Moon pilot goes south
The United States Air Force officer who flew the lunar module on the Apollo 8 mission left Christchurch yesterday for a few days in the Antarctic. He is William Anders, who is now one of five commissioners with the United States Atomic Energy Commission. He will spend a! week on the continent as the! guest of the National Science] Foundation. Also on board the United! States Navy Hercules was the superintendent of the Antarctic division of the D.S.I.R. (Mr R. B. Thomson) and the division’s executive officer (Mr H. McDonald).
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 12
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