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i VOL. 161 NO. 169 FOURTEEN PAGES CLARKSVI1XE, TENNESSEE, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 21 1969 HOME DELIVERED PRICE 50 CENTS A WEEK 20 CENTS SINGLE COPY One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For 2 i l. -J 0 GO DDto Do dang Chase Begins On Time '4 ff ilSli 'A i By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Two Americans blasted off from the moon today reaching the relative safety of lunar orbit and leaving their footprints in the lunar dust and in the history of man. It was the first time anything had ever rocketed away from the moon.

Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin A. Aldrin Jr. immediately began pursuing the command ship, orbiting 69 miles above the surface with astronaut Michael Collins at the controls. "Beautiful.

Very smooth," Aldrin commented as Eagle took off from the moon. "A very quiet ride. There's that one crater down there. "We've a little bit of slow wallowing here," he said later. "Shutdown," he called out as the engine stopped.

"Great," Mission Control said and reported Eagle in a near-perfect orbit ranging from about 11 to 54 miles high. They had to catch Collins in a 3 12-hour chase to get back to earth. Their lunar vehicle was not built to take them home. Collins was spring-loaded to speed to the rescue if something should go wrong with the lunar taxi called Eagle. "Roger, understand we're No.

1 on the runway," Aldrin said minutes before the blastoff. A fiery burst from a small engine propelled Armstrong and Cried, Says Mrs. Goddard WORCESTER, Maw. cried" Mrs. Robert H.

Goddard said quietly today. "I was very happy, and very sad too. I wished Bob could have been here. He would have loved it." Goddard, whose lifelong dream was to send a rocket to the moon, was to rocketry' what Henry Ford was to automotives. The shy, intense physicist sent the world's first liquid-fueled missile aloft from a farm field in nearby Auburn in 1926.

His subsequent years of tigation and experimentation formed the basis for the that made the Apollo 11 mission and its predecessors possible. Mrs. Goddard said she watched jthe Apollo 11 crew fulfill her husband's dream alone. "I was filled with nostalgia," she said. "Bob would have been so happy.

He wouldn't have shouted or anything. He woul just have glowed." Goddard died at age 63 in 1945. The farm field from which he sent his first rocket aloft now is a golf course, and Sunday, as men set foot on the moon, a soft rain washed the rolling green expanse. 5-i-v I I 4 U-u SALUTING THE CHIEF congratulatory message is relayed equipment stay on the station. 'ft -i i4 (AP Wlrphoto from tht Moon) salutes as President Nixon's Aldrin off the moon at 1:54 p.

m. EDT, ending man's first exploration of another celestial body. They had campbed at the base named Tranquillity for 21 hours 36 minutes, raising the banner of their nation above it and fulfilling a dream of the ages. Seven minutes 18 seconds after the liftoff, Eagle's cabin section settled into a low lunar orbit. The bottom half of the vehicle, with the landing legs, served as a launching pad and was left on the moon.

The command ship, Columbia, and Eagle, had worked in close radio harmony as the critical firing neared. Precisely 69 seconds after Collins flashMl nupr the landing site, Armstrong and Aldrin took off. By the time they reached orbit, Columbia was 300 miles ahead and the chase was on. Armstrong and Aldrin were to execute several intricate maneuvers, triggered by engine firings, to close the gap and catch its fleeting target. Linkup was scheduled for 5 32 p.m.

After a rest period, the astro-(Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) Wood chuckle Eagle gets lift-off From moon's dusty dome; And with no one up there Yelling "Yankee go by Phil alone and watched television as man stepped on the motn for the first When a newsman phoned she said, "I'm sorry I'd rather be by myself you understand." A soft rain fell at Auburn, where Goddard fired his first liquid fueled rocket in 1926. In New York sorte 3,000 people watched the moon landing at a huge television screen at Kennedy In temalional Airport.llun-dredu crowded in front of another big screen at the Time-Life Building across from Radio City Music Hall. An estimated 4,000 watched the three hiigfl TV screens erected in Central Park, Across the nation, in Anaheim, 80 members of the (Continued on Pag 2, Col. 3) (AP Wlrephoto from the Moon) was picked up and returned to their spacecraft at the end of their lunar surface.

This picture was received at Goldstone tracking 1 ASTRONAUTS PERFORM SCIENTIFIC CHORES Astronaut Buzz Aldrin deploys the solar wind experiment near the lunar lander shortly after he and astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, right, set foot on the Moon last night. The 2 These Were Shining Hours Nude Hippies, Fighting Gi's ,1 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS They were shining hours. Americans landed on the moon and walked its rocky surface while millions of their country jnen locked their attention on television and radio sets on a July Sunday that will live in liin-tory. i It was also a Sunday on which hippies romped nude in a California stream, American fought on in Vietnam, babies were born, highways took their toll, cheers rose from excited crowds, a Wyoming woman laughed uncontrollably, Indians broke into a victory dance.

For others, there were periods of reflection and prayer. ft In her home at Worcester, the widow of rocket pioneer Rolcrt II. Goddard sat 1 3 (AP Wlraphoto from th Moon) A 1 Astronaut Edwin Aldrin, (right) to them on the moon last night. AMERICANS ON THE MOON Astronaut Neil Armstrong plants the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America on the moon (right) while his moon partner, Edwin E. Aldrin observes..