Jan 9 1971
From The Space Library
Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell, and Stuart A. Roosa held press conference at MSC. Astronauts described plans for Jan. 31 lunar landing mission and said they were eager to fly on what Mitchell called "a more mature spacecraft" in which "residual risks go down." (Lannan, W Star, 1/11/71, A4)
Economist editorial discussed lunar science investigations: "The growing importance of all this peering at, prodding, pounding, baking and growing plants upon moon soil is that the results are contradicting most of the moon theories of the past 15 years. It is not often that scientific concepts are set by the ears, and the piquancy this time lies in the way that the bulk of serious scientists originally believed that putting men on the moon was an unnecessary extravagance; instruments and unmanned probes could do the job, they felt, for a fraction of the cost and none of the risk. But, as it turns out, they could not. The instruments that were sent to the moon ahead of the astronauts did not produce the same results that the actual collection of rock samples has done, and it will be interesting to see if the Russians have done any better out of the robot shoveling of Luna 16." (Economist, 1/9/71)
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