Apr 6 1969
From The Space Library
In interview published by This Week, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman said many things could be learned from moon: "One . . . I hope will be international cooperation, such as now exists in Antarctica. Even though the moon struck me as a very desolate, forbidding expanse, it will be very beneficial for men to work together to unlock its many mysteries and secrets. I hope that both the moon and the large permanent space stations from earth will be citadels for international cooperation and that the people who visit them will really be internationalists in the truest sense. ' (This Week, 4/6/69)
Baltimore Sun said Indiana Univ, had announced plans for experiments with NASA to determine problems in making future lunar colonies self-supporting. Studies to start in August would probe feasibility of growing earth plants in lunar soil to provide food for manned space stations and possibly fodder for animals transported to moon colonies in 20 to 30 yrs. "Moon grow" experiment would use lunar soil retrieved by lunar missions and would expand as more material became available. Experiments would be conducted by astrobotanist Dr. Paul Mahlberg and team at MSC laboratory and later at university. (Perkinson, 13 Sun, 4/6/69)
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