The Apollo 11 moon mission, which functioned so perfectly in space, ran into a number of irritating terrestrial troubles last week. Since the three Apollo astronauts entered Houston's $15.8 million Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL) nearly three weeks ago, ten contamination alarms have kept the place in turmoil.
Most of the alarms proved false, but last week a leak in the biological-analysis area exposed four technicians—including a pretty brunette veterinarian-pathologist named Heather Owens, 23 —to lunar dust. Just in time for Astronaut Neil Armstrong's 39th-birthday party, all four were ordered into quarantine. Their arrival brought the roll of uninvited guests to...
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