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VOLUME 57 — NO. 30
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK At the right our readers will see a picture of a Lunar Module — LM (in this case, Eagle) blasting off from the lunar surface. At the time, you read these lines, we, together with the entire world hope and feel confident that this has transpired after Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aidrin, Jr., had re-entered the LM and blasted off to rejoin the Command Service Module — CSM (Columbia) commanded by Astronaut Michael Collins for the journey back to Mother Earth, after having set foot on the surface of the moon. These three selfconfident, brave young men are to be commended for many things — one of them being the fact that they took to and left on the surface of the moon momentoes of their three fellow American Astronauts and medals of two fellow Russian Cosmonauts all of whom had perished in the space effort. The medals were given to Astronaut Frank Borman by the widows of the Russian Cosmonauts when he visited in the Soviet Union, recently, thus, showing to the world that our space program is truly a program for peace. In September, 1962, your editor and family took enough time from the daily duties to go to the Rice Institute Stadium in Houston on a very hot day to listen to the then President of the United states John F. Kennedy in the
there and return with technology that we have not yet discovered, and metals and alloys that are not yet today in existence that can withstand heat greater than any we know on earth, (humorously he stated: 'Almost as hot as it is here today.') and that we can return them safely to earth, then we have to be bold. i say we can and will do so." It is regrettable that he is not alive at this time to see his prophet" becomes a reality. • --- NOTICE —
center of the sweltering football field on a platform, quote these words (written from my memory): "These are daring times in which we live and we have to be bold to face them. People say: 'Why the moon?' And I say: `Why should Rice play Texas?' If I were to stand here today and tell you that, within this decade we will send men to the moon in machines, so complicated that they will be able to go
ENTITLED TO THE VESTNIK? If members of the SPJST are not receiving the Vestnik and feel they are entitled to it, forward your requests to the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas. DO NOT send such inquiries and requests to U9 here in West. The mailing list is controlled from the Supreme Lodge. Include your lodge number and certificate number. This would include paid-up policy members, whose names are automatically dropped from the mailing list • • -- NOTE — A few youth letters and .txpressions of sympathy had to be left for next week because of a shortage of space in this issue. — Editor