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The Calgary Herald DAILY 10c SATURDAY 15c CALGARY, ALBERTA, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1969 FORTY-SIX PAGES LATE CITY EDITION Man On The Moon ATUU UUU mi iff i iin nnnnnnn i i i ill ii iiiiiiiiiiiinini ill II I UJ 11 a IV Lunar Module Lifts Off Moon SL ffx 0'- W' fir Kf in hi fjr I (mort on Apollo mission pages 8, and 17) By GEORGE BRIMMELL and BOB COHEN (Copyright, The Calgary Herald HOUSTON The Eagle has started to fly home to its mother ship after nearly 22 hours on the moon during which man's footprints were left in the lunar dust and in the history of mankind. The two Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from the moon shortly before 11 a.m. MST and within minutes reached the relative safety of lunar orbit the first time anything had ever rocketed away from the moon. It was the only aspect of the Apollo 11 mission that had never been tested and it had to work, just right, just as it did or commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Edwin Aldrin would almost certainly have been doomed. Armstrong and Aldrin immediately began pursuing the command ship, circling 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. "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.

The successful lift-off means that Eagle is manoeuvring for its historic link-up with Collins and Columbia, and a safe ride home, later this afternoon. The docking was scheduled to occur at 2:28 p.m. MST and. after the two men transfer into the mother ship, Eagle its wondrous assignment fulfilled is to be jettisoned. And now, all the critical phases of the mission behind them, the moon men can prepare for a relatively easy coast back to earth, with splash-down in the Pacific late Thursday morning.

Just before take-off, the astronauts dumped out all their space "junk" so they had as little weight as possible to lift. Left behind, along with the U.S. flag, the two-ton descent stage of the lunar module, scientific gear, are their overshoes, the portable life support systems that enabled them to walk outside the spaceship, cameras, gloves, and old food containers. As one scientist-astronaut put it: "The moon will look like a bad picnic." It was 7:56 p.m. MST on Sunday when Armstrong achieved immortality as he set his left foot gingerly on the MRS.

JAN ARMSTRONG, CROSSES FINGERS FOR ASTRONAUT wife of first moon walker watched landing from her home 'It's Unbelievably Perfect', Armstrong's Wife Exclaims ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG APPROACHES FIRST STEP ON MOON I a. I .1. a.aL. ffnn pictures orougnr dock to conn mivnv Reaction Conaca Glued To TV Sets HOUSTON (AP) The proud Apollo 11 wives struggled to find enough adjectives to express their feelings for their men on the moon. "The evening has been unbelievably perfect," Mrs.

Neil Armstrong said today after watching the moon explorations of her husband and Edwin Aldrin. "It is an honor and privilege to share with my husband, the crew, the Manned Spacecraft Centre, the American public and all of mankind this magnificent experience of the beginning of lunar exploration." Earlier, Mrs. Armstrong ex pressed her feelings much more simply. "1 was tremendously excited," she It was hard to think it was real until the men actually moved." said Mrs. Aldrin.

"I felt I was looking at another simulation. After the moon touch-down Mrs. Aldrin said she wept "be cause I was so happy." "I thought it was fantastically marvellous," said Mrs. Michael Collins, whose husband flew a moon orbit in tne commana capsule while the two other as tronauts visited tne lunar sur face. WITH THEM IN SPIRIT "Don't you think he is with he would not make a statement.

they called moon juice and MRS. JOAN ALDRIN "they made it" The astronaut s' children shared in Sunday's excitement, and in the praise of their fathers. "It was pretty exciting," said 12-year-old Ricky Armstrong. "I'm proud of daddy." "It was very exciting," said 11-year-old Andy Aidrin. Had Andy any ambitions to become an astronaut? "Oh Lord, I couldn't go through this twice," Mrs.

Aldrin answered. surface of the moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," were his first words as he stepped on the lunar surface less than seven hours after the Apollo 11 had made its epic landing. When the lunar module lifted off this morning the Apollo crew had been on the moon for 21 hours, 36 minutes and 22 seconds. They fired the engine at 10:54 a.m.

MST for seven minutes and 18 seconds and later reported a "little bit of wobbling back and forth." Before they lifted off, Armstrong reported to Houston: "We're in a boulder field with rocks ranging up to two feet, some on top of the surface and some partially buried. Working with the scoop we also found some completely buried in the powder." The two moon walkers had sealed themselves back in their bug-like module and gone to sleep for a few hours after their adventure. Armstrong and Aldrin climbed reluctantly back aboard after a spectacular stroll which saw them bounding exuberantly across the duaty, rocky surface of man's newest frontier. During their day on the moon the two astronauts threw away the script and took their moon walks in prime tv time. It had taken roughly 10 minutes for Armstrong to get through the hatch of the lunar module, work his way from its "front porch" down the nine steps to the alien, eerie surface of the moon.

At last there he was a ghostly figure, his movements like a movie in slow motion his words crackling back a quarter million miles through the depths of space. He said: "I'm going to step off the LM now And, still holding the ladder with his right hand, moving cautiously in his bulky space suit, Armstrong touched the moon with his foot About 20 minutes later Aldrin became the second earth-ling to plant his footprints on the moon. And a little after 11 p.m. the two astronauts were back in Eagle, back with the most precious material ever known to man samples of the lunar soil. Their nuggets make the Hope Diamond pale in value.

Se Pago 17 'GIANT LEAP MRS. PAT COLLINS she's exuberant them there in spirit?" Mrs. Collins replied when asked if her husband was disappointed because he was not in the landing party. All Apollo families planned to sleep late today before the next critical phase-, blast-off from the moon. Mrs.

Armstrong did not consider the moon landing the greatest moment of her life. "That was when we were married," she said. "It is now possible that the Russian probe will be back faster than the Americans. There may be savings in time with an unmanned craft with no docking procedures." "We must now await more signals to see if it is taking off again," said Lovell, 55- Luna Lands On The Moon, But May Have Hit Too Fast sprinkled confetti wnicn iney referred to as moon dust. Yorkville hiDDies from Toron to's coffee-house district mean while staged an outdoor ceremony to celebrate the end of the "virginity of the moon." While there was no official viewing spot in downtown Montreal, nearly 80,000 persons crowded through the grounds of Man and his World and watched the event on a huge screen at the French Pavilion.

In Ottawa, a police spokesman said "there wasn't a soul on the streets" during the walk and mnvie theatres reported at tendance down by about 50 per cent. PM WATCHES WALK Prime Minister Trudeau watched the walk at his Harrington Lake cottaee. A spokes man for the prime minister said Few Left first human being to set foot on the moon. Excitement about the lunar landing drew more than 2,100 Calgarians to the Centennial Planetarium for its special Apollo 11 Moon Watch during the weekend. Only 300 turned up on Sunday night, however, and 200 of them spent most of their time staring at the television sets which provided a close-up view of the moon.

Saturday, however, more than 1.000 people gazed at the moon through 10 telescopes on the planetarium's esplanade, as six members of the Royal Astronomical Society assisted the Planetarium staff in giving Calgarians a better view of the moon and the general area of the Sea of Tranquillity. (Canadian Press They drank moon juice in Toronto and lessened their liquor intake in Montreal. Most of them cheered, but a few of them booed. But millions of Canadians were glued to television sets at 7:56 p.m. (MST) Sunday when Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.

In Toronto, where an official downtown celebration was held to mark the event, some 35,000 people crowded in front of city hall to watch man's first step on the moon on 3Q-by-30-foot television screen. An additional 16 normal-size tv sets were set up among the crowd for the event. CPBINKLE MOON DUST Mini-skirted girls pushed themselves through the crowd, hanHprl out soft drinks which Calgary Calgarians greeted the land-, ing of the first men on the moon with balloons, confetti, parties, and special prayers, but mostly by spending a quiet day stationed in front of their television sets. "There was very little traffic on the streets when the astronauts landed and when they took the first steps on the moon," a member of the Calgary Police Department's traffic division said Sunday. There was a brief, spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm by Calgarians thrilled by the accomplishment of the American astronauts, however.

Honking horns, balloons, confetti and a general air of celebration filled downtown Calgary in the evening, just as Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the Europe Canadian Press! Hundreds of millions of earthlings heard and watched man's first groping exploration of the moon Sunday. In Western Europe, millions stayed up all night to see the show. In Rome, hundreds of Italians and tourists clustered around tv screens in the streets. Countless others watched in their homes. A crowd of about fiOO in a beer parlor called the Red Banjo jumped to their feet and cheered as they saw the astronauts moving on the lunar crust External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp, watching the event at home, said he was "ab solutely entranced." In Newfoundland, Premier Joseph Smallwood declared a holiday saying he did it "in recognition of one of the greatest events in human history." Downtown areas of cities in Western Canada were generally quiet during the landing.

In Edmonton, storekeepers planned to set up tv sets in show windows to eive nersons attending the annual Klondike Days promenade the chance to watch the landing, out trie event waa washed nut hv rain. In Vancouver, members of the Vancouver Living Theatre cele brated the event by wearing make-up showing the different faces of the moon and aancea on the beach. Home Thnsp who were awav from heme also tried to get close to tv sets to watch the historic events. At the Calgary Inn, for w-affltipA nennle huddled around tv sets placed in the lobby for the occasion, or ate dinner wnue watching the astronauts on a special set the grill room. And at the Palliser.

the visit ing Toronto Argonauts football tpam had a television set brought in for their meal in the hotel penthouse. Valdemar N. L. Johnson, Uni-tprl Sfatps consul-general in Cal gary, said he was mesmerized by his television set. calling nis nation's achievement unbelieva ble and describing the televi sion transmission as so unreal that looked as if it were ani mated.

the astronauts and describe the landing as an "incredibly his toric moment. Sir Bernard Lovell, Britain's leading space scientist, said from his Jodrell Bank observatory: "The touchdown was one of the moments of greatest drama in the history of man." MOON PICTURES British newspapers, plastered all over with moon pictures, moon stories and moon gossip, joined the general congratulations. The Times called it "an epic of human bravery, similar to the conquest of Everest" and iiiimiiiiiimmiimmiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiuiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii LOOK What's Inside The Herald Today Dave Raimey Leaves Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Ranks Page 19 Senator Edward Kennedy Will Face Traffic Count Page 44 BAROMETER- BETTY Soy 2 MOON STORIES FOR HERALD What is it like to be the first man on the moon? Or to be the second man? Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin will recount those historic moments and Michael Collins will report on what it was like to stay aloft during Sunday's lunar landing mission in exclusive articles appearing in The Calgary Herald next month. These personal accounts of the astronauts are obtained for Herald readers through The New York Times and Life magazine. year-old director of the observatory that has tracked Luna since it entered the moon orbit more than four days ago.

Lovell said the Soviet satellite's retrorockets that could slew it for a descent to the moon were fired at 8:46.50 MST. Ann Landeri 28 Bob Shiels 11 Business 12-H City News Z5-2S Classified Ads 32-44 Editorials 4 Family Living 27-29 Gary Lautens 11 John Schmidt 45 Ken Liddell Mail Bag Patterns 34 J-- 35 Theatre 30-31 Compiled from AP and Reuters) JODRELL BANK, England (CP) The Soviet Union's puzzling satellite, Luna XV touched down on the moon today after a high-speed descent that raised doubts that it landed intact. The craft swooped down from orbit at a velocity of about 300 miles an hour, scientists at the British Jodrell Bank Observatory said, and halted in the area known as the Sea of Crises a mere 500 miles from the Apollo 11 moonship Eagle. Observatory director Sir Bernard Lcvell said that nothing is likely to survive such a high-speed landing intact, but added that does not necessarily mean the robot machine crashed. Lovell also clung to his theory that the Russians are aiming to have the probe collect rock samples and bring them back to earth ahead of Apollo 11.

The Luna XV landed as the astronauts of t( Eagle were preparing to blast off from the moon and link up the mother-ship Columbia. The Russian spacecraft has mystified Western scientists for the last week. It went into orbit around the moon Wednesday after blast-off July 13. Earlier Lovell said that Luna transmitted signals "appropriate to a landing" and a bit later his aide. Professor John Davies, said "Luna has landed." Asked about the possibility that the probe could still lift off with a lunar sample for a round trip to earth ahead of Apollo 11, Davies said: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiii They Jumped To Their Feet And Cheered said the achievement of the astronauts "will always be one of the wonders of the world." The Daily Express said the real triumph "belongs to the men who simply said, let's go and went." The Guardian called it "a watershed in human history." The Daily Mail said it was "a day in our history the like of which none of us has ever seen or will live to see again." The Communist daily, Morning Star, hailed the "history-making achievement" but went on to say that "working people everywhere will feel particularly proud that the first CfZ MOSTLY SUNNY LOW 45; High 70 Weather Map 32 i working-class state, the Soviet Union, is up there as well" with Luna 15.

Elsewhere, Laplanders pastur ing their reindeer listened on transistor radios. Japanese stay ed up all night to watch on tele vision. In some countries many re mained unaware. Communist China, with one-quarter of the world's population, did not broadcast news about Apollo 11 nor did North Vietnam or North Korea. Crowds in front of tv screens at Paris sidewalk cafes and See Page 2 EUROPE'S Pnrn Paul watched telecasts on the Apollo mission earlier from the papal observatory, but there was no word from the Vatican on whether the pontiff stayed up all night to -see the moon walk.

The Queen. Prince Philip and thpir rhildren staved UD to watch the moon pathfinders on television at Windsor Lastie. in London, a crowd of about 2.000 was still clustered around a giant tv screen in Trafalgar Square at dawn. Prime Minister Wilson went on television to praise the "heroism, bravery and of.