Space station workshop to test welding in orbit
AP reports the United States aims to build a space station with a workshop for space experiments including welding in weightlessness. Apollo astronauts will conduct 28 and 56 day missions atop Saturn 1B and later stations may host up to 12 men, with plans for a 45 to 100 man base by 1980 1989 subject to budgets. The Soviet Union hones unmanned and crewed flights, with a 250 mile high orbit and competing programs.
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Apollo 12 crew plans landing at Ocean of Storms site
Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad Alan Bean and Richard Gordon hold a preflight briefing on lunar tasks for the November mission. They foresee two EVAs with one to set up a seismometer and study missions near a crater, while the second will gather rock samples and document terrain near the Surveyor site. Gordon will orbit 65 miles above the moon.
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Apollo 11 Astronauts In Norway Visit Snowy Home
OSLO AP The world touring Apollo 11 astronauts and their wives hid from crowds in a mountain home at Hemestal Norway during a weekend escape. Newsmen took hours to reach them as they kept a brief profile amid the ceremony and crowds.
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