Science: Changing the Lunar Image

Technicians were swarming around Launch Complex 39A at Cape Kennedy last week getting ready for the month-end lift-off of Apollo 14. But all the attention at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center was still focused on the scientific byproducts of man's last successful moon landing. After painstakingly analyzing the 75.6 Ibs. of rock and debris hauled back from the edge of the Ocean of Storms by the Apollo 12 astronauts more than a year ago, 714 scientists gathered for NASA's second major moon-rock conference. The moon, they agreed, is not a cold, unchanging conglomerate of...

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