HOUSTON TESTS
Quarantine For Woman (N.ZP.A.-Reuter—Copyright) HOUSTON, August 6. The first woman to be sent Into quarantine at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston today shared her exile with 22 men.
Miss Heather Owens, a research assistant described as very attractive and in her mid-twenties, was sent behind the laboratory’s isolation barrier after a vacuum pipe carrying possible moon contaminant had sprung a leak in a room where autopsies were carried out on mice injected with lunar material. With her when the burst occurred were three technicians who are also in quarantine now.
Already behind the barrier were 19 men, including the Apollo 11 astronauts, Mr Neil Armstrong and Colonels Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins, who are due out of quarantine next Monday. The four newcomers are being kept isolated from the others for a time to ensure that they do not carry some earth infection into the sealed off quarantine area.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32060, 7 August 1969, Page 13
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