Moon buggy costs eight million for mobility
An artist rendering shows an eight million dollar lunar rover, the most expensive car ever built. Powered by two battery sets with motors in each wheel, it runs up to 10 mph, weighs 480 pounds, carries 1,000 pounds, measures 10 feet two inches long and six feet wide, and can overcome a foot high obstacle or cross a 28 inch crevasse.
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Rover
Scott
Island of
Manhattan
Rover I
Jim
Moon rover driving lesson mastered in minutes at Cape Kennedy
AP's Howard Benedict describes astronauts David Scott and James Irwin preparing the lunar rover Rover I for Moon missions with training at Cape Kennedy. The six-wheeled, 480-pound vehicle, powered by twin battery packs, features a moon TV camera and onboard computer for navigation and soil sampling work.
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Moon Jeep
Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
David
R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Scott
Irwin
John Olmstead
Lions Braille Trail Dedicated at George Washington Forest
Seventh District Congressman J Kenneth Robinson to speak at 2 p.m. dedication on the Massanutten Unit near Camp Roosevelt. The Braille Trail offers 16 stops with metal plates for sighted visitors and braille strips for the visually handicapped. Local Lions Clubs funded materials, and Labor Department Mainstream workers helped build the trail in cooperation with the forest. Parking at Camp Roosevelt and shuttle transport will be provided. The trail will be open annually April through November.
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J. Kenneth Robinson
Massanutten
George Washington National Forest
Camp Roosevelt
Clifford Hardin
James D. Hodgson
U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture and Labor
President’s Committee For the
Stanford M. Adams
Lions Clubs
Virginia
Adams
Forest Service
Higher Prices Paid Farmers Pushes Market Basket Costs
Washington AP reports higher prices paid to farmers for key items drove a 0.7 rise in June food costs, with beef pork frying chickens and fruit up. Farmers’ share of the food dollar held at 38 cents, while middlemen gained about 22 cents from a year earlier, as retail prices rose 1.9 percent year over year.
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Washington
The
Economic Research Service
Firm Plans to Rebuild Lynchburg Plant After Fire
Officials of the Chap Stick Co plan to replace a warehouse destroyed by fire with a new facility attached to the matsh plant in Lynchburg. The fire caused less than 1 million dollars in damage, insured, with 350 employees kept on.
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Lynchburg
Chap Stick Co
Chap Stick
A. H. Robins Co
Matsh
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