| Description | Apologising for not being able to make the dedication of Harold and Frieda Urey Hall. Says that he submitted an article with the comparision of Luna 9 pictures 'and our homemade stuff to 'Science', and in the first round it was rejected by them (though it has been accepted by now)'. Goes on to talk about dust on the moon e.g. says that 'all the geologists in NASA can think of dust in no other way than wind-blown because that is how it appears on earth, and they are therefore absolutely convinced that no dust deposit could look like that ... All this would be just funny if it weren't for the fact that as a result nothing is done to prepare at all for anything other than hard rock in the landing maneuver, in the equipment to be carried, in the precautions taken for the astronauts or in any of the many detailed planning features that have to go into a lunar program'. |