A lto n E vening t e l e g r a p h Serving Madison, Jersey, Maeounin, Greeneane' (.alhoun (.aunties 4.' j * ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _ - 22 PAGES P ric e IQC Merrier Associated P r e s s Est Jan. 15, 1836 © ATP Co. 1969 Vol. CXXXIV, No. 159 ALTON. IL L ., MONDAY, JULY 21, 1969 Starts After Spacem on Moon IU HOWARD BENEDICT 'after their target, the command earth earlyTuesday, ending a AP Aerospace Writer ship, flashes overhead. space odysseywhich in they SPACE CENTER, Houston Mission control awakenedthe (etched their names beside those (AP) — Neil A. Armstrong and moonmen shortly after ll ofa.m. history’s greatexplorers, Co­ Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. blastedoff following a six-hour rest period,lumbus, Balboa. Magellan, da safely from the moon and into Instruments which monitoredGama and Byrd. lunar orbit today, beginning the Armstrong during the nightThrough in the magic of televi­ complex maneuvers to link up (Heated he slept fitfully.There sion, an estimated 500 million with their mother ship Theyis only one set of biomedical peoplein­ around the world had a left behind their footprintsstruments in in the cabin so Aldrin ringside seat to man’sgreatest the lunar dust and in the history was not monitored. 'adventure. of man. Sleeping in the cramped quar- it was unforgettable. Their liftoff began ti!) seconds tei's of the LM is difficult and Armstrongclimbed through after the command ship, with Aldrin reported: “ Neil has beenLM hatchthe and startedback- Michael Collins its lone passen- lying on the engine coverI ing anddown a nine-rungladder. On ger, passed 69 miles abovecurled up on the floor.” the secondfrom rung the bot- Tranquillity Base. Seven min­Checking of systems and tom, he opened a compartment, utes later, they entered orbitswitch settings for the criticalexposing j a television camera, and a 3V2 hour chase began. liftoff was the No.I priority aft- The picture was black and lf all went well, the two shipser wakeup. whiteand somewhat jerky, but would link up at 5:32 p.m. EDT.A successful liftoff wouldit recorded history, and head for home at 12:57 a m.shoot them into lunar orbitAmong to scientists, there was Tuesday. chase down Michael Collins,or- 1 elation that the crew had landed Their thrust lander, which set­ biting some 65 miles overhead *n an area w*tha variety of tled them onto the surface Sun­in the Apolloll command ship.rocks, I a treasure that held at day for a2114 hour stay, served Once linked up, they planto leastthe hopeof a rich payoff in them, too, at liftoff. They left fire themselves back toward!Continued «n Page 2, Col. 4 behind the spindly-legged lower stage, their launching platform, as a permanent memento of July 20,1969—the day man land­ ed on the moon. Touchdown • It was the first time a rocket had lifted anything from the moon. Armstrong anc! Aldrin staked their lives on single engine which was to lift the cabin sec­On Moon by tion of Eagle off the surface. The bottom half of the raft. with the landing legs, were to I serve as a launching pad and will be left on the moon. Reds ’ Luna The firing was to be the first piloted by Astronaut .Michael Collins, and the Apollo I! mission will be ready lo ON THE WAV TO A KEM ) EX VO! S— This NASA drawing shows how thlunar e for the ascent engine on the By ANDREU TORCHIA module ap|*©ared when ii blasted oil flu* moon’s surface. Hie modulewill carry begin its long journey back to Earth. (AI* Wirephoto) Apollo ll mission. J OR DELL BANK, England (AP) — Russia landed Luna 15 on I .s. V >nuu s , iI \rms.roug and Edwin Aldrin Jr. to the command module, As they prepared for liftoff. Armstrong provided a descrip­the moon’s surface today,500 miles from where America’s tion of the boulder field in whichApollo astronauts were preparing to take onoff their journey Eagle had landed. back to earth, Jordell Bank Observatory reported. As Men Stride Upon The Moon “ Some of the boulders look asSignals picked up at the giant!tempt a remote-controlled lunar if they’re basalt, and someradio-telescope here indicatedlanding to retrieve a sample of seem to have crystals,” he said.that after four daysof moon or­moon soil—a task already per­ “We’re in a boulder field withbit the unmanned proble landedformed by the American astro­ rocks ranging up to two feet,on the moon’s Sea of Crises.nauts. some on top of the surface andJodrell Observatory, headedBut in the absence of signals, some partially buried.Working I by 55-year-old Sir BernardI ov- therewas noimmediate indica- Millions Abroad Watch with the scoop we alsofound cli, stood by for any sign tionthat that Luna 15 was operating !some completely buried in the Luna itself might be preparingon “live” themoon’s surface. By THE Assot JATI I) PRESS stuffed the lunar dust, it was lieveit is taking place as one In Venezuela, today is a na- In a more prominent place at the two astronauts. powder.” I to return toearth. Asked about the possibility LONDON ( XI*) — 1 uplanders lust before sunrise in most of sees it. t Iona I holiday, and the bells of the top of the page was a larger Thousands of Europeans with- He said he suspected the j Prof. Johnthat G. the Davies. probe couldLovell’sstill lift off pasturingtheir remde r lisp nod Europe and a crowd of 2,000 still Crowds in front of TV screens1hundreds of churchespealed story on the shift of Luna 15, thetv outsets spent the night at rocks camefrom a crater which aide. said at 12:05 p.m. EDT: |with a lunar sample for a round on transistor radio Japanese clustered around a giant1- telexat Paris sidewalk cafes and during the walk. \ ’Japanese!unmanned Soviet spacecraft, friends’ houses to followj they the narrowly lu- avoided duringI “ Luna has landed ” trip to earth ahead of Apollo ll. staved up a1! nutr lo watch on sion screen in London’s Trafal- bars in Rome cheeredgirl asin Arm- Tokyo said as she closer to the moon. Pravda still nar adventure. 'the descent to the moon yester- The last signalsDavies received said: from “It is now possible television. Millions around the gar Square. strong bounded over thewatched moon a s streetside monitor gave no hint what Lunajn 15’s Fife. Scotland, a boy born (day. Luna were “appropriatea that to the Russian probe will be world hung on ever- word from \t the Jodrell Bank radio ob- surface and Buzz Aldrin“ It s beganlike a dream, although I mission was. Sunday night was to be named The firing of the ascentsoft landing.” en- he added. I back faster than the Americans, i nofficial sources in Moscow There may be savings in time the two I s.astronauts walking senator Sir Bernard Lovell, his descent. know ifs not a dream.” \\ headquarters bases and;Neil Edwin Michael—the second gine, scheduled to last more on the moon Britain’s leading space expert. There was no word fromOne the Yugoslav teen-ager other rear areas in Vietnam child rn Britain to be named aft- fhan seven minuteswas set for had predicted when Luna 15 with an unmanned craft with no In some countries nany re -stopped tracking the progress of1 Vatican on whether Popesounded Paul a dissent: “They have Americans gathered around ra- er all three astronauts. 11:54 p.m. EDT. just took69 secondsoff July 13 that it would ut- docking procedures." mamed in. v u . i rn inn oust the Soviet craft Luna15 overVI stay cd up to watch the walk.stolen the romance out of the dios at midmorning to hear the Clima, with onequarter of the the moon to watch Armstrong, but when the astronautsmoon landed and it will never be the broadcast of the walk as did the world’s pope I on. did not ‘T m just speechless with the 71-year-old pontiff samehailed again. Now the moon is staff at the U.S. Embassy in broadcast news about \|iollo amazement,”ll Lovell said. them as “conquerors of real,the and lovers won't have it Saigon. nor didNorth Vietnam or North “There is nothing more I can moon.” He said man facesfor themselves“the alone anymore.”1 in the war-torn Middle East Korea say than that it is absolutely expanse of endless space Inand arctic a Norway where the Cairo Radio broadcast news As Neil A. V mstron ’s boots fantastic. One can scarcely be- new destiny.” midnight sun kept skies bright about the first steps before re- through the night, Laplanders viewing Sunday’s fierce air bat- ★ ★★★ ★★★★ sat around their campfires com- tie with Israel, posing sing-song folk poems; One night club owner in Bei- about the astronauts as they lis- ’ rut stopped a striptease act to tened to their transistors. tell the audience. “We’ve made Crowds Ignore AreaPoles jammed the lobby of the it.” U'.S. Embassy in Warsaw while In Australia it was lunchtime hundreds applauded outside. So- when the astronauts stepped wet media repeated the landing onto the moon. From the cities without fanfare, but many RUS- to the lonely cattle stations iii Activities for TV sians undoubtedly staved up to the moon-like Outback, Austral- listen to Western broadcasts ians regarded the lunar explora- about the exploration. tion w7ith awe. Australian news- By ART THOMASON pleasure seekers, were “I was surprised that Pravda, the Soviet Union’s papers highlighted their “kan- Telegraph Staff Writer mute witness to only an there were that manyIleading newspaper, gave the garoo” movements.