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Astronauts Confident They Will Fly Moonward from Big Bend
NASA geologists and astronauts in Alpine last weekend studied the Marathon Basin and surrounding Big Bend area to learn lunar surface sampling. Eugene Cernan and 15 others, part of the Gemini program, voiced strong belief in a moon and back mission by 1970 and discussed geology meteorology and astronomy goals.
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America
Moon
Eugene Cernan
Alpine
Big Bend
NASA
Ceman
Manned Spacecraft Center
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
U. S. Geological Survey
Mote Bien Venido
Ted Foss
Marathon Basin
Lamar Tech
Bill Muehlberger
University of Texas
United States
Foss
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Gemini
Mercury
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Ile
Apollo
Earth
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
West Texas
Cernan
Motel Bien Venido