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[i]He and the broadcast-news pioneer John Chancellor were co-announcers in 1971 during the Apollo 15 launch, which led to a three-day lunar visit by astronauts. He was co-author of "Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future" (1997), with Rick Chappell, a former astronaut. In a 1974 interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Mr. Hartz admitted that a NASA event was so overwhelming for him that afterward he would have no memory of what he had said on the air. Recalling the first time he saw a Saturn rocket lifting off at Cape Kennedy on an Apollo mission, he said, "I was just not prepared for that 36-story building walking right off the platform into the air." ... The space program remained a fascination to Mr. Hartz. At a 20th-anniversary gala for the Apollo 11 project in Houston, he described the 1969 moon landing in lofty terms, calling it "the grandest thing we could think to do" at the time and lauding "what man can do with a singleness of mind and a clearly defined goal." But even that accomplishment could sound almost down to earth when he fell back on his folksy manner in talking about it. "The truth is," he said, "we went there just to check it out — friendly-like."[/i]
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