Police start blitz aimed at DUI related deaths Contest helps design home By LIZ

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  • MAUREEN HURLEY
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“Houston, we have a p ro b ­ lem.” T h o se five w o rd s beg in a gripping story tha t Apollo 13 C o m m a n d e r J a m e s Lovell retells tonight a t 7:30 p.m. in O’Laughlin Auditorium of Saint Mary’s College Moreau Center. Lovell and his crew were 55 hours into America’s fifth mis­ s ion to th e m oon w h e n an explosion d ra in ed the c ra f t ’s power and oxygen supply. The th re e -m a n c rew m a n a g e d to bring the craft safely back to Earth, an accompishment that is co n s id e red by m any to be NASA’s greatest hour. “We d idn’t realize the com­ plete m agnitude of this flight un til we got back hom e and started reading about it, ” Lovell wrote. President Richard Nixon awarded the crew the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest award. The tale of the near-disasterous mission was recounted by Lovell in his novel, “Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13.” D irector Ron H o w ard ’s motion picture release, “Apollo 13," also tells of the 1970 mis­ sion, with Tom Hanks playing

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تاریخ انتشار 2014