Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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Apollo II astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. spreads out equipment on the moon's surface. In the background stands a United States flag. Right: Astronaut Alan L. Bean of Apollo 12 uses a fuel transfer tool. Photos by .VASA space travel

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At a dinner Vice President Agnew raps the campus demonstrators. He told guests of his rejection of groups which resort to dramatic demonstrations to rally the uncommitted in issues of disagreement. Right: Silting on his heavy pack, a weary paratrooper in Vietnam rests. Black students stage a sit-in at Kutztown Slate College. Several days of similar protests plagued this campus as well as other local campuses. Right: Sitting on his heavy pack, a weary paratrooper in Vietnam rests with his head in his hands. 23 student protests

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beckoning stars whisper man's destiny By Nancy Keeler No oceans left to cross ... no land to be conquered . . . no barriers to be surpassed. Slowly man has uncovered the shrouded mysteries of his world. Only a few scattered corners of unexplored darkness still exist on the earth. Yet the human race is now bursting with curiosity about an infinite frontier which holds the climax of all knowledge. The deadly black void of space has been opened. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on extra-terrestrial soil. Newspaper accounts of that day were more like old-time radio show of Orson Welles or the stories of Jules Verne than reality. As Edwin Aldrin accompanied Armstrong on the Sea of Tranquility, Michael Collins spent a lonely vigil in the orbiting Columbia. November 12 the Saturn V rocket boosted Apollo 12 in what seemed to be only a rerun of the preceding Apollo flight. The crew of Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean also accomplished many firsts. To determine the amount of wear and erosion on the lunar surface Conrad retrieved parts of Surveyor III, an unmanned probe that softlandcd on the moon in 1967. Followers of the flight had to be satisfied with listening as live television coverage failed because of a camera malfunction. As lucky as the American space program has been in the past so was the ill-fated Apollo 13 unlucky. The world gasped as a liquid oxygen tank exploded in midflight to endanger the survival of the threesome of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert. However, a concentrated team effort by ground control and the astronauts brought the ship to a safe landing in the Pacific Ocean April 17. The beckoning stars will continue to whisper man's destiny as they appear twinkling in the sky each night. The Apollo I I space vehicle is shown mounted on the launching complex. I he flight crew was Commander Neil A. Armstrong. Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Photo by NASA space travel