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‘WW Ww.ww «mt. ,Termed by President Nixon as the ‘most courageous explorers of all times‘, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin look out from behind the glass door of their quarantine chamber after their successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean luly 24. A wrap-up of the spectacular flight of Apollo H and a look at future space flights is on Page 4 and 5. Apollo ll is the-let U.S.I. manned space shot. It also is the ZISt covered by How- ard B e we d ic t, aerospace journalist who has seen the American s p a c e program grow. from the early Vanâ€" guard series failures to the stunning grandeur of the bird named Eagle. In the following story he .looks at where man now is in the space age and where he is headed. .HOUSTON: For eight years the world has been conditioned to the idea that one day man would land on the moon. Now it has happened. The world is excited. But does it really understand what has hap- pened? ’ By landing'on the moon, Ameri- can Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin have carried man’s eternal questing for the unkIIOWn to another celestial body. They have opened the limitless frontier of space. That door never will close. Men cheer the explorers of Apollo 11, but they do not fully grasp the mechanical complexities and the technological and human skllls that got them to the moon. ThOSe who do understand are amazed at the technological PI‘O‘ gress made in the last decade because of the space program. When President John F. Ken- nedy, stung by Russian Space 9Xp10its, declared the United States 111 the moon race in 1961, yirtuall.V nonclof the equipment to do the Job Existed. Miracles begin The largest. most imaginative g0vcrnment - industry - univerSiLV team ever assembled for a single PTPJet‘t went to work and the miracles began. In eight. years, the team, reaching a peak of 420,000 people? put together a remarkable and .DOWEI'ful set of machines that earned the first men to the moon 0“ Sunday, July ‘20. 1969. Al the start. test rockets cxplOd’ ed. Spaceships failed. Bl“ then John (llcnn put ”K" United States; in the orbital race in 1952‘ The two-mun Gemini PM" gram sent the LS. soaring 93le the Soviet Union in Space in 1960. Then. the thrcc Apollo 1 astro- nauts died in a tire that swctll lhrolIL‘h their SDIH’C cabin during. 3 launch pad test. at Cape .Kii'llni.‘-Ll3' in 196?, The goal scented beyond resell. ‘ But the tragedy opened the er" 3 0f the Nation-at Aeronautics 3f .1 Space Administration. M a n a g eâ€" ment. design and inspection techâ€" niques were overhauled. Year is lost More than a year was lost. But the results are shown by the record. Since resuming manned launchings last October with Apollo 7. the US. had conducted four perfect missions, stepping stones to the grand adventure of Apollo 11. It was done with things that didn't exist a dozen years ago â€"â€" sophisticated. computers and gui- dance systems, micro-miniature electronics and new metal alloys. But history will record that the voyage to the moon belongs to all men. It was truly a triumph of man’s indomitable spirit ‘to push to new horizons. Visionary men like Galileo, Kep- ler, Newton, Archimedes, Coperni- cus , Tsiolkovsky, Oborth, Goddard and others from many lands pro- vided the basic knowledge years and centuries ago. And man dreamed of landing on the moon long before he created nations. So Armstrong and Aldrin went there as representatives of everyone on earth. Came in peace They planted a U.S. flag. But they made it plain they were ambassadors for all nations when they left behind a plaque which said in part: “We came in peace for all mankind.” Man’s urge to seek the unknown of space, which began in the spirit of competition, may reach maturi- ty in a cooperative effort b0 build scientific camps 0n the moon and to use it as a base for exploration of the universe..- Since the Apollo 8 crew circled the moon last Christmas, there has been a thawing of relations be tween the United States and Russia and there has been more talk of conducting joint space efforts. There was considerable discussion during Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman's recent successful visit to Russia. A3 Russia‘s unmanned Tuna XV was orbiting the moon. while Apollo ll headed for its touchdown, Bormnn telephoned an official of the Soviet National Acudel‘ny of Scic res seeking; information on Luna‘s course. In unprecedented gesture of cooperation. the Rus- sian cabled Borinali the exact course of Luna XV and assured it would not interfere with ."ipollo it landing n‘iissioir The. in r c c American Apollo ' who have flown to the or the moon have git-on "r' pcl':;petzliag oi," his home planet. whirling a lonely vigil through the solar system. protect- ed from the deadly radiation of the soaring sun and the cold of night only by a thin layer of gases“ trapped in a gravitational field. Might ioin fogiether Beyond the veil of gases is a hostile world that many nations may want to conquer together. By working in unison on such a great endeavor as space exploration, the leading nations of the world might join together to improve human~ ity’s lot on earth. That is one of the hopes engen- dered by the flight of Apollo 11. But in the absence of any such co-Operation, the United States plans to press on with its own exploration of space. Nine more lunar landings are planned in the next three years, each to a different area to probe various geological features. These missions gradually will increase man‘s stay-time on the moon and scientists will be flown on the later tl‘ips,_ ,taking along flying and roving machines to increase their area of exploration. 7 These landings will determine the feasibility of establishing an Antarctica-type base on the moon to conduct scientific, medical and engineering experiments. , VEN HERETMSET F FIRS not. 93% This is the first sample of moon rock studied by scientists at the Lunar Receiving Lab at Houston, Texas. It was brought back by the Apollo ll astronauts after their historic landing Iuly 20. It is shown behind a protective glass shield to prevent any possible contamination. . E Action (in the man _ ROM ms. PLANEl EARTH . C301. UPON THE" moon lbw 39629, A. o. WE CAME W PEACEâ€"FOR. All. MANKlND ”m I 422%“ {EWN l? Alba-it .t? ail-‘2'; tutu: . 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