Nov 30 1969
From The Space Library
Following publication Nov. 29 by Pravda of article describing U.S. moon rock exhibit in Moscow, crowd of "thousands," eager to see display, smashed glass door and nearly demolished room in which Apollo films were shown. (Clarity, NYT, 12/1/69, 14)
Worldwide program to provide widest display possible of Apollo 11 lunar samples was announced by NASA. Of 15 moon rocks weighing between 2/3 and 21/2 oz, 8 were for U.S. display and 7 had been released to USIA for overseas showing. In addition to Smithsonian Institution display, exhibits would include rock traveling with Apollo 11 CM on tour of 50 state capitals and two-month showings in 30 museums and planetariums during year. USIA would show six stones on world tour, and seventh at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. (NASA Release 69-155)
Completion of multimillion-dollar electron microscope, twice as powerful as any previously existing, at Laboratory of Electronic Optics in Toulouse, France, opened question "Will we ever be able to look into the very heart of things?" Walter Sullivan said in New York Times. Instrument, without its accelerator, weighed 22 tons and stood 10 ft tall. Interviews with U.S." French, and U.K. scientists had revealed wide feeling that "before long it may be possible . . . to see individual atoms and 'read, the genetic message in a strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)." Univ. of Chicago biophysicist Dr. Humberto Fernandez-Moran had said when that stage was reached, it might be possible not only to predict, but also to design life at the molecular level. (NYT, 11/30/69, E9)
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