moon bugs. Churches Pray lor Apollo NASA calls it protecting against "back contamination," Aldrin Joins in Communion Little, however, has been done vacuum up any stray moon dust inside the cabin of Eagle. They also will throw a lot of stuff out on the lunar surface.

This lunar litter will consist of cameras, backpacks, boots and a good deal of other stuff. Also to be left are two pieces of experimental aparalus that will continue to function after the men depart, the flag of the United States, the whole bottom half or descent stage of the lunar lander, and some medals and messages. The men will take up and bring back with them tiny flags of all 50 stales, of the United Nations and of each member country ind some personal things of their families. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins will go into quarantine on arrival on the deck of the USS Hor to shield the moon from earth WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon and leaders of the ration prayed and worshipped Sunday in the White House with their eyes and thoughts fixed on space. The President expressed confidence in a successful climax to the Apollo 11 mission to let two astronauts walk on the moon and then return saftely to earth.

Asked after the services whether he thinks "they will make it," Nixon told reporters he doesn't know much about technical things and astronaut Frank Borman says it is a very difficult operation. "But he points out that they have tested all the technical aspects over and over again," the President said, "and if he says it's O.K., I feel better about it." Prayer Service Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 space voyage, read during the morning worship the first 10 verses of Genesis which he and his crew repeated back to earth last Christmas Eve while orbiting the moon. Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield of Oregon, a leading Baptist layman, gave the invocation.

Rep. John H. Buchanan Jr. of Alabama, an ordained Baptist minister, gave the benediction. And Dr.

Paul S. Smith, president of Nixon's alma mater, Whittier College, in California, delivered the sermon. He is a Quaker. A record 346 persons were invited to the services. There were prayers for peace and for divine guidance for the who arranged to be in t6uch during the day with the progress of the space mission and the great moment later on for the first footstep on the moon.

Musical Plea Even the musical part of the services had a sort of built-in space theme. One number was two verses of the Navy Hymn. One verse raises a plea: "Lord, guard and guide the men who fly "Through the great spaces In the sky, "Be with them alway! in the air, "In darkening storms or tun- bugs. perience to glorify You." Dr. Smith told the assemblage his faith in mankind was renewed Sunday in the knowledge that countless millions in all nations were praying not so much that one brave astronaut might set foot on the moon, but that three brave astronauts might again put feet upon the earth.

"And my hope for mankind," he said, "is strengthened in the When landings on foreign orbs were Ijrst seriously discussed, By GARTH JONES Associated Press Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. went to the moon there was great concern about "out" contamination and plans were laid for elaborate steriliza Sunday with a piece of communion bread he will use there seat near the front and was one of the first to take communion. Mrs. Neil Armstrong remained in her homo Sunday morning, listening closely to reports from mission control center.

The only activity outside the house occurred when Mark, 6, came out to get the Sunday newspaper. A space agency spokesman who had been in the home said Mrs.Armstrong, Mark and Eric, will be watched In the greatest detail possible. And next door, gcrm-frce mice will bo fed and otherwise exposed to lunar samples for the 21 days. If anything shows up in either mice or men, the quarantine period would be lengthened and preventive mod-icine to beat the moon bugs Moon surface samples will be studied in the LRL for from 50 to 80 days behind elaborate protective barriers. They will be applied to a doezn different culture media inside a high vacuum to see if anything grows and will be studied chemically and physically.

Plants and seedling will be put in contact with the moon stuff a.s well as the mice and other "lower" animals such as birds, oysters, fish, shrimp, cockroaches, houseflics and other creatures. After everything ia considered safe, lunar samples will be passed out to scientists around the world. Investigators at Yale and other institutions will then conduct detailed investigations to determine what the, moon is and where it came from. Meanwhile, the moon will await for Apollo 12 and the Russians and later American flights. The Sea of Tranquility will keep its litter and the soil under the bottom half of LEM will forever be different because tion of anything moon bound before it left earth.

This is not done today. Every knowledge that our intrepid President hmiself will soon gojt0 symbolize fellowship with his into oroit reacning oniy iur wc.home church on earth. thing is built in "clean rooms" just to keep dust and dirt from moon of oeace." net. Their home for the first 65 gumming up the complex equip ment on the lunar lander. Hut nothing sent out to the moon is 12, "had their morning devotion germ proofed.

hours will be modified 35-foot house trailer complete with sleeping quarters, work, food preparation and medical areas, the three Apollomen, a Canandi-an-born physician named Dr. Not only will the Apollo men be quarantined, but the samples away. The minister explained that Aldrin took a portion of the loaf with him on the moon trip and at some time during the afternoon, after the moon landing was made, Aldrin would symbolically join the other parishioners in communion during one of his rest periods. "This was Aldrin's idea," Woodruff said. The Presbyterian congregation did not have a benediction Sunday morning but scheduled it for the evening, after Aldrin had taken communion on the moon.

Members of St. Paul's Catholic Church, where Mrs. Michael Collins and both her children attended Mass, offered a special prayer for "a safe landing and ascent from the moon." At the beginning of the mid-morning service it was announced that all Masses Sunday were "offered for the safety of the astronauts and the success of Apollo 11." Mrs. Collins, In a white suit with a black head veil, sat on a al together, alone" in a bedroom while guests in the house waited in other rooms. Mrs.

Aldrin said before the of the moon and the experimen tal hardware will be wiskctl off William Carpcntiw and a Japa church services that there were no special prayers to be offered. The safety of Apollo 11 crewmen and the success of the mission were included in prayers of all space center churches Sunday. "Pray for Neil, Mike and Buzz." said the Rev. M. Dean Woodruff, minister of the Webster Presbyterian Church where Aldrin is an elder.

Mrs. Aldrin and their three children listened to the sermon from a pew near the front. "On this journey keep them; grant them keen judgment, sharp mind and razor edge body. At this point all the training pays off," the minister said in his opening prayer. When Woodruff brought out the bread communion, a portion of the load had been Woken into isolation.

True quarantine will be broken for the men as soon as they hit the water because the hatch of Columbia will be opened briefly so that special protective suits can be This was an allusion to the round-the-world trip which Nixon starts Tuesday to five Asiatic nations and Communist Romania. After the services there were five reception lines, rather than the customary one. The President and Mrs. Nixon, the preacher and his wife, plus Chief Justice and Mrs. Warren Burger, met guests filing through the State Dining Room.

In the Blue Room, Vice President and Mrs. Spiro T. Agnew and the Bormans received the guests. In the Green Room it was Secretary of State and Mrs. William P.

Rogers and the Hat-fields. In the Red Room it was Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird with Buchanan. thrown inside by the Navy frog nese recovery engineer named John Hirasaki will be together for the two and half days in tho trailer. The trailer will be boated and flown here to Houston and delivered to the new lunar receiving laboratory (LRL).

There will be 11 more NASA workers inside the lab to work with Apollo crew for the balance of the minimum 21-day quarantine. Health Watch The health of the Apollo crew men. It will be opened again to She said, with a smile, that her husband sounded "confident and strong" over the communications monitor, which all the wives can hear in their homes. After the service Mrs. Aldrin was surrounded by a pushing group of newsmen, photographers and spectators.

Finally, apparently almost in tears, she broke through those surrounding her and ran to her car, remove the men. Moon Housekeeping of the blast of the rockets that When Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin leave the lunar blew exhaust gases down several feet Into the ground as Armstrong and Aldrin came and went in mid-July of 1969. surface early this morning, they will brush themselves off and.