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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1969
Page
2
Apollo 10 crew Thomas Stafford Eugene Cernan and John Young orbit the moon gathering geology data and filming the surface from 69 miles high. They describe maria rilles and canyon like features noting possible volcanic origins and a rifle shaped trench seen during low level passes.
In a Toda S tribe ritual two months before birth a woman must stare at a lamp symbolizing new life and cannot blink until the flame dies. The rite marks early motherhood and tests endurance as part of tribal tradition.
From 225000 miles away the word we have arrived echoed as Apollo 10 linked with Earth after a half hour radio blackout. Wives Faye Stafford Barbara Cernon and Barbara Young celebrated with relief and pride as commander Thomas Stafford announced the milestone.
Snoopy the lunar lander passes preflight checks as Apollo 10 pilots Cernan and Slayton separate Snoopy from the command ship Charlie Brown and fly the lander within 50 000 feet of the Moon in a final manned test before the July Moon landing. Snoopy slept through the translunar journey and is reported in good shape.
Mrs. Frank Borman and Mrs. Young react to Apollo 10’s step toward the lunar surface as Stafford and Cernan drift within 9.3 miles of the Moon. They watch the live color telecast with their families and hope for splashdown on Monday, while speculating on future space feats.
A group of 28 San Antonio Carvajal Elementary students, Mexican American language demonstrators, toured the United Nations as part of a five day New York visit. They later met Mexican Consul General Eugenio V Pesqueira and had appointments with Mayor John V Lindsay Terence Cardinal Cooke and Superintendent Bernard Donovan.
A specialized computer complex built for Apollo missions performs about 80 billion calculations each day, highlighting the high processing power supporting spacecraft flight operations and related computations.
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