SPORTS CALENDAR Tigers forward taken at No. 16 is still recovering from torn ACL. C1 Emmy winner to perform stand-up at Orlando Improv on Sunday. D1 Magic draft Auburn’s Okeke Piven brings his act to Orlando T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . FINAL EDITION Friday, June 21, 2019 RR $2.50 Trump: Iran made ‘big mistake’ Tehran claims U.S. drone entered Iranian airspace, but president says it was over international waters By Deb Riechmann Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Thursday that “Iran made a very big mistake” by shooting down a U.S. surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz but suggested it was a foolish error rather than an inten- Campus initiates car plate scanning tional escalation of the tensions that have led to rising fears of open military conflict. Asked about a U.S. response, the president said pointedly, “You’ll soon find out.” The downing of the huge, unmanned aircraft, which Iran portrayed as a deliberate defense of its territory rather than a mistake, was a stark reminder of the risk of military conflict between U.S. and Iranian forces as the Trump administration combines a “maximum pressure” campaign of economic sanctions against Iran with a buildup of American forces in the region. On Thursday, Iran called the sanctions “economic terrorism,” insisted the drone had invaded its airspace and said it was taking its case to the United Nations in an effort to prove the U.S. was lying about the aircraft being over international waters. It accused the U.S. of “a very dangerous and provocative act.” The drone — which has a wingspan wider than a Boeing 737 — entered Iranian airspace “despite repeated radio warnings” and was shot down by Iran, acting under the U.N. Charter that allows selfdefense action “if an armed attack occurs,” Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said in a letter to the U.N. secretary-general. Trump, who has said he wants to avoid war and negotiate with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, appeared to play down the shoot down. Please turn to IRAN, A5 ■ INSIDE: The Senate voted to block the selling of weapons to Saudi Arabia, launching a new challenge to Trump’s alliance with the country amid rising tensions in the Middle East. A3 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 UCF to keep records for a year, checking against police databases By Jeff Weiner The University of Central Florida has installed cameras at all entrances and exits to scan the license plates of cars on campus and check them against law enforcement databases, officials said Thursday. A university spokeswoman said the cameras had been installed since the beginning of the year and went into use this month. The data they capture – which officials said was limited to the information on a license plate and the date, time and place it was recorded – will be kept for a year. A statement posted to UCF’s website said the devices would allow campus police to check those tag numbers “against national and state systems that flag stolen or wanted vehicles; search for license or tag expirations or suspensions; or alert for individuals with criminal investigative interest.” The release described license plate readers as a “force multiplier for police.” UCF Police Chief Carl Metzger described the cameras’ purpose similarly in a campuswide email Thursday. “Simply put, UCFPD is not interested in monitoring anyone’s whereabouts with the exception of those who are likely to be connected to criminal activity,” he said. “LPRs are a technology used at campuses and large facilities across the country, and we believe they are an important addition to UCF’s safety and security measures.” Plate-reader devices have been criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union as posing privacy concerns, because they capture NASA/COURTESY The 363-foot tall Apollo 10 on the way to Kennedy Space Center atop a huge crawler-transporter in 1969. PREDECESSORS PAVED THE WAY Before Apollo 11, four early missions charted path for historic moon landing By Roger Simmons W hen Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong took his one giant leap on the moon nearly 50 years ago, it was a series of small steps that got him there. Four of most important ones came from the crewed Apollo missions that immediately preceded the moon landing – Apollo 7, 8, 9 and 10. Each one helped clear obstacles that stood between America and the moon. Each one provided valuable information so that Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins would have a success- This series ful moon mission culminating with the first human foot steps on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Here’s a look at each of the four early crewed Apollo missions and how they set up Apollo 11 for success. This story is part of the Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage – 30 days of stories leading up to the historic first steps on the moon. Read more stories, see photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo11. Apollo 7 On Oct. 11, 1968, astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham became the first humans to go into space aboard the massive SatPlease turn to APOLLO, A4 Please turn to UCF, A4 State support for pot at ‘all-time high’ Wally’s gets a makeover Poll finds 65% of voters favor legalization for recreational pot use By Anthony Man A strong majority of voters — 65% to 30% — want to see marijuana legalization in Florida. The results were reported Thursday by the Quinnipiac University Poll, a showing the pollsters called “an all-time high in the state” on the marijuana issue. Voters’ views have changed significantly. In May 2016, Florida voters were split with 56% in favor and 41% opposed. In November 2013, it was much closer, with 48% in favor and 46% opposed. There are some caveats. The question is specific: allowing adults to legally possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Another question, about whether people would support sale of legal marijuana in their communities, had about the same support: 61% to 34%. Legalization was supported by almost every demographic group: men (69%), women (62%), voters age18-34 (89%), voters 65 and old- er (52%), white voters (66%), black voters (66%), Hispanic voters (68%), Democrats (78%), and independent voters (72%). Republicans were evenly divided 48% to 48%. Mainstay bar may not look the same, but that’s OK, patrons say Please turn to POLL, A5 There are no smokers or jukebox, and the condom machine has moved, but Wally’s Mills Avenue Liquors lovers say it feels like the same old neighborhood watering hole. The mainstay bar in Orlando’s Mills 50 district since 1954 reopened Monday after a nearly yearlong closure. ■ LOCAL & STATE: A poll found 55% of Florida voters approve of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ performance, with 22% disapproving, down 4% since March. The state’s other major Republican officials, Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, did not fare as well. B1 By Caroline Glenn Wednesday night, every seat at the bar was taken, some by customers who have been coming to Wally’s for decades, back when the drinking age was 18, not that Wally’s had a reputation for carding. Larry Furlong, 69, said he started drinking at Wally’s in 1980. “It was the only bar like it in Orlando, and I’m happy it still is,” he said. Linda Updike, the late widow of the bar’s namesake Walter Please turn to WALLY’S, A2 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Ruling on ‘Peace Cross’ reached The high court decided a 40-foot memorial to those who died in WWI may continue to stand on public land. A3 Xi meets with Kim in Pyongyang The North Korean leader told visiting Chinese president that he is waiting for a response in U.S. nuclear talks. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Trump, Trudeau discuss NAFTA The president welcomed the Canadian prime minister for talks about trade and the upcoming G-20 summit. A3 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A4 Orlando Sentinel Friday, June 21, 2019 Riviera Beach to pay $600K ransom to save records By Terry Spencer Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE — A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses. The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to re- trieve its records, which the hackers encrypted. The council already voted to spend almost $1 million on new computers and hardware after hackers captured the city’s system three weeks ago. The hackers apparently got into the city’s system when an employee clicked on an email link that allowed them to upload malware. Along with the encrypted records, the city had numerous problems including a disabled email system, em- ployees and vendors being paid by check rather than direct deposit and 911 dispatchers being unable to enter calls into the computer. Spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown said Wednesday that the city of 35,000 residents has been working with outside security consultants, who recommended the ransom be paid. She conceded there are no guarantees that once the hackers received the money they will release the records. The payment is being covered by insurance. The FBI on its website says it “doesn’t support” paying off hackers, but Riviera Beach isn’t alone — many government agencies and businesses do. “We are relying on (the consultants’) advice,” she said. The hackers demanded payment in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. While it is possible to trace bitcoins as they are spent, the owners of the accounts aren’t necessarily known, making it a favored payment method in ransomware attacks. Numerous governments and businesses have been hit in the United States and worldwide in recent years. Baltimore refused to pay hackers $76,000 after an attack last month. The U.S. indicted two Iranians last year for allegedly unleashing more than 200 ransomware attacks, including against the cities of Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey. The men, who have not been arrested, received more than $6 million in payments and caused $30 APOLLO Continued from Page A1 urn V rocket, designed specifically to get America to the moon. Ten minutes after their 11:02 a.m. launch from Kennedy Space Center, the Apollo 7 astronauts were in Earth orbit – and would remain there for nearly 11 days. Their mission would be longer than it would it take to get to the moon and back, which was one of the primary mission objectives: to make sure the command module and other parts of the Saturn V would function properly for the duration of a mission to the moon. With a few minor exceptions, the mechanics and the technology worked fine. It was the humans who had problems. Less than a day into the flight, Schirra fell ill with a bad cold. Cunningham and Eisele caught it, too. “A cold is uncomfortable enough on the ground, but in weightlessness it presents a different problem,” NASA explained. “Mucus accumulates, fills the nasal passages and does not drain from the head. The only relief is to blow hard, which is painful to the ear drums.” In addition to being sick, Schirra wasn’t happy. “I was bored to tears up there for 11 days,” Schirra said in 1998 interview with NBC’s Roy Neal. “I mean, bored! … Do you remember those little bands you’d wear around your wristwatch for the calendar? I have that band in a plastic block with 8 of the 11 days scratched off, like a prisoner.” Apollo 7 also featured the first live television broadcast from space. “Oddly enough, we got an Emmy for that ‘Wally, Walt, and Donn Show,’ so I can’t really say it was a bad deal,” Schirra said. Schirra’s TV work wasn’t done, though. He would capitalize on his Apollo 7 illness by doing commercials for Actifed cold medicine. And he would be sitting next to CBS’ Walter Cronkite for the Apollo11moon landing in what the network billed as its “Walter to Walter Coverage.” Apollo 8 This mission was supposed to take the lunar module into space for the first time. But there was just one problem – it wasn’t ready. So, what would NASA do with Apollo 8? “Take it around the moon. An enormously bold decision,” said Armstrong, who was the mission’s backup commander. Two hours and 50 minutes after being launched from KSC on Dec. 21, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth orbit and head to UCF Continued from Page A1 data on all vehicles that pass them, not just those involved in crimes. In an interview, Metzger said he had gotten “a lot more positive feedback than negative” when discussing the devices with students and faculty, though “there have been a few questions about privacy.” He said the cameras’ use would be “limited in scope.” Metzger said the cameras would check driver tags against a “hot list” of cars suspected of involvement in criminal activity. When one is detected, the system sends an alert to UCFPD dispatchers, who can send an officer to confirm the tag was read accurately and investigate, he said. He cited a 2017 case in which about three dozens cars were burglarized at UCF. The perpetrators were driving a car that had been reported stolen, which would have triggered an alert when they arrived on campus had the cameras been in place and “stopped those crimes in their tracks,” he said. Asked whether the cam- NASA/COURTESY The Apollo 9 Lunar Module “Spider” in a lunar landing configuration, as photographed from the Command and Service Modules on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. the moon. At 68 hours, 58 minutes and 45 seconds into their mission, they also became the first to see the back of the moon and later the first to witness what would become an iconic image of the space program. In the middle of looking at craters on the moon, Anders happened to see something else that caught his attention. “Oh my God, look at that picture over there! There’s the Earth comin’ up. Wow, is that pretty!” he told his crew mates. He quickly called out for a roll of color film to take a picture of what would be known as “Earthrise” – our planet appearing in space over the moon. The Apollo 8 astronauts would make six live television broadcasts from space, including a memorable one on Christmas Eve when the crew read from the Bible’s book of Genesis and told viewers, “Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you – all of you on the good Earth.” In a 2011 interview with Australian television’s Alex Malley, Armstrong explained the significance of Apollo 8’s flight. “[It] moved our program along a lot further because … we proved eras would be used to investigate more minor offenses, like expired registrations, Metzger said the system has an “adjustable” threshold for what level of offense triggers an alert. Without it, “I think we’d be inundated with information, and that’s not what we want,” he said. UCF in its statement stressed it would own the data, which would “never be shared or sold,” though it also said UCFPD will “exercise discretion when sharing information with other law enforcement agencies to solve crimes, locate missing persons, and for other law enforcement purposes.” Asked if that would include federal agencies, such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Metzger said that was outside the scope of the program. “That’s not what the purpose is for at all,” he said. “I would call it traditional criminal activity. This is about keeping the campus safe, so that isn’t something that’s going to be a part of the equation for us.” The police chief said he had gotten more questions about the cameras’ impact on parking than on campus we could navigate to the moon, that we could could communicate at lunar distance and that the crew could take pictures of the potential landing sites and see what might be a good plan for future flights.” Apollo 9 Astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott never left Earth orbit during a 10-day mission for Apollo 9 that started on March 3, 1969. They spent the bulk of their mission checking out systems aboard the command module and the lunar module, which was making its first trip into space (finally!). “Apollo 9 was an engineering mission from beginning to end. We tested every possible thing that could be tested,” Schweickart said in a 1999 NASA oral history interview. The mission is also notable for another reason: It was the first time in the Apollo program that the astronauts decided to name their spacecraft. “We’re Apollo 9. But now we’ve got two spacecraft, so when we’re separated, what are we?” Schweickart explained. “And talking to each other, are we Apollo 9 Alpha and Apollo 9 Bravo, or whatever? We needed to have call signs so that there wasn’t going to be any ambiguity, you know. … We wanted clear and distinct names.” The Apollo 8 crew decided command module would be known as Gumdrop, because the astronauts said it looked like a gumdrop on the factory floor when it had a thin, blue coating on it. The lunar module would be known as Spider, because “what else does it look like but a spider?” Schweickart said. “So, Gumdrop and Spider, you know. … We didn’t ask anybody. We didn’t tell anybody. We just started doing it, and it stuck. And from then on in Apollo, the names came back in. So that’s the story of naming spacecraft.” moon. Apollo10 was the dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. If everything worked properly on Apollo 10, then Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins would be given the first moon-landing mission. But with Stafford and Cernan in the lunar module flying low over the lunar surface, why didn’t they just go ahead and land on the moon? “My lunar module was too heavy to land,” Stafford explained in a 1997 NASA interview. “I had a heavy weight lunar module, number one, and number two, they also didn’t have the software all worked out for that power descent. So, there’s no way I could have done it.” Despite not being the first ones to land on the moon, the Apollo 10 crew did achieve a number of firsts in space. They had the first color TV telecast from space. “We had more prime time on Apollo 10 than we did on [Apollo] 11 or any of the others,” Stafford said. And with Stafford and Cernan off in the lunar module, Young became the first man to orbit the moon alone. He also had no qualms about not being the first or second person to set foot on the moon. “I’m glad Neil and Buzz got to do it first,” Young said in a 1999 interview with the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger . “For one thing, people would’ve tried to make a big wheel out of me.” Instead, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins would become the big stars for their historic Apollo 11 flight, but they would also be grounded from any future space flights. But Young had the last laugh. He would become the ninth person to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 16, and the first person to command a space shuttle when he flew aboard Columbia in 1981 – taking a different kind of leap in history. Apollo 10 On May 18, 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts blasted off, flew from the Earth to the moon, and took the lunar lander to the Sea of Tranquility. Thomas Stafford, Gene Cernan and Orlando’s John Young did everything that the crew of Apollo 11 would do two months later with one big exception: They didn’t land on the STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL Cameras record the license plate number of every car that enters the campus of UCF in Orlando. security. In addition to its use in policing, the tag-reading technology will eventually be used to replace parking decals and hangtags, allowing drivers’ license plates to act as their parking permits. As a result, the university also announced a change to its parking policy Thursday: Starting July 1, all drivers who park on UCF’s main, downtown, health sciences and Rosen School of Hospitality Management campuses will be required to park nose-in. Those who fail to do so face a warning or ticket. “Like many other universities and municipalities million in damage to computer systems, federal prosecutors have said. The federal government last year also accused a North Korean programmer of committing the “WannaCry” attack that infected government, bank, factory and hospital computers in 150 countries. He is also believed to have stolen $81 million from a Bangladesh bank. He also remains in his home country. The FBI had no comment Wednesday on the Riviera Beach attack. embracing this technology around the country, UCF is joining the trend of transitioning to virtual permits for the sake of costs, sustainability, efficiency and safety,” UCF’s assistant director for parking, Andy Rampersad, said in a statement. “Implementing the nose-in parking policy now will create a smoother transition for virtual permits, which is the longer term solution.” In addition to being posted at entrances and exits, the cameras are also being mounted on some UCF parking and transportation vehicles and at the entrances and exits to one on-campus garage “as part of a pilot Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of Apollo 50, the Orlando Sentinel’s new book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 20 and get $10 off the cover price. Order your copy at OrlandoSenitnel.com/Apollo50 study,” officials said. Courtney Gilmartin, a UCF spokeswoman, said the camera system cost $350,000, but about $300,000 of the price tag was covered by grants. She said Thursday’s news would not come as a surprise to campus stakeholders. “We’ve been talking about LPRs in our campus outreach for a while — everything from small meetings with students and employees to broader campus communication,” Gilmartin said, adding that Metzger spoke on the topic this month at a Student Government Association Senate meeting. Metzger also mentioned “[f ]orthcoming licence plate readers” in a campus-wide email about recent car crashes on campus in August, she noted. The university’s announcement comes months after a lawsuit was filed against the city of Coral Gables in October, challenging its use of automated license plate readers. The suit, described by the Miami New Times as possibly the first in Florida targeting plate readers, argues the devices are an unconstitutional violation of privacy because they poten- tially allow law enforcement agencies to track where drivers go. The suit is still pending. The city has filed a motion seeking its dismissal, which argues license place information is in plain public view, so its collection cannot violate privacy rights. Cory Goicoechea, a 23-year-old communications student, said Thursday he thought the plate readers are a “really good add-on” to the campus’ existing safety features. “We’ll see what happens, but I think it’s a great safety tool we can use for stolen vehicles, wanted people and to make sure people are just not violating the law,” he said. “I think ultimately it’s going to create a better or safer community than what it is now.” Danielle Kraus, a 21-year-old graphic design student, said she saw comments from students concerned about the cameras and didn’t understand why. “There’s cameras everywhere,” she said. “How are these cameras different? I feel like I’m already being seen anywhere I go anyway.” Michael Williams of the Sentinel staff contributed. LOCAL & STATE Coming Sunday SPORTS Elected officials: Please just zip it. A parent complained to the state that an Orange private school was dirty and disorganized. Though the school accepts Florida scholarships, the state told the parent there was nothing it could do about allegations, highlighting how little control the state has over private schools. Magic got player they wanted Ritchie: Is it too much to ask to behave with decorum, civility? B1 Orlando excited about versatility top pick Okeke brings to team. C1 T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Saturday, June 22, 2019 FINAL EDITION DeSantis approves $90.9B budget ‘Fiscally responsible’ plan vetoes money for UCF, other projects $2.50 Trump scraps strike President says he called off a military response to Iran due to likely death toll By Deb Riechmann and Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. was “cocked and loaded” to retaliate against Iran for downing an unmanned American surveil- lance drone but he canceled the strikes minutes before they were to be launched after being told 150 people could die. Trump’s tweeted statement raised important questions, including why he learned about possible deaths only at the last minute. His stance was the latest example of the president showing reluctance to escalate tensions with Iran into open military conflict. He did not rule out a future strike but said in a TV interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the likelihood of casualties from the Thursday night plan to attack three sites in Iran did not seem like the correct response to shooting down an unmanned drone earlier in the day in the Strait of Hormuz. The aborted attack was the closest the U.S. has come to a direct military strike on Iran in the year since the administration pulled out of the 2015 international agreement intended to curb the Iranian nuclear program and launched a campaign of increasing economic pressure against the Islamic Republic. Please turn to IRAN, A4 By Gray Rohrer and Leslie Postal TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his first state budget Friday, a $90.9 billion spending plan with key increases for education and health care, but he also vetoed $131 million in projects, including several in Central Florida. “I think it’s a fiscally responsible budget. I think we put taxpayers first,” he said at a news conference. DeSantis Nearly $1.7 million for UCF’s downtown campus was cut, as was $6 million for BRIDG, a Kissimmee technology research facility. Also, $100,000 for the Orlando Police Department’s rapid DNA testing program was cut by the governor. Longwood GOP Rep. Scott Plakon’s push for $1 million to test autonomous vehicles in Altamonte Springs was vetoed as well. “While the loss of these operating funds is disappointing, we will welcome nearly 8,000 UCF and Valencia College students on August 26, and we are committed to ensuring this veto will not impact our students and faculty,” UCF said in a statement. The downtown campus, being built on the site of the torn-down Amway Arena, includes a fourstory academic building and a privately developed student dormitory. The dorm will house both UCF students and those from Valencia College, a partner in the new facility. A spokeswoman for DeSantis responded to a question asking why he vetoed the project with, “Universities have received significant increases over the last few years,” but she did not elaborate. In his letter announcing the vetoes, DeSantis stated that he cut projects because it was either something “government simply should not do,” something local governments should handle, didn’t follow the correct review process or there wasn’t enough funding to accomplish the goals of JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL RECOGNITION OF INJUSTICE Family and dignitaries applaud Friday as the historical marker memorializing July Perry, who was lynched in 1920, is unveiled. First-ever marker memorializing lynching of July Perry planted in Orange County By Stephen Hudak memorial to Perry, a casualty of one of the nation’s ugliest episodes of racial terror, the Ocoee massacre of1920. The marker also recalls racial violence throughout the nation between 1877 and 1950. “I have no illusions or delusions that anything we do today will right the wrongs of a racist past,” Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said at the unveiling, attended by ancestors of Perry and others who fled the N early 99 years after he was dragged from the Orange County Jail, beaten, shot and lynched as a warning to black citizens who dared vote, July Perry was memorialized Friday in downtown Orlando as a reminder of the region’s vile racist sins. A two-sided marker planted in front of the Orange County Regional History Center is the first physical July Perry Please turn to MARKER, A6 Please turn to BUDGET, A6 Reinforcements called for rally security By Tess Sheets Law enforcement was out in droves for President Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff rally in Orlando on Tuesday, providing security for the day’s events that included questioning at least two armed men, forming a blockade to protect protesters and making two arrests. Law enforcement agencies from across Central Florida sent reinforcements that tallied in the hundreds in order to keep the peace during the presidential visit. The Orlando Police Department, the primary agency providing security for the event, wouldn’t say how many of its Please turn to RALLY, A4 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Moon landing influenced toys, jewelry — later films By Hal Boedeker PHELAN M. EBENHACK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Police officers stand in front of President Donald Trump demonstrators, keeping them separated from Trump supporters on Tuesday. Apollo 11’s impact on popular culture was evident 50 years ago in memorabilia, dishes and fashion. Its influence on movies and television would come later. In the 1960s, movies and TV offered stories that, although inspired by the whole space program, did not try to compete with the real drama. “People understood in the moment that landing human beings on another world for the first was a remarkable landmark,” said Margaret Weitekamp, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. “This is unlike other events.” The awareness was reflected in pins, patches, buttons, T-shirts, Please turn to APOLLO 11, A6 This series This story is part of the Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage – 30 days of stories leading up to the historic first steps on the moon. See stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Poor conditions for migrant children Attorneys visiting a Border Patrol station in Texas say they found inadequate food, water and sanitation. A3 Trump issues ‘family op’ directive ICE likely to begin raids in major cities rounding up migrant families that received deportation orders. A3 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Supreme Court tosses conviction Justices rule to throw out a black man’s murder conviction, death sentence, saying prosecutor was biased. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company A6 Orlando Sentinel APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 hats, mugs and matchbooks. Arthur C. Clarke, author of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and a commentator CBS News, kept The New York Times with the headline of man walking on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. “Even someone as distinguished as Arthur C. Clarke is keeping the copy of the newspaper. He recognizes this is really important and wants to hold on to memorabilia of the moment,” Weitekamp said. “You see it in pop culture in the creation of tangible souvenirs that people want to be able to mark their witness to this event, even if it is mostly mediated by television, which it was basically for everyone but the two men on the moon and astronaut Michael Collins going around it.” The National Air and Space Museum has Apollo-influenced clothing, jewelry, stamps, toys and commemorative dishes in its collection, curator Teasel Muir-Harmony said. She cited a woman’s shiny silver purse, shaped like a command and service module, and a charm bracelet with spacerelated trinkets. The Smithsonian’s collection of toys includes little plastic astronaut figures and a lunar module. “People also made their own Apollo-inspired gear,” Muir-Harmony said. She described a photo of a woman from Iceland wearing a shift dress with a Saturn V rocket. “You see this around the world, this enthusiasm,” she added. “When you think about the way people dress up for sporting events, it’s a demonstration of participation and investment in the missions.” Television and the movies usually took paths far removed from news coverage of the day. NBC’s “I Dream of Jeannie” was a sitcom about an astronaut (Larry Hagman) who is master to a 2,000-year-old genie (Barbara SMITHSONIAN/COURTESY USIS Reykjavik’s added attraction at its space exhibit was librarian Hjordis Olafsdottir in her Apollo dress. SMITHSONIAN/COURTESY GETTY FILE The Apollo moon landing model kit included 15 astronauts as well as parts for a lunar roving vehicle. Larry Hagman wears orange overalls with the NASA badge in television show “I Dream of Jeannie.” Eden). NBC’s “Star Trek” told amazing stories of the future and extraterrestrial life. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” from 1968 depicted technological advances and a computer run amok. The CBS series “Lost in Space” and the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes” had space connections and fantastic plots. Space lends itself to treatments that are more fictional, Muir-Harmony said. “People were quite familiar with astronauts’ stories,” she added. “Apollo 11 was the first live global broadcast. In the United States, 94 percent of households were watching. People did have that experience. They did watch it. It was something they had seen. It was not necessary to create movies based on it.” Space movies could spin off into unusual directions. “In a twisted way, you get ‘Capricorn One,’ the whole sort of moon hoax thing comes into play,” said Robert Stone, director of PBS’ “Chasing the Moon” documentary. The 1977 “Capricorn One” presented a Mars landing as a hoax and O.J. Simpson as an astronaut. “You also see a turning away, a rejection of science and an embrace of pseudoscience,” Stone said, pointing to the “Chariots of the Gods” documentary, which suggests extraterrestrials affected early human life. “Capricorn One” reflects the time of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, the Smithsonian’s Weitekamp said. “Public confidence is very shaken by these revelations of real deceptions that had been carried out by the U.S. government,” she said. “It fits in a moment where you have the ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies. By the end of the decade, you end up with ‘Alien’ in 1979. You’re looking at corporate corruption and a depiction of space flight that isn’t shiny or optimistic.” Yet NASA’s stock has risen with other movies. Philip Kaufman directed “The Right Stuff,” a stirring 1983 film of Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book about the early space program. “The Right Stuff was an important part of the valorization of what happened in the 1960s and myth-confirming,” Weitekamp said. “Apollo 13,” Ron Howard’s 1995 film, presented Tom Hanks as astronaut Jim Lovell and depicted the crippled 1970 mission powerfully. “Apollo 13 was a unique dramatic event. It was about overcoming incredible technological obstacles and personal heroism and bringing these guys back safely,” Stone said. “It was kind of forgotten for a long time. It was brought back to life by Jim Lovell’s book and the Hollywood movie. That became a touchstone.” Howard and Hanks would later produce “From the Earth to the Moon,” a 12-part HBO miniseries about the Apollo program. It won the Emmy for outstanding limited series. In 2018’s “First Man” director Damien Chazelle depicted the Apollo 11 moon landing and presented Ryan Gosling as Armstrong. “It reflects the director wanting to create a good piece of filmmaking,” Weitekamp said. “He has a distinct take on it. It’s not a documentary.” This year, for the 50th anniversary, the focus is on documentaries. The real version is just too good to duplicate. hboedeker@orlandosentinel.com Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo50 MARKER BUDGET community. Demings described the massacre as “a dark and deadly part of our history,” saying he was grateful to Perry and the massacre’s other victims. “It is because of his sacrifice and the sacrifices of other African Americans before me that I’m able to stand here today as the first African American mayor of Orange County,” said Demings, who also was the first African American to be elected Orange County sheriff and to serve as Orlando police chief. It is unknown exactly how many black citizens died in an armed white mob’s attack of a west Orange County black enclave located in what is now Ocoee. But African American residents, many of whom were property owners, abandoned their possessions and the town — never to return for more than half a century, according to census records. “Exactly how many died, it’s insignificant now,” said Ken Thompson, 76, whose family abandoned their Ocoee home in 1920 and fled the violence to Apopka, where he was born. “What’s important today is what transpired is now recognized, remembered, won’t be forgotten after decades of denials and official indifference.” In a wheelchair, Perry’s great-niece Gladys Franks Bell, 80, clutched a copy of her self-published book, “Visions through my Father’s Eyes,” a retelling of the massacre, which Richard Allen Franks and his family survived by escaping marauding Klansman and fleeing to Apopka. Asked if she thought recognition of the injustice would ever come, she shook her head. “Not in a million years,” she said. The Equal Justice Initiative, which built the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a lynching and legacy museum in Montgomery, Alabama, requested the marker. The metal memorial stands about a block from where Perry was jailed before he was killed. His executioners were never prosecuted or identified. The memorial ceremony is part of the Equal Justice Initiative’s “Community Remembrance Project,” a campaign to recognize lynching victims and acknowledges the horrors of racial injustice through- the project. UCF faced heavy criticism from state leaders in recent months after investigators determined it improperly transferred millions of dollars meant for operating expenses into capital projects. The controversy roiled UCF’s administration and prompted the resignation of its president in February. The budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 is a 2.5 percent increase on the current year. It includes $21.8 billion for K-12 schools, a $783 million increase, which translates to $7,672 per student, a $243 increase. There’s $37.7 billion in health care spending, a $527 million increase on the current year. Lawmakers also approved more than $625 million for Everglades restoration and water projects, the amount DeSantis requested. It’s part of DeSantis’ plan to spend $2.5 billion on such projects in the next four years, a $1 billion increase compared with the prior four years. There also are $121million in tax cuts, including a fiveday back-to-school sales tax holiday on school supplies and clothing that will save an estimated $41.7 million for consumers, and a reduction in the tax on commercial rents that will save businesses $64.5 million. BRIDG CEO Chester Kennedy said the veto “was a surprise and a disappointment,’’ noting that DeSantis has yet to visit the site. “It’s a very complicated project and it’s not always easy to understand until you take the time to dig into it.” The appropriation would have helped the facility buy new tools for its high-tech research, which studies applications for sensor-based platforms and devices, including Internet of Thingsrelated uses. DeSantis also rejected $100,000 the Orlando Police Department’s use of Rapid DNA, a system that allows law enforcement to test and compare DNA evidence in less than two hours. It was touted by OPD in its January pitch to the Orange County legislative delegation as having “the potential to change the paradigm for law enforcement and its capacity to solve cases.” DeSantis also vetoed $750,000 to realign one block of County Road 437 in Lake County. Rep. Jennifer Sullivan, R-Mount Dora, had pushed for $7 million Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 STEPHEN HUDAK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Josie Onifade Lemon Allen arranges a jar at the grave of July Perry, who was lynched Nov. 3, 1920, for registering and encouraging other blacks to vote. JOHN RAOUX/AP Janice Nelson, greatgranddaughter of Perry, wipes a tear while attending the unveiling ceremony. out the U.S., especially in the post-Civil War South. Bryan Stevenson, a socialjustice activist and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, participated in the ceremony here as he did in Nashville earlier in the week when a pair of historical markers in the Music City’s downtown were unveiled to mark lynchings there. The advocacy group, which also works to overturn unjust verdicts and to end mass incarceration, has challenged cities and counties where lynchings occurred to take responsibility for their ugly histories. Descendants of Perry were among a crowd of several hundred people who applauded as Demings and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer praised collaborative efforts to remember Perry and unknown others killed in the fray and pledge the Central Florida will strive to be inclusive and diverse. “It means change, a new beginning,” said Aaron Franks, 82, a great-nephew of Perry. July Perry, whose bulletriddled body was left swinging from a light post near Colonial Drive and Orange Blossom Trail, is buried in Orlando’s Greenwood Cemetery. Although accounts differ, some facts are undisputed. On Election Day 1920, white men in west Orange County chased Moses Norman, a local black landowner, from the polls after he attempted to cast his ballot. They were told they might find Norman at the Perry’s home. After nightfall, a posse of newly deputized white men led by Sam Salisbury, a former Orlando police chief, marched to Perry’s home. A shooting broke out between the mob and occupants in Perry’s home. Salisbury was shot in the arm, two posse members were killed and Perry’s home was set ablaze. At least one of the posse members was a Klansman. Perry was wounded, captured and taken to the jail in Orlando. Before the sun rose, a white mob stormed the jailer, took a weakened and wounded Perry from his cell, near present-day Heritage Square, and hanged him, reportedly in view of Judge John Cheney ’s home. The judge had issued an order directing poll workers to allow Norman to vote even though he was alleged to owe a poll tax, which the state would abolish in 1937. That same night, a mob stormed the black neighborhood and burned homes, churches and a fraternal lodge. A newspaper account named the two dead white men and reported “an unknown number of Negroes dead,” calling it a gruesome “cremation scene.” Zora Neale Hurston, the famed black writer from Eatonville, published an account in 1939, describing the deaths of four blacks, including a pregnant woman. Walter White, an investigator for the NAACP, estimated “between 30 and 60 Negroes were killed” and reported the burning of 18 homes, a school, church and lodge. Ocoee, once feared as a “sundown town” where blacks were unwelcome after dark, issued a proclamation last year acknowledging the incident. Ocoee Mayor Rusty Johnson, who visited the lynching museum with members of the city’s Human Relations Diversity Board, said the city has studied the tragedy for 20 years and has evolved to become one of the most diverse cities in Central Florida. Two of its five city commissioners are African American, one elected in 2018 and the other this spring. “It’s something that needed to happen,” Johnson said of the July Perry memorial. The west orange city, located about 10 miles west of Orlando, is planning to erect its own memorial next year, likely in a park near Starke Lake. Stephen Hudak can be reached at shudak@ orlandosentinel.com or 407-650-6361. but only got the $750,000. A $200,000 study of Deltona’s Public Works Department’s billing practices also hit the cutting room floor. The $500,000 for the Pulse memorial, however, made the cut. DeSantis said he wouldn’t veto it when he visited Orlando for the third anniversary of the shooting last week. DeSantis also signed a companion bill that allows the state to take direct control of the Florida Virtual School. The move eliminates the online school’s board of trustees, putting it under the management of the State Board of Education until state leaders decide its future. The virtual school also will face an audit that will look at its operations and finances. It comes in response to an investigation of complaints made about improper behavior by Frank Kruppenbacher, its former general counsel. The probe led to an audit that detailed questionable spending and approval of contracts outside the school’s normal procurement process, among other problems. The virtual school, the largest online program in the nation, operated on more than $180 million of taxpayer money last year, providing online classes to more than 200,000 students. Founded in 1997, it had been run by its own board, operating as its own public school district. An Orlando Sentinel investigation published in April revealed a series of cozy relationships between Kruppenbacher and FLVS board members, all appointed by former Gov. Rick Scott. Those relationships allowed Kruppenbacher to amass authority at the school and make decisions that went unchecked. DeSantis’ total $131million veto tally is less than many non-election year vetoes under his predecessor, Rick Scott. He said that’s largely because his agenda got through the Legislature. “I got more in the budget than most first year governors,” DeSantis said. “So if I had not been as successful there probably would’ve been more projects in there that I would’ve vetoed. But I think we worked well together so there wasn’t a need for me to exact any type of retribution because the Legislature didn’t work for me.” Staff writers Marco Santana and Tess Sheets contributed to this report. grohrer@orlandosentinel .com or (850) 222-5564 LOCAL & STATE Save up to $ 74.55 TRAVEL & ARTS Strategy behind Disney pass price Do a deep dive on marine life Maxwell: Drive away cheapskates, focus on visiting big spenders. B1 in coupons Epic aquatic adventures including swimming with whale sharks. D1 Inside this weekend’s inserts T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Sunday, June 23, 2019 FINAL EDITION COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Lunar landing dazzled world $4.00 ICE raids put on hold Trump gives Dems, GOP two weeks to present immigration, border solutions By Colleen Long Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was postponing a nationwide immigration sweep to deport people living in the U.S. illegally, including families, saying he would give lawmakers time to work out border solutions. The move came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump on Friday night asking him to cancel the operation, according to a person familiar with the situation and not authorized to discuss it publicly. The person spoke on condition of anonymity. “At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “If not, Deportations start!” Lawmakers are mulling whether to give $4.6 billion in Maps of the moon in the Netherlands and American flags in Japan I Please turn to APOLLO 11, A4 This week’s Miami debates offer chance to woo state’s 219 delegates By Steven Lemongello JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Winners Primary School, a private school in west Orange County, was cited in October by the Department of Children and Families after a child wandered unsupervised near a busy street. Parents: Schools don’t make grade State says it has little control over private schools after receiving complaints on conditions of multiple institutions KEYSTONE/GETTY FILE The three U.S. astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission take part in a parade in Tokyo during a two-day visit to Japan on their Goodwill Tour of the world in 1969. This series This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage – 30 days of stories leading up to the first steps on the moon. See more stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. By Annie Martin and Leslie Postal A Pine Hills private school, where in the fall an unsupervised preschooler wandered outside near a busy road, needs state attention, an upset parent wrote months later, because it is dirty and disorganized and “children of all ages are running out of the classroom screaming and hitting each other.” In the letter about Winners Primary School, the parent asked for “help for my child,” complaining of unqualified teachers and a mostly absent principal. “The principal collects money and is not helping the children there,” the parent wrote. The Florida Department of Education also re- ceived complaints about 13 other private schools in Orange, Lake and Seminole counties between August and March. All of the schools accept state vouchers for tuition payments. Most of those who complained received letters from the education department saying there was nothing it could do Please turn to VOUCHERS, A8 ■ INSIDE: State Sen. Darryl Rouson plans to file legislation that would prohibit the state’s voucher schools from discriminating against gay or transgender students. Currently, private schools accepting school vouchers can ban children who are gay or whose parents are. A8 Green turtle nests predicted to beat record highs Canaveral officials attribute rise to nest protection program By Adelaide Chen and Lisa Maria Garza During this time of year, sea turtles emerge from the ocean to lay eggs on the sand at night on Florida’s beaches. The state accounts for 90% of the nation’s loggerhead nests, but another species also listed as threatened, the green turtle, has blown past the loggerhead on the Space Coast and is expected to post another record number of nests this year. Please turn to RAIDS, A13 Dems get their turn to launch campaign By Chabeli Herrera n Tokyo, the U.S. embassy was flooded with paper cranes, a symbol of good luck for the three Americans about to hitch a ride to the moon. In the Netherlands, some gas stations gave out moon maps instead of road maps. In Warsaw, residents placed flower bouquets at the lunar module on display at the U.S. embassy there. And in downtown Seoul, 100,000 South Koreans gathered at a projection screen to watch clips of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins’ unprecedented mission, culminating with humanity’s firsts steps on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. The moon landing, though a United States-led achievement, felt in many ways for the people who lived it an accomplishment in the name of all humankind. The magnitude of that reality was reflected in the grandeur of its reception across the Earth. emergency funding to help agencies struggling to manage a growing number of migrants crossing the border. The measure passed a Senate committee on a 30-1 vote. The bipartisan vote likely means that the Senate will take the lead in writing the legislation, which needs to pass into law before the House and Senate leave for vacation next week. “So, this season is particularly exciting because this is the ‘up’ year for green turtle nests,” said Ashley Lord, interpretative park ranger who leads turtle tours at Canaveral National Seashore. Since Canaveral began protecting turtle nests from animal predators with metal screens in 1984, the female hatchlings that survived are now of reproductive age, returning to the beaches where they were hatched. There is also no light pollution and no housing development along 24 miles of beach. During the last reproduction year for green turtles in 2017, the Please turn to TURTLES, A6 FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION/COURTESY Turtle tours are open for the public during nesting season at Canaveral National Seashore. The park began protecting nests in 1984. Florida Democrats can expect to hear their 2020 presidential candidates talk about key issues important to the state, including health care, guns and the environment, at the nation’s first debates to be held in Miami on Wednesday and Thursday. There also will be a lot of criticism of President Donald Trump. The group of 20 candidates is split into two groups of10, including seven senators, five Congress members, three mayors, two governors, two businesspeople and a former vice president. Being seen as the toughest critic of Trump and his policies could be the key to standing out in the crowd in Florida as well as nationwide, said Aubrey Jewett, a University of Central Florida political science professor. “The most popular topic of the evening will be bashing Donald Trump every chance they get,” Jewett said. “That’s what Demo- “The most popular topic of the evening will be bashing Donald Trump every chance they get.” Aubrey Jewett, University of Central Florida political science professor crats across the country want to hear. … I think that will be the number one topic – no matter what the particular question they’re [asked] about.” While the contenders will get national attention, the debates will also be the best way to get their messages out directly to Florida, a key state with 219 delegates up for grabs and a March 17 primary scheduled almost right in the middle of the election calendar next year. Outside of the president, Susan MacManus, a retired political science professor at the University of South Florida, said she expects the key issues for Floridians to break down among generational lines – the environment for younger Democrats and health care for older ones. “The demographics of our state are changing, and that issue is rising,” MacManus said about climate change. “It’s a concern to all age groups, but it especially Please turn to DEBATES, A6 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Trump says retaliation still on table President said sanctions on Iran have turned it into an “economic mess” and tweeted about new penalties. A3 New allegations against president Trump says a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s made a “totally false accusation.” A3 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. American air quality in decline Over the last two years, the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, federal data shows. A8 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company A4 Orlando Sentinel Sunday, June 23, 2019 R APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 In interviews conducted around the world, people commonly put it this way: In that moment, they were all Americans. “It was unprecedented at that time,” said Teasel Muir-Harmony, a curator for the space history department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. “Never before had there been such a large audience for something, [and] I think it arguably is still. It’s hard to think of an example where people from such a wide array of countries were participating in various ways.” Surely, the United States worked hard to ensure that most of the world was watching when it landed its astronauts on the moon. Voice of America, a governmentfunded media agency, broadcast the landing in 36 languages for a radio audience of about 750 million. NASA estimates that about 1 in 5 people on the planet at the time watched the landing live on TV — roughly 650 million viewers — making it the first live global broadcast in history. In countries like South Korea where live television access wasn’t available, the U.S. information agency set up screens projecting Apollo documentaries or recordings of the flight. And in countries that didn’t acknowledge or carry the flight, like China, North Korea and North Vietnam, the U.S. found workarounds, too. In China, for instance, Voice of America was able to use two radio channels to circumvent government jamming so listeners could tune into the broadcast. That was because “a major motivation of Project Apollo was winning the hearts and minds of the world,” Muir-Harmony said. To do that, NASA had to commit from the start to being an open program, allowing viewers to follow along every step of the missions. “By embracing an open program it created a huge contrast to the fear and the secrecy of the more militaristic program that was going on in the Soviet Union,” said Richard Jurek, co-author of “Marketing the Moon.” “… It really was marketing the American way of life,” Jurek said. That effort was driven in part by the public affairs team at NASA, composed largely of former reporters at the time, that worked to fight back pressure from engineers who were used to EDWIN REICHERT/AP FILE Berliners stand outside a TV shop and watch the start of the Apollo 11 mission through the window. Want more space news? Follow Go For Launch on Facebook. Contact the reporter at cherrera@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5660; Twitter @ChabeliH AP FILE A family in Tokyo watches a live TV broadcast of the Apollo 11 astronauts salute from the moon. working under government secrecy and now had to “flip that switch,” Jurek said. The team also worked to put the astronauts, as unscripted as possible, as the face of the program. In1961, Life Magazine scored an exclusive contract to share the lives of the astronauts and their families. Their interviews and eventual world tour after the moon landing made them global superstars. Hundreds of thousands of people came out to greet them at each of the 24 nations they visited. In Bombay, India, an estimated 2 million people welcomed Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins to the city making it the largest ever visit at the time — including the pope’s, MuirHarmony said. People waved American flags in counties that didn’t necessarily embrace democratic values, Jurek said. “I think having the astronauts not be scripted alleviated all the geopolitical posturing and stripped away the politics and made this truly a human exercise of exploration and daring that connected with people,” Jurek said. But the tour and the prestige of the moon landing did ultimately become an effective political tool leveraged by the United States. After the tour concluded, writes Muir-Harmony, President Richard Nixon enthusiastically told the astronauts, according to Armstrong, that their meeting alone with Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu, which opened the way for Nixon to finally get an appointment with the president, “paid for everything we spent on the space program.” Though likely an exaggeration — at its peak Apollo accounted for 4 percent of the national budget — the comment highlighted the astronauts’ roles in smoothing over Lost wallet? More cash means you’re likelier to get it back Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of Apollo 50, the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo50. LASER CATARACT SURGERY By Malcolm Ritter Associated Press NEW YORK — People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money — and the more cash, the better. That’s the surprising conclusion from researchers who planted more than 17,000 “lost wallets” across 355 cities in 40 countries, and kept track of how often somebody contacted the supposed owners. The presence of money — the equivalent of about $13 in local currency — boosted this response rate to about 51%, versus 40% for wallets with no cash. That trend showed up in virtually every nation, although the actual numbers varied. Researchers raised the stakes in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Poland. The response jumped to 72% for wallets containing the equivalent of about $94, versus 61% for those containing $13. If no money was enclosed, the rate was 46%. How can this be? “The evidence suggests that people tend to care about the welfare of others, and they have an aversion to seeing themselves as a thief,” said Alain Cohn of the University of Michigan, one author who reported the results last week in the journal Science. Another author, Christian Zuend of the University of Zurich, said “it suddenly feels like stealing” when there’s money in the wallet. “And it feels even more like stealing when the money in the wallet increases,” he added. That idea was supported by the results of polls the researchers did in the U.S., the U.K. and Poland, he told reporters. The wallets in the study were actually transparent business card cases, chosen so that people could see money inside without opening them. A team of 13 research assistants posed as people who had just found the cases and turned them relations with other nations while serving as figureheads of the United States’ accomplishment. “We could use the personalities and the results from that mission to remind the world that we were the leaders and that, more importantly at that point in time since we were embroiled in a Cold War, to remind the world what we thought that democracy was the preferred means of governing and was the more successful mantra,” said space historian Robert Pearlman. Apollo 11 also set in motion a tidal shift toward more education and interest in what is commonly known as STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For many nations, the moon landing was the pinnacle they, too, could strive to reach for. In particular, Japan, China, Israel and India have all developed advanced space programs in the past 50 years. When China sent its first astronaut to space in 2003, Pearlman, who was appearing on Chinese national television as a commentator, remembers that the shadow of Apollo still loomed large over the program. “Their anchors were asking questions about the Apollo program and commenting on how much the Chinese people and Chinese government respect the Apollo program as its own achievement,” Pearlman said. Like others, he said, “they have modeled their program on that success.” Experience Matters! Konrad Filutowski, MD, Central Florida’s most experienced Laser Cataract Surgeon with over 42,000 Cataract surgeries and over 125,000 surgical procedures performed. CALL NOW for your FREE information packet! CHRISTIAN ZUND/GETTY-AFP Researchers used a clear wallet and its contents in a study of whether people decided to return lost wallets. in at banks, theaters, museums or other cultural establishments, post offices, hotels and police stations or other public offices. The key question was whether the employee receiving each case would contact its supposed owner, whose name and email address were displayed on three identical business cards within. The business cards were crafted to make the supposed owner appear to be a local person, as was a grocery list that was also enclosed. Some cases also contained a key, and they were more likely to get a response than cases without a key. That led the researchers to conclude that concern for others was playing a role, since — unlike money — a key is valuable to its owner but not a stranger. The effect of enclosed money appeared in 38 of the 40 countries, with Mexico and Peru the exceptions. Nations varied widely in how often the wallet’s “owner” was contacted. In Switzerland the rate was 74% for wallets without money and 79% with it, while in China the rates were 7% and 22%. The U.S. figures were 39% and 57%. The study measured how employees act when presented with a wallet at their workplaces. But would those same people act differently if they found a wallet on a sidewalk? “We don’t know,” said Michel Marechal, an author from the University of Zurich. But he said other analyses suggest the new results reflect people’s overall degree of honesty. Shaul Shalvi of the University of Amsterdam, who wrote a commentary that accompanied the study, told The Associated Press that he suspected the study does shed light on how people would act with a wallet found on the street. He said the results “support the idea that people care about others as well as caring about being honest.” Robert Feldman, psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who didn’t participate in the work, said he suspected the experiment might have turned out differently if involved “everyday people” rather than employees acting in an official capacity. Dan Ariely, a psychology professor at Duke University who didn’t participate in the research, said the conclusions fit with research that indicates keeping a larger amount of money would be harder for a person to rationalize. 800.EYE.EXAM FilutowskiEye.com ORLANDO Lake Mary • Daytona RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES New medical research studies have opened at Meridien Research. Currently enrolling studies include: • Alzheimer’s Disease • Asthma • ADHD (adult) • ADHD (child) • Bipolar Depression • Brain Injury • Depression • Fatty Liver • Healthy Seniors • Memory Loss • Schizophrenia • Type 1 Diabetes Study participants may receive compensation for time and travel. All studies are administered by a board certified medical doctor. No medical insurance is required. Call today or visit us online to find out if you qualify. Maitland Orlando 407-487-2541 NewStudyInfo.com SPORTS CENTRAL FLORIDA BUSINESS Americans return to Reims for World Cup Round of 16 clash. C1 Surfside Inn opens Thursday and could drive down hotel prices. D1 USWNT takes aim at Spain New hotel could spruce up I-Drive T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Monday, June 24, 2019 FINAL EDITION Cyber forces strike Iran $2.50 Florida residents getting older COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 2018 census report notes median age has risen to 42.2 By Cindy Krischer Goodman Sources say US attack crippled computers for launch control utside of space enthusiasts, Deke Slayton isn’t the name that comes to mind when Americans think about the first men to walk on the moon. The names of the Apollo 11 crew — Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins — are far better known as the first humans to land on another world. without Slayton, it may This series notBut have happened that way. This story is part One of the original seven of the Orlando Mercury astronauts, Donald K. Sentinel’s Slayton (known as Deke) be“Countdown to came one of the most influenApollo 11: The First tial people on the Apollo proMoon Landing” – gram: He was the guy who se30 days of stories lected the crew for each misleading up to 50th sion. anniversary of the “Crew assignments are one historic first steps of the perennial issues the on moon on July Apollo geeks speculate about,” 20, 1969. More said Roger Launius, a former stories, photos NASA historian, in an e-mail. and videos at “Deke Slayton made the selecOrlandoSentinel tions; he did not publicly talk .com/Apollo11. about how he made them.” But he did talk to people inside NASA about the selections as well as some others. One of those people was Michael Cassutt, who One of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Deke As new nursing homes open and more health providers flood the state, the activity has a convincing trend supporting it: A new U.S. Census report confirms Floridians are getting older. The median age in Florida is two years older than it was in 2010, rising to 42.2 in 2018 from 40.7 in 2010, according to new 2018 Population Estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The rise in Florida’s median age affects everything from health care demands to housing costs and dining trends. While caregiver needs and medical costs are real, Richard Prudom, secretary for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, says the aging population benefits the the state. “The assumption that an older population is just a drain on health care resources is not true,” Prudom said. “The average senior contributes more than they consume in services so the net impact is a positive one.” Prudom said seniors in Florida contribute volunteer hours, and spend money on dining and retail. “They make a significant contribution to our economy and society.” Along with Florida, the nation as a whole continues to get older with the median age of 38.2 years in 2018, up from 37.2 years in 2010, according to new 2018 Population Estimates by demographic characteristics for the nation, states and counties, released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. “The nation is aging — more than 4 out of every 5 counties were older in 2018 than in 2010,” said Luke Rogers, the chief of the Population Estimates branch at the U.S. Census Bureau. “This aging is driven in large part by baby boomers crossing over the 65-year-old mark.” The new census estimates reveal the 65-and-older age group in the U.S. grew by 30% Please turn to APOLLO 11, A4 Please turn to OLDER, A10 By Tami Abdollah Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday. Two officials told The Associated Press that the strikes were conducted with approval from Trump. A third official confirmed the broad outlines of the strike. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the operation. The cyberattacks disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said. Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces attacked two tankers earlier this month. Please turn to CYBER, A4 GREGORY BULL/AP 2017 Iran has targeted U.S. government agencies and infrastructure, but the U.S. launched its own attack against Iranian computer systems last week. NASA FILE PHOTOS Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, second from left, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin eat breakfast with Donald “Deke” Slayton, in red shirt, on launch day, July 16, 1969. MAN BEHIND APOLLO 11 CREW Deke Slayton selected astronauts for Apollo missions By Beth Kassab O Slayton became one of the most influential people on the Apollo program. Seminole, Lake join lawsuits against opioid manufacturers By Martin E. Comas The magnitude of the opioid crisis is spelled out in separate lawsuits filed this month by Seminole and Lake counties against the pharmaceutical industry. Every hour, on average, six Americans die from opioid overdoses, two babies are born dependent on opioids while drug manufacturers and distributors have raked in more than $2.7 million from the sale of the highly addictive drugs, according to the suits. The lawsuits follow the lead of nearly 1,650 other municipalities and counties across the U.S. — including Osceola County, Sanford and Oviedo — that have filed similar federal complaints. The city of Orlando and Orange County haven’t joined in the litigation. “This case arises from the worst manmade epidemic in modern medical history — the misuse, abuse, diversion and overprescription of opioids,” lawyers representing Seminole and Lake said in the lawsuits. “Meanwhile the defendants made blockbuster profits.” The suits claim opioid manufacturers hauled in billions of dollars in profits while fueling the opioid epidemic by downplaying the risks of addictive painkillers like OxyContin and failing to properly monitor drug distributions. Drug overdoses in the U.S. related to WE LISTENED: TODAY IN HISTORY GETS MORE ITEMS We recently changed the page in the Local & State where the Today in History column appears, leading to fewer items in print. Readers complained, so we asked if you wanted a longer version and explained that it would have to move, if we added items. We heard loud and clear — you wanted a longer Today in History. More than 90% of you said if it had to move, you wanted it in the A section rather than under the TV Grid, where it wouldn’t be able to publish every day. Cutter For sure, some wanted us simply to reformat the existing puzzle page or cut horoscopes. Some things we can’t do, because of the shapes we get from our design and production center. So, starting today, a longer Today in History will appear on Page A2 each day, except Sunday, when it remains in its usual spot inside the comics. John Cutter is director of content for operations and standards. You can reach him at jcutter@orlandosentinel.com. Please turn to OPIOID, A10 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD 20 Dems set to joust in debates Candidates to take the stage Wednesday at the first debates in a two-night showdown in Miami. A3 Memorial for fallen journalists Tribune Publishing announces a foundation to honor 5 people killed in a Maryland newsroom last year. A5 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company No home for IS foreign fighters Europe’s leaders reluctant to repatriate European nationals being held in Syrian detention camps. A8 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A4 Orlando Sentinel Monday, June 24, 2019 CYBER Continued from Page A1 The IRGC, which was designated a foreign terrorist group by the Trump administration earlier this year, is a branch of the Iranian military. The action by U.S. Cyber Command was a demonstration of the U.S.’s increasingly mature cyber military capabilities and its more aggressive cyber strategy under the Trump administration. Over the last year U.S. officials have focused on persistently engaging with adversaries in cyberspace and undertaking more offensive operations. There was no immediate reaction Sunday in Iran to the U.S. claims. Iran has hardened and disconnected much of its infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to be a joint U.S.-Israeli creation, damaged1,000 of Iranian nuclear centrifuges in 2009-10. The cyberattacks are the latest chapter in the U.S. and Iran’s ongoing cyber operations targeting the other. Yahoo News first reported the cyber strike. In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted U.S. government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including finance, oil and gas, sending waves of spear-phishing emails, according to representatives of cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike and FireEye, which regularly APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 co-authored Slayton’s autobiography, “Deke! U.S. Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle,” as well as other books about the space program and is now a television writer at Hulu. “You have to go back to 1962,” Cassutt said. “The Apollo program just started. Deke didn’t think the Mercury astronauts would stick around. He thought they would go back to the military. So he went looking for new astronauts.” Slayton was the only Mercury astronaut who never flew. He was grounded in 1962 because of a heart abnormality and took over future crew selections that same year. For Apollo, he set about forming highly-trained crews with commanders he trusted, Cassutt said. Up to the launch of Apollo 8 in GETTY-AFP The United States launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, according to U.S. media reports. track such activity. This new campaign appears to have started shortly after the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Iranian petrochemical sector this month. It was not known if any of the hackers managed to gain access to the targeted networks with the emails, which typically mimic legitimate emails but contain ma- licious software. Tensions have run high between the two countries since the U.S. withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and began a policy of “maximum pressure.” “Both sides are desperate to know what the other side is thinking,” said John Hultquist, director of intelligence analysis at FireEye. “You can absolutely expect the regime to be leveraging every tool they have available to reduce the uncertainty about what’s going to happen next, about what the U.S.’s next move will be.” CrowdStrike shared images of the spear-phishing emails with the AP. One such email that was confirmed by FireEye appeared to 1968, it appeared that crew led by Frank Borman would be the first to walk on the moon. The other crews would take Apollos 9 and 10 and then the attempt at the lunar landing would happen during Apollo 11 when Borman was back on board. Slayton is said to have told Borman that if Apollo 8’s mission goes well, then he would be the best trained to make the moon landing, Cassutt said. But Borman had other plans. He decided to retire after Apollo 8 having already spent considerable time away from home. Armstrong led the back-up crew. Cassutt says that Slayton had a conversation with Armstrong in Mission Control while Apollo 8 was in orbit. “Slayton called Armstrong over and said, ‘I want you to fly 11. It could be the first landing,’” Cassutt recalled from conversations with Slayton and access to his personal notes. Armstrong agreed. Aldrin would be the Lunar Module pilot and eventually step onto the moon’s surface just after Armstrong. Slayton told Armstrong he could choose between Collins and Jim Lovell as the Command Module pilot. “Armstrong told Deke, ‘I like Collins … Lovell deserves his own crew,’” Cassutt said. “Armstrong became the first person on the moon … it was right place, right time. It wasn’t necessarily that he was the first choice.” And had something gone wrong on Apollo 10, then Apollo 11 wouldn’t have attempted the landing and it could have been the next crew. Cassett said there’s been speculation that NASA reordered the crews to make it so that a civilian, rather than a military officer, was the first to walk on the moon. But he said that wasn’t true — besides Armstrong had served as an aviator in the Navy. It was a confluence of fate, timing and some luck that led to the three men securing a place in history on July 20, 1969. And Slayton deserves a spot there, too, Cassutt said. It’s true, he said, that Slayton never spoke publicly about all the details of the process. “There’s no address you can go to, no document beyond what he told me and I used in autobiography,” Cassutt said. Slayton died from brain cancer in 1993 not long before the book was published and never had time to review the entire manuscript. He did, however, eventually earn a spot in history as an Apollo astronaut. Though he was grounded for a heart problem in 1962, he was cleared to fly again in 1972. Three years later, Slayton served as the docking module pilot on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, his only flight to space. bkassab@orlandosentinel.com come from the Executive Office of the President and seemed to be trying to recruit people for an economic adviser position. Another email was more generic and appeared to include details on updating Microsoft Outlook’s global address book. The Iranian actor involved in the cyberattack, dubbed “Refined Kitten” by CrowdStrike, has for years targeted the U.S. energy and defense sectors, as well as allies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike. Iran has long targeted the U.S. oil and gas sectors and other critical infrastructure, but those efforts dropped significantly after the nuclear agreement was signed. After Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in May 2018, cyber experts said they have seen an increase in Iranian hacking efforts. “This is not a remote war (anymore),” said Sergio Caltagirone, vice president of threat intelligence at Dragos Inc. “This is one where Iranians could quote unquote bring the war home to the United States.” Caltagirone said as nations increase their abilities to engage offensively in cyberspace, the ability of the United States to pick a fight internationally and have that fight stay out of the United States physically is increasingly reduced. The Defense Department refused to comment on the latest Iranian activity. Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. 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FINAL EDITION Tuesday, June 25, 2019 RR Teachers challenge terms on salaries Many are urging negotiators to return to bargaining table By Leslie Postal Some Orange County public school teachers are upset with the salary agreement their union and the school district reached late last week, saying the proposed raises for many instructors will be eaten up by steep hikes in insurance costs. In emails, Facebook posts and an online petition started this weekend, teachers vented their frustrations with a deal they said could lower take-home pay and fail to reward good employees. Some said they’d vote “no” on the agreement, hoping to force further negotiations. “This is not an acceptable offer. Please vote NO teachers!” one wrote on the school district’s Facebook page. “My insurance premiums are increasing $2,600 next year and I’ll incur extra costs for office visits and prescriptions,” another wrote. “We deserve better!!” “It is demoralizing, disappointing, crushing, discouraging … to find out my raise is $20 a month. We are highly educated, highly skilled teachers and we deserve better.” Migrant kids relocated Government moved children after AP report exposing ‘inhumane conditions’ By Martha Mendoza and Garance Burke Associated Press The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. Just 30 children remained at the facility near El Paso on Mon- Please turn to TEACHERS, A6 day, said Rep. Veronica Escobar after her office was briefed on the situation by an official with Customs and Border Protection. Attorneys who visited the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, last week said older children were trying to take care of infants and toddlers, The Associated Press first reported Thursday. They described a 4-year-old with matted hair who had gone withPlease turn to KIDS, A6 CEDAR ATTANASIO/AP Customs and Border Protection says it has removed children who were crowded into a patrol station in Clint, Texas. DeSantis invokes Trump for space HQ Says president can override Air Force’s decision on base site By Chabeli Herrera JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Virgin Trains executives, elected officials and airport leaders sport hardhats on Monday at the Orlando airport for the ceremonial pounding of the first spike during the new route’s groundbreaking. ‘A GREAT CONNECTION’ Kristen Reilly, teacher at Clay Springs Elementary School in Apopka Teacher David Grimm, who works at Innovation Middle School, said he started a private Facebook group on Friday for upset colleagues. By Monday morning, he said, more than 3,200 teachers had joined. Many wish the union had fought harder for a better package, said Grimm, who ran unsuccessfully for the Orange County School Board last year. “It was disheartening for me,” he said of the agreement that will mean costly increases in insurance for teachers who pay for family coverage. “It’s very apparent I’m not the only one.” The Orange County School Board is to vote on the agreement at its meeting Tuesday evening, and a crowd of teachers is expected to urge board members not to approve the plan. If the $2.50 Virgin Trains, formerly Brightline, begins work on service extension north from West Palm Beach to Orlando’s airport By Lisa Maria Garza I n a nod to tradition, Virgins Train officials and Central Florida leaders on Monday pounded spikes at Orlando International Airport to symbolize the coming of a highspeed train between Orlando and South Florida. The spikes pounded at the ceremonial groundbreaking event were red in contrast to the 17.6-karat gold spike that was driven into the ground 150 years ago to mark the completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad. The privately-owned passenger rail company, formerly known as Brightline, started 36 months of construction last month, fueled by more than $2.5 million in tax-exempt bonds, to extend train service north from West Palm Beach to Orlan- do’s airport. Passenger service between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach began last year, with the 67-mile trip lasting about 70 minutes. “We will change the mobility in this state forever,” said Patrick Goddard, president of Virgin Trains. “The most visited city in the world will now be connected to the cruise capital in the world.” Please turn to TRAINS, A5 ■ OPINION: Train project is big news for Orlando and Miami. It’s a win-win for both cities and all the communities with stops along the route, writes Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. A11 ■ STATE OF THE CITY: In annual speech, Mayor Buddy Dyer touts Creative Village, need to win 5G “space race,” more investment in transit. B1 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Some lost, some stolen, some waiting in a cabinet Moon rocks returned from Apollo missions capture imagination By Beth Kassab I n the nearly 50 years since Apollo 11 astronauts first landed on the moon, the more than 842 pounds of rocks, pebbles, sand and dust collected during U.S. moon landings have been variously stolen, lost, found and, in the case of most of the specimens, carefully preserved in nitrogen-filled cabinets to keep the cosmic samples in pristine condition here on Earth. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin collected and returned the first lunar samples – about “50 pounds (Earth weight) of the loose surface material and selected rocks,” NASA said. “These were stowed in small beta cloth bags and sealed and then packed in two large containers – also sealed – for eventual stowage aboard the LM [lunar module],” a Please turn to APOLLO 11, A5 This series SPIKE JOHNSON/THE WASHINGTON POST A large sample of moon rock is contained in airtight tanks at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel. com/Apollo11. MERRITT ISLAND — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not done fighting for Florida to be the home of the newly formed Space Command, despite the U.S. Air Force’s insistence that only Colorado, California and Alabama are still in the running. The nation’s 11th combatant command doesn’t have a headquarters yet, but the Air Force — the military branch overseeing Space Command — last month released its shortlist of six potential sites it’s still eyeing. Despite an aggressive campaign by the state to pursue the headquarters, Florida didn’t make the list. But speaking at Merritt Island on Monday morning, DeSantis put that information into a question, suggesting that Florida still had a chance — if the governor can persuade President Donald Trump to make the final call in DeSantis favor of the Sunshine State. “I went to the president early on, I said, ‘Mr. President, they’re going to do this process … if that’s it, that’s the process and that’s what’s going to happen, I’ll respect that. But I think it’s your decision,’” DeSantis said. “And he made it very clear that it is his decision to make.” But according to the Air Force’s Strategic Basing Process, which is the procedure under which the Air Force chooses a base headquarters, the Secretary of the Air Force makes the final decision, unless the decision is delegated to someone in a lower position. Asked about this, DeSantis said he’d spoken to an assistant secretary of the Air Force, though didn’t specify which one, who confirmed that the president could essentially override the Air Force’s decision. “I said, ‘Just want you to know, I’m talking to the commander in chief about it. He views it a little differently,’” DeSantis said. “He’s like, ‘Hey, we understand that and ultimately, he gets the final say on all this stuff.’” The White House did not return a request for comment and when asked about the process, the Please turn to DESANTIS, A7 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Iran faces additional sanctions Trump signs executive order in apparent retaliation for the downing of a U.S. drone last week by Tehran. A3 Puerto Rico still waiting for aid Weeks after president signed emergency funding into law, territory has yet to see any of approved $600M. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Oversight Committee eyes Conway Vote planned to subpoena presidential aide if she doesn’t voluntarily appear at Hatch Act violations hearing. A6 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Tuesday, June 25, 2019 Orlando Sentinel APOLLO 11 TRAINS space agency report explained. Five more moon-landing missions and almost a halfcentury later, NASA officials say the moon rock still captivates our terrestrial imaginations and may yet unlock more mysteries of the universe. “We have seen a renewed interest in the moon, which has inspired scientists to ask new questions,” said Andrea Mosie, a scientist and curator of NASA’s lunar specimens at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “By maintaining samples in a pristine state we are able to continue research into the future.” Mosie says that more than 75% of the materials returned from all of the Apollo moon-landing missions remain locked away in those specially-regulated cabinets in Houston. But the other nearly 25%? Some were gifted as galactic gestures of diplomacy. President Richard Nixon gave samples to other world leaders for public display. Today there are 94 samples on exhibit throughout the United States and in 11 foreign countries, a NASA spokesperson said. The only place in Florida where people can see a moon rock is as the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where two samples are part of the permanent collection — both collected during Apollo 17, the final mission to the moon in 1972. “Both are still popular with our guests,” said Rebecca Shireman, a spokesperson for the visitor complex. Most public displays of the lunar samples are encased in thick glass. But one of the Apollo samples at KSC is open and guests are encouraged to run their fingers over its smooth surface — one of only five places in the world where people can reach out and touch a moon rock. (The other “touchstone” displays are in Houston, Washington D.C., Vancouver and Mexico, according to a listing provided by The track from the Orlando Airport to Cocoa will be calibrated to minimize bumping or jarring, providing for a smooth ride when service begins in 2022. The route bridges the connection between Cocoa and Miami. The 235-mile ride from Miami to Orlando will take three hours. The company estimated that the high-speed train route will remove 300 million cars from major Florida roadways on the route between Orlando and Miami. Virgin Trains will play an important role in the commitment by Orlando and Orange County to ease transportation headaches for residents and visitors, officials said. The rail company is also eyeing a route to Tampa and a stop at Disney World but hasn’t confirmed a timetable yet for those plans. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who gave a shoutout to the Virgin Trains project during his State of the City address earlier Monday, dashed to the airport for the groundbreaking. The city had 75 million visitors last year and Dyer said he expects numbers to significantly increase after the train route is completed. “Certainly if you’re going to be a future-ready city, you have to invest in Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Sitting inside a prototype of the Orion capsule, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg holds a moon rock at Kennedy Space Center. “Because we have been able to protect the rocks for nearly 50 years, the science taking place now is more groundbreaking than we could have ever imagined.” Andrea Mosie, a scientist and curator of NASA’s lunar specimens at Johnson Space Center in Houston NASA.) But some samples collected by the astronauts aren’t so easily accounted for. A 2011 report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General found that the agency was doing a poor job of keeping track of the samples it loaned out for research and education. The curation office manages about 140,000 lunar samples, 18,000 meteorite samples and about 5,000 solar wind, comet and cosmic dust samples, according to the report. At the time, more than 26,000 specimens were on loan. “NASA lacks sufficient controls over its loans of moon rocks and other astromaterials, which increases the risk that these unique resources may be lost,” the inspector general office reported. “Specifically, we found that Curation Office records were in- accurate, researchers could not account for all samples loaned to them, and researchers held samples for extended periods without performing research or returning the samples to NASA.” In 2002, more than 200 samples were stolen from Johnson Space Center, but were later recovered. In 2010, a researcher reported 18 lunar specimens lost. Between 1970 and 2010, NASA “confirmed that 517 astromaterial samples have been lost or stolen,” including some that have been found, according to the 2011 report. NASA did not respond to questions from a reporter asking for updated numbers about lost and found materials. NASA’s focus today is on the long-awaited opening of some of the never before tested pristine samples. “Because we have been able to protect the rocks for nearly 50 years, the science taking place now is more groundbreaking than we could have ever imagined,” Mosie said. “A wide range of discoveries ranging from the age of the solar system to the discovery of water-ice on the moon are a result of the Apollo samples.” Known as the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis program, new core samples will be investigation by the kind of science and equipment that didn’t exist in the 1970’s. As methods have improved, new measurements will be taken that couldn’t have been accomplished in the past, Mosie said. She said that work goes “hand-in-hand with our mission to return to the moon through the Artemis program, where we will leverage a lunar Gateway to get sustainable access to the moon’s South Pole and the natural resources that it contains.” NASA, she said, hopes that will provide a proving ground for a mission that will one day go far beyond the moon — all the way to Mars. bkassab@orlandosentinel .com A5 transportation structure,” he said. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said rapid growth of the state and Central Florida requires critical planning by leaders to address future transportation needs. He announced in May that he will push for voter approval of a penny sales tax in November 2020 to fund transportation projects and initiatives. “What you are doing is taking action in a timely manner, in a growing state, in a growing region — it is absolutely critical that we take action now,” Demings said. Although the train’s speed, which tops outs at 125 mph, won’t be the fastest in the U.S., company officials said the traffic running parallel on State Road 528 will be “left in the dust.” Virgin’s station at the airport was finished two years ago at the Intermodal Terminal Facility, a $221 million hub designed to accommodate multiple forms of shuttles and rail traffic, including a possible Central Florida’s SunRail commuter system. The phase two expansion project includes 170 miles of new track at the terminal, representing a total private investment of $4 billion, according to the rail company. lgarza@ orlandosentinel.com; 407-420-5354; @LMariaGarza. DONATE Wheels YOUR CAR For Wishes Benefiting Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. 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Wednesday, June 26, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Dems pass $4.5B border bill Passage of aid plan in House sets up showdown with the Senate By Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON — It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House with relative ease passed a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package Tuesday that will care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill passed along party lines after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quelled a mini-revolt by progressives and Latino lawmakers who sought significant changes to the legislation. New provisions added to the bill Tuesday were more modest than what those lawmakers had sought, but the urgent need for the funding — to prevent the humanitarian emergency on the border from turning into a debacle — appeared to outweigh any lingering concerns. The 230-195 vote sets up a showdown with the Republican-led Senate, which may try instead to force Democrats to send Trump a different, and broadly bipartisan, companion measure in coming days as the chambers race to wrap up the must-do legislation by the end of the week. “The Senate has a good bill. Our bill is much better,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told her Democratic colleagues in a meeting Tuesday morning, according to a senior Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private session. “We are ensuring that children have food, clothing, sanitary items, shelter and medical care. We are providing access to legal assistance. And we are protecting families because families belong together,” Pelosi said in a subsequent floor speech. The bill contains more than $1 billion to shelter and Please turn to BILL, A6 J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reportedly told colleagues “the Senate has a good bill. Our bill is much better.” Trustees propose tweaks in search for UCF president By Annie Martin Fewer candidates vying to become the next president of UCF are likely to be invited to campus for interviews and trustees may invite people with non-academic backgrounds to apply for the post when the search is expected to start later this year. University of Central Florida trustees discussed tweaking the process they’ll use to search for their next president during a committee meeting Monday. Trustees are preparing to start searching for the university’s next president just more than a year after they selected the last one. Dale Whittaker resigned in February, less than eight months after he became UCF president, after he became embroiled in a controversy over the university’s use of leftover operating funds for construction, a violation of state rules. Interim President Thad Seymour, who took the helm after Whittaker left the university, has said he doesn’t plan to pursue the long-term role. If a majority of the full Please turn to UCF, A5 STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL Teachers showed up en masse to the Orange County School Board meeting on Tuesday. Many of the teachers, wearing red shirts to show solidarity in opposition to a salary agreement, hoped to convince the school board to vote no. STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL Gregg Newton with his memorabilia photographs of Apollo and other astronauts at his home in Kissimmee. COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Scammers flooding internet with fake space memorabilia By Chabeli Herrera T here’s nothing quite like the golden anniversary of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments to encourage sellers to part with their historic collectors items — and inspire scam artists to get creative. After all, what space enthusiast wouldn’t like a ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage – 30 days of stories leading up to the first steps on the moon. More at OrlandoSentinel .com/Apollo11. piece of Apollo 11 history, especially now that everyone is talking about it? That demand is fueling a spike in the number of people seeking to meet it, either with authentic pieces or with carefully crafted fakes, and for the same hefty price tag. A cursory search for Apollo 11 on eBay will draw up hundreds of results. There’s Neil Armstrong’s autograph on a moon landing photo, on his astronaut photo, on a magazine cover, a dollar bill, an index card. You can get a Buzz Aldrinsigned baseball or a copy of Mike Collins’ book, “CarryPlease turn to APOLLO 11, A5 School board OKs salary agreement Many teachers opposed plan, saying cost of insurance negates pay bump By Leslie Postal Orange County School Board members reluctantly approved a salary agreement on Tuesday they know many teachers oppose, saying they feared legal challenges if they didn’t approve it but acknowledging it could well be rejected when the district’s more than 14,000 instructors vote on it next month. Some board members said the flood of emails and other messages from upset teachers — which came pouring in after the plan became public last week — left them sleepless and unsure of the best way forward. But they voted to approve the plan after hearing advice from their attorneys, noting it puts the power in teachers’ hands. “I think the best option, the safest option for the teachers, is to let it go to a vote,” said board member Linda Kobert. “There’s room to come back and renegotiate.” The board’s unanimous vote came after more than three-and-a-half hours of discussion and debate in school board chambers packed with teachers, many wearing red t-shirts, some of which said “red for ed.” All the teachers who spoke urged the board to vote down the plan and of- fer a better package to their classroom instructors. “Your stories touched my heart,” said board member Angie Gallo. “We don’t take this lightly. We take this seriously, and we care.” Board member Karen Castor Dentel won a standing ovation from the crowd when she initially proposed the board vote “no” on the agreement negotiated by administrators and the local teachers’ union. Please turn to BOARD, A7 Orlando breaks record for electricity demand By Jeff Weiner With air conditioners across the City Beautiful working hard to combat the summer heat, customers in Orlando demanded more electricity early Monday evening than at any point in the history of the Orlando Utilities Commission, the utility said. The record was broken 5:04 p.m. Monday, when customers were drawing 1,233 MW of electricity. It was “the most power ever used at one moment in the company’s 96-year history,” according to a press release sent by OUC spokesman Tim Trudell. The previous record: 1,221 MW in August 2016. According to readings by the National Weather Service in Melbourne, it was 95 degrees outside in Orlando about 5 p.m. Monday, with a heat index of 97 degrees. Trudell said the utility has enough capacity to meet demands. But customers concerned about their power bill can control usage in a variety of ways, he said, including by keeping thermostats at 78 degrees, replacing A/C filters monthly, using shades or blinds to block the sun – especially on east- or westfacing windows – or ceiling fans to cool off. Other tips can be found at OUC.com/hotweather At Duke Energy, the state’s second-largest and Central Florida’s largest power provider, the peak demand in Florida on Monday was nearly 8,900 megawatts. The utility’s record was set Aug. 20, 2007 at 9,873 MW. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Agencies seeing rapid turnover Acting head of Customs and Border Protection resigned amid uproar over living conditions of migrant kids. A3 Judge rules lawsuit may proceed Dems pursuing action against Trump, alleging his private business dealing violates ‘emoluments’ clause. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Mueller to testify in open session Congress to question former special counsel about Russia investigation and possible obstruction by Trump. A6 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Orlando Sentinel APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 ing the Fire,” autographed by the astronaut. But how to tell if they’re fake? That’s the rub, said Steve Zarelli, one of the nation’s go-to experts on astronaut autographs and memorabilia. As the 50th anniversary of the moon landing approaches on July 20, buyers will have to ask themselves that question often, he said. “As the event gets more media attention, then that drives people who in the emotion of the minute, they may want something this is connected to it,” said Zarelli, owner of New York-based Zarelli Space Authentication. The problem is so acute now that Zarelli said he’s noticed a steep spike in the number of Apollo 11 items for sale, many of them knockoffs. “I would say the number of fakes I’m seeing is at least double the typical number you would see,” Zarelli said. “…[Forgers] are making money off of persons just browsing on eBay and saying, ‘Oh look this would be cool to have.’” Locally, faked Apollo 11 items have “definitely” cropped up, said Charles Jeffrey, collections analyst and a member of the board at the American Space Museum and Space Walk of Fame in Titusville. “I can show you half a dozen items up on eBay right now that if not outright fakes, have such questionable provenance that they are more than likely fakes,” Jeffrey said. “It’s a true buyer beware site.” But it’s not just eBay. Fraudulent items have popped up at auction houses and Craigslist and garage sales. And some are more difficult to spot than others. The astronauts have certain signing habits that are well-documented. Neil Armstrong didn’t sign on top of the American flag on the arm of his spacesuit in photos, for example, and he stopped giving GREGG NEWTON/COURTESY Magazine spreads with the picture Gregg Newton took of kids looking up as aviation pioneer John Glenn returns to space aboard the shuttle Discovery, at the start of mission STS-95 on Oct. 29, 1998. autographs altogether in the1990s. His autographs with personal messages can run around $1,000 to $2,000 and his autographs alone — those not signed to a particular person — cost between about $3,500 and $4,000, Zarelli said. Any less or higher than that range, and you may be dealing with a fake. But hardware, pieces of spacecraft and items that were allegedly flown to the moon are more difficult to verify. It’s not hard to find sellers claiming to offer tiny pieces of Kapton foil that covered the Apollo 11 command module or flags flown to the moon by astronauts, but it is near impossible to prove if the pieces actually went to space — unless you specifically know the seller. Knowing your source comes in handy for fake mission patches, too. Tim Gagnon, a patch artist based in Titusville, said a forger on eBay made a copy of one of his patches and listed it using Gagnon’s name to pass the Apollo 16 commemorative patch as authentic. For the patches, he said, anything that’s not manufactured by A-B Emblem out of Weaverville, North Carolina and its partners, is not the real thing. The company has held the exclusive NASA contract for patches since February 1970. The patches run for $8 to $30, depending on the size, said A-B Emblem’s national accounts manager Sandy McDonald. The proliferation of scammers trying to profit off the Apollo 11 craze has affected even legitimate sellers of items, such as Kissimmee’s Gregg Newton, who has been approached by a number of buyers trying to snatch up his astronaut signed artwork by offering to pay through fake wire transfers. Newton is a longtime collector of astronaut signatures and owns pieces with the autographs of all 12 moonwalkers. He’s selling a 1989 lithograph with the signatures of Armstrong, first American in space Alan Shepard, first American in orbit John Glenn, Apollo 10 and 17’s Gene Cernan, Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Apollo 12’s Charles Conrad, Apollo 8 and 13’s James Lovell, and space shuttle astronauts Jack Lousma and Rick Hauck. It’s going for $3,850. “2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first historic moon landing, and this is a unique way to obtain an unquestioned, undisputed autograph of Neil Armstrong!” Newton wrote in the listing on Craigslist. The piece was confirmed authentic by Zarelli. The former Reuters photographer plans to use the revenue from the sale to help pay for his son, Luca Newton’s, tuition at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne where he is double majoring in global conflict studies and homeland security. They’ve talked it over, Newton said, and decided that selling nearly all of his 19 pieces will help get the incoming junior through college without debt. But there is one piece that even the draw of the 50th anniversary won’t compel Newton to sell: An image taken by him in 1998 when John Glenn returned to space on a space shuttle mission. At 77, Glenn became the oldest human to fly to space. That day, Newton waded into the ocean at Cocoa Beach with an unprotected film camera and caught the rocket as it arched over the waves. In the photo, two young surfers in the water look up as the white plumes of smoke cross the sky. It was the 30th frame in a roll of 36. The image ran in dozens of newspapers across the nation the next day. Newsweek, Time and LIFE ran it on two pages. Newton sent copies to Glenn, who autographed it in 2003, “To Gregg, with best regards, John Glenn.” It’s the “one print I am holding on to,” Newton said, “and passing on to my son.” Want more space news? Follow Go For Launch on Facebook. Contact the reporter at cherrera@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5660; Twitter @ChabeliH Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of Apollo 50, the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo50 UCF Continued from Page A1 board agrees with the proposed changes, a search committee would recommend an unranked list of three to five finalist candidates to the trustees, who could then invite them in for interviews. “We really aren’t going to be considering more than five candidates, so let’s try to move the process on a little quicker,” trustee William Yeargin said. During the last search, a search committee brought in eight candidates as semifinalists for interviews and tapped four of them as finalists. The top four returned to campus a couple of weeks later for follow-up talks and meetings with students, employees, donors and others. In the end, trustees selected Whittaker, who had been the provost at UCF for about four years. Trustee Beverly Seay also urged her colleagues to open the door to nontraditional applicants in a section listing the trustees’ desired characteristics of candidates. She said this could help diversity the applicant pool. “We really aren’t going to be considering more than five candidates, so let’s try to move the process on a little quicker.” William Yeargin, UCF trustee Seay described her idea of a nontraditional candidate as “maybe someone who didn’t come up through the faculty ranks and maybe an outstanding business executive, for example.” “I’m not suggesting that we go the other way I’m just saying, ‘Let’s look at all our options,’” she said. The changes would require approval from a majority of the full board. Whittaker became UCF’s top administrator July 1, after the retirement of John Hitt, who had been president for 26 years. Trustees said in March they plan to start the search in the fall. They’d like their next president to start by June or July 2020. The committee also selected Seay to serve as the board’s next chair, replacing Robert Garvy, and trustee Alex Martins to be the next vice chair. 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Thursday, June 27, 2019 ★ FINAL EDITION $2.50 Hotel industry vows to fight sex traffickers Advocates applaud campaign, question hotels’ record so far By Kate Santich The nation’s hotel industry association vowed Wednesday to fight widespread sex trafficking on its properties, in part by training every employee on warning signs for the crime and how to respond. The announcement from the American Hotel & Lodging Association — whose members account for more than 90% of the industry — comes after two women who said they were forced into prostitution as teenagers filed a lawsuit against three Philadelphia hotels, alleging the businesses ignored and profited from the sexual slavery happening on their premises. The association said the campaign was unrelated to that lawsuit, filed in late March, or to others now pending around the country. And Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the national association, said many hotels already have taken steps on their own to train employees and establish rules for reporting. Marriott, for instance, has trained over 600,000 of its workers on the issue. “No Room for Trafficking sends a loud and clear message,” he said of the new Please turn to ABUSE, A6 A new hope seen for Galaxy’s Edge Will Calif. curb on crowds reach Orlando? By Gabrielle Russon Walt Disney World leaders are closely watching California to analyze what’s going right and wrong now that Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has officially opened to the general public at Disneyland. The Smugglers Run attraction posted about an hour wait on average Monday, the first time people no longer need advanced reservations in Anaheim. By 5 p.m. Monday, anyone could walk into the land without pre-scheduled “boarding passes,” which Disney used to control capacity as people arrived. Newspapers reported no major traffic issues or problems at Disneyland. Orlando’s identical land debuts Aug. 29, but so far, Disney World officials have said little on how it will handle the crowds that descend on Hollywood Studios. Walt Disney World hasn’t ruled out requiring fourhour advanced reservations or an online queue to get into the land. “We’ve been planning for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge for nearly four years since this epic expansion was announced and there are several measures we are conPlease turn to DISNEY, A6 MICHAEL LAUGHLIN/SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL Ten Democratic presidential candidates acknowledge the crowd to begin their presidential debate on Wednesday at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. In Miami, Dems battle over border, health By Steven Lemongello MIAMI — The first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign on Wednesday night saw10 candidates spar over differences in policy on issues ranging from health care to immigration to gun violence – as well as what kind of party the Democrats need to be. It also saw candidates such as former Housing Secretary Julian Castro and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker – and, surprisingly, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio – HUGO MARTIN/LOS ANGELES TIMES sht Center for the Performing Arts saw 10 of the 20 candidates who qualified for the event face off with the next 10 scheduled for Thursday. It only rarely touched on Florida. Castro, former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar all credited students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland for creating a movement to change gun laws in the state and country, with Klobuchar saying they “literally started a national shift” in public opinion on the issue. But she and U.S. Rep. John Delaney both said any changes to gun laws must persuade hunters such as Klobuchar’s uncle and rural residents in Delany’s Maryland. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the only candidate in Wednesday’s group of contenders to have routinely broken double digits in polling, said the single hardest question she’d received at town halls was from a little boy and a little girl, asking, “When you’re president, how will you Please turn to DEBATE, A8 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 After Apollo 11, other nations set sights on moon landings, too By Marco Santana Opening Day crowds are seen at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in California in May. Orlando’s version will debut Aug. 29. each get some powerful moments to break through the din and potentially boost their candidacies. But while the debate touched on a number of issues – if not giving candidates enough time to fully answer – not one was directly asked why they would be the best candidate to defeat President Trump next year. Even so, in his closing argument, Castro said, “On January 20th, 2021, we will say adios to Donald Trump.” The first night of two debates at The Adrienne Ar- When the unmanned Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the moon in April, Israel joined a small number of nations that have managed to send vehicles to the lunar surface. Despite the failure, that elite group – which also includes the U.S., India, China, Russia and Japan – has been helped by updated technology that has changed space explo- ration, at least for countries that can afford it. “At this point, the technology to build hardware that can travel to the moon is pretty commonly available,” said Ray Lugo, director of UCF’s Florida Space Institute. “The hard part is the analysis that determines where on the moon you can safely land.” Reports have put the price tag of the Beresheet mission at $200 million. As NASA marks 50 years since the iconic July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing, other nations have gone to the moon and some are preparing to return, America among them. NASA’s Artemis program is shooting for a crewed mission by 2024. India sent its first probe hurtling toward the moon on Oct. 22, 2008, and is set to try to land on the moon for the first time with a spacecraft called Chandrayaan-2. Please turn to MOON, A13 AMIR LEVY/GETTY An Israeli man reacts after the unmanned Beresheet craft crash-landed on the moon on April 11. This series: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo11. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Senate approves $4.6B for border The GOP-held Senate passed a bipartisan $4.6 billion measure to deliver aid to the southern border. A3 House panel OKs Conway subpoena The House Oversight Committee backed a subpoena to force Kellyanne Conway to appear before the panel. A3 FEEL REVITALIZED AT THE BEACH. Nadler anticipates Mueller impact The House Judiciary Committee chair says Robert Mueller’s testimony will have “a profound impact.” A13 AMERICA’S BEST BEACHES ARE JUST 90 MILES WEST OF ORLANDO. BeachesOfOrlando.com ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Thursday, June 27, 2019 Orlando Sentinel Nadler: Mueller testimony will have ‘profound impact’ By Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker and Lisa Mascaro Associated Press WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he expects special counsel Robert Mueller to have “a profound impact” when he testifies before Congress on July 17, even though Mueller has said he won’t provide any new information. Mueller’s unusual backto-back testimony in front of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees is likely to be the most highly anticipated congressional hearing in years, particularly given Mueller’s resolute silence throughout his two-year investigation into Russian contacts with President Donald Trump’s campaign. Democrats negotiated for more than two months to obtain the testimony, hoping to focus public attention on the special counsel’s 448-page report that they believe most Americans have not read. “I think just if he says what was in the report and says it to the American people so they hear it, that will be very, very important,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told reporters Wednesday. “Whether he goes further than that, we’ll see.” Nadler said he thinks Mueller will be a compelling witness given the nature of the report, which detailed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and reviewed several episodes in which Trump tried to influence Mueller’s probe. He J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler speaks to reporters Wednesday in Washington. said he believes the hearing will have a “profound impact” because many people haven’t read the report and don’t know what’s in it. It will also be the first time Mueller has responded to questions since he was appointed special counsel in May 2017. Throughout his investigation, Mueller never responded to angry, public attacks from Trump, nor did he ever personally join his prosecutors in court or make announcements of criminal charges from the team. His sole public statement came from the Justice Department lectern last month as he announced his departure. He also put lawmakers on notice that he was not eager to testify and did not ever intend to say more than what he put in the report. “We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself,” Mueller said May 29. “I would not provide information beyond what is already public in any appearance before Congress.” Those remarks did little to settle the demands for his testimony. The two committees continued negotiations that had already been going on for weeks, saying MOON Continued from Page A1 Its lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 helped discover evidence of water molecules on the moon. That contribution serves as an example of how space exploration benefits from having as many countries involved as possible, said Bobby Braun, dean of the Center for Astrodynamics Research at University of Colorado. “If you have one team trying to get to the moon, then all the great ideas have to come from that team,” he said. “If you have a diverse set of eight teams, like any other engineering enterprise, you have more critical mass and diversity of ideas and approaches.” The allure of sending missions to the moon had been on the minds of nations long before Apollo 11. In 1959, the Soviet’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first to land on the moon, handing the nation one of its biggest victories in the space race. While Luna 2 did not survive the landing, seven years later, Luna 9 became the first to land and survive in 1966. China, meanwhile, first landed on the moon in December 2013 with its Chang’e 3 rover, which Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50 launched aboard a Long March 3B rocket. Chang’e 4 landed on the South Pole of the moon on Jan. 3. Japan has had two probes fly near the moon and then deliberately crash on its surface, with the latest being the orbiter SELENE, which made it to the surface on July 11, 2009. While the Russian landing was fueled by the space race and Cold War with the U.S., Braun says today’s exploration is more civil. “It’s not a space race like they still wanted to hear from Mueller no matter how reluctant he was. The two committees announced Tuesday that he’d finally agreed to come under subpoena, and that they had issued the subpoenas that day. The committee chairmen said there will be two hearings “back to back,” one for each committee, and they will also separately meet with Mueller’s staff in closed session. Nadler would not give details on the negotiations or why the subpoenas were needed. He just said “we reached a point where we believed that if we issued a subpoena he would obey it.” The Justice Department declined to comment. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff expressed concern that either the White House or Justice Department would try and block some or all of Mueller’s testimony, possibly at the last minute, as they have with other administration witnesses. “I think every indication is that the president will continue interfering in any way he can,” Schiff said. On that point, though, Nadler said he doubts any such efforts would eventually succeed. “Mr. Mueller is an honest man and understands that congressional subpoenas are not optional,” Nadler said. Trump simply tweeted, “Presidential Harassment!” He followed up on Wednesday morning in an interview with Fox Business Network, saying, “It never ends,” then reiterating his grievances against the way the probe was conducted. the Cold War,” he said. “It’s a competition, in a sense, but it’s more of a friendly one.” Israel’s Beresheet mission took off on a SpaceX rocket from the Space Coast on Feb. 21, aiming to put research instruments on the surface along with a digital time capsule and an Israeli flag. But less than two months later, on April 11, the lander failed and caused its main engines to cut off, crashing it into the moon’s surface. Israeli officials said they would try again, calling the project Beresheet 2.0. The crash shows that, even as private industry and other nations put together a string of successful launches, it’s still a difficult mission to land on the moon, Lugo said. “You can do all the best planning and you can simulate this in a laboratory but when the hardware meets the real world, does the engine fire exactly the same way as in the simulation?” he said. “Are the mass properties exactly the same as in the simulation? You have to get 100 things right to be able to land safely. It’s easier now, but it’s still hard.” Got a news tip? msantana@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5256; Twitter, @marcosantana A13 No Tricks, No Games...Full A/C Systems Completely Installed! Air Conditioning & Heating There is a better way to stay cool!! Integrity, Quality and Satisfaction Our Promise To You Save thousands on a new High Efficiency Heat Pump Air Conditioning System and save up to 50% on your annual cooling cost. 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Maitland Orlando 407-487-2541 NewStudyInfo.com To inquire, please call 407.650.6319 or email cburman@orlandosentinel.com Honoring our Capital Gazette colleagues One year ago today, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters died in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette news office in Annapolis, Maryland. At 2:33 p.m. EDT, all Tribune Publishing newspapers will observe a moment of silence. We invite our readers to join us at that time to honor their memory. T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Friday, June 28, 2019 ★ FINAL EDITION New rule looks to solve jail crowding $2.50 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES A heated night two State attorney: Orange, Osceola won’t pursue low-level drug offenses By Monivette Cordeiro Prosecutors in Orange and Osceola counties won’t pursue lowlevel drug offenses under a new diversion policy announced Thursday by Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala. Ayala, who announced in May she would not seek a second term in 2020 as the 9th Judicial Circuit’s top proseAyala cutor, said the “commonsense” change would reduce costs, free up prosecutors to pursue more serious offenses and offer offenders the opportunity to “get the help they need.” “Finding a remedy for the issue of mass incarceration has been incredibly important to me,” Ayala said in a statement. “With drugrelated offenses in particular, there is significant evidence that the prosecution of these offenses has failed to reduce levels of drug use, dramatically increased the number of individuals incarcerated and undermined public safePlease turn to DIVERSION, A4 Justices: Court can’t rule on remap Decision puts partisan redistricting outside reach of fed judiciary SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES From left, author Marianne Williamson, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, US attorney Andrew Yang, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Michael Bennet, Rep. Eric Swalwell. Divisions over race, age and ideology surged into public view during debate By Steven Lemongello MIAMI - Former Vice President Joe Biden became angry and defensive about both his record and President Obama’s when confronted by U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris on the second night of the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, the most dramatic exchange in an event that again saw the 10 candidates on stage battle over health care and immigration. A number of candidates also directly took on U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his Medicare for All plan, one of the most divisive proposals in the Democratic campaign. Just as in Wednesday’s debate, which featured the other 10 of the 20 candidates who qualified for the first event of the primary calendar, Florida itself rarely came up – with the notable exception of U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s pledge that his first act as president would be, “for Parkland, for Orlando, every community affected by gun violence, [to] end gun violence.” The most dramatic exchange came when Harris, the only AfriPlease turn to NIGHT TWO, A4 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Fun facts about first moon-landing mission By Robert Barnes The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives decided Thursday that federal courts do not have a role to play in deciding whether partisan gerrymandering goes too far, giving a dominant political party in a state leeway to draw electoral maps that preserve or even expand its power. The 5-to-4 decision was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the court’s other conservatives. “We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,” Roberts wrote. “Federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties, with no plausible grant of authority Please turn to COURTS, A3 ■ INSIDE: The Supreme Court has put a hold on the Trump administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, saying the reason provided for wanting the information was “contrived.” A3 In one of the more heated exchanges of the evening, California Sen. Kamala Harris, said to former Vice President Joe Biden, left, “I do not believe you are a racist,” though she described his record as “hurtful.” By Roger Simmons ORLANDO SENTINEL FILE Orlando Repertory Theatre executive Gene Columbus in 2008. Columbus leaving Rep on solid footing By Matthew J. Palm Gene Columbus had a plan: 40 years at Walt Disney World, then retirement. But 11 years ago, Orlando Repertory Theatre came calling. And Columbus bid Mickey Mouse farewell for a second career, as the theater’s executive director. Today is Columbus’ last day at the helm of the Rep, which specializes in productions for children and families. He arrived at a nonprofit still searching for its footing after the collapse of its predecessor, the old Civic Theatre, and just as the region was spiraling into recession. Please turn to COLUMBUS, A4 As the Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary nears on July 20, even the most avid space fans might think they know all there is to know about the historic first moon landing. Think again. Using NASA documents, our Orlando Sentinel archives and other sources, we’ve created this list of 11 little-known facts about the Apollo 11 mission. Keep track of how many you know and we’ll grade you at the end. 1. Why is there a U.S. flag on the moon? Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag on the moon, but who made that decision? Would you believe Congress? About a month before the mis- sion, there was a growing call to place a United Nations flag on the moon, symbolizing the historic moment for the world and humans. “You might have some nice international implications by using somebody else’s flag, but I think you would have some very bad internal reactions and a great reduction in funds for NASA if anything like that happened,” Rep. Burt L. Talcott, R-Calif., warned NASA Administrator Thomas Paine during a meeting of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on June 6, 1969. Just to make sure that Paine and NASA got the message, days later Congress added an amendment to a NASA budget bill prohibiting Please turn to APOLLO 11, A6 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos are at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Dem House yields to GOP Senate U.S. House votes to send the president a bipartisan, Senate-drafted bill for detained migrant care. A3 NATO reluctant to commit Acting defense secretary says he came away with no firm promise from allies to defend against Iranian threats. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Tweets to get warning labels Matters of public interest violating Twitter’s rules will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation. A9 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A6 Orlando Sentinel Friday, June 28, 2019 APOLLO 11 set foot on the moon. But when Aldrin became the second human to touch the lunar surface, what did he say? NASA transcripts record his first words as, “Beautiful. Beautiful.” Others, when hearing the audio, say it’s “Beautiful view.” Continued from Page A1 any flag except an American one from being placed on the moon. The amendment’s author, Rep. Richard Roudebush, R-Ind., noted that Americans had paid $23 billion for the space program to that point. “And it doesn’t seem far-fetched that the U.S. flag should be placed there on the moon as a symbolic gesture of national pride and unity. U.S. taxpayers paid for the trip.” 10. One small step for a Russki? Did you know 2. There others flags on the moon? Old Glory had company on the moon. Did you know around 200 flags flew to the moon aboard Apollo 11? NASA documents note, “It was decided that, in addition to the large [American] flag, 4-by-6-inch flags of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. territories, and flags for all member countries of the United Nations and several other nations, would be carried in the lunar module and returned for presentation to governors and heads of state after the flight.” NASA/AP Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon, plant the U.S. flag on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. 3. Who designed Apollo 11’s mis s ion emble m? Guess the Apollo 11 crew member who was an amateur graphic designer. Michael Collins, the command module pilot, actually designed the mission emblem, with input from Armstrong and others. According to NASA, after the crew decided to name the lunar module Eagle, Collins found a picture of an eagle in a National Geographic book – tracing it on a piece of tissue paper. “He then sketched in a field of craters beneath the eagle’s claws and the Earth behind its wings,” a NASA story noted. “The olive branch was suggested by Tom Wilson, a computer expert and the Apollo 11 simulator instructor, as a symbol of the peaceful expedition. … Collins quickly modified the sketch to have the eagle carrying the olive branch in its beak.” But the design was rejected. “Bob Gilruth, the director of the then-named Manned Spacecraft Center, saw the eagle landing with its talons extended as too hostile and warlike,” NASA said. “So, the olive branch was transferred from the eagle’s mouth to his talons, a less menacing position.” 4. Running a little late? With no issues – technical or otherwise – to stop the countdown, Apollo 11 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969. But did you know that it was actually late? Launch director Rocco Petrone broke the news to the assembled media after the launch. “We were 724 milliseconds later for the start of this mission that really started eight years ago,” he said. 5. What historic date? What if there had been a major delay in the Apollo 11 countdown? NASA had eight other dates picked for the launch: July 18 and 21; Aug. 14, 16, and 20; and Sept. 13, 15, and 18. Those dates provided the correct azimuths for astronauts to get into Earth parking orbit and also, later, the right days for acceptable sun angles on the lunar landing sites. 6. What was the mission goal? NASA had a way of making things complicated. It called spacewalks “extravehicular activities,” for example. For all of its jargon and super technical talk, NASA’s official mission objective for Apollo 11 was simple. It was just seven words: “Perform a manned lunar landing and return.” 7. Houston, is there a problem? Every crewed space mission has a backup crew. For Apollo 11, the backup crew was James Lovell, William Anders and Fred Haise. Do you know why those names sound familiar? Lovell and Haise were two-thirds of the crew of the ill-fated Apollo 13, the only moon mission that had to be aborted. Jack Swigert was the other Apollo 13 BETTMANN/UPI Apollo 11 astronauts chat with President Richard Nixon as he stands outside their mobile quarantine facility. crew member. 8. Guess who’s not comi n g to d i nn e r? Newly elected President Richard Nixon was heavily involved with the Apollo 11 mission. He phoned the astronauts on the moon after their landing, and he was there to greet them when they splashed down. But he wanted to be even more involved. “Officials here said the President will fly to Cape Kennedy the night before the July 16 launch to have dinner with the astronauts in their crew quarters,” the Sentinel reported on its front page on June 29. The White House plan sent NASA’s chief astronaut doctor into proverbial orbit. Dr. Charles A. Berry strongly discouraged Nixon from dining with the Apollo 11 astronauts the night before their planned liftoff. He worried the president might pass germs to them that could complicate the lunar mission. So the dinner was scrapped 9. What’d he say? Almost everyone knows Armstrong’s first words when he there might have been a Russian standing next to Armstrong on the moon if President John F. Kennedy had had his way? On Sept. 21, 1963, Kennedy spoke at the United Nations and offered to make the lunar landing a joint venture between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. “Why … should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition?” Kennedy asked. Why make such an offer? The projected cost of the moon-landing program had ballooned to $20 billion in 1963 and Congress threatened to cut NASA’s budget. Kennedy’s idea fizzled, and when he was killed just weeks later, there was a renewed sense of purpose to fulfill his moon-landing goal. 11. What’s that smell? The Apollo 11 astronauts found a lot of craters and boulders on the moon. Did you also know they found the moon had a smell? According to Smithsonian Magazine, when Armstrong and Aldrin ended their moonwalk, climbed in the lunar module and removed their helmets, they noticed a distinct smell. “We were aware of a new scent in the air of the cabin that clearly came from all the lunar material that had accumulated on and in our clothes,” the magazine quoted Armstrong as saying. Armstrong said the smell was similar to “the scent of wet ashes” while Aldrin described it as “the smell in the air after a firecracker has gone off.” The strange thing is, the magazine reported, that once the moon dust got back to Earth, it lost its smell. How did you do? Give yourself 1 point for each item you knew. If you got zero to three, you’re worthy of a telescope. Four to eight, you might want to work at NASA. And nine to 11, you’re ready to go into space. rsimmons@ orlandosentinel.com Want more Apollo 11? 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L O C A L . FINAL EDITION Saturday, June 29, 2019 R $2.50 REPEAL COULD CHANGE MEDICAL OUTLOOK Certificate of need law limited new hospitals, programs By Naseem S. Miller Despite attempts by two hospitals, Central Florida doesn’t have a pediatric heart transplant program. But that could change in the coming years because a state regulatory process that limited the number of hospitals and some specialty services like transplants is going away on July 1. For nearly five decades, the program known as certificate of need Nelson found guilty of murder has required hospitals to get authorization from the state before building new facilities or offering new or expanded services — a complicated process that’s costly, includes reams of paperwork and potential challenges from competitors, and can take months or years. There have been several attempts by the state Legislature to repeal the law. This year, the bill finally passed both chambers and was signed into law by the governor last week. AdventHealth and Orlando Health said they will speed up construction projects that have been tangled up in the state’s regu- latory process or were planned to go through the Certificate of Need application. “We have very significant outpatient ambulatory construction plans and those are at a very fast pace right now. We’re buying land and we’re building places and that will not slow,” said Daryl Tol, president and CEO of AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division. The health system has added eight hospitals to its network in the past four years. “So I view that already as a fast pace, very aggressive, acute-care development approach,” Tol said. Please turn to REPEAL, A5 JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL With the repeal of Central Florida’s certificate of need, more health facilities and programs will be possible, like the new standalone emergency room center in Lake Nona that broke ground on June 5. “The best way [to eradicate them] is biologically with beetles, or you can pull them out at the root. We really expect some significant damage to the vines in the next few months.” — Jody Buyas, city natural resources manager Few democratic candidates likely to drop out soon Jury reaches verdict in kidnap, killing of Jennifer Fulford By Steven Lemongello tles, or you can pull them out at the root,” city natural resources manager Jody Buyas said. “We really expect some significant damage to the vines in the next few months.” The vine with heart-shaped leaves and tubular stems can be found in parks, yards and other properties throughout Central Florida. “If you see [the beetles], they’re good,” Buyas said. “It MIAMI — The first Democratic presidential debates of the 2020 campaign included some indelible images and breakout stars — and a suggestion that the primary could be more wide open than previously thought. On Thursday night, the presumed front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden, stumbled when confronted by U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California about his past opposition to integrating public schools through busing. The night before, former Housing Secretary Julian Castro turned in a strong performance fueled in part by battling with fellow Texan Beto O’Rourke over whether to make crossing the border illegally a civil offense, rather than a crime. The two candidates usually second and third behind Biden in most polls – U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – also had solid performances that could help them capitalize on any dip in Biden’s support. Sanders, however, took on more criticism from fellow candidates on his Medicare for All plan Thursday night than Warren did for supporting that plan on Wednesday. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, appeared to hold his own on Thursday night even Please turn to VINE, A9 Please turn to DEBATES, A5 By Monivette Cordeiro A jury found Scott Edward Nelson guilty of first-degree murder Friday for kidnapping Jennifer Fulford from her employer’s Winter Park home during a 2017 robbery, killing her and dumping the body in a field. The 12-member jury began deliberating about noon and needed only four hours to reach a verdict. As it was read, Fulford’s husband, Robert, and his family held each other and wiped tears, though Nelson had no Nelson visible reaction. The family did not comment after the verdict. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Nelson, 55. Jurors will decide whether Nelson will face capital punishment or life in prison at his sentencing hearing, which begins Monday morning. During closing arguments earlier Friday, both sides agreed Nelson had killed Fulford — as he admitted on the witness stand the day before. But his defense team, hoping to convince jurors to convict on the lesser charge of second-degree murder, argued Nelson didn’t plan the killing in advance. Prosecutors told jurors he intentionally killed Fulford, 56, so she wouldn’t be able to identify him as her kidnapper and testify against him. “There was some suggestion by Mr. Nelson that it wasn’t his intent to kill Mrs. Fulford,” Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick told the jury Friday. “Can there be any question that Mr. Nelson had more than enough time to reflect on what he was about to do? If not during the drive, once he got there, once he wrapped her head so tightly she couldn’t breathe?” Nelson in his testimony blamed his federal probation officer for the murder. The officer caused Please turn to NELSON, A4 Debates produce stars, stumblers JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Jody Buyas, City of Orlando natural resource manager, releases 10 beetles that are being used to control invasive air potato vines on Friday. Releasing a beetle brigade Insects help curb impact of invasive air potato vine By Ryan Gillespie On several acres in the Conway area, the invasive air potato vine has taken hold, growing toward light, wrapping around trees and dangling from limbs. While the vine with a potatolike root may not kill the native plants living near Commander and Turnbull drives, it will deprive them of needed nutrients and sunlight. So Orlando has turned to a warrior proven to chomp into the pesky shrub: the potato vine beetle, scientifically known as Lilioceris cheni. On Friday, city officials released a battalion of about 10 of the tiny red beetles, which they say will put a significant dent in the thriving Asian vine soon. The beetles will reproduce to expand their army but only eat the potato vine, so they’ll have no ill effects on the environment. “The best way [to eradicate them] is biologically with bee- COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Celebrating the moon landing anniversary By Patrick Connolly O n July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history when they became the first two people to set foot on the moon. Worldwide, families huddled around TV screens and in public squares to witness the astronauts touching down on the moon’s surface, celebrating humanity’s accomplishment with one another. In Orlando, a Sentinel story published on July 21, 1969, reported an “aura of ‘Christmas in July’ ” all over The City Beautiful following the 4:17 p.m. moon landing on the previous day. “A quiet kindness and peaceful atmosphere prevailed throughout the day,” Rita Bauer, of Winter Park, was quoted saying. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing should bring similar cause for celebration and reflection on just how far we’ve come since that momentous day in 1969. Here are some ways that you can celebrate the moon landing anniversary in Central Florida. ■ Golf to celebrate space explo- ration at Drive Shack Orlando (7285 Corner Drive in Orlando) on July 12. An individual registration is $150 and a team of four Please turn to APOLLO 11, A9 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos are at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD President makes sarcastic remark U.S. denounces Trump’s facetious warning to Putin not to interfere with 2020 election. 3A Questioning Biden’s viability The former VP left Thursday’s debate in a fragile state after candidates discuss best path to defeat Trump. 3A Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Garden honors fallen Gazette staff Friday was the one year anniversary of the Capital Gazette shooting that took the lives of 5 staffers. 4A ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Orlando Sentinel A9 VINE Continued from Page A1 AFP/GETTY There are plenty of ways to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary, from events at Kennedy Space Center to an astronaut pub crawl and a new ice cream treat at Dairy Queen. APOLLO 11 Center Visitor Complex on July 16 following The Apollo 50th Gala. In addition to hearing the iconic British band perform, witness hundreds of Intel Shooting Star drones take to the skies for a drone light show by Studio Drift. Tickets are available for $300 each. More info: kennedyspacecenter.com ■ Join the United States Postal Service as they issue the 1969: First Moon Landing Forever Stamps at 11 a.m. July 19 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The event will feature Thomas Marshall, executive vice president of USPS, and is included with the price of admission. More info: kennedyspacecenter.com ■ Celebrate the achievement of Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts with the One Giant Leap Celebration on July 20 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Visitors to the complex on the 50th anniversary day can see Armstrong’s blue Corvette up close, view footage of the moon landing in the Rocket Garden and explore a kid’s activity area. An additional ticketed event will allow guests to enjoy hors d’oeuvres while watching historic landing footage, access special photo ops and leave with commemorative gifts. More info: kennedyspacecenter.com ■ Commemorate the Moon landing in Orlando with One Giant Leap: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Moon Landing presented by WUCF, the Orange County Library Center and the Orange County Regional History Center. From 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on July 20, enjoy family-friendly activities including an astronaut egg drop, astronaut training obstacle course and other events. More info: thehistorycenter.org ■ Experience zero gravity for yourself by boarding a ZERO-G Experience flight, taking off July 20 from Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport. A seat on the flight costs $6,000 plus tax, and tickets are already sold out, but a wait-list is available. More info: gozerog.com ■ Rejoice in the return of the Apollo 11 team 50 years later with a Welcome Home Celebration commemorating the Apollo 11 splashdown. The event begins at10 a.m. on July 24 in Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Rocket Garden and will include family-friendly activities, historic footage and classic cars from the 1960s. More info: kennedyspacecenter.com ■ Try one of Dairy Queen’s Zero Gravity Blizzards created to celebrate the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary. The sweet treat involves Oreo cookie pieces, sparkly cosmic swirls and sweet cotton candy blended with soft serve. Of course, it’s topped with colorful galaxy sprinkles. Dairy Queen promises that if it’s turned upside down, the shake will stay put. The treat is available at select locations for a limited Continued from Page A1 costs $400. More info: astronautscholarship.org ■ Join some astronauts on an Astronaut Walking Pub Crawl in Cocoa Village on July 12. Attendees will receive one complimentary beverage at each stop. Tickets are $75. More info: facebook.com ■ Attend an Astronaut Parade as space explorers ride through the Cocoa Beach in convertible Corvettes. Parade begins at 9:30 a.m. on July 13 and proceeds south on Orlando Ave. through downtown Cocoa Beach. At 6 p.m., listen to a free outdoor concert at Cocoa Riverfront Park (401 Riveredge Blvd. in Cocoa) featuring Alan Parsons and Edison’s Children as the opening act (including Rick Armstrong, the son of Neil Armstrong). More info: astronautscholarship.org ■ Go for an out-of-thisworld run with the Apollo 11K beginning at 6:30 a.m. July 14 in Titusville. The 6.84-mile run begins near the Boeing Aerospace building on Vectorspace Boulevard and goes across the NASA Causeway. A familyfriendly Saturn 5K is also available. Registration for the 11K costs $70 and $35-$40 for the 5K. More info: apollo11k.com ■ Hear from the children of Apollo astronauts during a brunch and panel discussion on July 14 at Courtyard by Marriott Cocoa Beach (3435 N. Atlantic Ave. in Cocoa Beach). A women in space panel and future of space panel will follow later in the afternoon. Tickets (including brunch) are $75. More info: astronautscholarship.org ■ See the newly improved Apollo/Saturn V Center during its grand relaunching at 10:30 a.m. July 15 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (Space Commerce Way in Titusville). You can access the center by taking the bus tour at KSC. More info: kennedyspacecenter.com ■ Relive the launch of Apollo 11 during an Apollo 11 Launch Flashback Event at 7:30 a.m. July 16 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. This retrospective look will take visitors through the launch sequence in real time through archival TV footage from that day exactly 50 years later. Adult tickets are $175 and for children ages 3-11, tickets cost $150. More info: kennedyspacecenter.com ■ Get ready for a black-tie affair with The Apollo 50th Gala on July 16, an event where ticket prices are astronomical, ranging from $1,500-$3,500 per person. The VIP dinner seats ticket holders with astronauts and key figures in the space community. The event is sold out, but a limited waiting list is available. More info: apollo50thgala.com ■ Rock out in the Rocket Garden as Duran Duran performs at Kennedy Space DONATE Wheels YOUR CAR For Wishes Benefiting Make-A-Wish® Central and Northern Florida * We Accept Most Vehicles Running or Not * We Also Accept Boats, Motorcycle & RVs * Free Vehicle Pickup ANYWHERE * 100% Tax Deductible WheelsForWishes.org Call:(407) 536-8988 * Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. To learn more about our programs or financial information, call (213) 948-2000 or visit www.wheelsforwishes.org. time. More info: dairyqueen.com Are there any moon landing anniversary events we missed? You can find me on Twitter (@PConnPie), Instagram (@pconnpie) or send me an email: pconnolly@orlandosentinel.com. does indicate you probably have the potato vine, so that’s not good, but at least you know a beetle is there trying to help you get rid of it.” The beetles were free from the University of Florida, and are available for anyone. Commissioner Tony Ortiz said the city has worked to clean out the lot after neighbors had complained about people camping and “other mischief” there. Now the canopy is high, and plant life on the ground is cut low, creating a more open space. More work could be done at the city-owned lot to make it more of a community space, he said. “We applied what is called crime prevention through environmental design,” said Ortiz, a former Orlando police officer. “We definitely want the community to be able to come out here and enjoy, so this is only the begin- JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Jody Buyas, City of Orlando natural resource manager, releases 10 beetles that are being used to control invasive air potato vines Friday. ning. There’s more things to come.” Have a news tip? You can call Ryan at 407-420-5002, email him at rygille- spie@orlandosentinel.com, follow him on Twitter @byryangillespie and like his coverage on Facebook @byryangillespie. LOCAL & STATE SPORTS Maxwell: Mark Foley, others need to stop spending from dead election bids. B1 Team hopes to keep as much of the roster intact as possible. C1 It’s time to kill zombie campaigns Save up to $213.10 Magic gear up for free agency in coupons Inside this weekend’s inserts T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Sunday, June 30, 2019 FINAL EDITION $4.00 Advocates preparing immigrants for raids Central Florida groups offer legal aid as ICE deportation roundups delayed By Monivette Cordeiro Despite President Donald Trump announcing a two-week delay in mass-deportation raids that had been expected to start last Sunday, Central Florida advocates are readying immigrants by offering legal aid and training them on what to do if federal agents show up at their door. A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not say how many people in Central Florida would be affected by the mass removal, citing “lawenforcement sensitivities and the safety and security” of ICE agents. “ICE will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement,” agency spokesman Matthew Bourke said in a statement. “All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be Please turn to RAIDS, A17 Uber drivers must check age of riders SARAH ESPEDIDO/ORLANDO SENTINEL Attorney Reina Saco provides legal counsel at Farmworker Association of Florida to help undocumented immigrants prepare for ICE raids. COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 After girl’s suicide, some don’t want that responsibility By Karina Elwood “I was surprised at how easily I got into the Uber,” 12-year-old Benita Diamond typed as she rode in the backseat of a Toyota Camry headed to downtown Orlando in the early morning Jan. 10. “Minors aren’t allowed to ride in Uber by themselves,” she wrote on her mother’s phone, which she had used to secretly download the ride-share app and hail a car. “But, let’s be honest they do it all the time.” The 4-foot-11 girl got out of the Uber that morning, climbed to the top of a ninestory parking garage and jumped. Earlier this month, Benita’s parents announced that they were demanding change in the way Uber enforces its policy prohibiting STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ ORLANDO SENTINEL Lisa Chen, mother of Benita Diamond, weeps during a news conference June 6. drivers from picking up unaccompanied minors. Since then, the Orlando Sentinel has heard from about 20 people from across the country who said they are ride-share drivers, in emails, phone calls and comments. Some were Please turn to DRIVERS, A16 Lawsuits: Green card hopefuls defrauded Claim restaurant owners ran scam to ‘steal every penny’ By Caroline Glenn Tre Bambine’s future in Orlando appeared promising when the Italian restaurant opened in February in a prime spot on Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. But after just three months, the restaurant suddenly closed. The storefront on East Central Boulevard, which briefly served limoncello, pasta and cannolis, now sits NASA/COURTESY Crawlers carried Apollo rockets to their launch pads. This is Apollo 10 on its way to Pad B in early 1969. ‘TRIP TO ANYWHERE STARTS RIGHT HERE’ Before Apollo moon rockets traveled 24K mph, they took a slow ride to launch pads on crawlers empty. Tre Bambine’s owners, Terry Hong-Yin Chan and Jacquelyn Angiulli Chan of Orlando, are embroiled in federal and state lawsuits, the Orlando Sentinel has found, for allegedly defrauding immigrant hopefuls who invested in their restaurants and skipping out on rent. In all, the two federal suits put the damages at $8.5 million. To finance many of their restaurants, court records he moon race was won with rockets a dozen times faster than a bullet. But before liftoff, Apollo spacecraft took a ride slower than a lazy stroll. They were carried to the launch pad by a legendary machine aptly called a crawler. Crawlers were diesel-drinking mules in service of liquid-oxygen thoroughbreds. And even a half century later, the hulking machines are poised to remain a core part of the nation’s space Please turn to CARD, A10 Please turn to APOLLO, A10 By Kevin Spear T This series This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. MOON MEMORIES KEVIN SPEAR/ORLANDO SENTINEL Crawlers have carried Apollo and shuttle rockets to launch pads driven by drivers like veteran Sam Dove. As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/moonmemories YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD A ‘very interesting suggestion’ North Korea responds to Trump’s offer to meet leader Kim Jong Un at the heavily fortified DMZ. A3 Helping searchers in the wild Hiker’s rescue in Hawaii shows how GPS technology is making it easier to be found when you’re lost. A6 ‘Anne Frank: The Collected Works’ A 733-page historical collection of everything Anne wrote before her family was found in hiding. A15 Best Newborn Care in Florida Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company A10 Orlando Sentinel Sunday, June 30, 2019 APOLLO Continued from Page A1 program and service new rockets for decades to come. “The trip to anywhere starts right here on this crawler,” said Sam Dove, veteran driver of the transporters. The sleek Saturn V rockets that propelled the Apollo capsules into orbit outshined the crawlers. The rockets were white beacons; crawlers wore a heavy smear of black grease. But as Crawlers 1 and 2 hauled the moonships from their spacecenter garage to beach-side launch pads at four-fifths of a mile per hour, the entire assembly was a towering 40 stories tall. “You were drawn to the magnitude of it,” said Jim Ogle, an electrical engineer, whose career continued through the shuttle program. “Everything was so gigantic, so colossal.” After the moon missions ended, the crawlers – each weighing more than 6 million pounds – were refurbished to ferry shuttles to their pads. And now one of the machines will carry the next generation of rockets destined for Mars. Crawler 2 will carry the emerging Space Launch System, the nation’s most powerful rocket yet, for new journeys to the moon, Mars and beyond. “We are approaching the envelope,” said John Giles, NASA’s crawler manager, of the machine’s capacity. The Saturn loads, including its launch platform, weighed up to 12 million pounds — about the same as shuttle loads. The SLS loads will weigh 18 million pounds. “When you put that much weight on it, everything bends and flexes. It’s like the crawler is alive,” Dove said. “But it’s made to do that.” Larger and heavier land vehicles have traveled on Earth for mining. But the heft of a crawler suggests science fiction. The four corners of a crawler are supported by pairs of bulldozer-like tracks. Each of the eight tracks has 57 shoes. Each shoe is 7.5 feet long, 1.5 feet wide and weighs 1 ton. In each of the crawler’s bowels are two main engines of the size found in locomotives or ships. They turn the generators that feed DC electricity to 16 motors rated at 375 horsepower each. Fuel consumption is the opposite of miles per gallon; crawlers burn 165 gallons per mile. Crawlers are not bulls in a China shop; they can navigate to within a fraction of an inch, using laser guidance, to pick up or set down a rocket. “You can make the crawler go pretty fast and you can make it go so slow you can barely tell it’s moving,” Dove said. “But eventually it will move an inch.” CARD Continued from Page A1 show, the Chans and their various business partners used a federal program that gives green cards to foreigners who invest in real estate developments in the United States that create jobs in low-employment areas. Lawsuits filed in federal court in Hamilton County, Ohio, accuse the couple of taking millions of dollars they received from investors for restaurants that never got off the ground. “The Chans have orchestrated a complex enterprise …” one lawsuit states. “The Chans have utilized this enterprise to enrich themselves and inappropriately finance the operation of the entities they control. This enterprise is ongoing and the Chans are still continuing to misappropriate the funds of investors, corporate entities, and/or businesses through the Chan Entities to carry on their fraudulent scheme.” Court documents show the Chans denied the investors’ accusations. The Chans, according to a document filed last year, said there was no “intent to defraud” investors. Phone numbers for the Chans have been disconnected, and no one answered at their home on Edgewater Drive. Lawyers believed to be representing them did not return requests for comment or said the Chans were no longer clients. ‘A plan to line their own pockets’ The EB-5 program was created by Congress in 1990 as an avenue for foreign investors to obtain green cards by investing $500,000 in projects that create jobs in areas with low employment. Twice the Chans and their various business partners, which at times included Terry Chan’s brother Gary Chan and Jacquelyn Chan’s father Martin Angiulli, have been sued in federal court by Chinese investors who claim they’ve collectively lost $8.5 million in the couple’s failed business ventures. Gary Chan and Angiulli declined to comment and said they PHOTOS BY KEVIN SPEAR/ORLANDO SENTINEL Crawlers have carried Apollo and shuttle rockets to launch pads and are expected to carry NASA’s next generation of rockets. NASA began moving shuttle Discovery in May 2006. This is a shuttle rocket being carried by a crawler. NASA’s fact sheet says a crawler’s top speed is 2 mph. “It has the power to do that but you are never, ever going to do that,” Dove said. “If you would get up to 2 mph per hour, your [bulldozer-like] belts would be slapping, it would be jumping around. It’s great to say you can do it but you are never going to go that fast. You don’t want to break anything.” were not in touch with Terry and Jacquelyn Chan. The Chans started using the EB-5 program, run by the Department of Homeland Security, as a way to raise money for their restaurants and other real estate developments in 2010. The Chans all but promised green cards to those who invested, but the plans were “in reality, nothing more (than) false pretenses intended to steal every penny of plaintiffs money and distribute among the conspirators,” a lawsuit states. The Chans in 2010 planned to build a $900 million development of residential units, retail, hotel and office space in Dayton, Kentucky, according to the Cincinnati Business Courier. But, in a letter to Citizen and Immigration Services, which oversees the EB-5 program, Angiulli said the project soon fizzled as a result of “the real estate downturn/recession and couldn’t get all of its financing in place.” The Chan’s next project was revitalizing a five-block stretch of a neighborhood called Corryville in Cincinnati. The project was known as Short Vine Street. In 2011, business partners of the Chans traveled to China to find investors, a lawsuit states. Investors put $5 million into the project but later claimed they were lied to, told there was other financing in place and they would get their money back if the project failed. They said their money had been spent on personal expenses and invested in other companies. Several years later, the “project remain[ed] in the infancy stage” and investors said their “money [had] been improperly spent, and their visa applications [had] been revoked and/or denied,” a 2015 lawsuit states. Another group of investors who put $3.5 million into a plan to franchise a chain of Boardwalk Fries locations in Ohio also says the Chans deceived them. A lawsuit claims the Chans failed to “open even a single restaurant” while taking the investors’ money. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2015 terminated the organization the Chans used to facilitate the investment deals. And in 2018, the couple filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The Chans and their partners, the lawsuits claim, preyed on for- The standard speed for a shuttle delivery, Dove said, was .8 to .9 mph, and slower when docking or rounding a curve. Just how fast — or slow — the crawler will travel for the new rockets hasn’t been decided. Later this year, Crawler 2 will carry an SLS launch structure stacked with concrete blocks, weighing a combined 18 million pounds. That’s meant to simulate the load of an SLS rocket. The crawler is expected to pass the test, Dove said. “Crawlers were designed 50-some years ago,” he said. “And they are still carrying heavier rockets. It’s not cutting edge but it’s tried and true.” Less certain is what the unprecedented weight will do to the space center roads. The roads to the launch pads appear crude and are covered with river rock. But they were feats of engineering constructed through the coastal and swampy terrain. Builders excavated several feet of mucky soil, replacing it with sturdier gravel and rock. Over a half century, crawler vehicles logged more than 5,000 miles mostly on those stretches of road that barely measure 4 miles long. As reliable as they’ve become, the giant machines weren’t NASA’s first choice all those years ago when the agency was trying to figure out how to move the Apollo rockets from their assembly building to the launch pads. In 1961, NASA leaders were debating whether to dig an enormous canal to deliver rockets on barges or to construct a massive rail system for the task. In early 1962, the agency began to study the giant shovels used in Appalachian coal mines. A NASA team visited Paradise, Kentucky, to watch a Bucyrus-Erie shovel in action. Ultimately, Marion Power Shovel Co. of Ohio won the job of building crawlers. The crawlers had mechanical troubles on the way to becoming operational. Bearings failed during tests in mid-1965, leaving bronze and steel grindings in the crawler’s JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL The closed restaurant site of Tre Bambine in downtown Orlando on Thursday. The restaurant was only open for about three months. eign Chinese nationals who “were willing to put their life savings at risk in order to attempt to obtain green cards and have the chance to permanently live and work in the United States.” “Together, the Chans and Angiulli conspired to come up with a plan to line their own pockets at the expense of foreign investors” who never got their green cards, the lawsuit states. Closings a trend at Orlando restaurants In the Orlando area, the Chans have owned at least three restaurants: a Boardwalk Fries in Lake Buena Vista, a Buffalo Wings and Rings near International Drive and most recently Tre Bambine on Lake Eola. A former manager at Buffalo Wings and Rings, Ruby Saavedra, said she was told her restaurant and the Boardwalk Fries were funded through the EB-5 program, but it’s unclear if they actually were. Citizenship and Immigration Services would not comment on individual investment projects. At all three, Terry and Jacquelyn Chan defaulted on rent payments, according to Orange Circuit court lawsuits and attorneys representing the restaurant’s landlords. Mid-America Apartments, which owns the space at Lake Eola, last month sued the Chans for lying about construction costs. Former employees of Tre Bambine, and Buffalo Wings and Wings told the Orlando Sentinel the restaurants were closed without warning and employees are owed weeks of pay. “None of us got paid at all. I don’t understand how people like that can be so nice to your face, and you’re going to leave all these people high and dry,” said Krystal Gilliard, a former bartender at Tre Bambine, which shuttered in May. Gilliard said she was aware of the legal action facing the couple. “Obviously they’re good at what they do if this isn’t the first time they’ve done it,” she said. Employees said they haven’t been able to get a hold of the Chans. “I feel deceived,” said Christian Cardona, a former server at Tre Bambine. “It’s not a good feeling to work for someone for free for two weeks.” Saavedra said the Buffalo Wings and Rings on Westwood Boulevard never opened. One day the employees showed up and the doors were locked, she said. Opportunity vs. scam The EB-5 program has been an attractive funding source for developments across the country and in Central Florida. Edward Beshara, an attorney in Maitland who said about 35% of wake. Their steering systems also required significant strengthening. On May 25, 1966, a mock-up of a Saturn rocket was carried by a “giant transporter” from the space center’s Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad A. That was five years to the day after President Kennedy said: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to…landing a man on the moon and returning him safely.” In August 1967, a crawler hauled the first Saturn, for the unmanned Apollo 4 mission. “When finally assembled, the crawler-transporter would not have won any awards for beauty,” NASA historians wrote in “Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations.” “From a distance it looked like a steel sandwich held up at the corners by World War I tanks,” the writers observed. NASA upgraded the crawlers over time, including new digital controls, beefier bearings and more powerful ventilation. But ferrying a rocket is still a slow-motion marvel. The task requires a crew of 20 to 30 who walk alongside the crawler, staff mechanical and control rooms and take breaks in trucks following behind. The nearly 4-mile jaunt to the launch pad takes about eight hours and is usually done at night. “It seems like everything works better,” Dove said. “There’s less wind at night. The humidity is different and there is less chance of rain. It’s a little bit safer.” The trip is typically uneventful, but the long-reliable crawlers still demand respect from their operators. “If you are so arrogant that you think you know everything about what this bad boy is going to do,” Dove said “you are just asking for it.” kspear@orlandosentinel.com Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel. com/Apollo50 his cases include EB-5 developments, says the “vast majority of projects are viable and credible.” But he said it’s important for prospective investors to know that although a project may be eligible for the program it doesn’t mean Citizenship and Immigration Services endorses the business. There’s always a chance the business could fail. One of the seeming local success stories is the Orlando City soccer stadium. Gonzalo Lopez Jordan, an attorney for Orlando City, said about 80 investors from Brazil, China, Mexico, Argentina and elsewhere contributed about $40 million for the stadium’s construction. He said most have received their green cards. The Sentinel previously reported Twin Peaks, Twistee Treat and Spoleto My Italian Kitchen also planned to find investors through the program to expand in Orlando. Invest in the USA, a trade group for EB-5 interests, says since the 2008 recession, $27.6 billion has been brought in through foreign investors and more than 276,000 jobs have been or will be created. EB5 Capital, a company that raises money from foreign investors, reports that since then more than 57,000 green cards have also been issued using the program. But the EB-5 program has also been wrought with scams, complaints from the SEC show: A Miami businessman was forced to pay back more than $81 million invested in a ski resort in Vermont; two South Florida men reportedly misused more than $20 million in investments for a Palm Beach hotel, including purchasing a yacht; developers behind what was billed as the world’s first zeroemission hotel and conference center in Chicago were ordered to pay back more than $15 million in investments. Beshara said the responsibility to vet projects falls on investors. “One has to be careful with who they are dealing with,” he said. “It’s also up to the investors to do what they can to make sure the projects they’re investing in are good projects.” Got a news tip? You can email Caroline at cglenn@orlandosentinel.com or call 407-420-5685, and follow her on Twitter @bycarolineglenn. SPORTS CENTRAL FLORIDA BUSINESS Keeping Orlando duo a part of team president’s long-term plan. C1 Margaritaville plans to make splash with digital-savvy customers. D1 Tapping into technology Vucevic, Ross re-sign with Magic T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Monday, July 1, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Trump, Kim agree to revive talks New chapter marks the impromptu meeting at DMZ By Zeke Miller And Jonathan Lemire Associated Press PANMUNJOM, Korea — With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talks on the pa- riah nation’s nuclear program. Trump, pressing his bid for a legacy-defining deal, became the first sitting American leader to step into North Korea. What was intended to be an impromptu exchange of pleasantries turned into a 50-minute meeting, another historic first in the yearlong rapprochement between the two technically warring nations. It marked a return to face-to-face contact between the leaders after talks broke down during a summit in Vietnam in February. Significant doubts remain, though, about the future of the negotiations and the North’s willingness to give up its stockpile of nuclear weapons. The border encounter was a made-for television moment. The men strode toward one another from opposite sides of the Joint Security Area and shook hands over the raised patch of concrete at the Military Demarcation Line as cameras clicked. After asking if Kim wanted him to cross, Trump took 10 steps into the North with Kim at his side, then escorted Kim back to the South for talks at Freedom Inside ■ Analysis: Kim’s concessions on nukes are few. A3 ■ 2020 Dem candidates slam Trump over DMZ meeting. A3 House, where they agreed to revive the stalled negotiations. The spectacle marked the latest milestone in two years of roller-coaster diplomacy between the two nations. Personal taunts of “Little Rocket Man” (by Please turn to LAND, A8 Please turn to LEADER, A2 How a fence, sliver of land pitted ‘Goliath vs. Goliath’ The unusual sight of a black metal fence passing through a garage and over a swimming pool symbolizes a bitter property-line dispute near Boone High. The 4-year tiff between a firm backed by Craig Mateer, founder of Orlando baggagehandling company Bags Inc., and financial giant Deutsche Bank is at a stalemate. The dispute is over a 15-foot by 99-foot sliver that includes part of a detached garage and part of a pool. The battle has made its way to Orlando City Hall, with Mateer’s RMS Investments proposing to split the lot he purchased from foreclosure and clearing the way for a home to be built. His request is to shave off the sliver to create a separate lot that he could either sell to the bank or hang onto as part of his lot. But that idea isn’t going over well with neighbors and Commissioner Patty Sheehan. Neighbors fear the garage and pool may never be reunited with the home if the proposal is By Leslie Postal and Beth Kassab approved without the two sides coming to an agreement on a sale of the smaller property to the bank. Said Patty Stallworth, who lives across the street: “He’ll have no incentive once they grant him that 15 feet of land.” Sheehan called the bout “Goliath vs. Goliath” and said she’s never seen a situation like it in her 19 years on the City Council. “I know y’all are feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys, but I want this resolved,” Sheehan told attorneys from both sides at a council JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL By Ryan Gillespie State Board of Education to choose at time of transition The State Board of Education on Monday will select a new leader for the beleaguered Florida Virtual School, which Gov. Ron DeSantis is seeking to reform by wiping out its Board of Trustees and ordering a new audit of the public online school. The governor and the Florida Legislature approved the changes after an Orlando Sentinel investigation this spring detailed turmoil inside the school’s administrative ranks, highlighted questionable spending and revealed a series of cozy relationships between FLVS trustees and Frank Kruppenbacher, the school’s former longtime general counsel. “It’s time for a much-needed review and monitoring and just sort of recalculation for the Florida Virtual School,” Alex Kelly, chief of staff at the Florida Department of Education, told the state board last month as it began to take over the school, replacing the independent governor-appointed trustees. Some school employees, however, are questioning how far DeSantis’ reforms will go because two people on the state board have ties to Kruppenbacher. Chairwoman Marva Johnson and board member Michael Olenick previously served as virtual school trustees who supervised Kruppenbacher. Public records show the two had relationships with the general counsel that went beyond virtual school business. The virtual school, which operated on $180 million of state money last year, had been run as its own public school district, offering online classes to more than 200,000 students. The new law means the school, headquartered in Orlando, will be managed directly by the state for a year while state leaders determine its future. One virtual school employee, who asked not to be named because the person feared repercussions on the job, said some employees are worried about Johnson and Olenick returning to positions of direct oversight at the virtual school. “They have concerns about their close relationship with Frank,” the person told the Sentinel. Some fear retaliation against the dozen employees considered whistle blowers after they com- Please turn to DMZ, A5 A fence divides the driveway of a home on Harding Street at the intersection with Hamilton Lane in Orlando, shown Thursday, because of a boundary dispute between neighbors. Bags Inc. founder, Deutsche Bank in a 4-year dispute Virtual School set to get new leader COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 1969 space crew was supposed to be joined by a monkey By Roger Simmons W hen Apollo 11 launched its moon trip on July 16, 1969, there were supposed to be four U.S. astronauts in space: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins and Bonny. “Nobody can make a monkey out of a U.S. astronaut named Bonny, because he’s already one,” reported the Orlando Sentinel on July 2, 1969. Bonny was a 14-pound pigtail monkey from Thailand. He would be launched into space on June 28, 1969, on a 1,536-pound biosatellite for a planned 30-day mission to coincide with the Apollo 11 launch and lunar landing. But while Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were all going to the moon, Bonny wasn’t. He was going to be parked in Earth orbit for the duration of his $92 million space flight, pro- viding key scientific data for NASA as the agency also monitored its human astronauts. “Sensors painlessly implanted in the monkey’s brain and heart and other body parts will see how weightlessness affects the animal’s mental, emotional and physiological process,” United Press International reported on Bonny’s launch day. “The monkey … is expected to yield more information on how prolonged spaceflight affects life than all America’s manned space flights put together.” And once in space, Bonny would be given games to play, testing his memory and coordination, with extra food pellets as his reward. Bonny zoomed into space from Cape Kennedy on a Delta rocket on schedule. “Punishing forces 10 This series This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at Orlando Sentinel .com/Apollo11. Please turn to APOLLO, A8 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Marking 50 years of LGBTQ pride Crowds gather outside New York’s historic Stonewall Inn, and other cities across U.S. hold parades. A3 Libya fights wars on field and online Aftermath of a fallen drone south of Tripoli another sign that in Libya there are two concurrent wars. A4 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Dems defend Harris against attacks After Thursday’s debate, racist comments were made against Sen. Kamala Harris on social media. A5 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A8 Orlando Sentinel Monday, July 1, 2019 R LAND Continued from Page A1 hearing last month. “This is impacting the neighbors and it’s not really fair to them.” The council deferred the matter to July at a meeting earlier in June in hopes the two sides could finally come to an agreement on the home at Hamilton Lane and Harding Street. Built in 2006, the 4,000-square-foot home sat on a triple lot. Originally, the backyard had a garage, a swimming pool and a basketball court, which sat on the lot farthest north. How it came to this is complicated. A previous owner had two mortgages from two different banks across the three properties. One loan covered the home and the land immediately behind it, while the other was on the backyard, which has a basketball court and a sliver of the garage and pool. When the housing market crashed about a decade ago, both banks foreclosed on the loans. The backyard, essentially a vacant lot, was purchased by Mateer’s RMS Investments for $100,000 in 2016, and the conflict began. The parties battled in court and had mediation as part of the 2016 lawsuit. However, it was ultimately dismissed. The house has been vacant for years, and has sat boarded up just next door to Wadeview Park and Boone High School. The grass has been overgrown at times, though neighbors said the bank has done a better job maintaining it recently. The property with the home currently faces a lien of more than $25,000, and code-enforcement records show a slew of complaints over the years for overgrowth, squatting and other damage. The basketball court has attracted kids from the school, neighbors said, though eventually the crowds began to grow to adults, who would show up to drink beers and shoot hoops, Stallworth said. Soon after, the rims were removed from the basket. Multiple neighbors said squatters had taken up residence in the house, claiming to have a lease, but ultimately the ruse was uncovered by the Orlando police and the bank. As things stand, the city can’t issue RMS a building permit because the pool and garage cross over the property line, City Planner Elisabeth Dang said. So the proposed split would create a lot that’s 55 feet wide and 99 feet deep, as well as the 15 foot by 99 foot sliver. City code says homes built in that location must be on lots that are 110 feet deep without council approval, though homes on the rest of the block are on lots 99 feet deep, Dang said. Both sides feel stuck, with Deutsche Bank unable to sell the home because of the dispute over the garage and pool and RMS unable to build because of the garage and pool crosses onto their property. “Our client, Deutsche Bank, has not been able to do anything with the property because of the boundary issues,” said Julie Kendig, an attorney with Greenberg Traurig representing the bank. Meanwhile, Gray-Robinson attorney Jeff Aaron, who represents RMS Investments, said they’ve been unable to resolve the spat for years, despite their best efforts. Neighbors are concerned, questioning whether Mateer even wants to settle. Stallworth contends RMS doesn’t qualify for the proposal because Mateer knew about the dispute pri- or to purchasing it, so it wouldn’t be considered a hardship as the rules require. That, combined with the fence going up, has left a sour taste in her mouth. “I thought it was dirty,” she said. “I don’t want the man to get to build anything there, to be perfectly honest.” Mayor Buddy Dyer asked Stallworth at the hearing if she would oppose the smaller lot if it came with the sliver of land being sold to the bank. Stallworth said she wouldn’t be in favor of it but wouldn’t fight the move as it would address her primary concern. Rick Sconyers, an architect who lives across the street, said if the city approves the measure it would effectively be interfering in negotiations between the bank and Mateer. “My biggest concern right now … is Mateer has to sell the15 feet to the bank or the bank has to buy the whole property,” said Sconyers, who collected petitions from the entire block opposing the request. At the June hearing, Sheehan suggested the two sides keep their negotiations simple and try to determine the fair market value for the small piece of land and make a deal one way or the other. Aaron said last week the two sides have met since and an offer was made for just the land, though Deutsche Bank hasn’t yet responded. He didn’t provide details of the offer, and an attorney for the bank didn’t return an email seeking comment. Have a news tip? You can call Ryan at 407-420-5002, email him at rygillespie@ orlandosentinel.com, follow him on Twitter@ byryangillespie and like his coverage on Facebook @byryangillespie. 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Physically, though, they still thought Bonny was fine. “He’s just not trying,” a NASA spokesman said on July 6. “We know he’s alert and in good condition because of the stream of information being radioed back from the sensors on his body.” The next day, however, NASA became concerned enough with Bonny’s welfare that the agency decided to cut short the monkey’s space mission after just nine days and 130 orbits. Officials reported that Bonny had become sluggish and was no longer interested in performing his assigned tasks. They noted that Bonny’s body temperature was dropping, and they said they worried about him deteriorating further. After his capsule splashed down near Hawaii, Bonny was rushed into intensive care at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. After initial reports said the monkey was “responding favorably,” NASA announced the sad news that its little astromonk had died JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL A fence divides part of a home on Harding Street at the intersection of Hamilton Lane, in Orlando, because of a boundary dispute between neighbors. MUST PRESENT THIS AD. Offer Expires 07/31/2019 WE ALSO CLEAN DRAPERIES • UPHOLSTERY • TILE (Minimum Service Fees Apply) WWW.DRYCONCEPTS.COM Having LAWN PROBLEMS? NASA This Biosatellite model from NASA shows a monkey in the front of the space capsule and the life support package in the rear. NASA sent a monkey named Bonny into Earth orbit board the Biosatellite in the summer of 1969. Fire Ants Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo50 after returning home. “It was sudden. He has been in fair condition,” a spokesman said. Dr. W. Roth Adey, principal investigator for Bonny’s mission, said, “There was no specific evidence of the heart or brain malfunction which can point to the problem now.” It was thought that Bonny’s capsule got too cold for his survival. Animal lovers around the world were outraged over Bonny’s death. “We have had close to 1,000 letters and some nasty telephone calls,” said Don Sugar Sand Weed Infestation Zylstra, a public affairs officer for NASA, in a July10 AP story. “We are conscious of this concern. However, we are astonished that there seems to be more concern for the animal than our astronauts.” Despite the backlash, attention quickly turned to the Apollo 11 moon mission, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center just nine days after Bonny’s death. The three astronauts’ historic trip would be remembered for years to come, overshadowing the space exploits of a little 14-pound monkey who didn’t get a chance to share the cosmos with them as planned. Chinch Bugs Fungal Disease Transform your yard and never look back! rsimmons@orlandosentinel .com download the Orlando Sentinel app FREE In Home Estimate Call Today! 407-204-9267 ACCREDITED BUSINESS visit us at: www.InterVisionHomes.com make it yours Servicing Central Florida and surrounding areas BUSINESS SPORTS NASA to conduct Orion abort test Magic are free agency winners Results will prove if craft can save crew in an emergency midflight. A8 Bianchi: Keeping their players is first step to stability, credibility. C1 T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Tuesday, July 2, 2019 FINAL EDITION Nonprofit recruiting families for detainees Foster parents enlisted for migrant minors caught crossing border By Kate Santich While thousands of Americans have decried conditions for migrant children at the nation’s southern border, one young Orlando mother decided to do something about it. She and her husband are now serving as foster parents for what the federal government calls “unaccompanied alien children” — minors detained after trying to cross the border, either on their own or with someone besides their parents. Some of them are victims of human trafficking; others make the trek to escape violence in their homeland. “Just seeing the lines of people walking toward the border, and the desperation in their faces, especially the children … my husband and I felt we had to do something,” the Orlando woman said. It turns out the government needs more people like her. The woman — who cannot be publicly identified under federal $2.50 Scott appointees remain DeSantis rescinded 215 of predecessor’s appointments; 157 of them stayed put By Gray Rohrer TALLAHASSEE – More than 150 political appointees rescinded by Gov. Ron DeSantis remain in their posts, possibly without legal authority, months after DeSantis pulled their appointments made by Gov. Rick Scott. The boards and commissions involved range from obscure boards dealing with licenses for trades such as real estate appraisers to high-profile panels like the State Board of Education. Some frequently approve multi-million-dollar contracts and shape policy on K-12 schools, state investments, water quality, local state colleges and toll roads. On one panel, the Florida Commission on Community Service, commonly known as Volunteer Florida, DeSantis rescinded 17 ap- Scott pointees to its 22-member board. As of Friday,16 were listed on its website as serving on the board. DeSantis rejected many of the appointments two weeks into his term in January, after a tense transition period with Scott, DeSantis his predecessor. When he rescinded them, he acknowledged Please turn to DESANTIS, A4 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 “There’s going to be some anger and confusion. It’s wrapping your arms around that child and letting them know they’re safe.” Laurie Stern, Bethany Christian Services’ executive director for Florida guidelines — is one of only a handful of families in Central Florida who have enlisted to help through the global humanitarian nonprofit Bethany Christian Services, which has an office in Winter Garden. Bethany is the lone Orlando-area social-service agency partnering with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to offer the kids a temporary home while they await placement with a U.S. sponsor, typically a relative. In recent years, escalating violence in Central America has dramatically increased the number of cases. Last year alone, the Office of Refugee Resettlement processed over 49,000 unaccompanied children. Their average foster stay is one to two months. Despite the national picture, though, there have been just 14 children placed in Central Florida homes since January, when the Please turn to BETHANY, A4 NASA/FILE PHOTOS 1969 Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, left center, and Vice President Spiro Agnew view liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center’s VIP viewing site. LAUNCH DAY VIPS Special guests included LBJ, Charles Lindbergh, Johnny Carson and many more By Roger Simmons with diplomats while aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh was secretly milling about? “The VIP list includes 69 ambassadors of foreign governments; 100 foreign science ministers, attaches and military aviation officials;19 governors, 40 mayors and 275 leaders of commerce and industry in the United States,” the Orlando Sentinel reported on A pollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were the most important people to NASA on launch day in 1969, but they did have competition. There were thousands of Very Important People, aka VIPs, at Kennedy Space Center on July 16. They formed an eclectic congregation of politicians, diplomats, celebrities, businessmen, scientists and relatives who received special NASA access to watch the moon launch. Where else could you find political polar opposites like former President Lyndon B. Johnson and current VP Spiro Agnew rubbing elbows? Or comedian Jack Benny mingling Please turn to APOLLO 11, A4 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Apollo 11 taking off on July 16, 1969. Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. Hong Kong protesters raise stakes Surgeon: Use fireworks Legislature stormed properly to avoid injury by activists; police forcefully clear streets By Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin The Washington Post HONG KONG — Police used force early Tuesday to clear thousands of protesters in and around Hong Kong’s Legislature after some broke into the complex and occupied it Monday, the 22nd an- niversary of the semi-autonomous city’s return to Chinese rule. The escalation has brought Hong Kong into unprecedented and uncertain territory, and represents the biggest test of Beijing’s grip over the global financial hub and the status under which it operates. Protesters on Monday smashed their way through metal barricades and glass doors surrounding Hong Kong’s Legislative Council. As they wrote graf- fiti on walls, tore down portraits of pro-Beijing officials and emptied rooms of chairs and desks, the mostly young protesters escalated weeks of tensions and massive demonstrations here to a new level. The demonstrators occupying the complex penned a declaration that included a call for overthrowing the “puppet Legislative Council and the Government,” and they vowed to stay. But just Please turn to PROTESTS, A10 By Naseem S. Miller Last year during the 4th of July holiday, Dr. Brett Lewellyn operated on 15 patients whose hands where injured by fireworks. Eight lost at least one finger. Three lost their hand. One of his colleagues treated a little girl who was injured by a mortar-type firework, which had tipped over, sending the firework into her arm and to her chest. “I don’t know what’s going on, if it’s access to bigger explosive devices, bigger fireworks, or maybe they’re cheaper. But I’ve seen worse and worse injuries every year,” said Lewellyn, director for Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery at Orlando Health. The experience prompted him Please turn to SAFETY, A6 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Iran nuclear agreement unravels Tehran has broken limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by its 2015 deal with world powers. A3 Taliban strikes security compound Hopes of peace talks dim after an attack in Kabul left dozens of Afghans dead and more than 105 injured. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Japanese whalers return to port Traditionalists triumphed as the first catches were made after a 31-year moratorium on commercial whaling. A7 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A4 Orlando Sentinel Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Trump wants tanks for the 4th President’s holiday event to show off military hardware By Juliet Eilperin, Josh Dawsey and Dan Lamothe The Washington Post WASHINGTON — National Park Service acting director P. Daniel Smith faces plenty of looming priorities this summer, from an $11 billion backlog in maintenance needs to natural disasters like the recent wildfire damage to Big Bend Park. But in recent days, another issue has competed for Smith’s attention: how to satisfy President Donald Trump’s request to station tanks or other armored military vehicles on the Mall for his planned Fourth of July address to the nation. The ongoing negotiations over whether to use massive military hardware, such as Abrams tanks or Bradley Fighting Vehicles, as a prop for Trump’s “Salute to America” is just one of many unfinished details when it comes to the celebration planned for Thursday, according to several people briefed on the plan, who requested anonymity to speak frankly. White House officials intend to give out tickets for attendees to sit in a VIP section and watch Trump’s speech, but did not develop a distribution system before much of the staff left for Asia last week, according to two administration officials. Officials are also still working on other key crowd management details, such as how to get attendees through magnetometers in an orderly fashion. Traditionally, major gatherings on the Mall, including inauguration festivities and a jubilee commemorating the start of a new millennium, have featured a designated event producer. But in this case, the producer is the president himself. Trump has demonstrated an unusual level of interest in this year’s Independence Day observance, according to three senior administration officials. He has received regular briefings about it from Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, according to the people briefed on the plan, and has weighed in on everything from how the pyrotechnics should be launched to how the military should be honored. As a result, the administration has organized a far more ambitious celebration than was originally planned, at a yet-to-be specified additional cost to taxpayers. Two major fireworks firms have donated a pyrotechnic show valued at $750,000, for example, but the Park Service will have to pay employees overtime to clean up the remnants of that display. The fireworks have been moved to a new location in West Potomac Park at Trump’s urging. Trump has also spurred the use of military aircraft for a flyover, including one of the jetliners used as Air Force One. In addition, the Navy’s Blue Angels were supposed to have a break between a performance in Davenport, Iowa on June 30 and one in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 6, but will now be flying in D.C. on the 4th. Trump is also is interested in other “surprise” military flyovers, including one featuring an F-35, according to a government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the move has yet to be announced. About 300 service members, primarily from bands and drill teams, are slated to participate as well. The White House declined to comment on the ongoing plans. Asked about the discussions about using armored vehicles and the projected overall costs of the event, Interior officials also declined to publicly comment. They noted that the department had issued an updated itinerary announcing the timing of the president’s speech, as well as additional details on the military performance and 35-minute fireworks DESANTIS Continued from Page A1 CEDAR ATTANASIO/AP Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas. BETHANY Continued from Page A1 program launched here. But Bethany is hoping to recruit at least two dozen more foster homes initially and eventually many more. It’s not a small ask. Prospective foster parents have to enroll in training, undergo background checks and become licensed. Many of the children they will care for have been abused. Nearly all have been traumatized. “We’re doing a lot of traumainformed care,” said Laurie Stern, Bethany’s executive director for Florida. “There’s going to be some anger and confusion. It’s wrapping your arms around that child and letting them know they’re safe.” Bethany has a team of experts to aid both the children and the foster parents, and there is a small stipend for the care. While it’s helpful for foster families to speak Spanish, it’s not a requirement. For the Orlando mom and her husband, who both work and who have two children of their own under age 6, the experience has been both sobering and deeply rewarding. “My husband and I had both imagined that the kids would come to us crying … and we would just be able to cuddle and APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 launch day, with a partial list of all several hundred people invited to the launch. How many VIPs were there? A spokesman for NASA’s History Division said the agency still doesn’t have a final number 50 years later. “In the excerpt from ‘First Man,’ Jim Hansen estimates that of the 20,000 on NASA’s special guest list, only one-third actually attended. We are not sure where he came up with this. There is no footnote or endnote,” archivist Colin Fries said in an email to the Sentinel. But it was a big crowd of big shots. Even Shakespeare was invited – Frank Shakespeare, the head of the U.S. Information Agency. While the VIPs list was grandiose, accommodations were spartan. Budget-conscious NASA constructed wooden bleachers for the assembled guests. There was no shade for the VIPs, who sweltered in 85-degree heat and Florida’s famous humidity “I knew it was going to be hot, but this?” questioned late-night host Johnny Carson, who came with his TV sidekick, Ed McMahon. comfort them,” she said. “But to be honest, they have just come out of a very traumatic experience. They don’t know us, they don’t know what to expect, and at least with the young kids we’ve had, they don’t know how to process these emotions and what just happened to them at the detention centers. And we’re the only ones here, so it comes out at us.” But as someone who lived in Central America for five years, this particular mom has both the language skills to communicate and the world experience to understand what the children have endured. Witnessing the transformation in the four children who have stayed with her family so far — from age 6 to teenagers — has made the challenge more than worthwhile, she said. “Today I was at the park with one of the kids, and this was the first time he had been on a swing,” she said. “This was a child who had been in a detention center only a few weeks ago, and it was just so amazing to see him laughing, without a care in the world. It was the best feeling ever to know that we had been a part of the journey.” You can find more information on the program at bethany.org or by calling 407-877-4006. ksantich@orlandosentinel.com As the Sentinel reported, “the major complaint was the heat and the fact that the snack bar couldn’t keep up with the demand for cold drinks.” Which was ironic, considering the presidents of Carrier Air Conditioning as well as Pepsi-Cola and Canada Dry were on one guest list. Not all the VIPs were at NASA’s special viewing area near the Vehicle Assembly Building. Over on the Banana River, one of the guys with a lot of camera equipment wasn’t just another journalist but Barry Goldwater, the former Republican presidential nominee and current U.S. Senator from Arizona. With so many VIPs, it was hard to keep track of who was who. Even the Secret Service agents guarding LBJ didn’t recognize familiar faces. “I’m the ambassador to France, Sargent Shriver. I’d like to pay my respects to the former president,” said the man who was brother-inlaw to Johnson’s predecessor, John F. Kennedy. Other VIPs with family ties to the launch included the Apollo 11 commander’s wife, Jan Armstrong and sons Ricky and Mark. Also watching was Gen. J. Lawton Collins, uncle of the mission’s command module pilot, as well as the tenuous legal position of the appointees and vowed to fill the boards quickly. But on Monday DeSantis’ office said the appointees are legally allowed to remain because the state constitution states a public officer “shall devote personal attention to the duties of the office, and continue in office until a successor qualifies.” Asked why the governor has yet to name so many replacements, DeSantis spokeswoman Helen Ferre responded with an emailed statement. “Our Appointments office is working diligently to fill all the positions with the best public servants,” she wrote. “As a new administration, this takes time and Governor DeSantis is determined to fill these positions with the best candidates as quickly as possible.” But at least one agency affected by the situation — the Florida Commission on Ethics — believes those who were rescinded were no longer allowed to legally serve in their positions beyond May 4, the last day of the legislative session. DeSantis rescinded the appointments of Garrett Richter, a former GOP state senator from Naples, and Willie Meggs, a former state prosecutor, to the Ethics Commission. Its executive director, Virlindia Doss, said they served only until the end of the session because that’s what the law allows. “It was a real surprise to me because that’s not something that’s ever happened before in the Ethics Commission, but once I looked into it, it seemed pretty straightforward that’s the way the process works,” Doss said. DeSantis was aware of the legal gray area the appointees occupied when he pulled them back. “Some will say, when you’ve been put in, but not confirmed by the Senate, if the governor pulls you back, you’re still there until someone new gets appointed. Others say, you’re off,” he told reporters in February after making a second batch of retractions. But ultimately, it wouldn’t matter DeSantis said, because “we’re going to work quickly to put people on these positions. So, I think at the end of the day it’s not going to Sigismund von Braun, Germany’s ambassador to France and brother of Dr. Wernher von Braun, head of NASA’s space flight center in Huntsville, Alabama. Getting extra special access was Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic. “Charles Lindbergh attended the Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 launches and met privately with each crew before their flights,” Fries said in an email. “However, out of respect to his request for privacy, his presence was kept secret at the time and not released to the media until after the launches.” Despite the festive atmosphere, not all the VIPs were there to celebrate the moon shot. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, brought 40 people to protest the money the government was spending on the moon mission. NASA gave Abernathy and his followers passes to watch the launch. After sweating out the countdown, the VIPs seemed thoroughly impressed when the 32-story Saturn V rocket lifted off at 9:32 a.m. into a brilliant cobalt-blue sky. “It’s impossible to describe. display. Trump has been fixated since early in his term with putting on a military-heavy parade or other celebration modeled on France’s Bastille Day celebration, which he attended in Paris in 2017. Trump angrily backed off plans for a grand Veterans Day parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in 2018 amid concerns from District officials over costs and potential road damage from military vehicles. The type of armored tactical vehicles under consideration for this year’s Fourth of July celebration can weigh 60 tons or more, and some, such as Abrams tanks, have tracks that can be particularly damaging. Advocates for the Park Service as well as some Democratic lawmakers and D.C. officials have questioned why the federal government is devoting resources to the event given constrained budgets and other demands. “It’s irresponsible to ask the National Park Service to matter much either way.” Yet five months after he recalled the first batch of appointees, more than 73% remain in office. Out of the 215 appointments rescinded by DeSantis, 157 are currently on the board or commission to which Scott appointed them, according to the panels’ websites. There were 44 who are no longer on the panel. DeSantis has reappointed four and replaced 10. The situation arose partly because of the way DeSantis’ predecessor, Scott, made nearly 80 appointments in the waning days of his term without consulting DeSantis. That move worsened an already tense relationship between the two, and DeSantis rescinded 46 of them later that month. He couldn’t pull back the judicial appointments not subject to Senate review. Then in February, DeSantis retracted 169 more Scott appointments, this time clawing back appointments Scott made as far back as March 2018, the end of the previous legislative session. In one case, the predecessors of those initially appointed by Scott remain on the board, despite their terms ending in 2018. Andria Herr and Michael Scheeringa were replaced on the Central Florida Expressway Authority by Scott on Jan. 4, three days before the end of his term, with Randy Glisson and Edward Clement. Glisson and Clement were rescinded by DeSantis later that month and never took their seats on the board, but Herr and Scheeringa continued to serve and remain on the board, according to the CFX website. Herr replied “no comment” to questions about her status on the CFX board. Scheeringa did not respond to calls and emails. The chief of staff for CFX said the pair reached out to DeSantis’ office and were told they could remain until they were replaced. But Ferre said DeSantis’ office only directed rescinded appointees to what the state constitution said about public officers remaining in place “until a successor qualifies,” and didn’t direct them to stay on or to leave. Some high-profile names who were rescinded, such as Carlos Beruff, a Scott loyalist appointed to the Florida Fish & Wildlife ComNow I know why commentators have such much trouble,” Carson said when asked about the launch. Witnessing the launch seemed to temper Abernathy’s opposition. “For that particular moment and second, I really forgot the fact that we have so many hungry people in the United States of America,” Abernathy said afterward. “I was one of the proudest Americans as I stood on this soil, on this spot. I think it’s really holy ground and it will be more holy once we feed the hungry and care for the sick and provide for those who don’t have houses.” Johnson was especially touched by the start of the moon mission. “It seemed as if the half million people who had worked on this program were there lifting the thing,” Johnson said. “I don’t believe there is another single thing our country does, our government does, our people do, that has greater potential for peace.” Shriver, speaking about the man who set the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the 1960s, commented, “The only regret I have is that President Kennedy isn’t alive to see his dream come true.” rsimmons@orlandosentinel.com absorb the costs of an additional and political event when there are so many unmet needs in the parks,” said Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Chairman Phil Francis, whose group represents current, former and retired Park Service employees and volunteers, in an email. “The men and women of the National Park Service have been asked to do more with less for too long. Funds should be directed to the agency’s highest needs such as operation of the parks and the maintenance backlog and should not be directed to support political objectives.” The D.C. Council reiterated its opposition to driving tanks on the city’s streets, tweeting, “We have said it before, and we’ll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks.” In the tweet, the council posted the image of a March 8, 2018, memo in which the Pentagon cautioned against using tanks, saying, “consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure.” mission board, and Andrew Pollack, the father of one of the victims of the Parkland school shooting who was named to the state Board of Education, don’t appear to have assumed their roles at all. Others appear to have served for some time after DeSantis rejected them but are no longer on the boards. Most, however, remain in their roles, including Tom Grady, a former Republican state representative from Naples and a Scott loyalist appointed by Scott to the State Board of Education and the Investment Advisory Council. Grady and a spokeswoman for the Department of Education did not return emails for comment. Most of the positions are unpaid, but the appointees are allowed to receive stipends for travel. The legal status of the appointees is murky. If DeSantis doesn’t appoint replacements for those he rescinded they would be able to get around the Senate confirmation process. Ferre says that isn’t his intent, but he doesn’t want to be stuck with Scott appointees and is vetting their replacements. State law states that if the Senate doesn’t confirm an appointee during the legislative session, they can continue in office for 45 days after the session, and the governor can reappoint them. But the law doesn’t specifically deal with cases where the public official has been rescinded. On the other hand, Senate rules indicate any appointee rescinded before they were confirmed by the Senate can stay in office only until the end of the next legislative session. If the appointees aren’t legally allowed to serve, it would put many of the boards in a bind – they would be unable to reach a quorum and conduct meetings. The Broward College Board of Trustees, for example, won’t be able to formally meet. Two board members, David Maymon and Matt Caldwell, president and CEO of the Florida Panthers, were retracted by DeSantis and haven’t been replaced. Another spot on the five-member board is vacant. Staff writer Kevin Spear contributed to this report. grohrer@orlandosentinel.com or 850-222-5564 ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11: Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. 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Wednesday, July 3, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 ORION PASSES KEY TEST Launch proves craft can save astronauts in case of mid-flight emergency By Chabeli Herrera CAPE CANAVERAL — They lined the pier hundreds deep, a mass of Orion engineers, NASA employees and their families at Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral, tensely waiting to watch the critical next test in a project many of them have invested the better part of the last decade on. The orange glow of the sun pouring over the horizon, they squinted into the distance at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch pad 46, where precisely at 7 a.m. Tuesday the spacecraft that will one day take astronauts back to the moon shot up, like a mullet leaping out of the water, into the sky. Its mission: To test abort systems, proving the craft can save its human inhabitants in the case of an emergency mid-flight, though there were no astronauts on board for this flight. Traveling at about 800 mph, the 93-foot stack consisting of a Northrop Grumman booster and Lockheed Martin-built crew module and launch abort system climbed to about 31,000 feet in 50 seconds. Just then, a roar crashed over the surf as the capsule initiated its abort. “That was it, that was it!” shouted Cindy Cross, an Orion system manager for active thermal control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, as the booster separated, leaving the crew module and abort system in free fall. From the pier, Stu McClung, an engineer on Orion out of Houston, too, watched the capsule begin to flip and position itself for descent. The motors ignited on the towershaped launch abort system, causing it to separate and leaving only the crew module to drop back to the water. “It looks like a good clean sep,” McClung said, referring to the split of the last two components — a critical part of the test’s success. By Chabeli Herrera JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL At the moment of the abort maneuver, the rescue tower for the Orion test capsule can be seen falling, with the Minotaur 4 booster, bottom, during the Ascent Abort-2 mission Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA launched the capsule to demonstrate the abort tower, designed to ferry astronauts to safety in the event of a launch failure. Orion will be NASA’s first vehicle since the space shuttle to carry astronauts, with plans for crewed missions to the moon and Mars. “Clean sep is what you really need.” Shortly after, the crew module — a test version of Orion — crashed into the water, making a big splash in the horizon. The capsule broke into pieces before sinking. “Ohhhh!” the crowd shouted. McClung took a breath. He’s Orion’s program planning and control chief of staff, and he’s been working on the spacecraft since 2007. “A test like this culminates a lot of effort,” he said. Up next, teams will analyze the data collected in 900 sensors on the vehicle and 12 data recorders deployed shortly before the capsule hit the Atlantic. So far, though, it appears everything went as planned. “We couldn’t ask for a better Please turn to TEST, A7 suits against it, while Republicans and bill supporters say fines and restitution was always considered part of a sentence. But Desmond Meade, executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, said at a news conference Tuesday his organization was steering clear of the controversy – as well as the three lawsuits filed by groups including Please turn to FIXING, A6 Auto industry icon Iacocca dies For a vast swath of the American public, Iacocca was the face, the voice and the symbol of the car industry. A5 It took more than 400,000 scientists, engineers and technicians across the United States, an army of workers that together tackled what seemed like an invincible foe: Getting a spacecraft to break free of the iron grasp of Earth’s atmosphere into lunar orbit and then, with pinpoint precision, onto that powdery surface we now know makes up the moon. The three men who took the journey became the faces of the achievement — arguably humanity’s greatest. But it was the men and women who worked in factories and offices across the nation over the better part of a decade — people like Frances “Poppy” Northcutt, the first woman in NASA’s Mission Control, and Bill Moon, a Chinese American flight controller who was the first minority to work in Mission Control — that took the moon landing from Please turn to SUCCESS, A7 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage – 30 days of stories leading up to the historic first steps on the moon. Read more stories and see more photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel. com/Apollo11. Former deputy accused of stabbing lawyer was cleared in ’88 slaying Coalition leader says focus is on registering ex-felons who are eligible, helping pay fines and fees for those who aren’t yet eligible A war of words has broken out over the Amendment 4 bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which requires former felons to pay off all fines and fees included as part of their sentence before their right to vote is restored. Democrats and other bill opponents have said the requirement is “poll tax” and have launched federal law- More than 400,000 contributed to success Some of the army of workers share their stories Fixing confusion over Amendment 4 By Steven Lemongello COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 By David Harris RICARDO RAMIREZ BUXEDA/ORLANDO SENTINEL Florida Rights Restoration Coalition members Jessica Younts, from left, FRRC director of operations, Desmond Meade, executive director FRRC, and Neil Volz, FRRC political director, discuss a vote-registration campaign on Tuesday. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Citizenship question out of census The Trump administration is dropping plans to add a controversial topic to the 2020 Census. A4 Gordon King currently sits in an Orange County jail cell, accused of stabbing his soon-to-be exwife’s attorney in May. 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Tuesday’s launch was more focused on testing the launch abort system itself. The parachutes on Orion have been tested 47 times, Reed said. In addition to the data from the craft, NASA was able to recover all 12 of the data recorders about an hour after launch, though they were equipped with a phone number and email address in case a beach-goer found them washed up on the shore later. Tuesday’s test was the last ma- jor public milestone for Orion before it completes some smallerscale testing in the coming year. “The next big check mark is the moon,” said Mark Kirasich, Orion’s program manager. Orion is part of the NASA’s planned Artemis program, which is expected to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024. The next time the full abort system will fly will be on Artemis 2, Orion’s first mission carrying a crew on a lunar flyby in 2023. Then, the system will be stacked atop the Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket in the world built by Boeing, instead. The launch abort system won’t be needed for Artemis 1 as the first test mission won’t carry astronauts. The 2024 lunar landing would be on Artemis 3. Orion already performed an- A7 other successful test of its abort systems from a launch pad — not in flight — in 2010. And in 2014, a test version of the craft was sent into Earth orbit to test its heat shields. But Tuesday’s test was the most challenging check of its crucial safety hardware. It put the abort system under the most intense stress it will feel, as the rocket and the crew module push through the crushing pressure of the atmosphere. Getting away, like it did Tuesday, and moving the crew safely away from the launch vehicle is in McClung’s words, like “you’re outrunning the exploding fireball.” Want more space news? Follow Go For Launch on Facebook. Contact the reporter at cherrera@orlando sentinel.com or 407-420-5660; Twitter @ChabeliH CHABELI HERRERA/ORLANDO SENTINEL NASA engineers watch from Jetty Park as the Orion astronaut capsule takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 46 at 7 a.m. Tuesday. SUCCESS Continued from Page A1 presidential challenge to tangible reality. At the end of the Apollo 11 mission, on July 23, 1969 — 50 years ago this summer — moonwalker Neil Armstrong concluded his final television broadcast before he, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were scheduled to return to Earth with a message to the thousands of people who had worked on the Apollo project. “We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft,” Armstrong said. “To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Goodnight from Apollo 11.” These days, the majority if not all of the workers who built one of the millions of pieces of equipment that flew to space have long retired. Many went on to have lengthy careers in aerospace working on the subsequent Space Shuttle program or the International Space Station. But they cut their teeth on Apollo. With the pressure of a deadline set for the end of the decade by President John Kennedy, America’s aerospace community set to the seemingly insurmountable task of developing a massive rocket and corresponding spacecraft that could safely carry humans away from our world to a new one. Much of it had never been done before. Armstrong recalls the pressure and workload of those days in his oral history for NASA. “When I was working here at the Johnson Space Center, then the Manned Spacecraft Center, you could stand across the street and you could not tell when quitting time was, because people didn’t leave at quitting time in those days,” he said. “People just worked, and they worked until whatever their job was done, and if they had to be there until five o’clock or seven o’clock or ninethirty or whatever it was, they were just there. They did it, and then they went home.” At the height of the Apollo program, NASA consumed more than 4% of the federal budget, opening the way for the kind of work and testing that had to be done to achieve the moon landing. It fostered major partnerships with prime contractors including Boeing, North American Aviation (later Rockwell Standard Corp.), McDonnell Douglas, the Grumman Corporation and Rocketdyne. And it attracted recent engineering graduates to tackle the world’s most complex problems. They were so young, in fact, that the average age of the engineers inside Mission Control when the Apollo11capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969 was 28. “This was a project in which everybody involved was, one, interested, two, dedicated, and, three, fascinated by the job they were doing,” Armstrong said in his oral history. “And whenever you have those ingredients, whether it be government or private industry or a retail store, you’re going to win.” Here are some of the people that led the U.S. to achieve that glory: Jerry Siemers: Building Apollo The morning of July 16, 1969, Jerry Siemers was alone in his apartment across from NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Clear Lake, about 20 miles southeast of Houston. On the grainy TV screen before him, the Saturn V rocket he had worked on was taking off from Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the moon. He was tense. He watched the rocket on pad 39A and started to shuffle in his mind through every piece he had worked on. Every piece he had signed off on. The faces of the men WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of Apollo 50, the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo50 COURTESY OF JERRY SIEMERS Jerry Siemers, center, an engineer who worked on multiple Apollo-era hardware, including the Saturn V rocket and lunar rover, receives a NASA Outstanding Leadership award. COURTESY OF BOB ZAGRODNIK Bob Zagrodnik worked with Raytheon for 50 years and under the Apollo program worked on the Apollo Guidance Computer that calculated position, velocity and trajectory for every Apollo mission. he knew would be lost if he had made any misstep. Then ignition, lift off — and euphoria. “There is goes,” he thought, joyfully, before his thoughts quickly turned to the next milestone. “Oh my God, we have to have stage separation, and those engines have to last so many minutes,” he thought. When the astronauts were on the moon: “Oh my gosh, I hope they don’t trip over something.” When they had to lift off the moon: “Oh my gosh, is that going to work? And the rendezvous in lunar orbit?” For someone who had worked on so many components of the mission, from the design of the 39A launch complex, to the rocket itself, to the lunar rover, to the Apollo spacecraft, watching the Apollo 11 mission was a equal parts ecstasy and existential dread. “You are all tensed up waiting for something and then it all works fine and that goes on for the whole mission,” Siemers, now 79, recalled. “It was really amazing [that it succeeded.] It’s such a relief when they splashed down.” Siemers’ work as a young mechanical engineer at Boeing spanned the Saturn V program in Huntsville, Alabama, beginning in 1964 to the Apollo (and later Apollo/Soyuz) program out of Houston through 1975. He was part of the first wave of Boeing engineers out of Huntsville to move into a converted office space at a Ramada Inn across the Manned Spacecraft Center working on systems engineering and design requirements. At the end of his career, after a stint working on programs outside of space for Boeing, Siemers worked on the International Space Station for the company, ultimately becoming Boeing’s chief ISS engineer. He retired in 2007. But his claim to fame, he argues, was something that happened on Apollo 12. Two weeks before that launch in November 1969, Siemers’ NASA branch chief approached him with a request to get an experiment on board, but the command module was sealed and ready to go, and nothing could be added last minute. “He said, ‘You don’t understand, it’s got to get on,’” Siemers said. But under NASA rules, for a piece to get on a craft it needed a corresponding detailed drawing that had to be approved and assigned a part number before it could fly. So the young engineer rushed over to NASA’s drawing center in Houston, sketched the small rectangular metal piece with all of its dimensions, got it approved for a part number and hand wrote the number on the experiment, “No. 501 dash something.” He convinced a NASA astronaut to fly it to the Cape on a T-38 Talon supersonic jet — just in time. “So my claim to fame is my handwriting went to the moon,” Siemers said. “Kind of fun.” Bob Zagrodnik: Building the Apollo Guidance Computer At a manufacturing facility in Waltham, Massachusetts, Bob Zagrodnik was only 25 years old when he started working on the computer that would one day pilot the Apollo command and lunar modules. The electrical engineer started out preparing the instructions to teach other engineers how the computer worked from an electrical design standpoint, before he got involved in testing the computer and doing work on prototype versions. The final version of the Apollo Guidance Computer weighed about 70 pounds and calculated position, velocity and trajectory for every Apollo mission. It was one of the first integrated circuit-based computers and a marvel at a time when technology was quickly evolving. So quickly, in fact, that “toward the end of the program, Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard came out with hand-held computers that were more powerful than the [Apollo] computer,” said Zagrodnik, now 80. But the computer and its development were instrumental in the safety and success of the lunar missions. It helped NASA circumvent the 1.5-second time delay in signal transmissions from Earth to the moon and back, allowing it to troubleshoot issues in real time, instead of relying on responses from the ground-based systems. The Apollo Guidance Computer’s development spanned about a decade of Zagrodnik’s career. He went on to work as the engineering manager and then the program manager on Apollo for Raytheon through the end of the Apollo program and retired after 50 years at Raytheon in 2013. “We tested all of the computers, every one that was built for flight,” Zagrodnik said. “We had a pretty tight schedule, and we had very stringent quality requirements to meet. We were working 24 ⁄7 throughout most of the program on the production floor, testing wise.” During his time working on Apollo, Zagrodnik made it out to the Cape for several launches, but the memory that still sticks in his mind isn’t Apollo 11 or even a launch itself. It was his trip to a restaurant before a launch with his family. It was then when, sitting by the entrance to the establishment, he cracked a joke about German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun. “Just as a I said that, there he was walking by the table,” Zagrodnik recalled, laughing. “I don’t know if he heard me or not — but I recognized him!” Frank DeMattia: Building the Saturn V Just two weeks after graduating with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Miami, Frank DeMattia found himself living on Cocoa Beach working on the Saturn V rocket. It was 1969 and that summer, NASA planned to put human footprints on the moon. Not yet quite 22, DeMattia was one of the youngest engineers working at Kennedy Space Center. His first job: working for Rockwell on the rocket’s instrumentation systems, measuring performance parameters on the second stage of the Saturn V. “You’re a young person, 21at the time, [and] historically you just don’t have the mature perspective of what this means to the history of the planet,” DeMattia said. “[But] everybody there was committed to making this thing work. It was a national effort. President Kennedy had said, ‘Go do this,’ and the nation took him seriously.” The pressure was intense, DeMattia said. There were seven-day work weeks. Some work shifts spanned 48 hours. And the engi- MOON MEMORIES: As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/moon memories neers were acutely aware that the lives of the astronauts they passed in the hallways and ran into at a night club or in a restaurant were in their hands. “You didn’t want anybody to get killed on one of these things,” he said. DeMattia At launch time, DeMattia also was responsible for monitoring some of the measurements coming into the launch control center — and calling an abort if something didn’t look right. Now 72, he still keenly remembers sitting and watching a piece of paper scrolling before him with a red line across the sheet, hoping the needle measuring the data wouldn’t pass the red line indicating something was wrong and the mission had to be called off. That’s where he was for the Apollo 11 launch, watching the red line measuring hydrogen and oxygen tank pressures on the rocket’s second stage. “As a young guy you didn’t want to do that, you get extremely nervous,” DeMattia said. “You have thousands of people waiting to launch this giant rocket, and you are watching this little needle. Thankfully I never had to call an abort.” About two years after arriving at KSC, DeMattia went on to work with the Apollo program on the communications radios that connected the spacecraft with the team back on Earth. He stayed at the Cape until 1974, when he moved to California to design the avionics for the Space Shuttle program. He would go on to hold numerous prominent positions at Rockwell and Boeing (the two merged in 1996), including as the senior program director and southern California site leader for the multi-billion-dollar Future Combat Systems program to modernize the Army’s vehicles. He retired in 2006 and has since worked as a space consultant. With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission near, DeMattia is still astounded by the will that propelled the nation to accomplish the feat, one that hasn’t been repeated since the final moon landing in 1972. “Looking back at it, we had extremely simple technology. The phone you carry around with you has hundreds of times more processing power than the machines we used to go to the moon with,” he said. “Yet with that simple technology and much lower levels of redundancy in the systems, we still managed to get there and get back, which is pretty astounding.” Want more space news? Follow Go For Launch on Facebook. Contact the reporter at cherrera@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5660; Twitter @ChabeliH COOKING AND EATING LOCAL & STATE Thompson: ’80s-era eatery serves classic Mediterranean/Middle East dishes with a side of chicken. D1 Escape rooms, museums, arcade bars are just some indoor activities during dog days of summer. B1 Ways to beat the heat Theo’s Kitchen delivers the Greek T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Thursday, July 4, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Happy Independence Day Plane douses airport with jet fuel Spill comes as Norwegian Airbus 340 makes emergency landing at Orlando International By Kevin Spear JUDY WATSON TRACY/COURTESY PHOTO Fuel gushes from the rear edge of a Norwegian Air flight on June 29 while making an emergency landing. A Norwegian Air plane that aborted an international flight spewed a substantial amount of fuel on a large area of Orlando International Airport during its emergency landing, which an aviation expert described as a rare and potentially dangerous occurrence. The incident happened late Saturday night, trig- gered initially by warnings of a failed hydraulic pump. Federal authorities have since begun an investigation while airport officials are assessing costs for cleaning up runway and taxiway surfaces. The Norwegian flight, using a 19-year-old leased aircraft, was well out across the Atlantic Ocean when it reversed course and returned to Florida. Passengers were on board for nearly five hours, or more than half the time they would otherwise have spent on a flight to London’s Gatwick airport. The returning flight was met by emergency vehicles, and passengers were held on the plane for an hour. Portions of the airport tarmac were closed temporarily so that crews could remove the spilled fuel. Judy Watson Tracy was on that flight and from a window on the plane’s right side photographed a fountain of jet fuel coming from the rear edge of the wing to the runway. Charles Westbrooks, aeronautical science professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a former airline pilot, said most pilots never experience having to dump fuel. Far more rare is spilling fuel Please turn to FUEL, A8 State staffers’ Israel hotel: $425 a night Taxpayer dollars went to lodging for some on trip By Ana Ceballos News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — When Florida Cabinet members went to Israel in late May, some state employees who traveled at taxpayer expense stayed in a more than $425-a-night luxury hotel in Jerusalem, where a Cabinet meeting was held. But more than a month after the trade mission ended, the full cost of the trip, proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is not clear. The governor’s office has not released expense records from the weeklong trip. And Enterprise Florida, an economic-development agency that receives state and private money and helped plan the trip, said on its website that “total mission expenses are compiled approximately Please turn to ISRAEL, A8 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL PATRIOTIC PARADE Fans wave American flags and dance amid smoke during a march before the Philadelphia Union-Orlando City MLS game at Exploria Stadium on Wednesday. See a list of fireworks and other celebrations on Local & State, B1. After daughter’s hit-and-run death, spirit of giving kept alive By Tess Sheets UCF senior London Harrell planned to graduate next year and hoped to work at a nonprofit, her mom says. But the 21-year-old’s future was cut short when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver while walking on a grassy shoulder in a neighborhood near campus. Now, her mother is hoping to keep her philanthropic spirit alive and praying for the family of the man charged in her death — “that something good will come out of their lives.” Yousuf Hasan, the 25-year-old driver accused of striking Harrell, was taken into custody Friday on upgraded charges of vehicular homicide, DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal crash. Upon leaving the jail Monday, Hasan told WFTV- ChanPlease turn to SPIRIT, A8 COURTESY OF JON GARDNER London Harrell Orange growers sour on Tang moon shot By Roger Simmons When Apollo11landed on the moon in 1969, so did Tang. Arguably, no other product was more closely associated with America’s space program than the orange-flavored breakfast drink mix. After first being taken into space by John Glenn in 1962, Tang saw its popularity soar like a Saturn V. In countless TV commercials and print advertisements in the 1960s and ’70s, Tang touted its ties to the space program — which were solely unofficial – while promoting that it had “more ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo11. vitamin C and A than Mother Nature puts in orange juice.” The space-themed ads were popular with moms and kids but irked Florida Please turn to TANG, A6 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Trump defends cost of ‘Salute’ President boasts that his Independence Day celebration will be ‘the show of a lifetime,’ defends cost concerns. A3 Survey: Biden leader among Dems Former vice president leads in the campaign to win the party’s nomination, despite attack from Harris. A3 Johnson, star of ‘Laugh-In,’ dies Comedian and actor Arte Johnson was well-known as Wolfgang, the heavily-accented German soldier. A4 BeachesOfOrlando.com JUST 90 MILES WEST OF ORLANDO. AMERICA’S BEST BEACHES ARE CALLING. ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A6 Orlando Sentinel Thursday, July 4, 2019 Self-evident truths still inspire Declaration a guide to all eras’ activists, from MLK to LGBTQ By Hillel Italie Associated Press NEW YORK — Shauna Marie O’Toole is a transgender activist who has organized and attended countless rallies and lobbied New York State lawmakers for legal protections. Convinced that “no amount of science” would win over opponents, she decided that an “emotional statement” was needed, one drawing upon words as rooted as any in American history. “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” O’Toole wrote, “that all people, regardless of race, gender, religion, immigration or economic status, sexual orientation or gender identity, are created equal, that they are endowed by their government with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” O’Toole, who lives in the Rochester area, received hundreds of responses after she posted her Declaration of Transgender Independence online, from expressions of support to suggestions that Thomas Jefferson would have thought she was crazy. But for O’Toole, the original Declaration of Independence is more than an old document for students to memorize. It’s a starting point for seekers of social justice. “I think for many activists like myself, it symbolizes what we are willing to do to secure Liberty for ourselves and our posterity,” she said in an email. Historians debate what the slave-holding Jefferson and his fellow drafters meant by writing “all men are created equal,” but the Declaration has inspired those not mentioned or even imagined in the text. For more than two centuries, it has informed some of the country’s defining rhetoric, from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, while serv- SHAUNA MARIE O’TOOLE Trans activist Shauna Marie O’Toole’s Declaration of Transgender Independence drew upon Thomas Jefferson’s words. ing as a template for feminists and labor unions, LGBTQ rights and civil rights. When Americans seek to appeal to the country’s presumed ideals, its fundamental promises, they often turn to the Declaration. “When Jefferson made his famous statement about equality, he did not really mean that we were created equal individually; the real point was that Americans, collectively, as a people, had the same right to selfgovernment as all other peoples,” says Jack Rakove, whose books include “Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America” and “Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. “But over time ... the equality statement acquired the aspirational purpose it has held ever since: that each of us is equal in legal status or moral weight or civic ability to everyone else,” Rakove says. Danielle Allen, author of “Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality,” says that soon after 1776, abolitionists were mentioning the Declaration in their fight against slavery. But its canonization was gradual. Allen and Christopher Warren, a curator of American history at the Library of Congress, both cite the War of 1812 as heightening national pride and anxiety and reviving emotions about the country’s past. The Declaration took greater hold in the 1820s as Jefferson, John Adams and other founders died. Through much of the 19th century, “declarations” were issued. The Working Men’s Declaration of Independence, issued in 1829, begins, “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one class of a community to assert their natural and unalienable rights in opposition to other classes of their fellow men. ...” The Socialist Labor Party stated in 1895, “When, in the course of human progression, the despoiled class of wealth producers becomes fully conscious of its rights and determined to take them, a decent respect to the judgment of posterity requires that it should de- clare the causes which impel it to change the social order.” Before and during the Civil War, North and South invoked the Declaration, but for different reasons. Historian Ted Widmer, currently working on a book about Lincoln, notes that Lincoln often mentioned the Declaration in speeches even before he was president. When he journeyed from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington for his 1861 inauguration, Lincoln made a point of stopping at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where he told those gathered that he “never had a feeling politically that did not spring” from the Declaration of Independence. “The Declaration is the cudgel he uses to beat his political opponents,” Widmer says. “We can be the kind of country that builds upon the Declaration of Independence and grants equality and rights or we can be a slave society.” Meanwhile, the Confederates cited the Declaration in asserting their right to secede, but scorned the language of equality. Georgia’s leaders borrowed from the Declaration in announcing that they had “dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America.” In 1861, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens gave what was called the “Cornerstone” speech, insisting his new government’s “cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.” Abolitionists and civil rights speakers again and again drew upon the Declaration. “Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?” Frederick Douglass asked in his famous 1852 address “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” In his “I Have a Dream” speech, King insisted the document meant “all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his recent Congressional testimony on whether the country should offer reparations for slavery and racial discrimination, cited the Declaration of Independence as a reminder of a path untaken. “Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could’ve extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color,” Coates said. “But America had other principles in mind.” TANG Continued from Page A1 orange growers worried about losing juice sales to Tang. Over the years, the Florida Citrus Commission would file numerous complaints with the Federal Trade Commission about its “synthetic” drink competitor. Florida Gov. Claude Kirk became so angry with Tang ads hurting OJ sales that he told state agencies in 1971 to ban any purchases from Tang owner General Foods. “Why doesn’t Tang attack milk?” Kirk grumbled. Tang and Florida citrus did have one thing in common: They were both around before the start of America’s manned space program. Tang was first introduced in 1958, the creation of William A. Mitchell. According to his 2004 obituary by the Associated Press, Mitchell “worked as a chemist for General Foods Corp. in White Plains, N.Y., for 35 years until his retirement in 1976, held over 70 patents including inventions related to Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O gelatin and the drink mix Tang.” Mitchell, who died at age 92 in Stockton, Calif., also invented Pop Rocks. Tang’s sales were stuck on the launch pad for its first few years. Then Glenn became the first American in orbit – and the first to need a refreshment in space – and the public became fascinated with Tang. As Discover magazine reported in 2017, “Sales remained poor until 1962 when the world watched John Glenn drink ‘orange drink’ out of a pouch. … NASA saw this ready-todrink travel beverage and realized that’s how it ought to be packaging drinks for astronauts so it bought something conveniently commercially available. Suddenly Tang was the space-age treat moms could WALT DISNEY TELEVISION ARCHIVES Frank Reynolds and Jules Berman lead ABC News’ Apollo coverage. On Apollo 11 and other moon missions, the Tang logo was on the ABC anchor desk as a sponsor of the coverage. ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11: Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order yours at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50 ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we'll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/ moonmemories bring home for their kids, and sales skyrocketed.” NASA allowed Tang to promote its space connection in advertisements, but it did have limits. “We did stop one radio commercial,” a NASA spokesman told the Orlando Sentinel in 1966. “It involved broadcasting a Gemini-Titan countdown which was halted, moments before liftoff. The commercial said the ‘hold’ was because someone forgot to load Tang aboard the spacecraft.” Why was NASA using Tang anyway? It was the best solution to a tough space-food problem. In that 1966 Sentinel story, a NASA spokesman explained that all foods approved for space flight had to be able “to withstand 130-degree temperatures for four hours and 100 degrees for two weeks.” Not to mention they couldn’t have crumbs or other items that could float in zero gravity. The powered Tang stayed in a pouch that was injected with water by astronauts, then mixed and sipped through a special straw. It met NASA’s requirements and worked. What didn’t work in space was Florida orange juice. NASA found that out the hard way in March 1965 on Gemini III with astronauts Gus Grissom and, ironically, Orlando’s John Young. “We tried OJ, grapefruit and grape crystals,” Dr. Paul LaChance of NASA’s Crew Systems and Space Medicine Branch told the Sentinel in ’66. “But when astronauts in Gemini III added water to make is soluble, it turned into candy and they had to chew it.” Tang remained on the space menu for astronauts for years to come, but was it never labeled as such. “We never put on the package ‘Tang.’ What’s on the package may say ‘orange drink’ or ‘peach mango drink,’ but it won’t say ‘Tang,’ ” Dr. Michele Perchonok, NASA’s manager of the Space Food Systems Laboratory, told Space.com in 2006 story. Which may be why Neil Armstrong reportedly claimed to businessman and venture capitalist Steve Juvetson that Tang was a farce and “we did not use it on the Apollo missions.” But NASA records for Apollo 11 show Armstrong’s food menu included “Orange Drink,” “Grape Drink,” SOURCE: PINTEREST An ad for Tang, touting its ties to the space program. “Grapefruit Drink” and variations with pineapple. And when Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were walking on the moon, ABC News’ Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman were sitting behind an anchor desk emblazoned with the logo for Tang, which sponsored the network’s moon-landing coverage. There was no escaping the popular drink. Nearly 50 years later, Tang’s sales in the U.S. have dropped. Overseas, however, the drink mix has taken off. Mondelez International, the company spun off from Kraft Foods and now owns Tang, said the drink mix is sold in 85 countries, with Brazil, Argentina, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Mexico being its biggest markets. Flavors now include Tamarind, Lemon Pepper, Honey Lemon, Mango, Pineapple and Peach, to name a few. “Orange flavor tops the sales charts worldwide, but local flavors make up 25 percent of Tang sales in emerging markets,” Mondelez touts on its Tang fact sheet. As for good, old Florida orange juice – it finally made it to the moon, too. After its first mission was aborted on Apollo 13, citrus growers were happy to say “the OJ has landed” with Apollo 14. “On the last two moon flights, natural orange juice crystals developed at the Winter Haven U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory have been aboard,” the Sentinel reported in 1971. “Astronauts told Dr. Robert Berry, USDA scientist, they prefer the orange juice crystals.” And Florida orange growers finally had a reason to look into space and smile instead of scowl. rsimmons@orlandosentinel.com SPORTS CALENDAR Gibbs racer hopes to turn around season at Coke Zero Sugar 400. C1 Thompson: Here’s where to stab, slurp and snarf xiao long bao. D1 Jones seeks a NASCAR repeat Soup dumplings finally hit city T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Friday, July 5, 2019 FINAL EDITION Woman’s account disputed by some Co-worker says suspect dismissed question about where child was $2.50 INDEPENDENCE DAY SALUTE TO AMERICA President delivers patriotic message By David Harris Just after 10 a.m. on Sept. 28, a school administrator said she asked Mariah Butler why her boyfriend’s 4-year-old son wasn’t in his class at Elite Preparatory Academy. The school administrator said Butler, who was working in the office of the private Orlando school, told her Logan Starling was “around here somewhere.” But Logan was actually in the back of a hot SUV in the parking lot. It wasn’t until more than four hours later, when another school employee asked about Logan, that Butler ran out and found him unconscious in the vehicle estimated to be 128 degrees inside. He was Please turn to BUTLER, A8 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Moon is a graveyard of Apollo garbage 400,000 pounds of trash is estimated to be left after six landings By Chabeli Herrera T he mission on the moon then over, astronaut Buzz Aldrin peeked out from the Apollo lunar module onto the powdery grey surface before him, the U.S. flag planted into it — just about the only color as far as the eye could see. But as the ascent engines on the spacecraft came to life, carrying him and Neil Armstrong up, up, up, Aldrin caught a glimpse of something. Did the exhaust blow the $5.50 flag from its lunar foothold? Maybe. Probably. Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera more than 40 years later proved Please turn to APOLLO 11, A10 MANDEL NGAN/GETTY-AFP President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at the “Salute to America” celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday. Trump extols military might in Fourth of July speech as jets fly over capital By Toluse Olorunnipa The Washington Post WASHINGTON — It was a setting tailormade for President Donald Trump to launch into a partisan address, with a VIP crowd in front of him that included Republican donors and a display of military armor and aircraft he had personally ordered for a “Salute to America” on the National Mall. But during the Fourth of July extravaganza, the president diverged from his typical self-aggrandizing speaking style and instead turned his praise toward the military and ordinary Americans who have contributed to the country’s advancement. “As we gather this evening in the joy of freedom, we remember that all share a truly extraordinary heritage,” Trump said from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where rain had drenched and scattered some of those gathered. “Together, we are part of one of the greatest stories ever told — the story of America. It is the epic tale of a great nation whose people have risked everything for Please turn to ‘SALUTE’, A4 Fix to Wekiwa Springs traffic jams due this winter By Stephen Hudak State lawmakers earmarked $1 million in this year’s budget to deal with vexing summer traffic jams outside Wekiwa Springs State Park, but the fix won’t come until winter. Known for clear, cool water that stays a refreshing 74 degrees year-round, Wekiwa Springs is among the most popular places in Central Florida to beat the heat. The park lures capacity crowds on weekends and holidays, jamming Wekiwa Springs Road with carloads of sweaty visitors and forcing the park’s closure. The traffic tangle, which occurs every summer weekend, infuriates visitors and neighboring residents alike. Tie-ups on the two-lane road pose problems for neighborhoods in Orange and Seminole county that border the 9,509-acre conservation area. “It really has been a challenge for residents, and it’s unsafe the way guests just sit there, waiting to get in,” said Orange County Commissioner Christine Moore, who lobbied Legislators for money to pay to improve the entrance and lengthen a turn lane into the Please turn to TRAFFIC, A11 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD President still pushing for question Trump says officials were working on Independence Day to find way census could ask about citizenship. A3 Super tanker detained in Gibraltar Strongest earthquake in 20 years Believed to be breaching EU sanctions by carrying a shipment of Iranian crude oil to war-ravaged Syria. A3 Swaths of Southern California and parts of Nevada rattled by the shock, with injuries and damage reported. A4 SHOP NOW at tribpub.com/10things or call (866) 545-3534 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A10 Orlando Sentinel Friday, July 5, 2019 R APOLLO 11 Happens Continued from Page A1 Aldrin right. Unlike the other Apollo sites, there is no longer an American flag still standing at the place where humankind first made contact with the lunar surface now 50 years ago on July 20. When people do return to our celestial partner, they likely won’t find standing the most famous item that was left behind — a symbol of the nation’s sacrifice and accomplishment. But they’ll find other things: lunar landers and moon cars, camera gear and backpacks, a photo, maybe a few faded flags, some golf balls if they’re lucky. They’ll find some more recent occupants too, including an Israeli lander called Beresheet that crashed onto the surface in April. But the Apollo missions were responsible for leaving the largest chunk of the estimated 400,000 pounds of detritus left behind on the moon, a graveyard of spacecraft parts and symbolic items that was never supposed to be left undisturbed for so long. If current schedules hold, astronauts may stumble upon the remains as soon as 2024. Here is what they may find: 96 bags of poop — and other waste When it came to defecating on or en route to the moon, astronauts had to rely on a pretty simple process: a bag taped to their bottoms. If all went well — that is, if the feces all ended up in the bag and not floating in the Apollo craft as sometimes happened — the waste would then be left on the moon as one of the many things discarded on the lunar surface to reduce the weight inside the spacecraft when it headed back to Earth. The six Apollo missions that landed on the moon produced 96 bags of waste. According to the NASA History Office, white jettison bags, or trash bags, are definitely still on the moon, some containing astronaut poop. Aldrin tweeted about it in April, saying, “Well, I sure feel bad for whoever finds my bag.” The astronaut, apart from being the second man who set foot on the moon, also holds another title: He was the first to urinate there. According to space historian Teasel Muir-Harmony’s book, “Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects,” Aldrin’s urine collection device bag broke on a leap onto the lunar surface, leaking into his left boot. So one could say his steps on the moon — or those, at least — were slushier than expected. “Everyone has their first on the moon,” he said. The urine collection devices were also tossed overboard as the astronauts bade farewell to the moon. What’s left of the American flags Five decades of exposure to ultraviolet radiation and 500-degree temperature swings probably hasn’t been quite the nurturing environment needed to keep the five flags that remain on the moon in tiptop shape. Apart from the Apollo 11 flag, which is believed to have been lost, the others were planted during Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. According to images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter during different times of day, shadows in the areas where the flags were planted indicate they’re still standing. Still, they’re not likely to look like the well-known images of crisp red, white and blue flags stark against the bottomless black of space. “You know how [if ] you leave a flag out over summer, how it starts to fade,” Arizona State University scientist Mark Robinson, the principal investigator of LRO’s camera, told Space .com in 2011. “Now, imagine the extreme UV environment on the moon, and the hot and cold cycling … they’re probably in pretty rough shape.” A falcon feather In the final minutes of the Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott 24/7 EMERGENCY SERVICE NASA/COURTESY PHOTOS A jettison bag on the lunar surface during Apollo 11. 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More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo11. performed a small science experiment for the live television viewers back on his home planet. He dropped a 0.06pound falcon feather and a nearly 3-pound aluminum hammer from the same height at the same time. In the vacuum of space, they both hit the lunar surface simultaneously, confirming astronomer Galileo Galilei’s theory that mass, or the weight of an object, doesn’t have any effect on gravitational pull. The objects should fall at the same rate. Because of the atmosphere on Earth, it doesn’t quite work that way — but it does on the moon. “How about that,” Scott said when they hit the ground. “Mr. Galileo was correct in his findings.” The feather and hammer, it seems, are still there. An astronaut family photo Charles Duke was only 36 years old when he stepped on the moon during Apollo 16, the youngest man to do so. He was married to Dorothy Meade Claiborne and had two sons, Charles Duke III, who was 7 at the time, and Thomas Duke, 5, but was spending long periods of time away from his family in Houston while training in Florida. “So just to get the kids excited about what dad was going to do, I said ‘Would y’all like to go to the moon with me?’” Duke told Business Insider in 2015. “We can take a picture of the family and so the whole family can go to the moon.” A friend from NASA, Ludy Benjamin, took a photo of the Dukes in their backyard and on the back the astronaut wrote: “This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth. Landed on the moon, April 1972.” The kids signed it, too. Duke shrink-wrapped the photo and fulfilled the promise. “So I left that on the moon and took a picture of the picture,” he told NASA in his 1999 oral history, “and that’s one of our neatest possessions now.” Cosmic golf balls Armstrong had the first step. Aldrin had the first tinkle. Alan Shepard had the first swing. The astronaut and avid golfer told NASA in his 1998 oral history that he was intrigued by the idea that a ball hit by the same club head could travel “six times as far” in the airless environment on the moon. “I thought, ‘What a neat place to whack a golf ball!’” he said. But to persuade NASA to let him do it, Shepard modified the handle used to scoop lunar samples and affixed an adapted club head to it. He took two golf balls with him, all of which he paid for. “The two golf balls and the club at no expense to the taxpayer,” Shepard said. He promised his boss, Bob Gilruth, the director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, that he would wait to take the golf swing at the end of the Apollo 14 mission and proceed only if everything else had gone well. So on Feb. 6, 1971, Shepard teed up his golf balls. Because of the bulkiness of his suit, he could grab the club only with his right hand. He shot. The first ball fell into a crater nearby, but the second attempt was more successful. “Miles and miles and miles!” Shepard called out as it soared away. The two are still there. For years later, Shepard refused to say what brand the balls were, lest some company would try to profit from the information. “There has been absolutely no commercialism. One company tried to say it was their golf ball, and we cut them off very quickly,” Shepard told NASA. The astronaut sued a ball manufacturer who claimed to have made the moon balls. “I’ve never told anybody,” he is quoted as saying in his biography, “Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard.” “I’ve never told my wife.” But, as the biography’s author, Neal Thompson, revealed: The balls were in fact made by Spalding. QUALITY CARE FOR YOUR LOVED ONE PEACE OF MIND FOR YOU Senior Helpers stands ready to serve your family’s needs with personalized, in-home care and expertly-trained, professional caregivers. 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Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo50 ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of its 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com /moonmemories RELIVE HISTORY Relive the excitement of the first Apollo 11 lunar landing with this exclusive, limited edi!on print of the July 21, 1969 Orlando Sen!nel Se front page. SHOP NOW at orlandosen!nel.com/apollomint or call (866) 545-3534 *Offer valid with code through 7/7/19 LOCAL & STATE Coming Sunday SPORTS Looking to fight rapid growth? Daytona ready for final July run Ritchie: Better have deep pockets. Deck stacked against challenges. B1 NASCAR’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 will move to late August in 2020. C1 When the Kolakowskis lost their premature baby, they decided to create a journal for parents who have a baby in the NICU. Several reasons lead to infant mortality, and no one effort can address the problem, but improving access to prenatal care, better nutrition and education have shown promise. T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Saturday, July 6, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Subpar students still admitted Despite competition, data shows 3% of fall freshmen were ‘alternative admits’ By Annie Martin Even as admissions to Florida public universities have become increasingly competitive, those institutions are still accepting students who don’t meet the state’s basic admission requirements. Nearly 1,000 students who lacked the grades or test scores to get into the state’s four-year universities were admitted and enrolled in the fall 2018 freshman class, data obtained through a records request shows. These socalled “alternative admits” repre- sent about 3% of the 30,670 freshmen who entered the state’s universities last August. The data doesn’t specify why students who lacked admission requirements were admitted but university officials say they consider the entire application, which can include essays, when making decisions. They also say accepting applicants who fall short of the state requirements makes freshman classes more diverse and allows more students who are the first in their families to attend college. He’s a dead ringer for Rod Serling “At the end of the day what we’re trying to do is pick students who we think are going to be able to be successful and that covers a wide range of backgrounds and student abilities,” said Marc Laviolette, the former director of admissions at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. Students who leave high school with the best grade-point averages and test scores, he added, aren’t always stars in college. Most of the 980 students who didn’t meet the state’s criteria were accepted to three of the state’s least competitive institutions: Florida A&M University, Please turn to ADMIT, A4 JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL FILE Prospective students walk past the welcome center at UCF. UCF finds processed foods and autism link COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Disney World’s voice of the Tower of Terror Rresearchers say high levels of preservative PPA can reduce fetal neuron development By Gabrielle Russon The urge sometimes strikes Mark Silverman when he rides in an elevator. He starts his famous monologue, unbothered that he’s standing in a Target elevator in Los Angeles — not the plummeting Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World. “You are the passengers on a most uncommon elevator,” the voice actor says in his deadpan impression of Rod Serling, getting a round of applause from strangers for his impromptu performance. Twenty-five Silverman years ago this month, the attraction opened at the Orlando theme park with Silverman’s voice narrating the 100-foot drop through the haunted hotel. Time hasn’t faded the joy of being immortalized in a Disney ride. “I can’t tell you what it means to me,” said Silverman, now 55, living in Los Angeles, during a recent Please turn to VOICE, A8 ■ THEME PARK RANGER: Mark Silverman, a voice actor from California, provides the narration you hear on the iconic Tower of Terror ride at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. On the “Theme Park Rangers” podcast, he chats about how he recreated “Twilight Zone” host Rod Serling’s voice, and what it means to be part of a Disney ride. apple.co/2Q7og2N By Naseem S. Miller ORLANDO SENTINEL Orlando’s Jeff Martin, Lewis Seifert, Jim Parker and Richard Fall built an Apollo 11 replica in 1969. ROCKET BOYS One small step for man, one giant leap for the crew of Apollo 11 1⁄2 By David Whitley T here was a disturbing headline in the Orlando Sentinel on July19,1969. A space capsule carrying three brave Americans had encountered “Meteor Trouble.” Thankfully, Mission Control was able to address the problem. “We’ve added one big German shepherd dog to our crew,” Richard Fall told the press, “and we don’t look for any more meteors.” If you don’t recall a dog being aboard Apollo 11, don’t feel ignorant of NASA trivia. The canine actually rescued Apollo 11½. It was a fake lunar landing, though not the kind conspiracy theorists have been peddling for 50 years. Jeff Martin, Lewis Seifert, Jim Parker and Fall openly admit their journey was make believe. The Orlando boys built an Apollo 11 replica and went for a 10-day ride that propelled lifetimes of Please turn to APOLLO 11, A8 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. A preservative in processed foods can hold one of the clues to the rising rates of autism in the United States, according to a laboratory-based study by UCF researchers. Scientists exposed human neural stem cells to high levels of the food preservative Propionic Acid or PPA and found that it reduced the development of neurons. The preservative is found in packaged and processed foods, such as baked goods and cheese. The findings could mean that consuming too many foods that contain PPA during pregnancy can affect the development of the brain of the fetus and increase the risk of autism, researchers said. The study doesn’t draw a causeand-effect conclusion about PPA and autism. And because it was done in the lab, it’s too soon to tell what the findings mean for humans. But researchers say it’s another reminder about the importance of eating home-made, healthy foods during pregnancy. “The ultimate goal of this study is really to prevent autism from happening,” said Dr. Saleh Naser, lead researcher and professor of medicine at the UCF College of Medicine. “What we are saying is that pregnant women should be careful about what they eat. They should read the labels and if it has Please turn to AUTISM, A8 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Trump digs in on census question Says he is “very seriously” considering an executive order to force inclusion of a citizenship question in 2020. 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NATO has expressed worry that the S-400 is incompatible with its possession of the U.S.-made F-35s, and would give Russia access to secrets of its stealth technology. For more than a year, the United States has urged Erdogan not to procure the sophisticated Russian airdefense system — a move that would bring mandatory U.S. sanctions against Turkey under a 2017 law on cooperation with “adversaries.” The U.S. measures, if carried out, would cause an extraordinary breach in U.S.-Turkey relations and almost certainly complicate ongoing negotiations be- tween the two countries over other issues, including military strategy in Syria. But while U.S. officials have portrayed the sanctions against Turkey as a matter of certainty, Trump refrained from taking a hard line last month at the Group of 20 summit in Japan. Trump, speaking to reporters at the summit, said Erdogan had first sought to buy Patriot missiles but had been “treated very unfairly” by the Obama administration, without giving specifics. But the United States had attempted to strike a deal with Ankara over the Patriot systems. Erdogan insisted that any deal include sharing technology so that Turkey can develop and build its own missiles. The Obama administration declined the offer. At the G-20 summit, Trump did not directly answer questions about whether the United States would impose sanctions on Turkey. Erdogan, however, said after his talks with Trump APOLLO 11 sion of Adventist Health System. He said Parker became an Air Force pilot and Fall became a computer engineer. Apollo 11 certainly defined the lives of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. What did the Apollo11½ experience do for its crew? “If nothing else,” Seifert said, “it challenged us to go a little bit harder and go strongly for our goals.” After overcoming a meteor shower on the way to the moon, the boys knew they could handle just about anything Earth threw at them. Continued from Page A1 achievements. As the city nervously looked on, the “Apollonauts” simulated the exact procedures taken by the NASA crew. Well, not every procedure. A palmetto bug did not fly into a toaster as Buzz Aldrin prepared a Pop Tart on the real lunar module. And neighborhood kids didn’t grab oranges from a nearby grove and throw them at the spaceship. “Those were our meteors,” Martin recalled. Today he’s Dr. Martin, a physician in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the summer of ’69, he was a wannabe space man like countless other kids. Astronauts were especially revered in Central Florida, where kids could watch Saturn V rockets light up the sky and feel the power under their feet. “That thing shook the earth,” Seifert said. He and the rest of the crew attended Union Park Junior High and got hyped about Apollo 11 long before it rumbled to the moon. “Why don’t you guys think of something you can do together?” a teacher suggested. What they did was spend the next three months turning Seifert’s house into Cape Kennedy. “I had a side yard where we could build a shack that became a space capsule,” Seifert said. The shack was about 10 feet wide and two stories high. It cost a good bit less than the $24 billion NASA spent on the Apollo program. The bottom story, a.k.a. the Command Module Columbia, was six feet high. A ladder led to the four-foot high Lunar Module Eagle. The boys built a short crawlway to a pup tent that would serve as the surface of the moon. VOICE Continued from Page A1 phone interview. He’s made a career with his voice, reviving Serling again on Jordan Peele’s rebooted “Twilight Zone” series this year. Silverman grew up 15 minutes from Disneyland, a place that fascinated him with all the distinct voices. The ghostly whispered threats from the Haunted Mansion. The buccaneers on the Pirates of Caribbean. He had been the kid in school who mimicked his teachers, to the delight of his classmates. Here were new targets to impersonate. Young Silverman recorded the animatronics on the rides with a tape recorder and practiced repeating them over and over. He eventually knew them all by heart. “I was completely obsessed with Disneyland,” said Silverman, who dreamed of being a Disney animator. With his eventual deep voice that he inherited from his father, a Hollywood movie producer, Silverman seemed destined for a career as a voice actor. Meanwhile 2,500 miles away in Florida, Disney prepared for its biggest thrill ride. The roughly 100-foot drop on Tower of Terror would be twice as long as the plunge in Splash Mountain. At the time, the new ride would also be Disney’s fastest and steepest. “After all, you can’t get much steeper than vertical,” the Orlando Sentinel wrote at the time. The ride was the brain child of about 200 Imagineers who spent five years developing the attraction, an estimated $150 million compilation of 150,000 cubic feet of concrete, 1,500 tons of steel and a 14-month construction timeline. Now, all Disney needed was the perfect voice to narrate the “Twilight Zone” storyline. Rod Serling, the original “Twilight Zone” host, was unavailable. He had been dead since 1975. So Silverman, then 29, began trying out for the role in 1993. He practiced at least four hours a day, mimicking Serling on old television episodes while he read from his book of “Twilight Zone” monologues that he that Turkey would be spared the U.S. sanctions. Erdogan has portrayed the purchase as Turkey’s sovereign right and said that the United States failed to offer a comparable deal for the Patriot missile system. Asked by a reporter during a telephone briefing if Russia would deliver the system on Sunday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “I can confirm on behalf of the Kremlin that the S-400 deal is going according to plan.” dwhitley@orlandosentinel.com ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of its 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com /moonmemories. ORLANDO SENTINEL FILE For the mock Apollo 11, building the control panel was the most difficult task. Stocking the tent with sand and “moon rocks” was a snap compared to constructing the instrument panel in the command module. A TV was built in and gauges were authentically labeled and wired to blink on and off. Mission Control was the Seifert’s laundry room, where Fall would talk to the Columbia via a hardwired intercom system. Throw in a fan and a small attached outhouse, and you had Apollo 11½. It launched July 17, a day after Apollo 11 blasted off. The delay was intentional since it allowed the boys to better mimic everything that happened. They adhered to an Apollo 11 operations manual that was about 200 pages long. They also schedbought to prepare. The competition whittled away and after a series of auditions, Silverman landed the role. Winning the job, he felt like a kid who had grown up playing stickball in the neighborhood being drafted by the New York Yankees, he said. Silverman recorded the dialogue in about two hours at a large soundstage in Walt Disney Imagineering headquarters in Glendale, Calif. The first time, he heard himself complete with the music and the full effects was on opening day of the ride — July 22, 1994. The crowds lined up, some waiting three hours in the hot sun, to experience it. Vikki Tupay was one of those first riders in 1994, and it “almost instantly” became one of her favorite rides at Walt Disney World. Silverman’s voice sounded authentic and played into the ride’s charm, she said. “You hear his voice and it brings you back to old ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes,” said Tupay, a regular parks-goer to this day who works as corporate travel agent and lives in Kissimmee. These days, the landscape is changing where for a quarter of a century, the 199-feet-tall Tower of Terror has loomed as the imposing icon of Hollywood Studios. The buzz is on the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge under construc- GABRIELLE RUSSON/ORLANDO SENTINEL In the pre-show, “Rod Serling,” which is voiced by Mark Silverman, welcomes visitors before they embark on the ride — and a 100-foot plunge. uled a one-day timeout on July 20 to watch the actual lunar landing. Was it a long 10 days? “To me, it seemed like it went by in 10 minutes,” Martin said. He was Neil Armstrong, though he can’t recall how the roles were divvied out. Martin does recall the thunderstorm that forced Mission Control to cut off the electricity one afternoon. And drinking a lot of Tang and eating a lot of SpaghettiOs and Pop Tarts. And hearing a snap, crackle, pop one day when the palmetto bug met the toaster. “That doesn’t sound like a Pop Tart,” Martin said. The real astronauts had bigger things to worry about, though at least they didn’t have to deal with the Florida heat. “It got a little toasty in there,” tion. Good luck trying to get a FastPass for the popular Slinky Dog roller coaster in the new Toy Story Land. The colorful gondolas whiz through the skies, another cheerful distraction for visitors. But Tower of Terror remains a fan favorite. Noontime on a recent Friday, the posted wait time exceeded two hours. A grown man bashfully admitted to another grown man he had been scared of Tower of Terror in the gift shop after the ride. Silverman figures he has returned to Walt Disney World about 15 times over the years since 1994. The next trip will be Oct. 4 for a special event to ride with Tower of Terror fans. About five years ago, the ride malfunctioned and the sound stopped working on the Tower of Terror while Silverman was on it. He happily obliged, delivering the script for the other passengers. “People didn’t know to react,” he laughed. “I felt like it was my duty to do that.” The ride is particularly special when the elevator is empty, and it’s just him and his voice. “Hearing my voice boom back, it’s like some weird Disney dream,” Silverman said. grusson@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5470; Twitter, @GabrielleRusson COURTESY Mark Silverman poses at the Tower of Terror where his voice has served as the narrator for the past 25 years at Orlando’s Hollywood Studios. said Seifert, aka Michael Collins. He was alone in Columbia for two days as Martin and Parker hunkered in the Eagle. Then Martin left the first tennis shoe print on the lunar surface. It was one small step for man, one giant leap for four ambitious kids from Union Park Junior High. A few hours later, they departed from their miniature Sea of Tranquility and docked with the Columbia. Then it was just a matter of avoiding any more meteor attacks and making it back to Earth. “Boys Home After a 10-day ‘Moon Trip,’” the Sentinel reported on July 27. Martin moved to South Florida a few months after the moon shot. Seifert went to UCF and became Chief Financial Officer for a divi- ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo50. UCF COLLEGE OF MEDICINE/COURTESY Dr. Saleh Naser, lead researcher of the laboratory-based study and professor at UCF’s College of Medicine, with Dr. Latifa Abdelli. AUTISM Continued from Page A1 stuff like PPA, they should avoid that.” Nearly one in 59 children in the United States is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to the latest report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two decades earlier, the odds of diagnosis were one in 150. It’s still not clear what causes autism. It’s thought that the disorder results from culmination of several factors, including genetic predisposition, maternal immune system abnormalities in early pregnancy and environmental triggers. “There’s a strong link that the environment can have an influence on autism, because one of the things we know is that the rate of autism has increased greatly in the past decades, and it’s not explained by genetic factors,” said Dr. Cheryl Rosenfeld, a professor at University of Missouri at the Bond Life Science Center, who was not involved in Naser’s study. “We’ve changed how we store our food and we eat much more processed food. Let’s go back to the way we had home-cooked meals” and use glass containers instead of plastic, she said. Naser and his team decided to focus on PPA to fill in the gaps left by previous studies. One study has shown that rats exposed to PPA at different developmental stages show autistic-like behavior. Other studies have suggested that the type of neural cells in autistic brains are different from normal brains. But it hasn’t be clear how, when and why the neural changes occur. UCF researchers say they’re the first to discover the molecular effect of elevated levels of PPA on neural stem cells and the potential link to autism. The 18-month study, funded by UCF, was published in the Scientific Reports, a Nature journal. Naser’s research showed that when human neural stem cells were exposed to excessive levels of PPA, they shifted to overproduction of glial cells and a reduction of the number of neurons. Glial cells don’t participate in electrical signaling in the brain. Their role is supportive. But too many glial cells can disrupt the connectivity between neurons. They can also cause inflammation in the brain. Moreoever, when researchers looked at the neurons, they found that most of them were unhealthy. Reduced neurons and damaged pathways can hamper the brain’s ability communicate and result in repetitive behavior, mobility issues and the inability to interact with others, which are some of the hallmarks of autism, researchers said. “The study warrants follow-ups but in and of itself, to me, it’s just a tiny piece of a potential puzzle,” said Rosenfeld of the University of Missouri. “It’s not something that readers should be alarmed on.” She also said it’s not clear whether real-life doses of PPA can be as high as what was used in the lab. Naser and his team are planning to next run the experiment in mice. “My message has been firm to all women during pregnancy: just please try to eat better,” he said. LOCAL & STATE Save up to $156.40 TRAVEL & ARTS Orange teachers to cast ballots A stirring documentary Voting on contract likely to start this week, as some rally to oppose it. B1 in coupons PBS’s ‘Chasing the Moon’ offers nostalgic view of moon landing. F1 Inside this weekend’s inserts T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Sunday, July 7, 2019 FINAL EDITION $4.00 The drive to grow women’s soccer COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Doubters still think mission was fake US national team determined to build on World Cup buzz By David Whitley By Alicia DelGallo O ne group will not be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing for what it believes is a simple reason. It never happened. Instead of galavanting around Sea of Tranquillity, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were in the Nevada desert pulling off the greatest bit of fake news in the history of the universe. Most of the 650 million people who watched TV on July 20, 1969, would have found that notion preposterous. But NASA’s grand achievement has always had doubters. Or are they just a bunch of lunar lunatics? Whatever one’s view, many believe the truth is still out there. And it’s not what NASA has been peddling for 50 years. “I see a growing awareness that the official story has neither credible support nor sensible evolvement,” said Dr. Phil Kouts, a researcher who believes Apollo 11 was a hoax. “It is getting seen as a fake by a growing number of independently thinking people.” A 2013 survey by Public Policy Polling found that 7% of Please turn to APOLLO 11, A19 This series This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel .com/Apollo11. GETTY-AFP FILE Buzz Aldrin poses beside the flag after Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface. SARAH ESPEDIDO/ORLANDO SENTINEL PHOTOS Andia Kolakowski in the NICU with her son Isaac, who died when he was just 16 days old. Infant mortality: One family’s journey How Andia and Keith Kolakowski coped after losing son By Naseem S. Miller A s baby Isaac took his last breaths, his parents began to sing to their firstborn. You call me out upon the waters The great unknown where feet may fail And there I find You in the mystery In oceans deep my faith will stand Sixteen days after bringing him into this world, Andia and Keith Kolakowski were trying to let Isaac go. “We were saying, ‘God, just take him peacefully.’ And then a few seconds later we were like, ‘God, you know what, can we have our son back?’ It was just this wrestling the whole time,” said Andia, who went into labor when she was only 23 weeks pregnant. But Isaac went fast. “And we just sat there with him and I just entered twilight. 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The United States women’s national team is at the forefront of what could be a revolutionary moment for the sport globally, but a lot of work will need to be done to capitalize on the World Cup momentum beyond Sunday’s 11 a.m. ET title match between the U.S. and Netherlands. “There was a before, there will be an after the 2019 women’s World Cup,” said FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who leads international soccer’s governing body. “It’s up to us to make sure that we seize this opportunity and we Please turn to SOCCER, A18 UNIVERSAL ORLANDO Is Express pass worth the cost? By Patrick Connolly Andia and Keith Kolakowski play with their son, Holden, at home. “And we just sat there with him and I just entered twilight. Even now, even almost two years later, I find myself in that space of twilight.” Andia Kolakowski How much is your time worth? 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Newsprint is a renewable resource. ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Sunday, July 7, 2019 Orlando Sentinel A19 APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 Americans think the Apollo11mission was faked. It’s easy to paint the moon hoax movement as a bunch of tinfoil hat-wearing dopes who believe the Earth is flat. The skeptics say that stereotype is unfair. “I am not a Flat Earther, nor am I interested in UFOs or other such nonsense,” said Dr. Emanuel Garcia, a psychiatrist and author based in New Zealand. “I am a free thinker, a truth seeker and operate, if you wish, as an investigative journalist,” said Kouts. If the moon hoax theory has a father it would be Bill Kaysing. He was a technical writer for Rocketdyne, which built Apollo engines. His 1974 book “We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle” laid the movement’s foundation. NASA didn’t have the technology to get a man to the moon, so the government concocted the entire Apollo fable to fulfill John F. Kennedy’s promise to win the Space Race over the USSR. The movement got a boost in 1978 with the movie “Capricorn One.” In it, the government faked a Mars landing and forced three astronauts to play along or be killed. O.J. Simpson played one of the astronauts. More juice came in 2001 when Fox ran the documentary “Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?” NASA policy has always been not to comment on hoax questions, thinking they aren’t worthy of a response. But it felt compelled to issue a statement after the Fox special. “Yes. Astronauts did land on the moon.” To which conspiracy theorists respond, “What’d you expect them to say?” “Based on the U.S. governments history of confirmed conspiracies, not to mention NASA’s history of being less than truthful about their screw-ups and exaggerated claims about their technical capabilities, faking a mission to the Moon is certainly not outside their nature,” Jarrah White said. He’s an Australian who runs the Moonfaker website YouTube channel. The rise of the internet has given the moon hoax a vast new breeding ground. There are thousands of websites, blogs and video channels devoted to debunking NASA’s story. Similar platforms are devoted to COURTESY PHOTO The movie “Capricorn One” was about a faked Mars landing mission by NASA astronauts. debunking the debunkers. The two sides question each other’s academic credentials. They engage in long debates over things like proton fluxes and the “ppm of ferric iron.” They debate whether “2001: A Space Odyssey” director Stanley Kubrick helped NASA stage the whole thing. It’s a rabbit hole of speculation and scientific jargon, but here are a few major points of hoax contention: The lunar module didn’t leave any engine-blast craters when it landed. The U.S. flag waved in an atmosphere that has no wind. Humans could not have survived passing through the Van Allen radiation belts. Lunar photos are rife with anomalies, such as the horizon having no stars. “Lastly, ‘Going to the moon’ is the only claimed achievement in the entire history of the world, such as the first automobile, airplane, or nuclear bomb, that was not far surpassed in capability fifty years later, much less not able to be duplicated by anyone on Earth, even with five decades better technology,” Bart Sibrel said. He’s an American filmmaker and perhaps the most prominent member of the moon hoax movement. His fame is such that Sibrel says he has a tape of an astronaut conspiring with the CIA to have him killed. “Something that would not be necessary if they really went to the moon and I was merely misguided,” Sibrel notes. NASA defenders say the hoaxers’ red flags can be explained. During the gravity-lessened landing, the lunar module’s engines didn’t produce enough thrust to leave craters. Armstrong and Aldrin had to grind the flag pole into hard lunar surface. The shaking pole made the flag wave. Apollo 11 passed through the radiation belts too fast for its passengers to be affected. Cameras were set at minimal exposure on the moon’s bright surface, so images of stars and other objects were underexposed. There are other factors, like the fact about 400,000 people worked on Apollo missions and no one’s ever blown a whistle claiming they were faked. And not even the Russians – who still maintain the official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is 31 – have ever claimed Apollo 11 was a hoax. But conspiracies are hard things to shake. Be it the JFK assassination or 9-11 truthers or vaccinations, no amount of evidence will dissuade the true believers. The evolving nature of news dissemination has made it harder to tell fact from malarkey. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 2009, The Onion published a story entitled “Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked.” In it, Armstrong held a news conference where he dumped moon rocks into a trash can and lamented, “I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind.” What it was was satire by a publication that specializes in it. Two Bangladeshi newspapers didn’t get the joke, however, and ran the story as if it were legitimate. So somewhere in Dhaka or Chittagong, there probably are people who didn’t see the correction and believe Neil Armstrong might as well be O.J. Simpson. None have been as passionate in their pursuit of the truth as Sibrel. He confronted Aldrin outside a hotel in 2002, waving a Bible and daring the legendary astronaut to swear on it that he walked on the moon. Aldrin ignored Sibrel, who followed him and called Aldrin “a coward and a liar and a thief.” The 72-year-old Aldrin eventually decided he’d had enough and punched Sibrel in the face. The video became an internet sensation. Sibrel later apologized for speaking so harshly, but he remains unrepentant in his beliefs. “We all are going to die anyway,” he said, “so we might as well die taking a stand for justice against our out of control tyrannical government and corporations.” Other members of the hoax movement say such extreme views give them all a Flat-Earthy name. “I simply ask people to try to look at the facts objectively,” Garcia said. Do they say Apollo was one great leap or one great lie? Fifty years from now, some people will still be asking the question. The only difference is Aldrin won’t be around to punch them in the face. dwhitley@orlandosentinel.com MOON MEMORIES: As part of its 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/moon memories. ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50. SPORTS CENTRAL FLORIDA BUSINESS Bianchi: Decision to start Coke Zero 400 leads to no-name’s win. C1 New law may hasten companies’ long-term expansion plans. D1 Rain-soaked race letdown for fans Hospital building boom gets boost T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Monday, July 8, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Trump’s approval at highest point New survey shows a deeply divided electorate and a narrow but real path to reelection By Dan Balz and Emily Guskin The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Aided by a strong economy and perceptions he has dealt with it effectively, President Donald Trump’s approval rating has risen to the high- est point of his presidency, though a slight majority of Americans continue to say they disapprove of his performance in office, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey highlights the degree to which Trump has a narrow but real path to reelection. His ap- proval rating on most issues is net negative, and more than 6 in 10 Americans say he has acted in ways that are unpresidential since he was sworn into office. Still, roughly one-fifth of those who say he is not presidential say they approve of the job he is doing, and he runs even against four possible Democratic nominees in hypothetical general-election matchups. He trails decisively only to former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump’s approval rating among voting-age Americans stands at 44 percent, up from 39 percent in April, with 53 percent saying they disapprove of him. Among registered voters, 47 percent say they approve of Trump while 50 percent disapprove. In April, 42 percent of registered voters said they approved while 54 percent said they disapproved. More than a year before the Apollo 11 left disc of poetic tidings The Villages gives county the highest median age at 67.8 By Roger Simmons By Martin E. Comas I RICHARD HEATHCOTE/GETTY FOUR-STAR WINNERS U.S. players, from left, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Kelley O’Hara, Julie Ertz and Alyssa Naeher cheer while receiving the World Cup trophy Sunday. The U.S. won its record fourth Women’s World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0. Coverage in Sports, C1 Please turn to APOLLO 11, A8 Disney World revives animation classes By Gabrielle Russon NASA/COURTESY The silicon disc left on the moon by Apollo 11 contains greetings and messages from world leaders. This series This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. Please turn to TRUMP, A8 Sumter home to oldest US residents COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 t’s about the size of a 50-cent coin and has been on the moon for nearly 50 years. Sealed inside an aluminum capsule, the small silicon disc waits patiently for some future alien civilization to discover it. The words “From Planet Earth – July 1969. Goodwill messages from around the world brought to the Moon by the astronauts of Apollo 11,” appear on the top and sides of a specially made disc that commemorates humans’ first visit to the moon. It landed on the lunar surface with Neil Armstrong and general election and long before the Democrats will select their nominee, the 2020 contest is playing out against the backdrop of an electorate deeply divided over the president, with a small percentage of registered voters up for grabs. Both Democrats and the president enjoy solid bases of support, but more Americans say it is extremely important that Trump not Don Shane was heartbroken when it was over. For 11 years, he showed tourists step-by-step how to draw their favorite Disney characters at Hollywood Studios’ Animation Academy. “It was my dream job. I got to go to work, and I got to draw Disney characters all day and teach people how to do this,” Shane said. “And inspire people.” But then, everything ended. Shane learned in 2015 that Disney was shutting down the drawing classes to make way for the Star Wars Launch Bay. “It was tough,” said his wife, Alejandra Shane. “I tried to encourage him, ‘They took your job, Please turn to DISNEY, A9 COURTESY “One of my personal ideals - I want to make these characters as accurate to what you will see in the movie as possible,” Don Shane said. As Jeff Kahn grew older, he felt that Fort Lauderdale — his hometown for more than three decades — was no longer right for him. Too congested. Too many young people. Too much hustle and bustle. So last year, Kahn — who turns 70 next month — did what thousands of other retirees his age do every year: He moved to The Villages, the sprawling retirement community 50 miles northwest of Orlando. “When I first pulled into The Villages and went into the center square, I said to myself: ‘I’m home,’” said Kahn, who now plays pickleball daily. “The people were just nice and friendly. They were my age. And the whole comfort zone was there for me.” Now, thanks to Kahn and other retirees his age who make their homes in the Sumter County portion of The Villages, the county has the highest median age, 67.8, in the U.S. for counties with populations of 20,000 or more, according to newly released Census Bureau population estimates for 2018. Sumter is far older than its neighboring Central Florida counties, according to the data. Orange’s median age is 35.3; Osceola 36.2; Seminole 39.2; and Lake 47.2. And it’s almost a sure thing that Sumter will remain at the top of the geriatric list for decades to come, as The Villages continues to explode southward into the rural city of Please turn to SUMTER, A10 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Hong Kong protesters, police clash Tens of thousands gather in an effort to take their grievances against Beijing directly to its people. 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But it’s primarily a device to deliver messages from 73 world leaders, tidings that include congratulations to America for its great scientific feat, wishes for a new era of universal peace and some wellplayed humble-brags. “I am particularly proud speaking on behalf of the Greek nation, whose ancestors had the privilege to be forerunners in the philosophical thought and scientific research which first penetrated the universe,” Greece’s George Zoitakis said in his country’s message. Portugal’s President Americo Deus Rodrigues Thomaz added, “The Portuguese people, discoverers of the unknown Earth in centuries past, know how to admire those who in our days explore outer space bringing mankind in contact with other worlds.” If and when future aliens make contact with the disc and want to read its messages, the only technology needed will be a microscope and the latest intergalactic version of the Rosetta Stone. “Each message was reduced 200 times to a size much smaller than the head of a pin (0.0425 x 0.055 inches) and appears on the disc as a barely visible dot,” NASA explained in a news release just days before Apollo11 blasted off. “Through a process used to make microminiature electronic circuits, the statements, the messages, and names were etched on the grey-colored disc.” NASA noted some of the messages were handwritten, some were typed, and some were in the authors’ native language. “A highly decorative message from the Vatican is signed by Pope Paul,” the space agency noted. From Afghanistan to Zambia, many of the world’s nations took part in the moon greetings. Not participating were many of the United States’ adversaries at the time, including the Soviet Union and its communist allies China, Cuba, North Vietnam and North Korea. But leaders who did contribute made up a Who’s Who of late-20thcentury world history. Among them were the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, Josip Tito of Yugolosvia, Indira Gandhi of India, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Chiang Kai-shek of Taiwan and Pierre Trudeau of Canada. The Canadian prime minister wrote his message in English and NASA This view of Earth was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft about 10,000 nautical miles from Earth during the craft’s journey to the moon. French, to further confuse alien readers. “Man has reached out and touched the tranquil moon. Puisse ce haut fait permettre a l’homme de redecouvrir la terre et d’y trouver la paix. (May that high accomplishment allow man to rediscover the Earth and find peace.),” he wrote. King Baudouin of Belgium noted the historic nature of the moon mission but also a mission to make life better on Earth. “With awe we consider the power with which man has been entrusted and the duties which devolve on him,” he wrote. “We are deeply conscious of our responsibility with respect to the tasks which may be open to us in the universe, but also to those which remain to be fulfilled on this Earth, so to bring more justice and more happiness to mankind.” Some leaders were almost poetic with the wording of their moon messages. “This is a dramatic fulfillment of man’s urge to go ‘always a little further’; to explore and know the formerly unknown; to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” Australia’s Prime Minister John Gorton wrote. “May the high courage and the technical genius which made this achievement possible be so used in the future that mankind will live in a universe in which peace, self expression, and the chance of dangerous adventure are available to all.” Marcos of the Philippines was particularly effusive. “The age-old dream of man to cut his bonds to Planet Earth and reach for the stars has given him not only wings, but also the intellect and the intrepid spirit which had enabled him to overcome formidable barriers and accomplish extraordinary feats in the exploration of the unknown, culminating in this epochal landing on the Moon,” he wrote. Mexico’s President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz wrote, “In 1492, the discovery of the American Continent transformed geography and the course of human events. Today, conquest of ultraterrestrial space – with its attendant unknowns – recreates our perspectives and enhances our paradigms.” Some messages were short and efficient – Japan’s Prime Minister Eisaku Sato used just 12 words: “In congratulation of the outstanding achievement of humanity’s arrival on the Moon.” Some messages were long and a bit rambling – Prime Minister Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham of Guyana wrote the longest, using more than 400 words. “To those coming after: We cannot tell on what future day-beings of our own kind or perhaps from some other corner of the cosmos will come upon this message but for those coming after, we wish to record three things,” he wrote. He then went on to salute the astronauts, humans in general and the people of his nation. He ended with, “We do not know what shall be the judgment of history but we would be well pleased if on some later day when this is read, it is said of us that we strove greatly to advance the dignity of all men.” Let’s just hope aliens get the message — and remember to bring a microscope when they visit the moon. rsimmons@orlandosentinel.com MOON MEMORIES: As part of its 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at Orlando Sentinel.com/moonmemories. ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at Orlando Sentinel.com/Apollo50. 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RSVP at 407-644-1165 today! www.NewStudyInfo.com TRUMP Continued from Page A1 win reelection than those who say it is extremely important that he is reelected. The economy is the lone issue in the survey where Trump enjoys positive numbers, with 51 percent saying they approve of the way he has dealt with issues. A smaller 42 percent disapprove of his handling of it, down slightly from 46 percent last October. Asked how much credit Trump deserves for the state of the economy, 47 percent say a “great deal” or a “good amount,” while 48 percent say he deserves “only some” or “hardly any.” On the eight other issues measured, Trump gets negative ratings, ranging from a net negative of seven points on taxes to a net negative of 33 points on climate change. More than half of all Americans disapprove of his handling of immigration, health care, abortion, gun violence and “issues of special concern to women.” The survey was conducted while Trump was attending a meeting of world leaders in Japan, where trade tensions with China were eased. He later met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — taking steps into that nation and coming to an agreement to restart nuclear negotiations. But by 55 percent to 40 percent, Americans disapprove of his handling of foreign policy. The survey matched Trump against five possible Democratic nominees: Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders, IVt., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Among registered voters, only Biden emerges with a clear advantage, leading Trump by 53 percent to 43 percent. Trump runs very close against Harris (46 percent Trump, 48 percent Harris) and Sanders (48 percent Trump, 49 percent Sanders), and he runs even against Warren (both at 48 percent) and Buttigieg (both at 47 percent). Among the broader pool of voting-age adults, all five Democrats hold at least a slight advantage over Trump. Trump and Republicans are trying to attach the label of “socialist” to all the Democrats. Asked a generic question about a matchup between Trump and a candidate regarded as a socialist, the president holds a slight edge of 49 percent to 43 percent among registered voters. Across the five matchups against named possible Democratic nominees, 41 percent of registered voters always choose the Democrat, and 40 percent always choose the president. Meanwhile, 54 percent of voters either support Trump against at least one named Democrat or say they would consider backing him. Trump’s hardcore base includes 21 percent of registered voters who support him against any of the five possible Democratic challengers tested and say it is “extremely important” that he be reelected. That rises to 31 percent when those say it is “very important” that he win a second term are added to those solid Trump supporters. Arrayed against Trump are 36 percent of registered voters who never support Trump in the matchups and say it is “extremely important” that the president not win a second term. That rises to 43 percent when those say it is “very important” that Trump not be reelected are added to those consistent anti-Trump voters. ACCREDITED BUSINESS visit us at: www.InterVisionHomes.com LOCAL & STATE SPORTS Leaves one male black-necked swan for Lake Eola’s solitary female. B1 Bianchi: He’s the all-star Magic fans always wanted Howard to be. D1 Potential mate for Queenie dies Vucevic realizes he has it good T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Tuesday, July 9, 2019 FINAL EDITION Nelson: ‘I am a homicidal maniac’ Convicted killer told jurors, prosecutor he seeks death sentence By Monivette Cordeiro Convicted killer Scott Edward Nelson matter-of-factly told jurors that he wants to be executed, as he testified in the penalty phase of his murder trial Monday afternoon. “Do you want to be sentenced to death?” Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Nunnelley asked. “Yes,” Nelson responded quickly, as his attorneys objected. The objection was successful and jurors were told to disregard the comment. Nelson had earlier in the day told the jury he had been “treated like an animal for 25 years” while incarcerated, testifying about some of the about the extreme conditions he faced in the federal prison system. “I am a homicidal maniac,” Nelson said, after his attorneys asked how his Nelson time in prison affected his mental health. His defense attorneys want jurors to consider his previous incarceration as they decide whether Nelson should spent the rest of his life in prison or be executed after he was found guilty last month in the murder of 56-year-old Jennifer Fulford. Nelson, 55, was convicted of kidnapping Fulford from her employer’s Winter Park home during a 2017 robbery and killing her. After withdrawing money from Fulford’s bank account, Nelson drove the Altamonte Springs woman to a vacant field in southwest Orange County where he duct taped her entire head and stabbed her several times. Testifying for a second time in his murder trial, Nelson said it was a “common occurrence” for other inmates to set off the fire alarm sprinkler system in the special housing where he was kept, leading to ankle-deep floods of water, fire retardant and toilet feces. “I’ve been brutalized,” Nelson said. “There’s nothing you can dream up that hasn’t been done to me in federal custody.” Nelson described being locked in small cells, sometimes with two other inmates, and being incarcerated in a Kansas prison with no fans or air conditioning during 100-degree weather. Once, he was $2.50 Epstein pleads not guilty Wealthy financier stands accused of molesting dozens of underage girls By Michael R. Sisak and Jim Mustian powerful people was charged in a newly unsealed federal indictment with sex trafficking and conspiracy during the early 2000s. He could get up to 45 years in prison if convicted. The case sets the stage for another #MeToo-era trial fraught Associated Press NEW YORK — In a startling reversal of fortune, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged Monday with sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in a case brought more than a decade after he secretly cut a deal with federal prosecutors to dispose of nearly identical allegations. The 66-year-old hedge fund manager who once socialized with some of the world’s most Please turn to EPSTEIN, A4 ■ INSIDE: Epstein’s arrest raises questions about how much his high-powered associates knew about his interactions with underage girls. A4 LUIZ C. RIBEIRO/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein at a news conference in New York on Monday. COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Mission put Central Florida on the map Cluster of space-related businesses arrived to work on Apollo mission By Marco Santana O PATRICK CONNOLLY/ORLANDO SENTINEL Dog moms gather at a “Meet Your Dog Mom BFF” event at The Bear and Peacock in Winter Park Mom’s best friend Club for dog owners connects, empowers women By Kathleen Christiansen C onversations, music and barking filled The Bear and Peacock Brewery in Winter Park on a recent Saturday evening, as attendees enjoyed pupthemed cocktails while their furry friends lapped up water. The Orlando Dog Mom Club gathered for an evening of fellowship, for local dog moms — and their pets — to potentially meet their new best friend. Myriam Gutstein founded the Facebook group The Orlando Dog Mom Club to host events like this and connect dog mothers in the Please turn to DOG, A5 n May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress and announced that the U.S. would land astronauts on the moon “before the decade is out.” But the pressure and responsibility of achieving that did not fall on him. Instead, it was up to NASA and the companies working with them to build launch vehicles, spacecraft and other hardware that would work together to ferry astronauts to the moon. To do that, several companies either opened or expanded operations in Central Florida. So the moon mission brought companies such as Martin Marietta, Grumman and Lockheed into the forefront of the region’s economy. “It introduced Central Florida into the national economy in a way that it had never been before,” said UCF political science professor Roger Handberg, who has written several books on the space Please turn to APOLLO 11, A8 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part A pug named Grace is eager to meet other dogs at the “Meet Your Dog Mom BFF” event. Please turn to NELSON, A4 of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Little backlash for Mexican leader The country’s leftist president has faced little heat in migrant crackdown, stands in contrast to U.S. outcry. A3 Iran breaches key limit in nuke pact Tehran has begun enriching uranium to 4.5%, just breaking the maximum set by its deal with world powers. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Time is tight for Trump’s lawyers In the fight to keep the president’s financial records out of the hands of congressional Dems, clock is ticking. A3 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A8 Orlando Sentinel Tuesday, July 9, 2019 R Amazon staff primed to strike when it’s hot Minn. warehouse workers plan Jul. 15 action in a 1st for US By Josh Eidelson and Spencer Soper Bloomberg News Amazon.com warehouse workers in Minnesota plan to strike during the online retailer’s summer sales extravaganza, a sign that labor unrest persists even after the company committed to paying all employees at least $15 an hour last year. Workers at a Shakopee, Minnesota, fulfillment center plan a six-hour work stoppage July 15, the first day of Prime Day. Amazon started the event five years ago, using deep discounts on televisions, toys and clothes to attract and retain Prime members, who pay subscription fees in exchange for free shipping and other perks. “Amazon is going to be telling one story about itself, which is they can ship a Kindle to your house in one day, isn’t that wonderful,” said William Stolz, one of the Shakopee employees organizing the strike. “We want to take the opportunity to talk about what it takes to make that work happen and put pressure on Amazon to protect us and provide safe, reliable jobs.” Amazon, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment on the planned strike. In Europe, where unions are stronger, Amazon workers routinely strike during big shopping events such as Prime Day and Black Friday. Until now, Amazon’s U.S. workers haven’t walked off the job during key sales days. About 250 union pilots who haul packages for Amazon and DHL Worldwide Express staged a brief strike in the leadup to Thanksgiving in 2016 before a federal judge ordered them back to work. As one of the world’s most valuable companies — led by Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person — Amazon has become a symbol of income inequality. Critics say it benefits from tax breaks to build warehouses but pays workers so little that some are forced to seek government assistance for basic needs like food and health care. The pledge to pay $15 an hour didn’t happen until the company had weathered attacks from politicians such as presi- JIM YOUNG/BLOOMBERG dential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who proposed a “Stop BEZOS” act that would have imposed a tax on companies like Amazon to make up for the cost of federal benefits like Medicaid for their employees. Of late, warehouses in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region have become an epicenter of worker activism, led by East African Muslim immigrants who organizers say compose the majority of the five facilities’ staff. Last year workers thronged the entryway of a delivery center chanting “Yes we can” in Somali and English, presenting management with demands such as reduced workloads while fasting for Ramadan. They also circulated flyers at a nearby fulfillment center urging coworkers to wear blue shirts and hijabs in support of the Saudi budget carrier backs off Boeing 737 Max jet order APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 industry. “The space industry totally changed the dynamics here because there was nothing here. It was all orange groves.” Handberg said he played high school football, and his team would often travel to Orlando, down roads along miles of empty land. But once Space Coast-related activity grew, it created the need for a highway that connected Orlando to the coast, with the introduction of what’s known now as the BeachLine Expressway changing Central Florida’s map. Initially known as the Bee Line Expressway because it offered a direct route to the Space Coast, the first portions of what would eventually become the 41-mile road that connects Interstate 4 to U.S. Highway 1 debuted in 1967. “It improved transportation,” Handberg said. “A lot of people decided to live in Central Florida and commute to the Cape during Apollo and later the shuttle.” That growth was only natural in an area watching a new industry develop, said Charlie Mars, who was NASA’s program chief for the Apollo’s lunar module. “You just didn’t increase the total population by 24,000 and not affect things from an economic standpoint,” Mars said. “They worked at Kennedy, they represented some 20 companies and supported the programs. I can’t think of one industry that didn’t benefit from those people coming here.” In college, Mars worked with Martin Marietta during Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program for the U.S. He later became a liaison for NASA with Northrop Grumman ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo50 ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories from that time and we'll publish as many as we can. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com /moonmemories same cause. Organizers say the actions led to talks between employees and management last fall and spurred some modest changes. But they say the company has failed to meet worker demands such as converting more temps to Amazon employees and permanently easing productivity quotas they allege make the jobs unsafe and insecure. In a letter last year to the National Labor Relations Board that was reported by The Verge, an attorney for Amazon said hundreds of employees at one Baltimore facility were terminated within about a year for failing to meet productivity rates. In March, workers staged a threehour strike. On July 15, employees at the Shakopee facility plan to strike about three hours at the end of the day shift and for about three hours at the start of the night shift. In the afternoon, workers also plan to rally outside the facility, located about 25 miles from Minneapolis. In an effort to show solidarity, a handful of Amazon’s white collar-engineers intend to fly to Minnesota to join the demonstration, where activists will demand the company take action against climate change as well as easing quotas and making more temps permanent employees. “We’re both fighting for a livable future,” said Seattle software engineer Weston Fribley, one of several employees from the group Amazon Employees For Climate Justice who will be making the trip. By Layan Odeh and Matthew Martin Bloomberg News Saudi Arabian budget carrier Flyadeal reversed a commitment to buy as many as 50 Boeing Co. 737 Max jets, becoming the first airline to officially drop the plane since its grounding following two deadly crashes. Flyadeal will operate an entirely Airbus fleet, the company said Sunday, buying as many as 50 A320neo planes from Boeing’s European rival. The Airbus order was booked last month at the Paris Air Show by the discounter’s parent, Saudi Arabian Airlines. That an- NASA/COURTESY Crawlers carried Apollo rockets to their launch pads. This is Apollo 10 on its way to Pad B in early 1969. The rockets helped lure a Central Florida presence for some of the largest space companies. as it worked on the lunar lander. He said an energy around the country helped buoy the region’s early efforts to reach the moon. “It was all new,” he said. “We could feel and see that we had the nation behind us as we tried to do something that had never been done before.” As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon approaches, here is a look back at some of the companies that came here to support the iconic program. The Glenn L. Martin Company arrived in Central Florida during the 1950s, when it served as a prime contractor to build the U.S. Army’s stock of Pershing missiles at its Orlando site. The company would also produce the Vanguard, one of the first rockets used by the American space program built from scratch. Up until then, most were modified or re-purposed ballistic missiles or rockets. Martin Co. merged with American Marietta Corporation in 1961, forming Martin Marietta, which built the Viking Mars Lander. That vehicle became the first to touch down on the Red Planet and successfully executed its mission in 1976. With its Central Florida location, Marietta competed and ultimately lost out to Grumman - for the lunar lander. Boeing, along with firms like McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell International that it eventually merged with, built most of the major components of the Apollo spacecraft, including all three stages of its Saturn V rocket. Boeing sent a lunar orbiter to take pictures of the moon’s surface ahead of the first landing mission. Boeing last month announced that it would relocate its space and launch headquarters to the Space Coast. Harris Corp.’s presence in Melbourne predates the Apollo program. However, it landed several contracts for the mission, primarily for communications gear that allowed astronauts to contact ground control from the moon. A large portion of Harris’ work today remains focused on telecommunications hardware. The company has also jumped into the satellite industry, having sent small cube satellites into space as a proof of concept about two years ago. Harris helps inform weather forecasters with an upgraded satellite sent into space last year. The propulsion, escape and pitch control systems for the Apollo spacecraft were built and designed by Lockheed Propulsion Co., shortly before the company built Walt Disney World’s first monorail system in 1970. Today, Lockheed Martin employs 8,000 workers in Central Florida and expanded its workforce at its Cape Canaveral site in 2015 to support a missile contract with the U.S. Navy. Aerojet was a predecessor of what is now Aerojet Rocketdyne and created the solid fuel technology used in Apollo’s Saturn V first stages. In 1963, the company landed $3 million from the U.S. Air Force to build a manufacturing and testing site in Homestead. When the company designed a rocket motor, it was transported by barge to Cape Canaveral. This required the digging of a canal and drawbridge on U.S. Highway 1. In 2017, Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings opened an integration and testing facility on the Space Coast following the acquisition of L3. Aerojet’s Coleman Aerospace division remains based in Orlando near Sand Lake Road. Grumman Corp. first arrived in Central Florida to support Apollo in the 1960s. The company, now known as Northrop Grumman, built the lunar lander that ferried astronauts to the moon’s surface 50 years ago. That deal was valued at $350 million when it was first awarded. The lander became what some experts have called the most reliable component of the Apollo missions. About three years ago, Grumman announced it would expand its Space Coast facilities to accommodate nearly 2,000 new employees at Orlando Melbourne International Airport after landing a contract to build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation bomber. That $21.4 billion contract could ultimately be worth as much as $80 billion. Got a news tip? msantana@orlandosentinel .com or 407-420-5256; Twitter, @marcosantana nouncement had sparked speculation about whether the planes would be allocated to Flyadeal, which had said in December it would spend up to $5.9 billion on Boeing Max jets. “We understand that Flyadeal will not finalize its commitment to the 737 Max at this time given the airline’s schedule requirements,” Boeing said Sunday in an email. “We wish the Flyadeal team well and hope we can support their fleet and operational needs in the future.” Flyadeal will take delivery starting in 2021 of 30 Airbus A320neo aircraft, with an option for another 20 planes from the same family of single-aisle jets. NOTICE OF PROPOSED ENACTMENT NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned pursuant to the “Fictitious Name Statute”, Chapter 865.09, Florida Statutes, will register with the Division of Corporations, Department of State, State of Florida upon receipt of this notice. the fictitious name, to-wit: Making Montessori Modern under which (I am) (we are) engaged in business at 1815 Illinois Street That the (party) (parties) interested in said business enterprise is as follows: TAYLOR MADISON HOLDINGS LLC 1815 Illinois Street Dated at Orlando, Orange County , Florida, 07/08/2019 ORG NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned pursuant to the “Fictitious Name Statute”, Chapter 865.09, Florida Statutes, will register with the Division of Corporations, Department of State, State of Florida upon receipt of this notice. the fictitious name, to-wit: Vanish Laser Tattoo Removal under which (I am) (we are) engaged in business at 11681 S Orange Blossom Trail #2, Orlando, FL 32837 That the (party) (parties) interested in said business enterprise is as follows: Fine Ink Studios Corp 11681 S Orange Blossom Trail #2 Dated at Orlando, Orange County , Florida, 07/08/2019 ORG6367558 07/09/2019 NOTICE OF PROPOSED ENACTMENT On Monday, July 22, 2019, the Orlando City Council will consider proposed ordinance #2019-40 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, VACATING, CLOSING, AND ABANDONING AN APPROXIMATELY 50 FOOT WIDE, 460 FOOT LONG PORTION OF McRAE AVENUE, GENERALLY LOCATED SOUTH OF ORLANDO STREET, NORTH OF EAST PRINCETON STREET AND EAST OF NORTH ORANGE AVENUE, ACCORDING TO THE TWIN CITY COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAT, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK M, PAGE 44, IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND COMPRISED OF 0.53 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS; PROVIDING FOR CONDITIONS OF ABANDONMENT; THE EXECUTION OF EFFECTING DOCUMENTS, SEVERABILITY, CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER’S ERRORS, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. A public hearing on this ordinance will be held during Council’s regular meeting beginning at 2:00 p.m., in Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida. Interested parties may appear at the meeting and be heard with respect to the proposed ordinance. If a person decides to appeal any decision made by Council with respect to any matter considered at the hearing, he or she will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, he or she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. The proposed ordinance may be inspected by the public at the Office of the City Clerk located on the 2nd floor of Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida. Qualified persons with disabilities needing auxiliary aid or service, or other assistance, so they can participate equally in this meeting should contact the Office of the City Clerk at (407) 246-2251 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the meeting. OS6320597 ONLINE 7/9/2019 Go to OrlandoSentinel.com/ advertise to order and pay for your Orlando Sentinel Classified ad. Online. Anytime. It’s fast! It’s easy! On Monday, July 22, 2019, the Orlando City Council will consider proposed ordinance #2019-24 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE EAST PARK PLANNED DEVELOPMENT ZONING DISTRICT; PROVIDING AN AMENDED 4 DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR VILLAGE CENTER 3, PARCEL 4 OF THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT; PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER’S ERRORS, PERMIT DISCLAIMER, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. A public hearing on this ordinance will be held during Council’s regular meeting beginning at 2:00 p.m., in Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida. Interested parties may appear at the meeting and be heard with respect to the proposed ordinance. If a person decides to appeal any decision made by Council with respect to any matter considered at the hearing, he or she will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, he or she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. The proposed ordinance may be inspected by the public at the Office of the City Clerk located on the 2nd floor of Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida. Qualified persons with disabilities needing auxiliary aid or service, or other assistance, so they can participate equally in this meeting should contact the Office of the City Clerk at (407) 246-2251 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the meeting. OS6365702 7/9/2019 NOTICE OF PROPOSED ENACTMENT On Monday, July 22, 2019, the Orlando City Council will consider proposed ordinance #2019-38 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE DOWNTOWN SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT; AMENDING SECTION 40.16, ORLANDO CITY CODE, TO EASE ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE DISTRICT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL; PROVIDING LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS, AND FOR SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER’S ERRORS, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. A public hearing on this ordinance will be held during Council’s regular meeting beginning at 2:00 p.m., in Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida. Interested parties may appear at the meeting and be heard with respect to the proposed ordinance. If a person decides to appeal any decision made by Council with respect to any matter considered at the hearing, he or she will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, he or she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. The proposed ordinance may be inspected by the public at the Office of the City Clerk located on the 2nd floor of Orlando City Hall, 400 S. Orange Ave., Orlando, Florida. Qualified persons with disabilities needing auxiliary aid or service, or other assistance, so they can participate equally in this meeting should contact the Office of the City Clerk at (407) 246-2251 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the meeting. OS6365002 7/9/2019 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA 2019 - DR - 72330 - 0 IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF: LucNER RApHAEL petitioner/Husband. and RuTH RApHAEL Respondent/Wife. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE To: Ruth Raphael 4652 Cason Cove Drive, 313, Orlando, Fl 32811 The decision marks a commercial setback for Boeing, which is under pressure to prove the Max is safe and get it flying again after two disasters five months apart killed a combined 346 people. The narrow-body workhorse has been grounded globally since March. The uncertainty surrounding the return of the Max to the skies has prompted carriers to amend aircraft orders. Virgin Australia has pushed back delivery of its first 737 Max jets by almost two years. PT Garuda Indonesia and VietJet Aviation are among the carriers that have also weighed changes in the wake of the crashes. YOu ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defense, if any, to it on Lucner Raphael , 5506 Arnold palmer Drive, 1422 Orlando, FL 32811, on or before 08/08/2019 and file the original with the clerk of this court at 425 N. Orange Ave Orlando , Florida 32801 before service on petitioner or immediately therafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Notice of Current address, Florida Supreme Court approved Family law Form 12.91 5.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the clerk’s office. WaRNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family law Rules of procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated: 06/14/2019 cLERK OF THE cIRcuIT cOuRT By: Tiffany M. Russell OS6337031 06/18,25 & 07/02,09/2019 REMINGTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2019/2020 BUDGET; NOTICE OF REGULAR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS’ MEETING; AND NOTICE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING. The Board of Supervisors (“Board”) of the Remington Community Development District (“District”) will hold a public hearing on July 30, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Remington Recreation Center, 2651 Remington Blvd, Kissimmee, Florida 34744 for the purpose of hearing comments and objections on the adoption of the proposed budget (“Proposed Budget”) of the District for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2019 and ending September 30, 2020 (“Fiscal Year 2019/2020”). A regular board meeting of the District will also be held at that time where the Board may consider any other business that may properly come before it. Immediately preceding the Board meeting will be a meeting of the Audit Committee of the Remington Community Development District. A copy of the agenda and Proposed Budget may be obtained at the offices of the District Manager, Governmental Management Services – Central Florida, LLC, 135 W. 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Wednesday, July 10, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Trump defends embattled Acosta White House to take a look at handling of Epstein’s plea deal By John Wagner The Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump praised Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and on Tuesday said he felt “very badly” for him, as calls mounted for his Cabinet member to resign over his handling, as a U.S. attorney, of an earlier sex-crimes case involving wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump also said the White House would look at the circumstances surrounding a plea deal overseen by Acosta that a growing number of Democrats argued Tuesday was far too lenient on Epstein. “I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta because I’ve known him as being somebody who works so hard and has done such a good job,” Trump said of Acosta’s tenure as Labor secretary. “I feel very badly about that whole situation, but we’re going to be looking at that, and looking at it very closely.” Shortly beforehand, Acosta said in a tweet that he was pleased that Inside Editorial: Epstein’s indictment should push Acosta out Opinion, A10 Epstein federal prosecutors in New York are pursing a new sex-trafficking case against Epstein involving minors. “The crimes committed by Epstein are horrific, and I am pleased Please turn to ACOSTA, A2 EVAN VUCCI/AP President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he feels “very badly, actually, for” Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, right. JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL The trial of accused killer Scott Edward Nelson was interrupted by a man outside the courtroom. Jurors disrupted outside the courtroom Man with bloody hand told women Nelson ‘deserves to fry’ By Monivette Cordeiro Two jurors considering whether convicted killer Scott Edward Nelson should be sentenced to death said they were approached outside the courtroom Tuesday by a man with a bloody hand — who told them Nelson “deserves to fry.” It was the latest surprising twist in the penalty phase of Nelson’s trial, which came the day after the man convicted of killing Jennifer Fulford told the jurors responsible for deciding his fate that he would rather be executed than spend the rest of his life in prison. Deliberations are scheduled to begin Wednesday, after the prosecution and defense present final arguments. A life sentence and capital punishment are the 12 jurors’ only options. Only a unanimous vote can send Nelson to death row. The two jurors involved in Tuesday’s disruption told Circuit Judge Keith F. White they were waiting outside the courtroom at the Orange County Courthouse when a yelling man came up to them and punched a window, causing his hand to bleed. The man sat next to the jurors and asked them if they had heard of Nelson’s trial. “He deserves to fry,” the man said, according to the two women. “He deserves to die.” The man started asking one of the jurors personal questions, so the women asked a bailiff for help. Neither the Orange County Sheriff’s Office nor Ninth Judicial Circuit Court administration was immediately able to provide addiPlease turn to NELSON, A7 RICARDO RAMIREZ BUXEDA/ORLANDO SENTINEL Thanh Nguyen, chief operating officer of Tipsy Salonbar in Winter Park, said the franchise was aware that getting a beer and wine license approved would be a challenge but “took a risk” that they could successfully lobby for a special-use permit as they’ve done in other cities. Mani, pedi, merlot? Winter Park’s Tipsy Salonbar wants to charge for beer and wine. By Lisa Maria Garza Club music blares at the Tipsy Salonbar in Winter Park as patrons check in for their manicure or pedicure at a bar stocked not with nail polish or hair supplies but with premium wine and champagne bottles. Customers get one complimentary drink, but the beauty sa- lon wants to charge patrons for additional drinks while they’re being pampered. Tipsy also wants to charge people waiting for patrons if they wish to imbibe. The Florida-based chain has been working to live up to its reputation as an upscale salon since it opened two years ago, but city commissioners declined at a recent meeting to grant the busi- ness a license to sell beer and wine, citing the need for a code change to make that possible. “If a busload of people come in and ask for beer and wine, we have to give it to them,” chief executive officer Tuan Nguyen told commissioners. “This has been very taxing on our business.” Please turn to TIPSY, A7 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Apollo 11 anniversary spurs business By Chabeli Herrera B ■ THIS SERIES: This story is renda Mulberry popped out from behind the front desk and shifted her weight up and down on the balls of her feet, eyes wide and eyebrows arched. She had the unmistakable frenzied look of someone who had far too much work on her plate. “I’m so busy, literally, I am…,” she said, searching for an apt description. “I am on fire.” part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. It was a little less than two months until the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary and Mulberry’s small T-shirt shop on the edge of Kennedy Space Center was frantically working to keep up with orders — online orders, in-store orders, orders from its retail partners, all of them requesting reprints of a bevy of Apollo 11-related items the store has been making for the past year in preparation for what was sure to be a blockbuster summer for business. Her store, called Space Shirts, anticipated the Apollo 11 frenzy. Nearly a year ago, it had already H. 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Near Kennedy Space Center, the store has Apollo 11 related items for the moon landing 50th anniversary. APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 started to print its logo design for the moon landing’s 50th anniversary on July 20 — an image of an astronaut, the moon, Earth and Mars with the words “the next great leap” — onto shirts that took up a handful of shelves near the back of the shop. By late May, Apollo was on nearly everything. It was on hats, polo shirts, tote bags, coasters, drawstring bags and even mouse pads. The quote by Galileo tacked onto the archway over the front desk was replaced to feature Neil Armstrong’s “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” And outside, a digital sign flickered between a message that read, “Brevard County’s best kept secret” and “Apollo T-shirts!” One recent afternoon, when the line at the register was 10 people deep and the shrill sounds of the landline were echoing through the cramped shop, a man turned to Mulberry, and thinking of the sign outside, said, “I think the secret is out.” “Yeah. Like, oh my God,” said Mulberry, recalling it. She has owned the shop for more than three decades. “Everyone today is waiting for me to call them back about reorders for everything space related and everything not space related. The [launches are] affecting me, the anniversary of Apollo 11 is affecting me. The general economy is exploding. Someone found some money somewhere.” A lot of that money is coming back here to the Space Coast, the site from which astronauts boarded a capsule on a Saturn V rocket in 1969 to embark on humanity’s most challenging journey yet. Though launching astronauts to the moon was a nationwide effort that encompassed 400,000 workers coast to coast, the Cape is the symbolic center of it all — where astronauts and space aficionados will descend in late July to celebrate 50 years since the feat was accomplished. And small businesses like Space Shirts will reap the rewards. Just next door on Courtenay Parkway at Shuttles Restaurant and Bar, coowner Maureen Brower said the restaurant that often hosts NASA engineers and workers from the nearby Blue Origin rocket factory for lunch will have Apollo-themed specials ready to go, including 50 percent off the bar on July 20 and July 24 — the date of the splashdown, — and a “Houston we have pastrami” sandwich with cheese and fries for $7.95. By Port Canaveral, popular launch viewing spot Grills Seafood Deck & Tiki Bar is expecting to make some Apollo-driven revenue. The restaurant is usually standing-room-only for launches and often hosts large parties from SpaceX or Lockheed Martin, said manager Jeff Byron. It helps that the anniversary will land on a Saturday, right smack dab in the middle of peak summer season, said Peter Cranis, executive director of the Space Coast Office of Tourism. “It’s going to be a matter of, one, there will be a lot of people in town anyway, and we anticipate that there will be a lot of additional people that will be coming for things specifically related to the 50th anniversary,” Cranis said. “[The anniversary] could influence people to say. ‘Hey you know what? Let’s make this the year we go over to Kennedy Space Center.’” The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, an Orlando-based non-profit, has a slew of events ready for that eventuality. Among them: An Apollo golf tournament at Drive Shack in Orlando, a free Apollothemed outdoor concert in Cocoa featuring Neil Armstrong’s son Rick Armstrong, and a pub crawl that will take participants to local bars in Cocoa Village where astronauts will be stationed telling stories. Tammy Sudler, president and CEO of the foundation, said the Space Coast community, many of whom have been involved in the aerospace industry in some way, is enthusiastic about celebrating the anniversary. “It is about honoring and celebrating this great accomplishment and doing this for the community to be involved,” Sudler said. Plus, “our hope is that we are introducing people to the different bars that are out there.” It’ll be a good opportunity for the new REC 225, a restaurant and bar in Cocoa Village that opened May 1 and will be the last stop on the five-bar walking pub crawl on Friday. Co-owner Wesley Murray grew up in Cocoa Beach where his dad, Richard Murray, worked on the space shuttle program out of Kennedy Space Center for 36 years. “Whenever it was brought up it was just 100 percent, we want to be part of it,” the younger Murray said. “This is probably one of the most important Why do hearing aids cost so much? Digital what? Directional who? How many channels? Join Us for a FREE Lunch & Learn ■ Want more Apollo 11? Order your copy of Apollo 50, the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50 ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we'll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/ moonmemories events of the year for us.” The Apollo anniversary comes at a time when the Space Coast is already benefiting from the increased attention associated with a steady cadence of high-profile rocket launches. The 50th anniversary will further turn sights on the region, which has been on a comeback tour in the past few years as big names in commercial space, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, set up a presence there. For Space Shirts, business has more than doubled since the days of the shuttle. Right before the program shuttered in 2011, unemployment bottomed out in Brevard County to 11.8% in 2010. These days it hovers around about 3%. The shop jumped on the Apollo anniversary last August, said Jo Ann Yardley, the store’s manager. “I told them, ‘Look, the celebration is happening now.’ I said, ‘Once it’s over, people don’t care,’” she said. “Get it all now. People are finicky.” She was right. 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FINAL EDITION Thursday, July 11, 2019 RR $2.50 DeLand church pays off debt for thousands By Kate Santich In the coming weeks, some 6,500 people in five Central Florida counties will get a letter in the mail telling them the crippling medical debt they owe has been paid off, no strings attached. It’s not a scam. It’s an act of faith worth $7.2 million to the struggling families. “It’s one thing for us to say, ‘God loves you,’” said senior pastor Dan Glenn of Stetson Baptist Church in DeLand, whose congregation donated enough to buy off the medical debt for low-income residents in Volusia, Lake, Putnam, Marion and Flagler counties. “It’s another for us to show that.” On June 30, the church took up a special offering designed to be given away entirely to the community. Because it budgets on a fiscal year starting July 1, and because 2018-2019 happened to have 53 Sundays instead of the more common 52, Stetson Baptist had already raised enough through Sunday collections to cover its annual operating expenses. Instead, leaders set a goal of raising $48,000 to divide between two nonprofits: One More Child, a faith-based provider of foster homes for children, and RIP Med- ical Debt, which buys selected medical debt from health-care providers and debt collectors — typically at one penny on the dollar — and then uses donations to pay off the bills. Glenn figured his congregation could raise enough to cover one foster home for a year and pay off the medical debt of every Volusia County resident living near the federal poverty level. But when all the contributions had been tallied, the 350 or so churchgoers that Sunday had donated a collective $153,867.19 — enough to fund three foster homes for a year and to pay off the medical debt for all impoverished residents in Volusia as well as four surrounding counties. “It was awesome,” Glenn said. Please turn to CHURCH, A12 Nelson’s fate still with jurors By Monivette Cordeiro Jurors began deliberating Wednesday afternoon whether convicted killer Scott Edward Nelson should be executed for kidnapping Jennifer Fulford from her employer’s Winter Park home and killing her. After eight hours of deliberating, the judge sent the jury home. Jurors will reconvene at 9 a.m. Thursday. The 12-member jury must decide if Nelson, 55, should get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison for the brutal 2017 murder of 56-year-old Fulford, of Altamonte Springs. Jurors must vote unanimously to send Nelson to death row. The jury started deliberating around 1 p.m. Nelson was found guilty last month of killing Fulford after kidnapping her Sept. 27, 2017 from the Winter Park home of Reid Berman, where she worked as a caregiver and house manager. A transient on federal probation from a 2010 bank robbery, Nelson pushed his way into the home with a knife after Fulford opened the door, he told detectives in an CHAMPS GET THEIR KICKS Members of the World Cup-winning U.S. women’s team take part in a ticker tape parade on Wednesday in New York. They defeated the Netherlands over the weekend to grab their fourth title. See coverage in Sports, C1. Please turn to NELSON, A12 EXCLUSIVE TO ORLANDO SENTINEL SUBSCRIBERS: Enjoy an 8-page special section commemorating the U.S. Women’s National Team's World Cup win in our digital replica of the Orlando Sentinel, available to subscribers at OrlandoSentinel.com/eNewspaper. For more information on a subscription and unlimited digital access, go to OrlandoSentinel.com/subscriptions or call 407-420-5353. Trump won’t say ‘climate change’ in pitch to voters COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Historic flight inspired a generation to go to space By Kyle Arnold David McFarland was just shy of his 14th birthday when on July 20, 1969, he sat in front of the family television and joined 650 million other enthralled viewers as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. Kelly DeFazio put crayon to paper to sketch pictures of the Saturn V rocket launching off from Cape Kennedy. Dan Quinn watched thousands of fans gather along the Indian River in President careful in touting Fla. environment help Brevard County to watch historic Apollo program rocket launches. “How amazing that all was watching those first steps,” McFarland said. “It just re-amplified my interest in what the country was doing. It was an inspiration.” Florida’s growing space industry is now, in large part, led by the young people that watched the Apollo 11 astronauts in awe, from the rank-and-file workers putting satellites into space to billionaires plotting ambitious trips Please turn to APOLLO, A7 JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Michael Wilner and David Smiley COURTESY KELLY DEFAZIO A drawing by Kelly DeFazio of the Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center at approximately age 6 (about 1971). ■ This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s Countdown to Apollo 11 lunar landing coverage. Read more at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has a plan to talk about the environment with Florida voters: Address the problems you see, not the causes you don’t. It’s been a winning strategy for Republicans in Florida for over a decade. The basic tactic is to address specific, pressing policy challenges facing Florida communities — algal blooms, coastal flooding, threats to the Ever- glades — without discussing the climatic forces driving change. But environmental politics in Florida have shifted since Trump’s first run for the presidency in 2016, when his skepticism over the extent and causes of climate change proved immaterial in his path to electoral victory there. Republicans in Florida who as recently as last year ran successful campaigns void of any mention of climate change now acPlease turn to TRUMP, A14 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Labor chief resists calls to resign Alex Acosta defends his handling of a sex-trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein. A3 Feud puts Democrats’ unity to test Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez speaking at one another in a way that underscores tensions reshaping their party. A3 Anti-abortion forces limit vets’ IVF Program is being hobbled by forces that oppose how the process can lead to embryos being destroyed. A6 Best Newborn Care in Florida ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Thursday, July 11, 2019 Orlando Sentinel Want more? Order your copy of Apollo 50, the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Order at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50 APOLLO Continued from Page A1 beyond the pull of Earth’s gravity. “People, especially young people, wanted to be a part of it,” said Robert Taylor, a history professor at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. “They wanted to have the same kind of trajectory the astronauts they were watching on television did.” Many workers leading today’s projects to return astronauts to the moon or even send them to Mars were inspired by the Apollo 11 astronauts, scientists and engineers. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder Elon Musk and Virgin chairman Richard Branson have all cited the Apollo missions as inspiration for their space ambitions. “I was 5 years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering and exploration,” Bezos wrote on his Bezos Expeditions blog in 2012. The historic Apollo 11 moon landing was a catalyst for the five-decade space industry career of McFarland, now 63 and chief engineer of launch operations for United Launch Alliance at Kennedy Space Center. McFarland was one of millions of children during the apex of the Space Race inspired to take after Armstrong, Aldrin, astronaut Michael Collins and thousands of engineers and scientists to join the U.S.’s efforts. To that point, it was the most watched event in television’s young history. The need was high at the time. At the peak in 1966, NASA accounted for 4.4 percent of the U.S. budget. “NASA was criticized for using the country’s supply of scientists,” said John Logsdon, founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. After the U.S. won the race to the moon, NASA’s budget shrank significantly. Many went into the private A7 Moon memories: As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we'll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/ moonmemories YOUR FAVORITE PLACE for orlando’s good news JONATHAN NEWTON /THE WASHINGTON POST Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, introduces Blue Origin’s newly developed lunar lander “Blue Moon” and gives an update on his vision of space exploration. industry, at companies such as Grumman Aerospace Corporation, which later became Northrop Grumman. McFarland, who grew up in St. Louis, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from Arizona State University in1977 and took a job in Los Angeles with Lockheed Martin in the same factory where Delta rockets were being manufactured. Shortly after he was asked to transfer to Cape Canaveral. “I said, ‘I would love to work at Cape Canaveral.’ That’s where they launched Neil Armstrong and the Apollo programs,” McFarland said. Kelly DeFazio was just 4 years old during the moon landing, but as a child living on the Space Coast with her father working on the Apollo program, it dominated her childhood. She went on school field trips to Kennedy Space Center to see Saturn rockets and family trips to watch launches. Her father, Howard Webster, was an instrumentation engineer on the Grumman-manufactured lunar module. “They kept the launch times secretive, but my dad had a code for my mom to let us know when to go watch a launch,” DeFazio said. “He would call within an hour of when it was going up and say, ‘I think I left the pump on.’” DeFazio earned an electrical engineering degree at the University of Central Florida and went to work for Lockheed Martin in Huntsville, Alabama, then back to Brevard County where she was born and raised. A half-century later, DeFazio is doing much the same thing her father did. She’s now the program director at Lockheed Martin for the Orion project, the next-generation spacecraft intended to take astronauts back to the moon and beyond. “There are quite a few people here that grew up in the area,” DeFazio said. “Certainly living here and in this environment, people tend to go into the industries they had around them growing up.” Also growing up in Titusville with a father working on the Apollo program, Dan Quinn remembers crowds of hundreds of thousands of people flooding the small city for rocket launches. “It was followed by mil- lions of people,” said Quinn, who was14 at the time of the Apollo 11 mission. “We followed all the missions, and we remember how much pride and everything the nation had.” Quinn took more interest in the mechanical side of space travel and ended up working on airplane engines in South Florida. But his brother, George Quinn, who worked at Boeing, convinced him to return to the Space Coast to work for NASA on engines. Today he is the lead technician on the CST-100 Starliner project, Boeing’s crew capsule for NASA to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Now, 50 years later, Quinn’s memories of the moon landing are still vivid. He remembers how the first images from Apollo 11’s moon landing were upside down. Then Armstrong’s first steps and iconic, “That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Meanwhile, his father, another lunar lander engineer, sat quietly on the couch. “He was speechless, like, ‘We really did this,’” Quinn recalled. “’This is really happening after all that work we put in.” VISIT OrlandoSentinel.com/celebration TO PLACE NOTICE DONATE Wheels YOUR CAR For Wishes Benefiting Make-A-Wish® Central and Northern Florida * We Accept Most Vehicles Running or Not * We Also Accept Boats, Motorcycle & RVs * Free Vehicle Pickup ANYWHERE * 100% Tax Deductible WheelsForWishes.org Call:(407) 536-8988 * Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. 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Friday, July 12, 2019 Orlando Sentinel B1 LOCAL & STATE Florida school grades released: ‘A’ Body grades increase, ‘F’ schools decline cameras WINTER PARK By Leslie Postal Florida’s public schools earned more As and Bs and fewer Cs, Ds and Fs in 2019 as the state released its annual school report card Thursday, touting “monumental improvement.” Compared with last year, the school grades were higher, with 63 percent earning As or Bs and more than 80 percent of F-rated schools in 2018 improving their marks this year, according to the Florida Department of Education. Two Orange County elementary schools — Ivey Lane and Lake Weston — were among those that shed their F grades, jumping to a C and B, respectively, in 2019. But one Central Florida school, Beverly Shores Elementary School in Lake County, dropped to an F this year. The Leesburg school was a D last year, and this year is the only F-rated campus in the region. RICARDO RAMIREZ BUXEDA/ORLANDO SENTINEL Overall, the percentage of Florida schools earning As hit 36 percent, up from 31 percent last year, and the percentage of low-rated schools fell. Statewide, the number of F-rated schools dropped from 35 in 2018 to 15 this year. Lake Weston, which earned two Fs and a D in the past three years, thrilled its new principal when it moved to a B this year. Principal Jim Leslie, who has led Orange elementary schools Teen receives $15K for her charity since 2003, said he’s never been so proud of a group of students, as Lake Weston’s took to heart his “just try” message. “As long as you’re trying, I’m good with whatever you’re going to give me.,” Leslie said. “Because if you try, you’re going to get better.” Lake Weston students did get better, with the percentage of fourth graders passing the state language arts test, for example, bumping from 32 percent last year to 52 percent in 2019. School grades are based largely on the standardized tests students took in April and May. Like many schools that have struggled with poor grades, most of Lake Weston’s students live in low-income families and plenty deal with “difficult situations” at home. But they still deserve a well-run school staffed by good teachers with high academic expectations, Leslie said, and that is what he and his staff worked to deliver. Lake Weston, which Leslie was tapped to lead last summer, was on its “last leg” with the state, facing closure, an outside operator or conversion to a charter school if it did not earn at least a C this year. That was “very overwhelming,” he said, and made the B grade all the more sweet. He quickly shared the good Please turn to GRADES, B2 COUNTDOUWN TO APOLLO 11 She runs organization to help the homeless with her grandmother By Kate Santich Serenity Gary was 5 when she began tagging along with her grandmother to feed Central Florida’s homeless and hungry. “But the organizations and churches that we would help thought that I was too young, and they said I couldn’t come back,” she said Thursday. “So I decided to do it myself.” Now 14, the Oak Ridge High School student, her grandmother and some faithful fellow members of the Taft branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida help run Serenity’s Grace, the charity the girl launched when she was 7. That first year, they served 1,100 people. Now they average 1,100 people a week, providing groceries, toiletries, clothing and even furniture for formerly homeless people who’ve just moved into housing. At a national Boys & Girls Clubs of America conference in Orlando Thursday, Serenity humbly shared her story with an audience of young leaders and an appreciative corporate sponsor, Aaron’s, Inc., which surprised her with a $15,000 check for her charity. “We’ve been inspired by the work we’re seeing being done here in Orlando by Serenity and [her] organization… and we thought, ‘What can we do to continue to move this movement forward?’” Please turn to CHARITY, B3 COMMENTARY ROSEN PLAZA HOTEL PHOTO An autographed Buzz Aldrin caricature is on display at Jack’s Place in the Rosen Plaza Hotel. Astronauts live on along the walls at Rosen Plaza Hotel Famed 3 are among the 175 signed celebrity drawings at Jack’s Place By Karina Elwood T John Cutter Inside the Newsroom Cutter is on vacation and the Inside the Newroom column will return soon. o dine with the Apollo 11 crew, ask for table 44 at Jack’s Place. Tucked away in the back right corner of the restaurant, autographed caricatures of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins hang in gold frames above the table. The three astronauts are among 175 signed celebrity drawings on the walls of Jack’s Place, a fine dining restaurant in the Rosen Plaza Hotel on International Drive. A little further down the wall, astronauts from Apollo 8,10 and the Apollo-Soyuz mission decorate the wall. The Apollo 7 crew resides at the entrance. During the month of July, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the restaurant and hotel are ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. offering a variety of deals, including buy one, get one half-off entrees and a complimentary Please turn to APOLLO 11, B2 proposed for police By Lisa Maria Garza Two years after Winter Park Commissioners voted against equipping the police department with body cameras for officers over cost concerns, the city has included the program in its proposed budget for the next fiscal year. If adopted, it would be one of the last law enforcement agencies in Central Florida to start using the cameras. Many local law enforcement agencies have embraced the monitoring technology as a transparent way to provide clarity following incidents such as an officerinvolved shooting or citizen complaint. In addition to Winter Park, the Leesburg Police Department has resisted so far, citing privacy concerns. The Orlando Police Department had all its officers wearing cameras by late 2017 while Orange County Sheriff’s deputies had them in large numbers in 2015. Maitland and Eatonville implemented programs last year. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office applied last month for a federal grant worth more than $500,000 to cover the cost of 150 body camera systems. “We’re one of the last remaining cities in Orange County, certainly in Central Florida, that hasn’t implemented body cameras and we think the time is now,” City Manager Randy Knight told Winter Park commissioners Monday when he presented the proposed 2020 budget. Body camera prices range from several hundred to a few thousand dollars per unit. Winter Park Commissioners previously voted 4-1 against paying about $200,00 for the initial program costs and $140,000 for annual maintenance. Police Chief Michael Deal said in an email that body worn cameras would “bring value to our department” and he is “optimistic” the request will be approved this time after finding ways to lower the cost. The Winter Park Police Department has not had complaints of racial profiling or excessive force during Deal’s tenure as chief, he said. “However, we do recognize that body cameras can be an asset whenever a citizen files a complaint and will assist us in gathering facts surrounding these and other types of incidents involving our officers,” Deal said. If approved, the program calls for 64 body cameras, ongoing cloud storage and the conversion of a part-time records keeper position into a full-time job, according to the budget proposal. The department was able to lower the cost for the latest proposal by reducing the number of cameras and “unnecessary features,” Deal said. The first year equipment and operating costs would run about $92,000 with an annual cost at approximately $72,000. Deal said the department is still trying to determine which company it will use to buy the cameras. Deal said his goal is to assign the body cameras as soon as possible but a timeline for implementation hinges on developing a usage policy and training police officers and staff. The city budget is scheduled to be adopted on Sept. 23 after multiple meetings with input from the public and commissioners. lgarza@orlandosentinel.com; 407-420-5354; @LMariaGarza. B2 Orlando Sentinel Friday, July 12, 2019 Orange County deputy arrested on domestic-battery charge Gov. DeSantis asks that Mary McLeod Bethune statue be placed in U.S. Capitol Incident makes Bailey the 5th OCSO officer in trouble this year News Service of Florida By Michael Williams An Orange County deputy was arrested Wednesday night on a battery charge after he was accused of grabbing a woman by the neck and dragging her by the hair, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The deputy, Brett Lawrence Bailey, a six-year veteran assigned to the Youth Services Division, has been relieved of all law-enforcement duties without pay pending the result of the criminal investigation, Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Michelle Guido said. Bailey faces a misdemeanor charge of domestic-violence battery and is being held in the Orange County jail. The investigation into Bailey, 31, began after a woman approached a Sheriff’s Office communications manager she knew and said Bailey had physically abused her and killed her dog, according to an affidavit. During an interview with detectives, the woman described an incident last month, in which Bailey became enraged after she woke him and confronted him about having an application on his phone that locks pictures and videos, the affidavit shows. The woman said Bailey grabbed her by the neck and pulled her hair while calling her names. “[The woman] stated she did not fight back because that makes it worse,” a detective wrote in Bailey’s arrest report. The next morning, Bailey told her she “should not have looked at his phone,” she told authorities. The woman also described another incident in January when she said Bailey knocked her unconscious, records show. When the detective asked the woman about her dog, the affidavit states, she “became very emotional and started crying.” The woman said Bailey had claimed her dog was killed by another dog, but became upset when she started searching for her pet. She said Bailey might have been jealous because the dog was given to her by an exboyfriend. Bailey later told the woman he was responsible for the dog’s death — and had thrown the dog in the dumpster, according to the affidavit. Bailey denied the accusations when questioned by investigators. Court records don’t list a lawyer for him. In a statement, Sheriff John Mina described the ac- cusations against Bailey as “very serious.” “As law enforcement officers, we are committed to fighting the scourge of domestic violence in our community,” Mina said. “… I have a zero tolerance policy toward domestic violence; these allegations will be thoroughly investigated and the results of that investigation will be made public.” Bailey is the fifth Orange County deputy arrested this year. In February, Deputy Wadih Ojeil was arrested on a charge of filing a fraudulent insurance claim after he hit a deer with his personal car. He’s pleaded not guilty. One month later, Master Deputy Scott Renaux was arrested on a DUI charge after he was found passed out in his car while off duty. He pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge in May. Deputy Jackson Etienne was arrested in June on fraud and grant theft charges after he was accused of scamming a man out of nearly $30,000. He has not yet entered a plea. Two weeks later, Sgt. Carly Friedman was arrested after she was accused of falsifying her time sheets. Friedman has also not entered a plea. miwilliams@orlandosentinel .com Apollo 11: WFTV, WUCF TV mark 50th anniversary By Hal Boedeker Here’s what you’ll see on Orlando television’s publicaffairs programs this weekend: Greg Warmoth goes to the Kennedy Space Center for “Central Florida Spotlight” at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on WFTV-Channel 9. He interviews veterans of the Apollo project in a show marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The guests include Ken Poimboeuf, Apollo era electronics engineer; John Giles, NASA crawler project manager; Bob Sieck, Apollo launch team; and Jim Ogle, Apollo engineer. Warmoth tours the Vehicle Assembly Building, the original firing room where engineers controlled the launch and one of the massive crawler-transporters that brought the Apollo rockets from the VAB to the launch pad. He also visits launch pad 39B, where Apollo and space shuttle missions began and from where NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for deep space missions will launch in the future. “NewsNight” explores space issues with a panel of local space journalists at 8:30 p.m. Friday on WUCF TV. The program repeats at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. The guest host is Brendan Byrne of 90.7 WMFE. The guests are Chabeli Herrera of Orlando Sentinel, Emilee Speck of WKMG-Channel 6 and Emre Kelly of Florida Today. 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They discuss the affordable housing crisis, next month’s opening of UCF/ Valencia downtown campus and Dyer’s goal for Orlando to be a leader in 5G integration. “Orlando Matters” examines election security spending in Central Florida at 10 a.m. Saturday on WOFL-Channel 35. Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Chris Anderson will join host Ryan Elijah to talk about where counties will spend the money and why Seminole was one of the few counties to not get a recent statewide grant. Orlando Storm General Manager Jocelyn Davie will talk about the new team in World TeamTennis, a mixed-gender professional tennis league. (The Sentinel has a content-sharing GRADES Continued from Page B1 news in messages to teachers and to parents. “It’s a nice shot in the arm to boost a little bit of community pride and school pride,” he added. In Seminole County, Pine Crest Elementary School, which had been a D for the past two years, also faced state action if it didn’t earn at least a C this year. Seminole Superintendent Walt Griffin said his administrators have been working to improve academics at Pine Crest for the past several years and were delighted, and relieved, to see its grade improve to the needed C this year. “It’s hard, ongoing work,” he said. Labeled one of the state’s “persistently low performing” schools, Pine Crest was the district’s most closely watched school. It’s agreement with WOFL.) “Political Connections” features state Rep. David Santiago, R-Deltona, at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday on Spectrum News 13. He discusses his agenda items for the next Legislative Session. “Untangled with Josh Robin” will examine hate speech in the digital age. PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter rates a claim about purchasing guns over the internet. “In Focus With Allison Walker-Torres” delves into Florida’s struggle with teacher retention at 11:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Sunday on Spectrum News 13. The guests are state Rep. Chris Latvala, R- Clearwater; state Rep. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando; and Wendy Doromal, president, Orange County Classroom Teachers Association. hboedeker@orlandosentinel .com better grade added to the feeling of celebration Thursday, Griffin said, as most Seminole schools earned As or Bs and none were lower than a C. About 3,300 public schools were issued grades this year. “It is a great day for education in Florida and today’s announcement shows we are on a successful trajectory,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a statement. “We are resolute in our continued efforts to ensure that Florida students have the chance to receive a worldclass education regardless of their circumstance.” The state also hands out grades to school districts. This year, Seminole’s school district earned another A, and Orange’s joined the A ranks after five straight years of Bs. The Lake and Osceola County school districts earned Bs. In Lake, Superintendent Diane Kornegay said she By Jim Turner TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis formally asked Wednesday that the statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune replace the likeness of a Confederate general as a representative of Florida in the U.S. Capitol. DeSantis sent a letter to the architect of the U.S. Capitol officially requesting that the Bethune statue be substituted for the one of General Edmund Kirby Smith in National Statuary Hall, a change Florida lawmakers approved last year. In a news release issued Wednesday, the governor’s office noted his request was made on the 144th anniversary of McLeod Bethune’s birth. “Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was an influential educator, leader and civil rights activist who became one of Florida’s and our nation’s most influential leaders,” DeSantis said. “Dr. McLeod Bethune’s statue will represent the best of who we are as Floridians to visitors from around the CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM/ GETTY Bethune founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. world in our nation’s capitol. Her legacy endures and will continue to inspire future generations.” Bethune, who will become the first AfricanAmerican woman honored by a state in the national hall, founded what became Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach and later worked as an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt. Each state is allowed to have two representatives in the national hall. Florida’s other representative is John Gorrie, widely con- sidered the father of air conditioning. The Florida Legislature voted in 2016 to replace the Smith statue, in the midst of a nationwide backlash against Confederate symbols that followed the 2015 shooting deaths of nine African-American worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. Smith was born in St. Augustine but had few ties to Florida as an adult. As commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, Smith was considered the last general with a major field force to surrender. He has represented Florida in the National Statuary Hall since 1922. A 9-foot marble statue of Bethune is already under construction in Italy, funded through donations to the Mary McLeod Bethune Statuary Fund Inc., a not-for-profit corporation set up through the Daytona Beach Community Foundation, Inc. and the university that bears her name. The new work is expected to arrive at the nation’s capitol in 2020. APOLLO 11 Continued from Page B1 space-themed cocktail or dessert with the purchase of full-price entree. The hotel is also offering an “Over the Moon” package, with room rates starting at $119 a night, which includes a $50 food-andbeverage credit on the first night of the stay at the hotel’s dining options, including Jack’s Place. The portraits in the restaurant were all drawn by Rosen Hotels and Resorts President Harris Rosen’s father, Jack Rosen, mostly from the 1930s to 1960s, during his time working at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. “It was a hobby of my Dad’s,” Harris Rosen wrote in an email. “He started years before he worked at the Waldorf. He would do this at various events and get paid for it. He was the attraction, walking around, creating caricatures. They got a big kick out of it.” In 1932, Jack Rosen started working as a safety engineer at the Waldorf Astoria, a hot spot for celebrities to stay while in town. He began sketching caricatures of famous guests who came through the hotel, drawing two copies one for the celebrity to keep and the other to sign. Along with the astronauts, his collection includes drawings of John F. Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth, Muhammad Ali, Alfred Hitchcock and Albert Einstein. After his father passed away in 1989, Harris Rosen said he found thousands of his drawings stacked in a closet. When he founded the Rosen Plaza Hotel in 1991, he said he decided to open Jack’s Place, a restaurant specializing in steak and seafood, in his father’s memory, using the drawings as the centerpiece attraction. “We were all so proud Dad was able to do them and do them well,” Harris Rosen said. “And to have the people sign them with great enthusiasm. It is something we are very, very proud of.” Harris Rosen said he believes that his father — credited with more than 100,000 drawings — had the largest collection of caricatures in the world. He was also a member of the National Cartoonist Society, along with famous artists such as Rube Goldberg, Charles Schultz and Jim Davis. Along with the famous people he sketched, Jack Rosen visited veterans’ hospitals to cheer up wounded veterans with his humorous drawings. His contributions led him to the Vietnam War, where he spent several months drawing caricatures of wounded military troops. When he returned, he was honored with the Medal of Commendation from President Lyndon Johnson for his work. Jack Rosen’s artwork and passion lives on at Jack’s Place. Rosen Plaza general manager Derek Baum said, on Friday and Saturday evenings, the restaurant has an artist who creates complementary caricatures of guests as keepsakes. Knowing the hotel held a little piece of history in the form of the signed astronaut caricatures led to the promotions celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing, Baum said. Along with all the the Apollo drawings, Harris Rosen felt connected to the Space Coast. Before he was president of Rosen Hotels was pleased with the district’s overall grade and the improvements in school marks, as the district made progress toward a goal of all campuses rated B or better. “We’re getting there, but there is still work to do,” she said in a statement. Though more Lake schools earned As, Leesburg Elementary dropped from a C to a D and Beverly Shores was labeled failing. Both schools are getting new principals and detailed improvement plans that “address academic, attendance and parent engagement,” the district said. Florida’s school grades, released yearly since 1999, are calculated based largely on student performance on the Florida Standards Assessments, a series of language arts and math exams, and standardized science and social studies tests. The grade calculation takes into account both the percentage of students who earn passing scores and the percentage who improve from the previous year. The A-to-F marks are controversial and yet relied on, with many arguing they can’t fairly sum up a school’s performance, but parents and others often using them as an easy way to gauge and compare campuses. After Seminole posted its grades on Facebook, one person wrote, “here is why you should be looking in Seminole county if you relocate to Central Florida.” The statewide teachers union, long critical of Florida’s school grades, last month released a report reminding readers that the grades closely follow the socioeconomic status of the students enrolled. Most Arated schools have enrollments that are less than 50 percent poor, it said, while most D and F schools have student poverty rates that top 90 percent. ROSEN PLAZA HOTEL PHOTOS Autographed caricature of Michael Collins, left, and Neil Armstrong, on display at Jack’s Place in the Rosen Plaza Hotel. ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11?: Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Orlando Sentinel’s new hard-cover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50 ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of it’s 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories — and pictures — from that time and we'll publish as many as we can online and in the paper. Submit your stories and pictures at OrlandoSentinel.com/ moonmemories and Resorts, he was an assistant general manager of the Hilton Cocoa Beach during the mid-1960s and sometimes the astronauts made their way through the hotel, he said. “Because our hotel was close to Cape Kennedy, I had the privilege of meeting several of the astronauts who periodically stayed with us,” Rosen said. “You can imagine my excitement years later when I rediscovered my Dad’s caricatures and found so many of the astronauts among his collection.” kelwood@orlandosentinel .com “As long as school grades remain, they are better suited to inform the public about the income of the school’s neighborhood than the power and potential of the students and educators in the school,” the Florida Education Association wrote, adding the state education department should be issued an F. Many educators agree with the union and dislike the grades, but they have become used to them after 21 years. And few can resist celebrating improvements. “It’s official!” wrote Orange’s Oak Ridge High School on Twitter, announcing its B grade after a C and D in recent years. “Thank you to our incredible students and our dedicated faculty and staff.” Karina Elwood of the Sentinel staff contributed to this story. lpostal@orlandosentinel .com STYLE & HOME Coming Sunday SPORTS Tips for hanging art like the pros Orlando City rides momentum Jameson: Most common issue is putting pictures up too high. D1 Lions will take the pitch again to host Columbus Crew rematch. C1 Everything and nothing changed in Cuba from when President Obama made it easier to travel there, to when President Trump made it harder. That is Sentinel reporter Kevin Spear’s take when he compares his 2015 visit with his visit in June. T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Saturday, July 13, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 ORLANDO SENTINEL EXCLUSIVE ICE, FBI TAP ‘FACES’ NETWORK Federal agencies searching Florida driver’s licenses for facial recognition, records show By Joey Roulette Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI are among 17 federal agencies that have access to every Florida driver’s license through a massive facial recognition network, records obtained by the Orlando Sentinel show. The network, called Face Analysis Comparison & Examination System (FACES), is maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and accessed by 273 “partner agencies,” including Customs and Border Protection and the IRS, as part of an exhaustive push from police agencies to use facial recog- ‘Flying Lessons’ headed to N.Y. festival nition as a law-enforcement tool. An agent can upload an image of an unknown person’s face to the program, which uses a facematching algorithm to check it against a repository of about 25 million images — pulled from mugshot collections and every driver’s license in Florida — to produce a lineup of visually similar matches. The recent development of face-scanning technology and its use of databases containing people who haven’t committed crimes has become a flashpoint for state and federal lawmakers, who say scant regulation and oversight make it ripe for civil rights abuses and breaches of privacy protections. Florida currently has no laws regulating police use of the technology. “This technology is not being regulated by any policy and can be easily abused and exploited,” state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, told the Orlando Sentinel, adding that ICE’s access to the database is “incredibly problematic and concerning.” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who told state lawmakers in January that FACES is the largest facial recognition network in the country, dismissed any concerns of abuse. Please turn to FACES, A9 NOLA braces as Barry looms RETURN TO CUBA PART I By Matthew J. Palm When Donald Rupe takes his play “Flying Lessons” to the New York Musical Festival this month, the trip will be a great deal longer than the thousand or so miles of driving. It’s a journey that began decades ago with a young boy facing formidable obstacles: Poverty, a drug-dependent mother, an erratic father. It involves a teacher who took an interest in the boy and eventually became a colleague, friend and now supporter of “Flying Lessons.” The play itself tells the story of a young Latina girl whose homework prompts her to re-evaluate her comRupe plicated relationship with her mother. But the story behind the play is just as emotional — a tale of overcoming adversity, believing in your dreams and finding success with the help of your friends. “It just feels like fate that this is happening for a show I wrote for kids in Osceola County,” said Rupe, 34, who grew up there. “Flying Lessons” came about because a few years ago Please turn to RUPE, A2 ‘Flying Lessons’ ■ What: See Donald Rupe’s play before it makes its New York debut July 22 at the New York Musical Festival. ■ When: 7:30 p.m. July 18 ■ Where: Tohopekaliga High School, 3675 Boggy Creek Road in Kissimmee ■ Cost: $15; $10 for students ■ Info: tickets.osceolaarts .org or 407-846-6257 Forecasters expect long, slow drenching with potential floods By Kevin McGill and Janet McConnaughey Associated Press Fernando Funes Monzote hopes his sustainable farming methods serve as a model for Cuba. HARVESTING HOPE FOR A BETTER CUBA NEW ORLEANS — Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in with the potential for an epic drenching that could prove whether New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana learned the lessons of Hurricane Katrina over a decade ago. With the strengthening storm expected to blow ashore early Saturday near Morgan City as the first hurricane of the season, authorities rushed to close floodgates and raise the barriers around the New Orleans metropolitan area of 1.3 million people for fear of disastrous flooding. Fernando Funes Monzote urges visitors to observe, absorb from his farm Photos and Words by Kevin Spear H AVANA — In a slow rebound from Cuba’s ruinous era of sugarcane agriculture, farmers are approaching their red-dirt fields with an appreciation for the artisanal, organic and small. “This is Chinese spinach,” said Fernando Funes Monzote, smiling at the effect on visitors when shown endives, chard, kale, escarole and radishes, all saturated with sharp and subtle colors from a larger artwork, his farm. “You can see the quality,” he said, adding oregano, rosemary and anise flowers. Funes founded his farm, Finca Marta, nearly eight years ago with a pick, shovel and wheelbarrow on a 20-acre rise. The tract offers a view of Havana’s skyline 20 miles to the east and catches breezes off the Straits of Florida 3 miles to the north. Funes, 48, hopes to satisfy two appetites, the kind served by a fork and the sort with deeper pangs. The agriculture scientist, community organizer and international speaker, whose hand dexterity is untroubled by an ever-present cigar and who can slip in and out of muddy boots with ease, wants to feed a nation’s hunger for a better life. “My dream is to transform the situation for Please turn to CUBA, A6 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Astronauts lived in Houston, trained in Florida By Stephen Hudak A pollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins commuted to work in Florida in a supersonic jet from 900 miles away. The two-seat Northrop T-38, which NASA also used regularly as a jet trainer for its stable of astronauts, enabled Collins to spend weekends with his wife Pat and the couple’s three children at their home in suburban Houston and still arrive on time at the Kennedy Space Center for Monday morning Moon-flight meetings. “Every astronaut could fly a T-38 whenever they needed to get from Houston to Florida or back,” said science journalist Nancy Atkinson, author of “Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions” and contributing editor of “Universe Today,” a space and astronomy news website. “It was the quickest and easiest way to get them from place to place.” Apollo 11’s moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin also piloted T-38s to work as the crew logged 14-hour train- ing days, six days a week for six months, mostly in Florida and Texas. Unlike the Mercury 7 astronauts, who were fixtures in their Please turn to APOLLO 11, A6 ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. “This is happening. Your preparedness window is shrinking. It’s powerful. It’s strengthening. And water is going to be a big issue.” Ken Graham, National Hurricane Center director About 3,000 National Guard troops along with other rescue crews were posted around the state with boats, high-water vehicles and helicopters. Drinking water was lined up, and utility crews with bucket trucks moved into position in the region. “This is happening. Your preparedness window is shrinking,” National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham warned. He added: “It’s powerful. It’s strengthening. And water is going to be a big issue.” While 10,000 people or more in exposed, low-lying areas along the Gulf coast were told to leave, no evacuations were ordered in New Orleans, where city officials instead urged residents to “shelter in place” starting at 8 p.m. Friday. Please turn to BARRY, A9 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Acosta out amid renewed scrutiny Labor secretary resigns days after defending his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein. A3 Parties clash at oversight hearing Dems accuse Trump of cruelty over detention facility conditions; GOP accuses Dems of playing politics. A3 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. House votes on prevention measure Provision would keep Trump from attacking Iran without congressional approval; Senate showdown likely. A4 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company A6 Orlando Sentinel CUBA Continued from Page A1 many people, to improve their lives and to live better here in Cuba,” Funes said. Cuba historically monopolized its farmland with sugarcane, employing the Soviets’ big tractors and heavy use of chemicals. Farmers became technicians disassociated from concern for soil, water and people, Funes said. Stunted in its agricultural maturity and abilities, the nation of 12 million residents has had to import the vast majority of its food — much of it canned and processed. At Finca Marta, fresh produce is nurtured in an amphitheater of neatly terraced beds. The beds are covered by an enormous spread of shade cloth, deflecting harsher sun and rain. The effect is of a cool, lush garden – a really big one. Funes’ farm has delivered 60 kinds of produce from arugula to zucchini in a battered Russian sedan – gutted and turned into a mini delivery van – to Havana restaurants for the past six years on Tuesdays and Fridays. Chefs buy every last leaf, fruit, vegetable and spice. That in itself is a wonder in a nation that destroys much of its food crop through inept distribution. “What we produce, we sell,” Funes said. “There are no losses.” Diners consuming his produce typically are not Cubans, whose average salary is $42 a month. A salad of Finca Marta greens, or a craft cocktail garnished with the farm’s herbs, each costs about $10 at El del Frente, an enlivened, rooftop restaurant in the older, touristy part of Havana. “When I visited Finca Marta earlier this year the food was fresh and delicious, as I had heard,” said Daniel Whittle, who has visited Cuba nearly 100 times since 2000 as a director for the Environmental Defense Fund. “But I was astonished at the variety of fresh vegetables Fernando and his wife Claudia were serving up, none of which are exactly staples of the Cuban diet.” Funes provides for neighbors but has larger a plan for feeding more Cubans, involving the purchase of a refrigerated van that would enable him to sell produce within urban neighborhoods. Fulfilling that goal will require an acquired patience in a nation that only in about the past decade has eased restrictions on Cubans owning cars and homes, traveling abroad and selling goods directly to private entrepreneurs. Funes, however, is not without resources, including outsized charisma, a doctoral degree from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and pedigree. His parents, Fernando Funes Aguilar and Marta Monzote, also agricultural scientists, were trailblazers in calling attention to the wreckage from Cuba’s heavy mechanization and use of chemicals for a single crop: sugarcane. In his Ph.D. thesis in 2008, Funes wrote that a decade of work with his mother brought “the most inspiring moments in my professional career thus far.” His mother died in 2007 and five years later, as Funes began KEVIN SPEAR/ORLANDO SENTINEL PHOTOS Fernando Funes Monzote surveys terraced beds at his Finca Marta farm west of Havana. Monzote, an agricultural scientist, hopes that his sustainable farming methods serve as a model for a better Cuba. Monzote founded his Finca Marta farm nearly eight years ago. digging a well by hand, he named his farm after her. That well would become Finca Marta’s liquid heart but has served as its psychological touchstone. To acquire farmland, Funes bought the disintegrating home of an elderly man who had not cultivated his surrounding fields for many years. With that purchase, Funes then secured government rights to 20 acres. The place had gone wild with tough, thorny vines. But that was cosmetic compared with a larger concern: no water source. “The well was a metaphor for the will for transformation,” Funes said. “When we started digging, neighbors thought that we were crazy. Few people would be willing to dig a well in rock for seven months. We had to spend thousands of hours breaking rocks.” Drinkable water greeted the diggers at 50 feet; a farm was born. The four “pillars” for Finca Marta are environmental harmony, education and research, equitable trade and tourism. Environmental harmony includes a gravity-flow system for manure. Waste washed from the barn each morning flows into a digester that produces methane for the farm’s kitchen stove and a decomposed slurry for enriching soil. A pair of solar panels runs the pump for the well, and Funes hopes one day to go fully off the grid. “Agro-tourism is important for nourishing broader respect “that agriculture could be a good life.” “It’s not only about producing food,” Funes said. “It’s part of the transformation of life in the countryside for the benefit of the whole society.” Also key to Funes’ approach: keep it small. He does not plan to grow the size of his farm, with about a dozen workers, because that would require a move to monoculture that ruins the connection between people and nature, he said. Instead he wants to spread networks of farms like his. APOLLO 11 Continued from Page A1 Corvettes in the Cocoa area when the space program began and mission control was based at Cape Canaveral, the Apollo 11 crew was more closely tied to Houston and the Manned Spacecraft Center, which opened in1964. Many of their neighbors in the Texas town of El Lago also were astronauts. The crew moved into a home base at the NASA Florida complex only a few weeks before blasting off for the moon. The astronauts’ families stayed in Texas and did not come to the Cape on a regular basis as their fathers were generally working long hours. “Actually we never lived in Florida, during the ’60s or any other time,” said Rick Armstrong, who was 12 when his famous father walked on the moon. But the family did visit the Space Coast. “The main thing I remember is that we always looked forward to the beach there because the waves were bigger than they were at Galveston Beach in Texas,” he said. A guitarist, the younger Armstrong and progressive rock band Edison’s Children will play a free concert Saturday at the Cocoa Riverfront Park as part of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s “Celebrating Apollo” events marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s historic flight. The band, billed as a “science fictionoriented progressive rock NASA The Operations & Checkout Building, a five-story structure at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, housed the living quarters for the Apollo 11 crew in the final month before blastoff. trio,” will open for the Alan Parsons Project. Neil Armstrong died in 2012 at age 82. Both Aldrin, 89, and Collins, 88, reside in Florida. “More often than not, when the families came, it was because a [space] event was occurring — a launch or some kind of publicity event,” said University of Central Florida history professor Lori Walters, who has conducted numerous oral histories of individuals involved in the space program. “It’s not like they had accommodations and came all the time.” “You have to remember their kids were in school and a launch meant long hours at work,” she said. According to a NASA archivist, “During the Apollo Program, the primary and backup astronaut crews arrived at KSC roughly three months before the mission… For the first two months, the astronauts could stay where they wished. Beginning 21 days before launch, however, they were required to stay in the crew quarters, and their movements were limited to designated areas within the Flight Crew Training Building and the launch pad. This was to reduce the risk of the astronauts becoming sick prior to launch, which could potentially delay a mission.” In “Carrying the Fire,” an autobiography of his space career, Collins described living quarters in the Operations & Checkout Building at the Cape as “monastic.” “Generally we crew mem- bers enjoyed the bright lights and freedom of Cocoa Beach to the last possible moment. On Gemini 10, John [Young] and I had stayed on the beach until the last week, but this time it was different,” he wrote, referring to the fellow astronaut for whom Orlando named one of its central parkways. “We needed a month sealed off from the world, to live and relive the complex venture before us, and crew quarters was the only place to do that. Crew quarters abutted our offices in the huge assembly and test building on Merritt Island. With a special key, one gained access to a small living room and a windowless corridor with small windowless bedrooms on either side of it …” NASA said the crews “Organic is soil. Organic is live. Organic is people,” he said. “It builds equity, good socio-economic status and just distribution of the benefits.” The farm has one, prized piece of mechanization: a tiller purchased this year. It is powered by a small gas engine but otherwise is manually operated in preparing the soils of terraced beds. Of the spread of small-scale, sustainable farming in Cuba, Funes has been a leading ambassador, speaking to universities, foundations and trade groups in the U.S. and other countries. Funes also went to Washington, D.C., this spring, meeting with congressional representatives. “I have been impressed with Fernando Funes’ research on rural development and sustainable agriculture,” said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat. “… his farm can serve as a model for flourishing, sustainable and cooperative rural livelihoods.” Funes said there is enormous potential for agricultural advances from better cooperation with the U.S. He said relations between the two nations can hinge partly on Cuba’s rise of small farming. “We can make an impact on society by showing what we do here, that other ways are possible,” he said. “I’m not a politician, but I’m Cuban.” kspear@orlandosentinel.com Orlando Sentinel reporter Kevin Spear visited Cuba in 2015 as President Barack Obama made it easier for Americans to travel there. Spear returned in June, days after President Donald Trump reimposed significant restrictions. trained for the moon mission on simulators at the Flight Crew Training Building; the lounge areas provided the astronauts with a place to relax in the evenings and between training periods; a fully equipped gym allowed them to stay in top physical condition; the conference room and office areas gave them a place to study and discuss mission operations; and a kitchen and dining room provided them with meals. The cook was Lew Hartzell, who had spent years preparing meals on a tugboat and on social yachts. According to Collins’ book, “… when he was full of beer he recounted good stories of celebrities falling overboard and other excitement, but mostly he stayed in his kitchen and cooked…. It did no good to tell Lew that you were on a diet; he took no offense, he simply ignored this irrelevant information. The tugboat must plow ahead, even through heavy seas. Reaching the moon obviously necessitated heroic measures in the kitchen. More meat, more potatoes, more bread, more dessert!” The crew’s sequestered quarters provided a quiet space to study and concentrate, Collins wrote. “The crew quarters environment, instead of being strange and unfamiliar, was as comfortable as an old shoe,” he wrote. “I even had the same bedroom as before Gemini with the same photograph of an exquisite milk-skinned brunette in a dark-red one-piece bathing suit perched demurely on the stone steps of a crumbling building in what appeared to be an Italian hill village. She was my pin-up patron saint from before, and she reminded me that people did go from this room into the sky and return safely to earth.” Stephen Hudak can be reached at shudak@ orlandosentinel .com or 407-650-6361. ■ WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo50 ■ MOON MEMORIES: As part of its 50th anniversary coverage of the moon landing, the Sentinel wants YOU to be part of the coverage. Send us your memories from that time and we’ll publish as many as we can online. Submit your stories and photos at OrlandoSentinel.com /moonmemories LOCAL & STATE SPORTS Scott Maxwell: Appointees by governors often the source. B1 Halep dominates final round to become Wimbledon champ. C1 Something stinks in Florida politics Save up to $102.50 Williams denied 24th major title in coupons Inside this weekend’s inserts T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Sunday, July 14, 2019 FINAL EDITION COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 $4.00 BARRY SLOWLY THRASHES LOUISIANA RETURN TO CUBA Race to moon helped create today’s world By Kevin Spear A s we near Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary, former Orlando Sentinel editor Charles Fishman spoke with the Sentinel about his book recently published by Simon & Schuster: “One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon.” Why did President Kennedy think it was even possible to land on the moon? It was May 25, 1961, when President Kennedy said, “Let’s go to the moon.” At that moment, the U.S. had no rockets with which to launch to the moon, no launch pads from which to send them, no spacesuits for moon walking astronauts, no spaceships to get fly there, no computers small enough and powerful to fly those ships to the Moon, and no space food for them to eat on the way. The day of Kennedy’s speech, the U.S. had 15 minutes total manned spaceflight experience, from the first mission by Alan Shepard, which did nothing but loop up from Cape Canaveral, arc up into space for 5 minutes, and then land back in the Atlantic Ocean just 303 miles southPlease turn to APOLLO 11, A8 Coast Guard rescues more than a dozen people from Isle de Jean Charles By Kevin McGill and Janet McConnaughey Associated Press KEVIN SPEAR/ORLANDO SENTINEL PHOTOS “A lot of other countries are doing business in Cuba,” an artist said. “Why isn’t the United States? You could be the boss of Cuba.” ‘EL CAMBIO’ ‘The Change:’ Everything and nothing has changed for the island nation just minutes south of Florida By Kevin Spear HAVANA — Everything and nothing has changed in Cuba from when President Obama made it easier for Americans to travel there and President Trump made it harder. After Obama reopened the U.S. embassy in 2015, a lot of American tourists flooded to Cuba but were one-and-done, seeing the island as the long-forbidden curiosity and not a recurring vacation. Then, last month, Trump nullified significant permissions that had allowed U.S. citizens to experience a nation minutes south of Florida. Americans still come, but their clogging of Havana streets and restaurants has subsided. The collective reaction, according to Please turn to CUBA, A10 COMING TUESDAY Starting Tuesday, the day Apollo 11 launched 50 years ago, the Orlando Sentinel will republish its 1969 newspaper pages covering the moon mission. Pages from July 15 to July 21 editions of the Orlando Sentinel and its afternoon newspaper, the Orlando Evening Star, will appear daily in the electronic e-edition of the newspaper that is available to all print and digital subscribers. The pages will also be posted each day on OrlandoSentinel.com. You can find the e-edition of the newspaper at OrlandoSentinel.com/e-newspaper. And all of our coverage of the Apollo 11 anniversary can be found at OrlandoSentinel.com/apollo11 Havana combines colonial architecture in a dizzying flux of disintegration and reconstruction. NEW ORLEANS — Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that could test the levees and pumps that were bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. After briefly becoming a Category 1 hurricane, the system weakened to a tropical storm as it made landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana, 160 miles west of New Orleans, with its winds falling to 70 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. New Orleans had been spared the storm’s worst effects, receiving only sporadic light showers and gusty winds. But officials warned that Barry could still cause disastrous flooding across a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast and drop up to 20 inches of rain through Sunday across a part of Louisiana that includes New Orleans and Baton Rouge. “This is just the beginning,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “It’s going to be a long several days for our state.” The Coast Guard rescued more than a dozen people from Isle de Jean Charles, where water rose so high that some residents clung to rooftops. The remote area is 80 miles southwest of New Orleans. None of the main levees on the Mississippi River failed or were breached, Edwards said. But video showed water overtopping a levee in Plaquemines Parish, south of Please turn to BARRY, A20 Obsession, money, lies tore this family apart A jury will decide whether Grant Amato killed them By Michael Williams Margaret Amato was known for two things: loving her family and having a soft spot in her heart for horses that were being neglected. She rescued a brown-coated former racehorse named Lady about 10 years ago, after the hungry mare kept wandering into her rural Seminole County yard. Nearly every day, Amato rode her bike from her Sultan Circle home to the nearby Miracle Lane stables, where she boarded the horse and worked tirelessly to rehabilitate it. Margaret was bucked several times while training Lady, said her neighbor Jewel Tieben, but remained unwavering in her commitment to get back in the saddle. “Some of us would shake our heads,” Tieben said. “But Margaret never gave up on Lady, and it blossomed into a wonderful relationship because Margaret never gave up.” Even after Lady died, Margaret regularly returned to the Miracle Lane stables to brush, train and be around the other horses, Please turn to AMATO, A22 SEMINOLE-BREVARD STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Grant Amato, right, poses with his brother Cody during a trip to Japan in December. 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Kennedy wanted to do something bold, that unequivocally showed the world that the U.S. was back in the lead in space, compared to the Russians. He did three things before giving the speech. He asked for advice about the best goal from a whole range of NASA scientists and advisers. Rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and NASA’s senior staff, including Hugh Dryden, the second in command at NASA, for instance, both told Kennedy and Johnson a Moon landing was feasible. Kennedy put Vice President Lyndon Johnson in charge of assessing those ideas, getting more advice, and coming up with a recommendation — all within just a couple weeks. And the third thing Kennedy did was take a leap of faith. He wasn’t particularly schooled in technology or science, but he was a good listener, and he thought if NASA were given the moon mission, they would rally to the challenge. Just to be clear, though, even Kennedy knew the odds weren’t great. NASA’s senior officials told Kennedy that the odds of putting an astronaut on the moon, returning him safely to Earth, and doing it by the end of the decade were just 50⁄50. That’s where the leap of faith came in. What part of going to the Moon was the most difficult to solve? Coming up with an all new material that could protect the astronauts, and the Apollo capsule, from the 5,000-degree heat of re-entry while coming back to Earth — that was hard. Designing a car that was light enough to fly to the moon (460 pounds), could be folded up like a piece of origami so it didn’t take up much space, but gave the astronauts freedom to explore — that was hard. Building rocket engines with the power to launch the Saturn V, and rocket engines with the delicacy to put the lunar module gently down on the Moon — that was hard. Even figuring out how to design a flag and flagpole contraption that would make it look like the American flag was “flying” on the airless surface of the moon required real ingenuity. One of the hardest tasks — and one that hasn’t gotten much attention — was how to design the onboard flight computers for the Apollo spacecraft. In order to do the navigation to get to the moon, the command module and the lunar module needed high-speed computers that worked in realtime, that never made a mistake, and that the astronauts themselves could operate. Those computers needed to be small and lightweight. When MIT got the contract to design and program those computers, nothing like them existed anywhere in the world. The typical computer was the size of a couple refrigerators lined up sideby-side, and it required “operators” to make it work, and you waited hours for your computer runs to be returned. MIT created a computer about the size of a typical sheet-cake from a grocery store — just two feet long, one foot wide, 6 inches high. It was designed specifically so the astronauts could learn to use it (they practiced by running through flight operations over and over for hours). When the Apollo guidance computer flew to the moon, it was the smallest, fastest, most nimble computer ever created — and in flight it worked perfectly every time. It was the first computer anywhere to have responsibility for human lives. But making it was a huge, risky and harrowing undertaking. At one point, MIT had written brilliant software programs that were, however, 40% larger than the computer’s memory could hold. NASA had to send a senior official — a man named Bill Tindall — up to Cambridge to grab hold of MIT’s project and get it sorted out, or the Apollo missions never would have flown. When it came to building the advanced technology, in a surprising number of cases, Apollo’s innovations banged up against the limits of engineering of the 1960s. The heat shield material had to be applied by hand, using a version of a caulk gun, with “gunners” squirting the material into 370,000 individual cells in the heat shield’s honeycomb frame, one cell at time. The software for those Apollo flight computers was woven, by hand, one wire at a time, by women at a factory in Waltham, Massachusetts — it took dozens of women six week to “weave” the memory for just a single Apollo computer. And both the heat shield squirting and the software weaving had to be perfect — every cell, every wire. NASA and its contractors sim- Local TV and national news explore stellar feat By Hal Boedeker ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. C entral Florida’s TV stations will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo11moon landing with specials, extensive reporting and even a block party. Some stations will focus their efforts on Tuesday, the date Apollo 11 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. WESH-Channel 2 presents “Moon Mission at 50: from Launch to Landing” at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Host Michelle Imperato draws on space reporter Dan Billow, who has covered NASA for more than 30 years. The special features Philip Franklin Moyer, who designed the Vehicle Assembly Building. Moyer, 95, lives in Vero Beach. The program shares restored footage, in high definition, of Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. WKMG-Channel 6 plans indepth reporting through the day Tuesday and is calling it “Florida’s Space Race: The Next Step.” The CBS affiliate revisits its coverage 50 years ago. The station looks to the future with reports on the changing space industry and companies in Texas and California that will affect the Space Coast. There’s more — stories, an interactive map and a place to share memories — on clickorlando.com/moonlanding. WFTV-Channel 9 will present the special “Eyewitness to History: Apollo 11 Fifty Years Later” at 8 p.m. July 20. Anchors Greg Warmoth and Martha Sugalski host from the Kennedy Space Center. The program, which repeats at 11 p.m. July 20 and 21, explains how NASA pulled off the moon landing and examines the Space Coast’s role in future missions. The 4 p.m. news will present Apollo 11 reports Monday through July 19. There’s an interview with JoAnn Morgan, the only woman in the launch firing room for the Apollo11 liftoff. WFTV also looks at show the space program transformed the Space Coast. WOFL-Channel 35 will have extensive coverage during its newscasts through the week. (WOFL has a content-sharing agreement with the Sentinel.) Spectrum News 13 begins its coverage Saturday with live reply never gave up, even if it meant weaving computer software by hand with a needle and wire. The interesting thing is that NASA often turned to surprising places for solutions. The best example: The spacesuits were made by the industrial division of Playtex, the “cross your heart bra” people. Playtex pointed out that they were very familiar with garments that had to be both form-fitting and flexible. That division is still making NASA spacesuits to this day. ‘One Giant Leap’ tells stories of unforgettable characters who seemed to have a critical impact at just the right moment. At the core of the story of the race to the moon are three men who actually made it possible for America to get there, but whose stories have never before been told in detail. Charles Stark Draper was an MIT professor and aeronautical engineer, and he quite literally invented the technology that allowed humans to navigate in space, working with his colleagues at MIT, starting in World War II. That was an era when the technology of navigation was advancing very quickly, and the need for precision navigation (to do things like aim nuclear weapons) was also advancing. MIT, because of Draper, was at the cutting edge — so much so that in the1950s and1960s, MIT maintained its own fleet of aircraft, and staff of pilots, to test and perfect Draper’s innovations. John Houbolt was a NASA engineer who was a real iconoclast. Houbolt realized as early as the late 1950s that you couldn’t send a huge rocket all the way to the moon, land it, and fly it home. It wasn’t practical — in terms of landing safely on the moon (backwards), in terms of the fuel required. But for years that single huge rocket was, in fact, NASA’s plan. Houbolt put his own job and reputation at risk to prove to his NASA colleagues that you needed a small moon landing shuttle — a specialized vehicle just for landing on the moon. That’s where the lunar module came from, and the moon landings wouldn’t have happened with it. And as mentioned above, Bill Tindall was the NASA official from Houston who stepped in and rescued the Apollo computers from a slow-moving disaster at MIT that EDWIN E. “BUZZ” ALDRIN JR./NASA Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, walks on the moon near the lunar lander and the U.S. flag on July 20, 1069. With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon before the eyes of hundreds of millions of awed television viewers worldwide. With that step, he placed mankind’s first footprint on an extraterrestrial world and gained instant hero status. ports from the Astronaut Parade in downtown Cocoa Beach and will cover festivities through July 24. The channel will air reports of community events, including the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation panel discussion, the Apollo 11 workers reunion and the 50th anniversary celebration at the Kennedy Space Center. In national coverage, Norah O’Donnell on Tuesday will anchor the “CBS Evening News” from Kennedy Space Center. The newscast will offer Apollo 11 reports through the week. O’Donnell hosts the special “Man on the Moon” at 10 p.m. Tuesday. On NBC, “Today” looks at female scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center on Monday, Armstrong’s refurbished space suit on Tuesday and the Apollo moon rocks on Thursday. Harry Smith offers the essay “Why America Needed Apollo 11” on July 19. “NBC Nightly News” has scheduled these reports: Tom Costello’s visit to the restored Apollo Mission Control on Monday; Joe Fryer’s look at the moon, from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, on Tuesday; and Costello’s take on future missions on Thursday. Lester Holt presents the essay “The Wonder of Space” on July 19. On July 20, “Weekend Nightly News” tells of a former NASA intern who has the only known original videotape of the moon landing. ABC’s “Good Morning would otherwise have crippled them, and the mission itself. He won over the MIT engineers using humor, expertise, and what is perhaps the most amazing series of workplace memos ever written, anywhere (called Tindallgrams). All three of those men — all but unknown outside of NASA and the world of space — were as critical to the Apollo Moon landings as Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, and the astronauts themselves would tell you that. You convey in ‘One Giant Leap’ that President Kennedy was losing interest in the moon landings, and that it was President Johnson who really made them happen in the end. Would we have landed on the moon if Kennedy had gone on to a second term as president? No. If President Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated in Dallas, I don’t think Armstrong and Aldrin would have landed at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969. That’s not the conventional historical wisdom. But if you listen to the secret tapes Kennedy made of his meetings about space in the White House — tapes where he says, among other things, “I’m not that interested in space” — if you look at how Kennedy was trying to ease the Cold War rivalry with the Russians, if you look at the fading enthusiasm for the money that Apollo was costing in Congress, I think Kennedy would have stopped pushing for a moon landing if he had been re-elected to a second term. He wouldn’t have stopped saying that he wanted to go to the moon — he had too much political investment in it — but he would have let Congress set the pace with funding, and that would have pushed any moon landings into the 1970s. And in the case of space, delay is often the same as not doing something. In fact, unlike Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson was an authentic fan of space, space travel and space exploration. And in what was a bald political move, he made fulfilling Kennedy’s mission of landing on the moon a tribute to the dead president. Johnson pushed Congress for the money, and he made the moon landings politically invulnerable, because of Kennedy’s America” and “World News Tonight With David Muir” offer Apollo 11 reports through the week. On Thursday, “Nightline” re-creates the moon landing in an animated piece. Fox News Channel will present a live edition of “America’s News Headquarters” from noon to 2 p.m. July 20 from the Kennedy Space Center. Host Kristin Fisher will be joined by Gene Kranz, chief flight director for Apollo 11, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. CNN will present “Apollo 11,” the epic documentary from director/producer Todd Douglas Miller, at 9 p.m. July 20 with a repeat at midnight. WUCF TV, Orlando’s PBS station, will offer a series of specials. They include “When We Were Apollo” at 10 p.m. Monday, “Nova: Apollo’s Daring Mission” at 10 p.m. Tuesday, and two on Wednesday, “A Year in Space” at 8 p.m. and “8 Days: To the Moon and Back” at 9. In partnership with the Orange County Library System and the Orange County Regional History Center, WUCF will present the One Giant Leap Block Party from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 20. Activities are in downtown Orlando at the center, 65 E. Central Blvd., and at the library, 101 E. Central Blvd. Experts will speak, virtual reality experiences will be offered, and 1960s or space-themed attire is encouraged. hboedeker@orlandosentinel. com death. It was Johnson who renamed Cape Canaveral as Cape Kennedy. Most people know that. The surprise is how it happened. Kennedy was killed on a Friday afternoon. The following Wednesday, Jackie Kennedy met privately in the Oval Office with Johnson for 15 minutes, to thank him for all that he had done for her husband’s funeral. At that brief meeting, just five days after her husband’s killing, Jackie Kennedy asked Johnson to rename Cape Canaveral as Cape Kennedy — as a tribute. Johnson liked the idea so much he called the governor of Florida, C. Farris Bryant, right then to get his support, with Jackie still in the office. The symbolism is striking: We weren’t going to fail to reach the moon once we had Cape Kennedy. Johnson announced the new name the next day, and on the Friday one week after the assassination, new signs were being hung at Cape Kennedy. As the introduction of ‘One Giant Leap’ promised, there was a surprise on nearly every page. What surprised you? I wanted there to be a surprise on every page, because as I worked on the book, I stumbled into a surprise every day, often more than once a day. For me, I think, the human elements were the surprising parts — the small moments that bring that era, and those people, to life. The astronauts carried star charts with them in their spaceships — paper star charts — so they could check the navigation of the computer using a sextant and the stars themselves. The astronauts played occasional pranks on each other. The Apollo 12 astronauts, for instance, found pictures of Playboy playmates laminated inside their checklists, literally the checklists that were attached to their spacesuit gloves, to be used on the surface of the moon. That wouldn’t happen today, of course, but it was considered a way of reminding the astronauts to be human, even on the moon, and to have fun. The astronauts never whispered a word about those centerfold pictures — they only came to light 25 years after Apollo 12, in a story in Playboy. When Armstrong and Aldrin got back in the lunar module Eagle, WANT MORE APOLLO 11? Order your copy of “Apollo 50,” the Sentinel’s new hardcover keepsake book chronicling the 50th anniversary of America’s moon landing. Order before July 21 and get $10 off the cover price. Supplies are limited. Order your copy at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo50 after that first moon walk, sealed the hatch, and took off their helmets, they noticed a distinctive smell inside the cockpit. It turns out that moon dust has a smell — a very sharp odor, like fireplace ashes, or the air after a fireworks show. That smell was a total surprise to everyone, and each of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon noticed it and commented on it. A totally human moment, a small moment of real exploration and discovery — and a moment no robotic probe could have provided. ‘One Giant Leap’ stresses that the moon landings were a success for the nation and mankind on many levels. Give us a sense of that. We completely misunderstand Apollo, and how it fits into our history and life today. First, we misunderstand the impact. People smile and say, well, at least we got Tang and Velcro from going to the moon. In fact, the race to the Moon in the 1960s required such innovative technology and computer development, that it really laid the foundation of the digital revolution that blossomed a few years later in the 1970s. NASA and MIT proved how valuable computer chips were, at a time when no one trusted them. NASA also showed how computer technology could be used for things besides warfare — we spent a decade watching people sit at computer consoles, and those people were doing the hardest thing you could imagine — flying to the moon! — using computers. Both technologically and culturally, the race to the moon helped create the world we live in today. By the way, Apollo didn’t “invent” either Tang or Velcro — and NASA finds that misconception so common, it maintains a webpage just to debunk that myth. (https:// www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/home/ myth_tang.html) And we misunderstand Apollo in another important way. There is an air of nostalgia and wistfulness when people today think about it — if only we did big things today, like going to the Moon. If only today’s America had the qualities of the America that landed astronauts on the Moon. We still do big things, we just quickly lose sight of them. America decoded the human genome. America invented the internet. Both of those have changed human life and human history. And America is at least as determined and innovative today as it was in the 1960s — and almost as divided politically, as well. Americans will still do big things — we just need to be asked, as we were with Apollo. We just need to be rallied to the cause. The space shuttle and the International Space Station were — are — soaring technical achievements. But both programs lacked something at the core that Apollo had: A mission. A purpose. What exactly is the mission of the space station? Just as we hit the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, though, we’re really having a second Space Age — the dawning of real commercial achievements in space, and a fresh rivalry among the U.S., China, and India. Apollo was such a “giant leap” that it’s taken us 50 years to catch up with ourselves. But I think 50 years from now, we will be living in a world where space travel, and a space economy, are as much a part of our lives as the digital world is today. Prior to his work at the Sentinel in the late 1980s, Fishman had been part of a Washington Post team reporting on the space shuttle Challenger disaster. He has reported on space exploration since then for The Atlantic, Fast Company and Smithsonian. Sentinel reporter Kevin Spear has often covered the space program, including the shuttle Columbia disaster, and has known Fishman since they met at the Washington Post in 1984. kspear@orlandosentinel.com SPORTS CENTRAL FLORIDA BUSINESS Lussi header with seconds left delivers Portland a 4-3 win. C1 PatientMatters helps hospitals, patients work through system. D1 Navigating the billing maze Pride stuck by Thorns at the end T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Monday, July 15, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 Probe: Man dies after guardian files DNR Order went against stated wishes of Navy veteran, 75 By Monivette Cordeiro A man died at a Tampa hospital after staff could not perform lifesaving procedures because of a “do not resuscitate” order his Orlando guardian filed against his wishes, state investigators determined. The investigation into the final days of 75-year-old Steven Stryker of Cocoa caused Circuit Judge Janet C. Thorpe to seek the removal of his court-appointed guardian, Rebecca Fierle, from 98 Orange County cases at once in a hearing sealed from the media last week. Thorpe found Fierl e had “abused her powers” by requesting that incapacitated clients not receive medical treatment if their heart or breathing stopped — without permission from their families or the court, records show. Guardians are court-appointed decision-makers for minors and Money to hire more deputies in budget plan adults with mental and physical disabilities, known as wards. The investigation into Fierle was done by the Okaloosa County Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller, part of the Clerks’ Statewide Investigations of Professional Guardians Alliance. The Orlando Sentinel obtained a redacted copy of the report from the investigation, written by Andrew Thurman, an auditor and investigator under the Okaloosa Clerk’s inspector general department. The investigation concluded that Fierle refused to remove the DNR despite Stryker’s desire for lifesaving actions, and that her claims about his final wishes contradicted his daughter, friend and a psychiatrist. “The ward had never previously expressed a desire to die, and it seems unlikely that, as soon as he was appointed a Stryker guardian, he would suddenly be unwilling to tolerate a condition that he had been dealing with for many years,” investigators wrote. Fierle and her attorney did not immediately respond to requests Amelia Court is a 256-unit mix of market rate, affordable housing By Stephen Hudak Please turn to BUDGET, A7 By Ryan Gillespie PATRICK CONNOLLY/ORLANDO SENTINEL A bronze statue by Colorado-based sculptors George and Mark Lundeen, seen Friday, depicts Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, from left, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin in the new Moon Tree Garden at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo/Saturn V Center. Kennedy Space Center unveils astronaut statue Cape Canaveral center also updated the Apollo/Saturn V Center landing By Patrick Connolly T JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said in regards to the budget proposal, “I remain committed to providing the resources to keep our citizens and visitors safe.” Please turn to STRYKER, A6 Workforce housing complex opens COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Proposal also would give full-time county employees a raise Orange County’s proposed 2019-20 budget, the first spending plan under new Mayor Jerry Demings, includes money to hire 52 new deputies and 53 more firefighter/paramedics, and it includes a $650,000 pledge toward a state-of-the-county promise that all full-time county employees will earn at least $15 an hour by 2021. “I remain committed to providing the resources to keep our citizens and visitors safe,” said Demings, the county’s sheriff for a decade before winning the mayor’s seat last year. The additional deputies “will help us keep pace with law enforcement needs,” he said. Demings, who also served as Orlando police chief, said crime in unincorporated Orange County fell last year by 7 percent from the previous year. for comment. Ahead of the hearing Thursday, attorneys for Fierle tried to have Thorpe disqualified from the cases, arguing the guardian has “a wellfounded fear that she will not receive a fair trial or hearing,” according to court records. The investigation began after Stryker’s daughter, Kim Stryker, submitted a complaint to the 9th Judicial Circuit on May 9 alleging that Fierle refused to re- he Florida summer sun shone down on Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins as media and VIPs gathered for an event at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo/Saturn V Center. Or rather a glimmering, bronze, 7-foot-tall rendition of them. The Cape Canaveral center’s new statue was unveiled along with recent updates to the Apollo/Saturn V Center as the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary approaches. Therrin Protze, chief operating officer of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, said it’s like the bronze astronauts have a perfect view for watching the current rocket launches. “As we were putting this up, we noticed how they perfectly overlook the pad. So as rockets go up, we even have Neil Armstrong Please turn to APOLLO, A8 ■ INSIDE Whitley: Apollo 11 was the ultimate blast for reporter. B1 ■ Coming Tuesday: Starting Tuesday, the anniversary of the day Apollo 11 launched 50 years ago, the Orlando Sentinel will republish its 1969 newspaper pages covering the moon mission. Pages from July 15 to 21 editions of the Orlando Sentinel and its afternoon newspaper, the Orlando Evening Star, will appear daily in the electronic e-edition of the newspaper that is available to all print and digital subscribers. The pages will also be posted each day on OrlandoSentinel.com. Creative Village has been cranes and construction crews for years. But finally, residents are starting to arrive, with a slew of others on the way soon. The Amelia Court at Creative Village apartment complex, a 256-unit mix of affordable and market-rate units, is now open, with one tower fully leased and occupied. The second tower will be the same by the end of the month, the developer said. The opening of the building marks the first at Creative Village, though next month will bring the arrival of the 15-acre, joint UCF and and Valencia campus there, bringing about 8,000 students as well as faculty and staff to the neighborhood west of downtown. Classes start Aug. 26. “We’re bringing families back to Parramore,” Mayor Buddy Dyer said Friday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “Most of the units here are three-bedroom units, so it’s going to give an opportunity for families that can’t afford really high-end apartments to be able to live right here in Parramore and actually live in one of the most exciting growth areas of our entire city.” The apartments are across the street from the public Academic Center for Excellence, a public K-8 school, near the college campus and also close to a stop for the LYMMO circulator bus. The complex at Amelia Street and Parramore Avenue is considered mixed-income, with177 units set aside for renters making less Please turn to HOUSING, A8 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Trump attacks women with tweet Four liberals who have been critical of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are told to “go back” to their countries. A3 Churches answer call in ICE threat As an immigration crackdown loomed, religious leaders used their pulpits to quell concerns, spring to action. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Blackout hits parts of Manhattan A power outage crippled the borough just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to go on. A5 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A8 Orlando Sentinel Monday, July 15, 2019 R HOUSING Continued from Page A1 than the area’s median household income of $48,600 a year, said Scott Culp, executive vice president of Winter Park-based Atlantic Housing Partners, which developed the project. Those affordable units are divided up according to income level and household size. So a single person making $14,580 a year would pay $476 a month to rent a onebedroom apartment, while a family of six bringing in $64,480 a year would pay $1,343 a month for a threebedroom, according to a chart distributed by the developer. Among market rates apartments, rents range from $1,199 to $1,529. “This is not student housing,” Culp said, despite its proximity to the campus. “But that rent range is really broad, so we could have that same unit renting for somewhere around $500 and that same unit renting for $1,500 depending on where that family falls on that household income.” Commissioner Regina Hill, who grew up about two blocks from the site and represents Parramore, said the city has found success in mixed-income complexes, where children from lowincome families can see businessmen and women, teachers and other professionals go to work each day, and develop relationships across economic backgrounds. “For a period, this particular area was filled with crack and drugs and unemployment. To see it now being transformed to hope, to a hub for education and now adequate and safe housing with diversity is phenomenal,” Hill said. The Creative Village is seen as a transformative landmark for Parramore by city officials, creating an educational hub in downtown with graduate, bachelor, associate, certificates and job training programs. The campus is bounded by Livingston Street to the north, train tracks to the south, Parramore Avenue to the west and Hughey Avenue to the east. The school will have a 15-story tower with housing for about 600 students as well as academic spaces and retail. UCF and Valencia students will attend some classes together, with classrooms, library, financial aid and dorms shared between students. The dorms are about 76% full, said Jamie Giller, UCF Downtown’s marketing director. The campus will be home to a dozen graduatelevel programs and eight undergraduate majors, including legal studies and communications. Ten of Valencia’s associates programs will also be at the school. 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The statue, which also depicts Aldrin holding a painted American flag and Collins holding his helmet while proudly gazing upward, was a $750,000 gift from Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. It was created by Colorado-based sculptors George and Mark Lundeen and made a nearly 2,000-mile road trip to its permanent home. Moon Tree Garden The Apollo 11 astronaut statue is surrounded by a tribute to all of the crewed Apollo missions. The newly opened Moon Tree Garden features 12 trees, one for each of the manned Apollo trips to space. Rosemary Roosa, president of the Moon Tree Foundation and daughter of Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa, said she has a personal connection to the trees planted in the garden. “Inside the [Apollo 14] Command Module was a tiny canister of almost 450 tree seeds of five different varieties that represented trees that grew across the United States,” Roosa said. “One such tree was planted here at Kennedy Space Center, and it lived here happily for 40 years until Hurricane Irma took it out.” The original tree was a sycamore planted in 1976 during the United States’ bicentennial celebrations. After the original tree fell, Roosa donated second-generation seeds, to create what NASA calls half-moon trees, and plant the Moon Tree Garden. A plaque in front of each tree details a different crewed Apollo mission. “Hopefully, these trees can unite the world again through their beauty and their inspiration,” Roosa said. A more interactive Apollo/Saturn V Center The nearby Apollo/Sat- EZ-Pay is the easy way to pay your subscription! Call 407-420-5353 and sign up TODAY! RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PATRICK CONNOLLY/ORLANDO SENTINEL The Apollo lunar module came down from its former place on the ceiling to its new home on the floor in a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo/Saturn V Center, as seen on Friday. urn V Center has also received a facelift in the form of new, interactive exhibits ahead of the Apollo 11 anniversary. Set to be unveiled during a public “transformation celebration” on July 15, the reimagined exhibit floor provides visitors more touch screens and immersive activities than ever before. One screen displays the site of each Apollo landing mapped out on the moon’s surface. Another takes visitors on an animated tour through the Vehicle Assembly Building and details the rocket-building process. “The younger audience, they actually want to be more part of the display, rather than just reading a plaque,” Protze said. Other changes include moving the Apollo Lunar Module down from its former home on the ceiling and onto the ground for closer viewing alongside 1969 newspaper front pages sharing the good news of a successful moon landing. On a nearby touch-screen panel, guests can learn more about specific features of the module. Another new display shows a 1969-era living room with archival footage from the Apollo 11 mission. The future of space exploration Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana, a former NASA astronaut and veteran of four Space Shuttle missions, was among speakers at the Moon Tree Garden opening ceremony. He talked about future trips to space, including those to the moon and Mars. “As great as our last 50 years have been, I believe that our next 50 years are going to be even more phenomenal,” Cabana said. “We’re going back to the moon — not just for a two or three-day camping trip — we’re going back in a sus- + ■ THIS SERIES: This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com /Apollo11. New medical research studies have opened at Meridien Research. Currently enrolling studies include: • Alzheimer’s Disease • Asthma • ADHD (adult) • ADHD (child) • Bipolar Depression • Brain Injury • Depression • Fatty Liver Study participants may receive compensation for time and travel. All studies are administered by a board certified medical doctor. No medical insurance is required. 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We’re going to make that happen.” Chinch Bugs Fungal Disease Transform your yard and never look back! Want to get in touch? You can find me on Twitter (@PConnPie), Instagram (@pconnpie) or send me an email: pconnolly@ orlandosentinel.com. Add GrowthSpotter to Your Vocabulary and Your Toolbox growth /gr TH/ noun the process of increasing in amount, value or importance spot • ter /späd r/ noun the early bird who catches the worm and wins Discover More at GrowthSpotter.com/SignUp FREE In Home Estimate Call Today! 407-204-9267 First to KNOW. First to ACT. First to PROSPER. • Healthy Seniors • Memory Loss • Schizophrenia • Type 1 Diabetes Servicing Central Florida and surrounding areas CAPE KENNEDY – The men responsible for getting Apollo 11 on the way to the moon are confident of success. But none is overconfident. “There’s always the possibility that something will go wrong,” said Hal Eaton, Saturn-Apollo program director for the Florida center of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corp. However, Eaton said he and his men are optimistic about the flight’s chances for success. Eaton said there is more pressure on the spaceport worker now than ever before in the space center’s history. “THE PRESSURES come across the board,” he said, adding that he feels it everywhere from officials inside his own company to the watching eyes of the public. “When you get one like this,” he said, “you expect pressure. You work a little harder; you check things a little closer.” “Still,” he said, “I feel things are going pretty well. The gods will be with us.” Walter J. Kapryan, NASA’s deputy director of launch operations, agrees. “EVERYTHING we have done for the past several years is actually culminated in the Apollo 11,” he said. “We are moving ahead toward the launch with confidence based on experience but not with overconfidence.” Kapryan said preparing the Saturn V launch vehicle for flight is basically the same as preparing it for any of the previous Apollo flights. “But there are some experiments aboard this spacecraft which have not flown before, those will be operated on the lunar surface,” he reminded. ANOTHER WHO feels the mounting pressure is Frederick H. Miller, NASA’s director of install- Highways in North Brevard began to clog Tuesday as vehicles of every type and description rolled into the area in ever-increasing numbers for the Apollo 11 launch. Some experts say the total will reach 300,000 vehicles and 1,000,000 persons by this morning. Most of the traffic was concentrated in North Brevard. Titusville police reported traffic congestion already on busy city streets as early as noon Monday. POLICE CALLED in 17 off-duty officers and 10 members of the auxiliary police force to help control traffic. Thirty members of the city’s youth police league, The Explorers, were also on hand to keep traffic moving smoothly. But despite the extra force, traffic slowed to five miles an hour on divided U.S. 1, where cars generally travel at 40 miles per hour. Police said out-of-staters and Brevard Countians began parking their cards, station-wagons, trailers, vans and trucks on grassy strips between U.S. 1 and the Indian River as early as 6 p.m. so they would be assured of a good look at the Wednesday morning liftoff. A GRAND OPENING of the long-awaited post office building on U.S. 1 added to the congestion, police reported. Officials at Titusville High School, in efforts to alleviate heavy traffic on U.S. 1, opened the school’s parking lot to all night parkers at 7 p.m. ONE OFFICER said traffic was 10 times heavier than usual. “It’s like a homecoming football game and the Christmas parade rolled into one,” an officer said commenting on the congested streets. LONDON – Sir Bernard Lovell, director of the radio astronomy station at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, said Tuesday there was “every indication” that the Russian spacecraft Luna 15 would attempt to land on the moon and bring back samples of its surface. Jodrell Bank is now picking up signals from Luna 15 and Sir Bernard said there was “every possibility” it would fire retro-rockets using the minimum Chances of the Apollo 11 moon shot being visible from the Orlando area are remote because An eNewspaper bonus: Check out the rest of the front page above — and many others — from this exact day 50 years ago. OrlandoSentinel.com/eNewspaper Live on Facebook: Starting at 8:35 a.m., relive the countdown to launch and the launch itself as we air raw NASA footage from July 16, 1969, in real time. Facebook.com/OrlandoSentinel of fuel, go straight in and then lift off the moon’s surface again. A SPOKESMAN at Jodrell Bank explained it was “the quite different pattern” of the present moon shot to previous Russian ones that led the observatory to believe that Luna 15 would land. Previous moon probes, the spokesman noted, took about 80 hours to reach the moon; Luna 15 is taking considerably longer. This indicates, he added, a slower approach to economize on fuel in braking the descent for a soft landing. The Jodrell Bank scientists expect thaat signals from the space vehicle on Thursday morning will indicate to them whether a landing has been attempted. CAPE KENNEDY – Man and machine were ready for flight early today on the world’s greatest adventure: man’s exploration of the moon. Apollo 11’s three astronauts – Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin and Command Module Pilot Michael Collins – were rested and in top physical shape. Ground crews preparing the spacecraft assembly for a 9:32 a.m. liftoff remained ahead their schedule, and said they have experienced no problems since a couple of minor leaks were plugged early in the countdown. AND THE U.S. Weather Bureau’s Spaceflight Meteorology Group continued to predict favorable conditions for the launch, despite somewhat unsettled weather here during the last few days. The launch-time forecast calls for some clouds at 15,000 feed, light breezes and an 85-degree temperature. Visibility is expected to be 10 Page 2-A Who’s Who At Launch Site miles, which would give one million watchers expected to jam Brevard PAGE 4-A County for the launch an ideal view Sightseers Call Spectacle of the blastoff. Fantastic The prime crew for Apollo 11 Mrs. Aldrin Becoming spent most of the day Tuesday More Tense, Nervous relaxing in their quarters at KenneMotel Clerks Helpful, But dy Space Center. However, Have No Rooms Armstrong and Aldrin did practice PAGE 5–A critical parts of their flight for a Early Riser Thinks About while in the lunar module simulator. Space, Loneliness LATER, THE three astronauts Kirk Asks Moment Of received a 5-minute phone call from Prayer President Nixon who telephoned Mac’s Moon Shots Go from his White House Office. Down The Hatch Nixon told them he predicted Moon Landing Depicted On their journey would “lift the spirits Bronze Medallion of the American people and the Orlando Supplies Water whole world.” For Astronaut Use “You carry with you a feeling of good will in this greatest adventure PAGE 7-A ‘I Have Ridden Every man has ever undertaken,” Nixon said to the Apollo crew. Flight,’ LBJ Recalls The crewmen then had an early Moon Madness Strikes dinner of combination salad, broiled Several World Areas sirloin steak, mashed potatoes, Minute-by-minute recap: A look at how the countdown to history proceeded that day. Page A6 50 years from then...and now: On launch day in 1969, the Orlando Evening Star asked people what space travel would be like in 50 years. We do the same in 2019. Page A5 In Opinion: A full page of Apollo 11 coverage, including reader memories and a challenge from the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board. Page A11 ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders revoked Judge’s action affects about 100 cases of guardian accused of improperly filing By Monivette Cordeiro A judge has revoked any “do not resuscitate” orders in nearly 100 cases involving an Orlando guardian accused of filing them on the behalf of incapacitated clients without permission. State investigators have determined at least one person died in a Tampa hospital after staff could not perform life-saving procedures because of a “do not resuscitate” order filed by his guardian, Rebecca Fierle, against his wishes. Circuit Judge Janet C. Thorpe sought the removal of Fierle from 98 cases after finding that she “abused her powers” by requesting that clients not receive medical treatment if their heart or breath“Any future ing stopped — without permission Do Not Resuscifrom their families or the court. tate Orders or Guardians are court-appointed deAdvance Direccision-makers for minors and tives must be apadults with mental and physical proved by the disabilities, known as wards. Court,” Thorpe At a hearing last Thursday, said in her order. Fierle resigned from all her cases in The investigaOrange and Osceola counties, Fierle tion released by court records show. Thorpe has Florida’s Office since ordered all advanced direc- of Public and Professional tives signed by Fierle for her wards, Guardians concluded Fierle reincluding DNR orders, revoked. fused to remove a DNR order she Trump digs in on racist tweets House ‘squad’ calls his tweets ‘bigoted,’ urges impeachment Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his comments about four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don’t like things going on in America. They fired back at what they called his “xenophobic bigoted remarks” and said it was time for impeachment. Late Monday, after Trump defended his calling for the lawmakers to go back to their “broken and CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY President Trump takes questions from reporters on Monday. Members of Congress are calling for his impeachment following “bigoted” Tweets. crime infested” countries, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said Trump “does not know how to defend his policies and so what he does is attack us personally.” Trump said condemnation of his comments “doesn’t concern Please turn to TRUMP, A10 Please turn to FIERLE, A2 SpaceX now knows why astronaut capsule exploded By Chabeli Herrera By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire and Calvin Woodward had filed on 75-year-old Steven Stryker of Cocoa, despite Stryker’s desire for life-saving actions and concerns from his daughter, a friend and a psychiatrist. “The ward had never previously expressed a desire to die, and it seems unlikely that, as soon as he was appointed a guardian, he would suddenly be unwilling to tolerate a condition that he had been dealing with for After nearly three months of investigation into what SpaceX at first only called an “anomaly,” the company on Monday announced the likely culprit of an explosion that blew apart its Crew Dragon astronaut capsule during a test on the Space Coast in April. A leaking component in the vehicle’s propulsion system began the chain of events that ended in destruction, said Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of build and flight reliability, during a press conference call Monday afternoon. Because of delays caused by the accident, Koenigsmann said it’s going to be “increasingly difficult” to get astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and into space by the end of 2019, though not impossible. The April 20 accident happened when the Elon Muskowned rocket company was conducting static fire tests of the vehicle’s engines. The capsule on the test stand that afternoon had already successfully flown to space one month earlier, completing the first major test of SpaceX’s partnership program with NASA, which will carry astronauts back to space from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011 on vehicles built by SpaceX and Boeing. The test was being conducted to prepare SpaceX for an in-flight abort test that would prove the Please turn to SPACEX, A10 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Biden adamantly defends Obamacare Presidential candidate said he would expand the Affordable Care Act, drawing a line against progressives. A4 Women urge Epstein be kept in jail Two who say they were sexually abused by the financier want him to stay behind bars until trial. A3 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Barry swamps the Mississippi Delta Now a tropical depression, the storm’s torrential rains continue to threaten Louisiana and Mississippi. A4 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Orlando Sentinel APOLLO 11 50 YEARS LATER For Home Delivery call 407-420-5353 What will space travel look like 50 years from now? By Joe Mario Pedersen “Based upon the progress for the last 50 years I would say that space travel would be common-place,” Orlando resident Howard Ludwig told the Orlando Evening Star in 1969. Ludwig’s predictions for space travel aren’t exactly accurate as the mere act of a rocket launch is still considered a milestone. “Space travel is here to stay. Breakfast on Earth lunch on Mars - and supper on Earth again,” said Marshall B. Bone of Orlando. Our meals are still isolated to Earth unless you count Matt Damon eating Martian potatoes for 150 minutes. But perhaps the most erroneous prediction came from Orlando resident, Jacob Wolfey who said that space travel would be “normal.” Many would love that to be the case, especially after Apollo11landed on the moon 50 years ago, and no human has returned since 1972. However, a new age of space travel is igniting with NASA’s plans to transport astronauts to the moon’s south pole in 2024 and eventually on to Mars. NASA’s portrait of the future looks a little different than what Orlandoans predicted with a vast amount of commercialization enabling cost-efficient plans such as enabling American companies to resupply the International Space Station, and soon ferry astronauts to the ISS as well. So what about the next 50 years? The Orlando Sentinel asked experts, patrons and young campers at the Orlando Science Center what they think space travel will look in the next half-century. Spencer Jones, Science Program Specialist at the Orlando Science Center Q: What will space travel look like 50 years from now? A: Hard to predict exactly. If I had been alive in 1969 and you had ask me that question I might have been caught up in the zeitgeist, as well, and have said “humans to Mars. Here we go!” But that didn’t seem to be the case. I think we will send humans to Mars in the next 50 years, for sure. I don’t know if we’ll go much further than that. There are really not that many places a human can step on in the solar system. We can go to the asteroid belt and mine some asteroids. We can make some cloud cities on Venus. But we can’t go to the gas giants. They’re just too far away. It’s too cold and there’s radiation. But what’s really exciting for me is the continued exploration of robots. NASA announced they were sending a carsized drone to Titan … We have new technology that’s going to accelerate our rockets faster than ever enhanced jet fuel, liquid hydrogen as rocket fuel. But if we can find ways to use nuclear power or ion propulsion, we could even accelerate things with light - shoot a laser at an object and send a space craft maybe to another star system. Isabelle, 9 Q: What will space travel look like 50 years from now? A: Maybe it will look like, I don’t actually know what it will look like…. There are many different galaxies we haven’t explored, that are waiting to be discovered. So, maybe we’ll be in a different galaxy. Q: If you got to go anywhere in space 50 years from now, where would you go? A: I would like to see Pluto. Ever since it became a dwarf planet it became my favorite planet, since its surface is made of ice crystals, and I thought that was really cool. Gavin, 7 Q: What will space travel look like 50 years from now? A: Astronauts will still be going to the moon. A rocket will still be taking people to the moon all the time. Chris, 9 Q: What will space travel look like 50 years from now? A: I think we’ll be going to Mars or Jupiter. I don’t want to go. You don’t know if you’ll get hit by an asteroid or blow up when you take off. Emily, 11 Q: What will space travel look like 50 years from now? A: We’ve explored so much and we have a lot to go. Like, we probably haven’t explored like half or one-thousandth of space. It’s endless. We discovered Mars, and that could be another potential habitat for humans. If Earth gets overcrowded, then one day, maybe people could go live on Mars. Maybe we’ll see different kinds of galaxies where there might be new kinds of terrain unfit for human habitation, but it can support life for trees and stuff, but it’s unfit for humans. Q: If you got to go anywhere in space 50 years from now, where would you go? A: I want to see Saturn, and I’d like to look up close at the rings and see how it looks solid but it’s actually just a lot of rocks, instead. Hunter, 7 Q: What’s the craziest thing we could see in space 50 years from now? A: Beyblades. William Pyalant, 67 Q: What was it like seeing the first moon walk? A: Living here in Orlando in the early ’60s-‘70s. It was DONATE Wheels YOUR CAR For Wishes Benefiting a big deal. It was always exciting to see the rockets shoot off. I never imagined we would be walking on the moon, and now we have space stations and things like that. Q: What will space travel look like 50 years from now? 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The imagery of the 240-187 vote was stark: A diverse Democratic caucus cast the president’s words as an affront to millions of Americans and descendants of immigrants $2.50 COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 while Republican lawmakers — the majority of them white men — stood with Trump against a resolution that rejected his “racist comments that have legitimized fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.” Only four Republicans broke ranks — Reps. Susan Brooks of Indiana, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Will Hurd of Texas and Fred Upton of Michigan — and joined Democrats in backing the resolution. Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., who quit the GOP earlier this month, also voted for it. 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Bankruptcy program aims to relieve student debt In Florida, 2.4 million owe $85.5 billion By Annie Martin Saddled with $44,000 in student debt, Teresa Starrs was working full-time for the state Department of Juvenile Justice when she fell behind on her mortgage and her home went into foreclosure. “I couldn’t pay my bills,” said Starrs, 58, who lives in Volusia County. “I was about to lose everything.” Amid growing national concerns over student debt, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court that covers Central Florida is starting a new program intended to help borrowers such as Starr more quickly pay back student loans and navigate repayment options. The program is for people who have filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which enables debtors with regular income in 35 counties, stretching from Duval to Collier, to develop a plan to repay all or part of their debts. It comes as student debt has been in the national spotlight recently and a focus for several Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for president in 2020. Some have proposed allowing students to attend public colleges and universities debt-free or tuition free. A couple of top contenders have said they want to cancel loans for some borrowers. In the U.S., 43 million people carry school debt totaling See DEBT, A5 Panel remembers ‘really big deal’ Astronauts discuss historic landing, their place in history, humanity’s next leap By Chabeli Herrera No one ever asks Michael Collins about the mice. When he, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin returned from their trip to the moon 50 years ago this summer, they were quarantined for 21 days with a “huge colony” of white mice who had the crucial role of ensuring the astronauts hadn’t brought back some deadly lunar virus — and could safely return to society. “Whether we had a wonderful successful flight or something that was a total disaster for humanity depended on the health of those white mice,” Collins said at a panel of Apollo astronauts Tuesday ahead of a gala in Cocoa Beach. BONUS FOR eNEWSPAPER READERS: Check out 16 pages from the Orlando Sentinel and Orlando Evening Star from this exact day 50 years ago. OrlandoSentinel.com/ eNewspaper MORE INSIDE: Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, but his long, strange trip began after Apollo 11. A7; Columnist Scott Maxwell’s grandfather helped Apollo 11 make history. B1 STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins speaks Tuesday at a “Legends of Apollo” media event. It’s the one thing that after five decades of fielding all sorts of questions — Did he wish he’d landed on the moon? (No, he declined an op- The 20-year-old’s head fell into his hands with tears rolling down his cheeks. He and his eighth-grade math teacher were perched on the curb outside a Motel 6 where he would sleep that night. “I’m just so exhausted,” Amonte Green told his former teacher, Kate Demory. “I would be too,” she said. “Anyone in your circumstances would be totally exhausted.” Green has been on his own since his mother died when he was 15, bouncing from friends’ couches to homeless shelters and group homes. He dropped out of Winter Park High School his junior year to have more time to make money working at different fast food restaurants. A fight earlier this year in the group home where he was living got him kicked out and thrown in jail. He is not in touch with his family. His friends couldn’t help. He didn’t know where to turn. But then he thought to call Demory, now a math See TEACHER, A4 Please turn to PANEL, A7 Florida residents can buy, sell or kill iguanas legally Teacher answers jailed former student’s call for help By Karina Elwood portunity to fly on Apollo 17.) Was he lonely up there, while Aldrin and Armstrong were on the surface? (Also no, he had hot coffee while he waited.) — that he wishes he’d get asked more about. By David Fleshler JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL Amonte Green, center, is joined by his mentors, Winter Park High School wrestling coach Craig Russell, from left, and Kate Demory, WPHS math coach, at Demory’s home. You can still buy a live iguana in Florida, despite the state’s call on homeowners to kill any on their property. Anyone in Florida with a credit card and the desire for a 5-foot lizard can buy one for $179.99 or so, with guaranteed live delivery by overnight mail. Or they can pick one up in person at a bricks-and-mortar reptile store. 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Newsprint is a renewable resource. Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Orlando Sentinel COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Aldrin’s long, strange trip after Apollo 11 By David Whitley Just eight years after being called a modern day Christopher Columbus, Buzz Aldrin was selling used cars. And he wasn’t any good at it. For six months, the man who figured out how to get a spaceship off the moon could not figure out how to sell a single Cadillac in Beverly Hills. “A lot of people like to think astronauts fit into one particular mold,” Aldrin said at the start of his autobiographical video. “That’s not necessarily the case.” The astronaut mold was supposed to produce infallible supermen full of the right stuff. Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. has always displayed plenty of right stuff, wrong stuff, weird stuff and human stuff. He is a decorated war hero, a rocket scientist, an alcoholic, a maverick and a dreamer. And perhaps you’ve heard he was the second man on the moon. Aldrin’s heard it about a billion times. “I’ll always be identified as the second man to walk the moon,” he told National Geographic. The official story was the lunar module’s design made it easier and safer for Neil Armstrong to exit first. The undying rumor is Aldrin lobbied for the honor, but NASA worried he wouldn’t handle the First Man legacy as well as the unflappable Armstrong. Whatever the reason, it helped paint Aldrin as “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” In that 1976 movie, a human-looking space traveler played by David Bowie came here looking for a way to transport water back to his dying planet. His alien brilliance made him a tycoon, but he developed a taste for women and gin and totally lost mission focus. That was never a problem for Aldrin when he was shooting down Soviet MiG-15s over Korea. He flew 66 combat missions, but he never became a test pilot. That’s what NASA was looking for in astronauts, but it was dazzled by Aldrin’s brainpower. He got a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His chatty nerdiness could be a bit much, even around NASA. “We tried sometimes not to sit next to Buzz at a party,” astronaut Michael Collins once joked. He sure came in handy on the moon, however. When it was time for the Eagle to depart, Aldrin no- ADAM LARKEY/ABC Buzz Alrdrin dances with his partner, Ashly Costa, on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2010. ticed a switch that activated the engine had broken off. It could have been a fatal problem, but Aldrin stuck a felt-tipped pen into the small cavity to reengage the circuit breaker. Minutes later, the Eagle took off for home. Aldrin retired from the military in 1972. His mother and grandfather had ended their lives by suicide. As he tried to adjust to civilian life, Aldrin felt the same dark tug of depression. “I began to think it was a genetic, inherited tendency,” he said. “That brought me to consuming alcohol more and more.” He divorced twice and was a complete bust as a car salesman. But he sought therapy and stopped drinking in 1978. Aldrin gradually embarked on a new journey fueled by his passion for adventure. He’s written nine books, and has basically spent the past couple of decades promoting two things – space exploration and Buzz Aldrin. There’s a lot of quirky appeal to peddle. Aldrin may have the second man on the moon, but he took the first selfie in outer space. Other Buzz Trivia: ■ He was the first man to urinate on the moon. The MTV Video Music Awards statuettes are modeled after him saluting the U.S. flag on the moon. ■ He hitched a ride on the back of a whale shark to celebrate his 80th birthday. In 2016, he became the oldest man to reach the South Pole. ■ His mother’s maiden name was Marion Moon. He’s the first astronaut to admit to getting a facelift and the only one to make a music video with Snoop Dogg. ■ “Buzz” came as a child- hood nickname from his sisters, who mispronounced “brother” as “buzzer.” Aldrin legally changed his name to Buzz in 1988. ■ Inspired by that name, Disney legally changed the character “Lunar Larry” to “Buzz Lightyear” before launching the Toy Story franchise. ■ You can’t buy “To Infinity and Beyond” T-shirts on Aldrin’s website. You can buy official Buzz Aldrin baseball caps ($34.95), autographed books ($499) and autographed Saturn V rocket models ($1,299). Aldrin has been pushing for man to colonize the moon and set foot on other planets. That explains the “Get Your Ass to Mars” Tshirts he wears. It’s easy to see him as the crazy uncle in NASA’s attic. Aldrin readily admits he’s made mistakes over the past 89 years. But the cinematic “Man Who Fell to Earth” ended up drunk and passed out in a café. Aldrin vows that will not be his final scene. “I have gained so much by facing adversity,” he said. “I have a lot of frailties, a lot of shortcomings. But I am a much more productive person now than I ever was at the peak of my astronaut career.” In the 50 years since NASA’s peak moment, he has certainly proven one thing. When they made Buzz Aldrin, they broke the mold. dwhitley@orlandosentinel.com This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/ Apollo11. PANEL Continued from Page A1 The mice were perhaps particularly on his mind, Collins said, because he was reading John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” at the time. Maybe they should have sent the mice before the men, he thought. Collins, Apollo flight director Gerry Griffin, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke all reflected on the monumental anniversary at an event at the Hilton Cocoa Beach on Tuesday afternoon, part of a week of events leading up to the anniversary of the moon landing Saturday. At the time, said Duke, who worked as the capsule communicator on Apollo 11 before heading to the moon on Apollo 16, everyone was so focused on the task at hand that they didn’t stop much to contemplate its place in history. He said he never heard anyone saying they were “going to be famous” when it was over. “It’s hard to believe now 50 years later it’s a really big deal,” he said. But it was — and it’ll be particularly challenging to replicate. Without the backdrop of the Cold War former President John F. Kennedy’s brand of leadership and vision, the nation will have to really rally around a “big goal” to achieve another Apollo, Schweickart said. Will it be another lunar landing, as President Donald Trump’s administration and NASA is planning for 2024? Will it be skipping all of that and going straight to Mars, as Collins advocates for? Will it be something else? “It can’t be an incremental step,” Schweickart said. “It’s going to be something which taps pretty deeply into the human psyche.” For his part, Collins believes Mars is humanity’s next destination. “When I came back from [the moon on] Apollo 11, I used to joke that they had sent me to the wrong place,” Collins said. He acknowledged that Armstrong, who died in 2012 and who he called “a lot better engineer that I WHY DRY CLEAN • Removes Difficult Dirt • No Mildew • Leaves Carpet Softer • No Shrinkage • Stays Cleaner Longer • No Scrubbing or Steam • No Color Fading • No Shampoo Residue • Lengthens Carpet Life STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, right, laughs as Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, left, speaks at a “Legends of Apollo” media event at the Cocoa Beach Hilton on Tuesday. am,” believed there was still a lot to be explored on the lunar surface — and he agrees. But “with order of magnitude as a target, I would propose a JFK Mars Direct of some kind,” he said. To do it, the nation, which is already divided on what the next space-related course of action should be, and Congress, which has to approve multi-billion-dollar increases to NASA’s budget to make it a reality, need to align behind the understanding that exploring space is critical for humans as a species, the panel said. “I don’t want to live with a lid over my head. I want to remove that lid, I want [us to be] outward bound,” Collins said. “That’s where I want to go.” Want more space news? Follow Go For Launch on Facebook. 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State adds bonus to lure top teachers The report from the Inspector General for the Office of Financial Regulation released Wednesday found Rubin violated the agency’s sexual harassment and discrimination policies by: calling a woman the “c-word” in front of other employees; talking to an employee about the sexual history of a family member; and offering an employee a key to his home in Wash- ington, D.C., among other allegations. Furthermore, “Commissioner Rubin’s misuse of his subordinate staff’s time and reRubin sources demonstrated a preference for the accomplishment of his own personal objectives over that of the interests of the public and agency,” the report stated. “His comments toward employees in both one-on-one and group set- tings failed to show courtesy, consideration or respect.” It is now up to the Florida Cabinet, which includes Gov. Ron DeSantis, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, Attorney General Ashley Moody and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried to decide whether to fire Rubin. A Cabinet meeting is scheduled for July 25 but it’s unclear if Rubin’s removal will be on the agenda. The report came out as an Orlando Sentinel review of more than 5,600 of Rubin’s emails showed that he spent more than $7,000 on travel and other expenses, took an unusual interest in a GOP donor’s desire to set up a credit union and dealt with staff morale and personnel problems — including rats in the Tallahassee office — during his three months in office before his suspension. Rubin’s Office of Financial Regulation, with an annual budget of $41.3 million and more than 350 employees who oversee the finanPlease turn to RUBIN, A10 Computer science initiative gets boost “I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, nerdy engineer.” — Neil Armstrong, shortly after returning to Earth State leaders invest $10M for teachers, enrollment lift Florida to offer $15K incentives to work in D and F schools By Leslie Postal By Leslie Postal Florida teachers with “proven records of success” will be eligible for new bonuses of up to $15,000 if they work in the state’s neediest schools with D and F grades, the Florida Department of Education announced. The bonuses would be paid for out of a nearly $16 million federal grant the department said it receives annually to help boost achievement in Florida’s lowest-performing schools. Teachers could receive the new bonuses if they have high evaluation scores as calculated under the state’s value-added model, or VAM, and work at D and F rated schools that receive federal Title 1 funds, which are earmarked for students living in poverty. “High-quality teachers are the most important contributing factor to student success,” said Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, in a statement on Tuesday night. “This is another way we are leveling the playing field for all Floridians, and we are thrilled for the opportunity to reward our state’s hard-working teachers in the process.” Teachers would need to be rated “highly effective” or “effective” based on three years of VAM scores in order to be eligible for the bonuses of $15,000 or $7,500, respectively, the department said. VAM scores were authorized by the state’s 2011 teacher merit-pay law. They are calculated by crunching student test The field of computer science offers plenty of well-paying jobs, but less than 1 percent of the undergraduates enrolled in Florida’s universities earned degrees in that major last year. State leaders hope a new $10 million investment to train more computer science teachers — the largest in the nation — and new flexibility in course requirements will help get more teenagers into computer science classes in high school and persuade them to stick with the subject once in college. Gov. Ron DeSantis called the new efforts, which he signed into law in late June, a “big deal” and part of his goal of “fast tracking Florida as a great place for computer science.” Last year, 2,145 students earned bachelor’s degrees in computer science from one of the state’s universities, according to the State University System of Florida. The 11 universities enrolled about 275,000 undergraduates, so few of their students pursued careers in the field, despite excellent employment prospects. Florida has more than 18,000 open computing jobs, with an average salary of about $80,000, according to Code.org, a national organization pushing schools to give students more access to computer science classes. Public school educators and university professors share DeSantis’ interest in boosting exposure to the field, and they’ve seen gains in the past few years. This past school year, for example, all of the traditional public high schools in Orange and Semi- Please turn to TEACH, A12 CHICAGO TRIBUNE Apollo 11 Astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, from left, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins acknowledge the cheers of a Chicago crowd on Aug. 13, 1969. COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 MAN IN THE MOON Neil Armstrong rode quickly and quietly into the sunset after Apollo 11 By David Whitley ing to be normal made him seem odd. The most celebrated per“He was immensely proud son is missing from Apollo 11’s of the role he played in the 50th anniversary celebration. first moon landing,” James In a way, that is fitting. Hansen wrote, “but he would Neil Armstrong was never not allow it to turn into a one to bask in the moon’s circus performance for him glow, no matter how badly the or a money-making machworld wanted him to. ine.” “I am, and ever will be, a Hansen authored Armwhite-socks, nerdy engineer,” Neil Armstrong strong’s official biography in he said shortly after returning made history. 2005. It was adapted for to Earth. “First Man,” the 2018 movie A gold mine of endorsements and starring Ryan Gosling that introduced exultation awaited. But Armstrong be- Armstrong to generations who’d only came a college professor, a part-time heard his name. farmer and fulltime enigma. Even in a pre-Kardashian world, try- Please turn to NORMAL, A12 ■ This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on the moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel .com/Apollo11. Please turn to SCIENCE, A10 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Drug kingpin gets life Notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. A3 House kills impeachment effort The House ended a rogue impeachment push but voted to hold two top officials in contempt of Congress. A3 Protests in Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans are outraged, saying they’re fed up with Washington and want their governor to resign. A6 GrouperWeek.com GRAB A BITE DURING OUR TASTY TRIBUTE TO GROUPER JULY 26TH – AUGUST 4TH. YOU’RE JUST 90 MILES FROM GULF LIFE. ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A12 Orlando Sentinel Thursday, July 18, 2019 NORMAL TEACH The film unleashed a fresh wave of Armstrong psychoanalysis. Why did the first man to set foot off Earth remain so distant? Some armchair shrinks trace it to childhood. Armstrong’s father was an auditor for the state of Ohio, and the family lived in 14 towns over 16 years. That made it hard for the family’s oldest son to develop relationships, unless it was with a machine. Armstrong was fascinated by flight and got his pilot’s license before his driver’s license. He was an Eagle Scout, a musician and scholarly enough to get a scholarship to Purdue, paid for by the Navy. It committed Armstrong to active duty, and his cool detachment came in handy during 78 combat missions during the Korean War. Armstrong’s devotion to victory was unquestionable, but he wouldn’t sacrifice his principles. He flew over a ridge of low mountains one morning and spotted rows of North Korean soldiers doing calisthenics. He could have machinegunned them all, but he took his finger off the trigger. “It looked like they were having a rough enough time doing their morning exercises,” he told Hansen. Armstrong eventually became a premiere test pilot, which eventually led him to NASA. The rest, as they say, is history. “One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” Those were pretty much the last noteworthy words Armstrong ever said. After retiring from NASA in 1971, he taught at aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati and lived on a 163-acre dairy farm. Armstrong turned down countless requests for media interviews and TV appearances. He did allow the university’s public information department to write a story about him in 1976, but he wasn’t quoted in the score data and then working to tease out an individual teacher’s impact on student performance while also taking into account factors outside the instructor’s control, such as a student’s absentee rate. The VAM scores play into overall teacher evaluations, but the new bonuses would be based only the those ratings, not overall ratings, which include other factors such as classroom observations. Eighteen percent of Florida teachers evaluated under the VAM system at the end of the 2017-18 school year — the most recent year for which data is available — were deemed “highly effective” and 54 percent were classified as “effective,” according to the department. The remaining 28 percent were rated either as “needs improvement” or “unsatisfactory.” The 2019 school grades, released last week, showed 172 schools out of 3,300 earned Ds or Fs. There was one F in Central Florida — Beverly Shores Elementary School in Leesburg. Lake County had one D-rated school, Orange County had 11 and Osceola County had three. Seminole County had no D or F schools this year. lpostal@orlandosentinel.com Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 ■ Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing with the Orlando Sentinel’s new book, “Apollo 50.” Order today and get $10 off the retail price. Go to OrlandoSentinel.com/ apollo50 NASA Neil Armstrong would retire from NASA in 1971. He taught aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati and lived on a 163-acre dairy farm. JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/GETTY-AFP Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin accept the Samuel P. Langley medal on July 20, 1999, at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. 1,000-word piece. “The farm is not a plaything to Armstrong, who calls himself a producing farmer,” it read. “He bought the place in part to teach his young sons the value of being close to the earth.” Armstrong received 10,000 letters a day after Apollo 11. It was pilot adulation not seen since Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic. Lindbergh’s son was later kidnapped, and that thought fueled Armstrong’s quest for anonymity. His heart forever ached over his daughter, Karen, who died of cancer when she was only 2. Such complexities added to the mystery. Armstrong has been compared to J.D. Salinger, who wrote “Catcher in the Rye” and became a recluse. Hansen said the psychoanalysts overthink things. Armstrong served on corporate boards, threw out first pitches at Cincinnati Reds’ games and even hosted a series of aviation documentaries on A&E. Cohorts say he was friendly and self-effacing. A woman once spotted him at a golf tournament and asked, “Aren’t you somebody I should know?” “Probably not,” Armstrong said. Buzz Aldrin’s website is full of autographed memorabilia for sale. Armstrong stopped signing autographs Advertise for way Donate A Boat less than you think or Car Today! Display Classifieds Online Statewide reach “2-Night Free Vacation!” 800 - 700 - BOAT in 100+ top newspapers Call Today to REACH FLORIDA! Because There’s No Such Thing As Too Much. MORE COVERAGE We’re obsessed with your favorite team, and everything MLS. MORE INSIGHT Get insider news, updates and analysis from a network of writers in cities across the U.S. & Canada. in 2005 after discovering his barber had sold some of his hair to a collector for $3,000. He threatened to sue unless the barber retrieved the hair or donated the money to charity. The one time Armstrong volunteered for the spotlight was during the 1979 Super Bowl. He appeared in a Chrysler commercial. If the Cowboys had beaten the Steelers 69-0 that day, it wouldn’t have been more shocking than seeing Armstrong hawking Cordobas and LeBarons. He said he did it to help out the struggling company. From the moment Apollo 11 splashed down, authors like James Michener and Stephen Ambrose sought to write Armstrong’s biography. He relented after almost 35 years, giving Hansen 55 hours of interview and access to his papers. There was one story Armstrong didn’t want in the book. The one about the North Korean soldiers. “There was something too honorable in Neil for him to kill men who were in no position to defense themselves,” Hansen wrote. He didn’t mention the story until 2012. Armstrong had died from complications after heart surgery. (2628) w w w.boatangel.com sponsored by boat angel outreach centers STOP CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN Are you living with a fatty liver? You may qualify for a clinical research study and receive: MORE PASSION From today’s news to the MLS Cup; follow every team, every story, every score. 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And give him a wink.” Whatever it was that drove him, Armstrong was a lot more than whitesocks, nerdy engineer. dwhitley@orlandosentinel.com Notice of Community Meeting and Two Public Hearings for Proposed Green Reuse Area Designation Representatives for Warley Park, Ltd., will hold a community meeting on July 25th, 2019, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of affording interested parties the opportunity to provide comments and suggestions about the potential designation of land located at 1500 W 25th Street, Sanford, FL 32771, as a Green Reuse Area. The designation is being made pursuant to Section 376.80, Florida Statutes, of Florida’s Brownfield Redevelopment Act, and will involve two public hearings before the Sanford City Commission. The community meeting will also address future development and rehabilitation activities planned for the site. The community meeting will be held at the Sanford Civic Center, located at 401 E. Seminole Boulevard, Sanford, Florida 32771, and is free and open to all members of the public. For more information regarding the community meeting, including directions, the dates of the two public hearings, or to provide comments and suggestions regarding designation, development, or rehabilitation at any time before or after the meeting date, please contact Michael R. Goldstein, who can be reached by telephone at (305) 777-1682, U.S. Mail at The Goldstein Environmental Law Firm, P.A., 2100 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Suite 710, Coral Gables, FL 33134, and/or email at mgoldstein@goldsteinenvlaw.com. CALENDAR SPORTS Magic ready for its close-up ’Canes raising the standard Coach: UM has to embrace high level to return to prominence. C1 Fans get a glimpse of trickery at Outta Control dinner show. D1 T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Friday, July 19, 2019 FINAL EDITION Orlando ends facial recognition program $2.50 UCF might push back search for president COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Chairman: Board wants ‘world-class’ candidates City unable to devote resources to controversial face-scanning technology By Annie Martin By Tess Sheets After more than a year of testing Amazon’s high-tech facial recognition software, the city of Orlando announced Thursday it will not continue the program, citing a lack of resources needed to continue testing, a memo sent to city council members Thursday shows. The letter, sent from Orlando’s Chief Administrative Officer Kevin Edmonds, police Chief Orlando Rolón and Chief Information Officer Rosa Akhtarkhavari, said the city is ending use the Amazon’s face-matching software, Rekognition, because it “was not able to dedicate the resources to the pilot to enable us to make any noticeable progress toward completing the needed configuration and testing.” Thursday’s memo did not elaborate on how the software performed in testing or any issues that surfaced during the pilot program. A city spokeswoman did not grant an interview request seeking Please turn to PROGRAM, A6 Water flows again in Fort Lauderdale after scare Concrete patch applied to broken pipe appears to be holding By Brittany Wallman, Tonya Alanez and Wayne K. Roustan Boiling is better than going thirsty. And on the upside, we’ll still be able to flush our toilets. Twelve hours after Fort Lauderdale and beyond awoke to learn its water supply was doomed and would likely dry up for a day or more, Mayor Dean Trantalis announced that the city’s no-water crisis seemingly and hopefully had been averted. “Water is flowing,” Trantalis said at a Thursday evening news conference at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, near to where a Florida Power & Light subconPlease turn to WATER, A6 NASA 1969 After the Eagle separated from the Columbia during the Apollo 11 mission, astronaut Michael Collins was alone for 21 hours, 240,000 miles from his home planet. COLLINS WAS IDEAL ‘FORGOTTEN MAN’ Mission’s third astronaut has lived comfortably outside the spotlight known to his celebrity partners By David Whitley Apollo 11 didn’t just need a pilot. It needed someone who could handle one of the most unique jobs in the history of the universe. “Not since Adam has any human known such solitude,” NASA’s Mission Control stated as the command module orbited the dark side of the moon. About 3.6 billion humans were on the bright side, many of them transfixed on just two people. The duo even got a call from the most powerful man on Earth. “Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you from the Oval Room at the White House,” President Richard M. Nixon said. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became more famous than peanut butter and jelly. Orbiting above them on July 20,1969, was the answer to one of the planet’s enduring trivia questions. Who was the third astronaut aboard Apollo 11? If you don’t know, that’s fine by Michael Collins. “I’ve never enjoyed the spotlight,” he said during the 40th anniversary celebration of the mission. Not much has changed in 10 years. Armstrong died in 2012, but Hollywood made a movie about him, with Ryan Gosling playing the “First Man.” Aldrin, the second man on the moon, still trots COMING SUNDAY Relive moon landing In Sunday’s Orlando Sentinel, we’ll be reproducing our July 21, 1969, front page heralding the first humans landing on the moon. It’s part of a four-page section that includes other stories from 50 years ago, readers’ moon memories and NASA’s plans for returning to the lunar surface. Sunday, July 21, 2019 Today’s front page is inside APOLLO 11: 50 YEARS LATER The front page of the Orlando Sentinel on July 21, 1969 Armstrong Vol. 85 —No.69 38 Pages © 1969 Sentinel Star Company Orlando, Florida, Monday, July 21, 1969 Trump: Navy downs Iran drone $4.00 10 cents “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy MAN ON MOON By SKIP JOHNSON Sentinel Staff SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON – Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon Sunday. His first words as he set foot on 11 p.m. were: “That’s one small sstep for man, one giant leap for mankind.” “The Eagle has landed,” were Armstrong’s first words as he and Edwin Aldrin settled softly on the moon’s craggy surface in their grotesque spacecraft nicknamed Eagle. Please turn to COLLINS, A6 Incident marks escalation of tensions less than one month after Iran downed an American drone. A3 Aldrin SENTINEL TELEPHONE GArden 3-4411 UCF trustees might delay the search for their next president after some expressed concern Thursday that the controversy surrounding the university’s use of leftover operating funds for construction might discourage applicants. University of Central Florida trustees are seeking a long-term successor for Dale Whittaker, who resigned from his role as president in February amid an investigation into the school’s use or transfer of almost $100 million in leftover operating dollars for capital projects, which violated state rules. Whittaker, who was the university’s provost when most of the problems occurred, has said he didn’t know the institution was misusing state money. Trustees discussed the search during a meeting of the nominating and governance committee, when board Chairman Robert Garvy said he wanted to ask search consultants to advise them about the “appropriate time” Garvy to start looking for the university’s next president. Garvy cited the “exemplary service” of interim president Thad Seymour and said there’s no rush for the university to select its next leader. “We want to have candidates that are absolutely world-class — and more than one,” Garvy said. He added there was some disappointment with the applicants who applied during the board’s last search in 2018, when Whittaker, the former provost, was selected. Whittaker became the president in July and served for less than eight months before resigning. He succeeded John Hitt, who was in that role for about 26 years and retired last year. Seymour said he want the university to maximize the quality and quantity of candidates who would vie to replace him. His interest, he said, was “in doing the very best we can to move the institution forward,” in the short term. “I would think the Board of Trustees would want to look for someone that wants to do this for the long haul — think a decade or so,” Seymour said. He added, “That is not me.” Board members initially exPlease turn to UCF, A6 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD President says he tried to stop chant Trump chides his supporters who shouted “send her back” during campaign rally in North Carolina. A3 Netanyahu to mark milestone Israel’s longest-serving prime minister solidifying his place as the country’s greatest political survivor. A7 THE MUSICAL PHENOMENON TM © 1986 CMOL on sale today at 10 a.m. October 22-27 drphillipscenter.org 844.513.2014 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. A6 Orlando Sentinel Friday, July 19, 2019 Scaramucci dropped from GOP fundraiser Former communications director for president says Trump ‘turning into’ racist can Party, said he emailed Scaramucci Thursday morning to tell him not to come. He said Scaramucci replied that he would take the event off his schedule. “It was a very hard decision to By Anthony Man make. I like Anthony Scaramucci a Anthony Scaramucci, the bom- lot. But we just believe that his bastic, brash and short-tenured comments weren’t acceptable,” communications director for Barnett said. President Donald Trump was On Sunday, Trump wondered dumped Thursday from his speak- on Twitter why four members of ing role at the Palm Beach Congress, all women of County Republican Parcolor, don’t “go back and ty’s big summer fundraishelp fix the totally broken ing event, Lobsterfest. and crime infested places His offense: taking on from which they came.” Trump over the presiBarnett said when he dent’s comments about read Wednesday afterfour Democratic connoon about what Scaragresswomen. In various mucci had said about media appearances, Trump he said he conScaramucci echoed the Scaramucci cluded the one-time assessment of many othTrump loyalist wouldn’t ers, that the presidential commen- be a good fit for the Republican tary shows Trump “turning into” a Party gathering. He said he racist. emailed the executive board of the The Palm Beach County Re- party, a total of 17 people, to see if publican Party has been promot- the others agreed. “We made the ing Scaramucci for months as one decision to disinvite him.” of two keynote speakers for Lob“It kind of infuriated the board sterfest, which is Aug. 15 at the when it learned what he said Polo Club of Boca Raton. about the president. None of us Michael Barnett, chairman of believe what the president said in the Palm Beach County Republi- his tweet is racist or that he is a racist,” Barnett said. “I don’t believe for a second that he’s a racist.” Barnett, who is black, has devoted extensive efforts over the years to building up support for Republicans in the HaitianAmerican community. He was instrumental in setting up a gathering of Haitian-American community leaders to meet with Trump in Miami during the 2016 presidential campaign. “Mike Barnett must like and condone racist comments. Someone with more courage and less political expediency would call it for what it is and ask it to stop,” Scaramucci told Politico, which first reported about the cancellation. “Palm Beach GOP I am going to miss you guys! I will be eating lobster on the 15th out in the Hamptons without you!” Scaramucci wrote later Thursday on Twitter. Barnett said he hadn’t planned on talking about the issue until someone alerted the news organization. “This is the last thing I wanted to talk about,” he said. “I wanted to keep this as quiet as possible.” But, Barnett said, “I’d rather the UCF Continued from Page A1 STEPHEN M. DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins speaks Tuesday at a “Legends of Apollo” event at the Cocoa Beach Hilton. COLLINS PROGRAM Continued from Page A1 the globe as a lunar celebrity. Apollo 11’s third man is still happily playing the role of Forgotten Man. Collins, 88, leads a relatively routine life in Marco Island. He doesn’t run from the attention like Armstrong did, but he happily lives without it. “I’ve never enjoyed the spotlight,” he said. Collins has been making the rounds lately, dutifully answering questions he’s heard for a half century. Such as, do you regret the fact Armstrong and Aldrin got to walk on the moon while you became a trivia question? “I’d be a liar or a fool if I said I had the best seat. I did not,” Collins told Fox News. “But I was happy with the seat I did have.” Like many astronauts, he’d been a military test pilot who was drawn to NASA by President John Kennedy’s call to land an American on the moon. The marquee roles went to Armstrong as Apollo 11’s commander and Aldrin as the pilot of the lunar module (LEM). Collins got to play the loneliest man since Adam. After the Eagle separated from the Columbia, he was alone for 21 hours, 240,000 miles from his home planet. All earthly communication would cut off when the moon got between the Columbia and Earth. Each of the 18 solo orbits had 48 minutes of radio silence, though Collins did muse into a tape recorder. “If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the Moon, and one plus God-knows-what on this side,” he said. It made for some melodramatic media coverage, but Collins wasn’t bothered by the utter isolation. “Being by myself in a machine up in the air somewhere was not unknown to me,” he told CNN. “And so everything was working well within Columbia, and I enjoyed it.” There were plenty of things to keep his mind occupied, like the prospect the Eagle would not return. Nobody was certain its engines would fire and burn long enough to escape gravity. The White House had a speech written for President Nixon in case Armstrong and Aldrin were stuck on the moon. “My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon pected Seymour to serve as interim president for about a year while they search for a long-term leader and he has said he does not intend to apply for that role. Seymour said he was willing to stay in the role for “a period of time,” though he didn’t give board members a time frame for his departure. Board members intend to discuss a timeline for their search during their next meeting Sept. 19. Also Tuesday, trustees approved an 82-item corrective plan crafted in response to the improper funding of Continued from Page A1 ■ Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing with the Orlando Sentinel’s new book, “Apollo 50.” Order today and get $10 off the retail price. Go to OrlandoSentinel.com/ apollo50 ■ Check out six pages from the Orlando Sentinel and Orlando Evening Star from this exact day 50 years ago. OrlandoSentinel.com/ eNewspaper and returning to Earth alone,” Collins said into his recorder. “Now am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter.” The engines ignited and everything went as planned. The Eagle rendezvoused with the Columbia and Collins piloted the spaceship home. The names “Neil and Buzz” were etched into American culture, but Collins’ lonesome role in the grand drama had a poetic appeal. Ian Anderson, the lead singer of the rock band Jethro Tull, wrote a song titled “For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me.” It was an angst-ridden tune, supposedly about a friend from art school who didn’t join the band, and wondering how he felt being left behind. “I’m with you L.E.M. Though it’s a shame that it had to be you The mother ship is just a blip from your trip made for two I’m with you boys So please employ just a little extra care It’s on my mind I’m left behind when I should have been there Walking with you” It’s unclear if Collins is a Tull fan, but he didn’t feel those lyrics. “This venture has been structured for three men,” he said as he orbited the dark side of the moon. “I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two.” Apollo 11 needed an ace pilot, a team player and someone who’d check his ego at the launch pad. In Collins, it found the perfect guy to be the loneliest man since Adam. dwhitley@orlandosentinel.com more details on the city’s evaluation. No other facial recognition pilot programs are in the pipeline for OPD, the memo stated, but officials did not rule out the possibility of more testing in the future. “While we have no immediate plans regarding future pilots to explore this type of facial recognition technology, we will continue our efforts to position the city to take advantage of advances as they emerge, further supporting our city’s mission to become America’s premier Future-Ready City,” the memo stated. OPD has been testing Amazon’s software since December 2017. The project wasn’t revealed publicly until May 2018, when the American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents related to the software and discovered it was being tested in Orlando. WATER Continued from Page A1 tractor accidentally bored a 6-inch hole into a 3½-foot-wide pipe more than a full day earlier. Some uncertainty remains: A concrete patch appeared to be holding by the end of the day, but that fix is temporary. City workers poured a lake of cement around the patched pipe to protect it in a concrete “bunker.” That work was expected to be stable by 10 p.m. Thursday, allowing more work on a permanent fix to move ahead. Pressure wasn’t quite up to snuff, nor was water clarity, Trantalis said, but conditions were expected to be back to near normal by late Thursday night. Meanwhile, city residents, hoteliers and restaurateurs were advised that they could scale back their bottled-water searches and should instead continue to boil tap water for a full minute before consumption. “The boil water order remains in effect and will likely last through the next 48 hours,” Trantalis said. “It is imperative that folks in the affected areas continue to boil their water prior to consuming it. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, and food preparation until further notice,” Trantalis said. The city will continue to distribute bottled water at three locations around the city from 8 a.m. Friday until 8 p.m. Saturday. Cascade of problems The one broken pipe had threatened to shut down the entire city and some of its neighbors on Thursday, causing a cascade of problems for hotels, the courthouse, downtown employees and residents of Fort Lauderdale and surrounding cities. The largest provider of drinking water in the county, Fort Lauderdale serves residents and businesses in all or parts of Port Everglades, Oakland Park, Davie, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Sea Ranch Lakes, Tamarac and Wilton Manors. president know we support him and don’t believe the comments that were made [by Scaramucci] even if it means having to talk about it in the press.” Lobsterfest, now in its 18th year, started out as a casual, outdoor event along the Intracoastal Waterway. In recent years, it’s developed into a major summer fundraising event that attracts hundreds of Republicans, with a meal that features lobster. The 2018 Lobsterfest, less than three weeks before the Republican gubernatorial primary, presaged Ron DeSantis victory over Adam Putnam. Putnam didn’t even show up, citing traffic as his excuse. There have been occasional controversies. In 2014, the previous county Republican chairwoman invited leaders representatives of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council LGBT rights group to attend as a bridge building attempt, but that generated opposition. In 2015, an anti-Muslim speaker was scheduled to speak, but his appearance was called off after it generated controversy. In the Trump era, a Trumpstyle “Make America Great Again Hat” has been added to the crus- tacean that serves as the event’s logo. And attendees at this year’s event will hear plenty of proTrump messaging. Still on for the event is one of the other two original speakers, Roger Stone, the Fort Lauderdale political provocateur and longtime Trump confidant who is awaiting trial on charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who examined Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 election. Added as a speaker in the last two weeks is U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Panhandle Republican who is one of the president’s most outspoken supporters, frequently praising the president on cable TV and on Twitter. Gaetz is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over a tweet in which he threatened to release embarrassing information about Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, a move critics charge was aimed at intimidating Cohen just before he was about to testify before a congressional committee. Anthony Man can be reached at aman@sunsentinel.com or on Twitter @browardpolitics projects. The plan was based on recommendations from the Board of Governors, the entity that oversees the state university system, and other outside groups. Those include a Florida House committee that investigated the misspending and the Association of Governing Boards, which UCF hired to help leaders remedy the problem. The university has already completed some of the recommendations listed in the plan and staffers are working on others. One of the items calls for Seymour to prepare a report detailing how the university grew so fast, how big it should be and how leaders will con- trol future expansion. That report is due by October, according to the plan. By December, all capital projects valued at more than $2 million will require written certification from the university president, vice president submitting the item, the chief financial officer and general counsel. Trustees also voted to name Beverly Seay as the board’s chair and Alex Martins as vice chair. Seay, a business executive, and Martins, CEO of the Orlando Magic, are to serve two-year terms. The ACLU and other civil rights groups have expressed concern that the surveillance system could be used to track protesters or immigrants, and wrote a letter to former OPD Chief John Mina in June 2018 asking him to stop using it in Orlando. Mina had touted the technology’s potential use in helping identify and track people with a warrant in realtime. He said it was not being used to track citizens during the pilot — only seven OPD employees who volunteered for testing. Three IRIS cameras in downtown Orlando and five others at OPD headquarters were equipped with the Rekognition software, the city said. In a 2018 memo to city council members, Mina and other city officials said the technology could have been used to track down Markeith Lloyd, the man accused of fatally shooting OPD Sgt. Debra Clayton, in the weeks before the Jan. 2017 killing when he was a wanted fugitive. It also touted facial recognition technology for helping to apprehend Jarrod Ramos, the man accused of fatally shooting five employees June 28, 2018, at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland. Matt Cagle, a Technology and Civil Liberties attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, responded to the pilot program’s end in a statement Thursday, saying “[c]ongratulations to the Orlando Police Department for finally figuring out what we long warned – Amazon’s surveillance technology doesn’t work and is a threat to our privacy and civil liberties.” He added, “[t]his failed pilot program demonstrates precisely why surveillance decisions should be made by the public through their elected leaders, and not by corporations secretly lobbying police officials to deploy dangerous systems against the public.” tsheets@orlandosentinel.com Earlier Thursday, city officials said more than 220,000 customers could be without water — and thus, without working toilets — until as late as Friday evening. The outage affected Fort Lauderdale — hospitals, hotels, courthouses, the jail, high-rises, restaurants, employees and homeowners — as well as customers in other cities. Impacts of the massive outage spread throughout the day. Hotels evacuated guests, government buildings and private employers downtown closed their buildings and sent employees home. The county courthouse stopped operations and closed at noon. Restaurants closed their doors, unable to serve customers without working bathrooms or running water. Fort Lauderdale’s troubled watersewer system has served up many pipe breaks and sewage spills in recent years, but none on the scale of Thursday’s disaster. pumps from the wellfield, leaving the city and all its customers with just the water left in the pipes. Meanwhile, city crews located a replacement pipe in Kendall in Miami-Dade County and brought it to the site. A more permanent fix will continue through the weekend. A temporary bypass will be built so that the replacement pipe to the primary main can be installed, Trantalis said. Giant pipe collapses Most water pipes that break are carrying water from the plant to homes and businesses. This 42-inch concrete pipe was actually supplying water from water wellfields to the city’s main water plant, Fiveash Regional Water Treatment Plant. With the water supply cut off, the impact was huge. City officials said FPL subcontractor Florida Communication Concepts bored a six-inch hole in the pipe while using directional drilling underground to repair electrical lines. The breach occurred Wednesday afternoon, but water was still flowing. As the city attempted a repair, the giant pipe collapsed, city Public Works Director Paul Berg said. Ideally, the water would be channeled through a separate, backup pipe, preventing Thursday’s catastrophe. But city officials said it didn’t work like it should have. Valves didn’t function properly, Berg said, so the city was unable to seal off the broken pipe and divert water to the backup pipe. Because of that failure, the city had to shut off anmartin@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5120. State of emergency The outage came as temperatures soared. The city set up three centers to hand out water by the gallon to parched residents: the Beach Community Center, 3351 NE 33rd Ave.; Mills Pond Park, 2201 NW Ninth Ave.; and Riverland Park, 950 SW 27th Ave. The city declared a state of emergency, giving the mayor authority to make purchases or impose rules that might be necessary. Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke to Trantalis and Broward Mayor Mark Bogen on Thursday morning and offered assistance. The state sent thousands of gallons of water bottles in semi-trucks with Florida Highway Patrol escorts. Berg cautioned that even with water flowing, it must be boiled for a minute to ensure it’s safe for drinking, washing dishes or brushing teeth. The location of the water main break is in the 2500 block of Northwest 55th Court, just off the runways at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The city has two treatment plants, but the one affected, Fiveash, supplies most of the city’s drinking water. Taciana Faria, 27, Coral Springs, works at Airtrade Aviation, 2535 NW 55th Court, which is right next to the water main that she said ruptured about 2 p.m. Wednesday. “I went outside and it smelled like poop,” she said. Staff writers Ben Crandell, Kathy Laskowski, Cindy Krischer Goodman, David Lyons, Anthony Man, Rafael Olmeda, Linda Trischitta and Phillip Valys contributed to this report. LOCAL & STATE Coming Sunday SPORTS Voters demand improved ethics Newest Lion’s fighting spirit But officials continue to get away with hijinks, Lauren Ritchie says. B1 Orlando City’s Robinho brings needed spark after trade. C1 Home construction is booming in south Lake County, exciting local officials but prompting concerns about whether the region once dominated by citrus groves and small towns will lose its rural charm. T RUST E D. BA L A NC E D. L O C A L . Saturday, July 20, 2019 FINAL EDITION $2.50 IRAN SAYS IT SEIZED BRITISH TANKER Latest move sets up new showdown with US and its allies By Liz Sly The Washington Post PHOTOS BY JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL When it launches, the 80-foot Dora Queen steamboat will be a far larger boat than it was when Brian Herron purchased it more than two years ago. Plans call for daily cruises as well as private events for companies, weddings and parties. Paddlewheel replica to set sail in Tavares Dora Queen steamboat will be available for daily cruises, private events By Ryan Gillespie TAVARES — The latest tourist attraction coming to the Tavares waterfront is a hallmark of a bygone era that soon will be chugging along Lake Dora. The City Council has signed off on a lease agreement, allowing the 80-foot Dora Queen steamboat, a 1920s paddlewheel replica, to dock at the waterfront, and later, move to the city’s rebuilt docks when its seaplane base is rebuilt next year. The boat is still under construction and is likely a few months away from the launch of daily cruises as well as private events for companies, weddings, parties and other occasions. Herron and his wife, Brandy, had their rehearsal dinner aboard the boat 19 years ago — in a much smaller form. “It’s a little different, so a lot of people have already approached us about doing different things,” said Bryan Herron, who owns the boat. The paddlewheeler will bring another amenity to Tavares, where visitors can take seaplane rides in the Learn the facts about skin cancer in Florida By Naseem S. Miller city that calls itself America’s Seaplane City. The Lake County community of 17,300 also is home to the Royal Palm Railway Experience tourist train featuring retrofitted 1950s Amtrak coaches. When it launches, the Dora Queen will be a far larger boat than it was when Herron purchased it more than two years ago. He’s added a second deck, new pontoons and other features. It also will have a galley with heaters and warmers — cooking won’t be permitted — and a bar serving drinks. It has an indoor seating area with a bar on the first deck with a wraparound porch-like deck. The second deck will have another bar where live music can play covered by a canvas shade. For now, construction continues at Trident Pontoons in Tavares. In about a month Herron plans to Please turn to SAIL, A9 Blurry but inspiring images viewed on TV by millions By Hal Boedeker There was a time when Dr. J. Matthew Knight, a practicing dermatologist in Orlando for about 15 years, would diagnose about one case of melanoma a week. Last week, he diagnosed six cases in one day. “There’s no doubt that the new cases of skin cancer, especially melanoma, are absolutely rising. Big time,” said Knight. The rates of new melanomas have doubled in the past three decades in the United States. And while Florida’s new melanoma rate is on par with the national average, it too rose by 37 percent, from 17.5 cases in 100,000 people in 1999 to 24 cases per 100,000 people in 2016, according to the latest data available from the Cen- When Apollo 11 landed on the moon 50 years ago today, Chris Schmidt was 18 and working the night shift at Orlando radio station WDBO. The future news director at WFTV-Channel 9 recalled watching Walter Cronkite, the CBS TV anchor, and that the radio station cut to Cronkite’s coverage for the landing. “You could tell he was emotional,” said Schmidt, 68. “Cronkite was the guy with the most decorum. He never let his personal feelings in.” Cronkite let out a “whew,” took off his glasses and rubbed his hands in delight, reflecting the global jubilation at the feat. Astronaut Wally Schirra, seated next to Cronkite, wiped away a tear. But they were reacting to Apollo Please turn to SKIN, A9 Please turn to VIEWED, A6 Relive moon landing In Sunday’s Orlando Sentinel, we’ll be reproducing our July 21, 1969, front page heralding the first humans landing on the moon. It’s part of a four-page section that includes other stories from 50 years ago, readers’ moon memories and NASA’s plans for returning to the lunar surface. Sunday, July 21, 2019 Today’s front page is inside APOLLO 11: 50 YEARS LATER The front page of the Orlando Sentinel on July 21, 1969 Armstrong 38 Pages © 1969 Sentinel Star Company Orlando, Florida, Monday, July 21, 1969 Aldrin $4.00 SENTINEL TELEPHONE GArden 3-4411 10 cents “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy MAN ON MOON By SKIP JOHNSON Sentinel Staff SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON – Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon Sunday. His first words as he set foot on 11 p.m. were: STENA BULK PHOTO The British oil tanker Stena Impero is believed to have been captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. By Monivette Cordeiro and David Harris COMING SUNDAY Vol. 85 —No.69 Please turn to TANKER, A6 Guardian accused of unapproved DNR orders quits cases COUNTDOWN TO APOLLO 11 Moon landing broadcast a moment of ‘global unity’ WASHINGTON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized at least one British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, according to Iranian state media, setting up a new showdown with the West and demonstrating Tehran’s growing boldness as it seeks to challenge the United States and its allies in the strategic waterway. A Revolutionary Guard statement read on Iranian state television said the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker had been seized in the Persian Gulf. U.S. officials and shipping reports from the region indicated that a second tanker, the Mesdar, flagged in Liberia but op- erated by a British company, had also been seized, but that information could not be immediately confirmed. Both tankers were seen changing course and heading toward Iran as they traveled through the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Friday, according to shipping tracking service MarineTraffic.com. By early Saturday, the Mesdar had changed course again and appeared to have resumed its scheduled journey toward the Saudi port of Ras Tanura. The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow waterway that controls access to the Persian Gulf, through which a fifth of the world’s oil is moved. “That’s one small sstep for man, one giant leap for mankind.” “The Eagle has landed,” were Armstrong’s first words as he and Edwin Aldrin settled softly on the moon’s craggy surface in their grotesque spacecraft nicknamed Eagle. An Orlando guardian accused of filing unauthorized “do not resuscitate” orders for incapacitated clients is resigning from cases in Seminole County, soon after she was forced out of nearly 100 in Orange. Attorneys for professional guardian Rebecca Fierle appeared Fierle before Circuit Judge John D. Galluzzo Friday at an emergency hearing. It was not immediately clear how many cases Fierle resigned from because the hearing was closed to the public. Guardians are court-appointed decision-makers for minor or incapacitated adults, known as wards. An investigation released by Florida’s Office of Public and Professional Guardians determined one of Fierle’s wards, 75-year-old Steven Stryker, died in a Tampa hospital after staff could not perform life-saving procedures because of a DNR order filed against his wishes by Fierle. Another of Fierle’s wards, 73-year-old Jerry Manczak, brought to the Friday hearing a copy of a DNR order Fierle filed for him at the Sanford assisted living facility where he resides. “She never asked me,” Manczak said. “I didn’t know about it until now.” Manczak said he used to have a DNR order in place when he still had all his Please turn to CASES, A9 YOUR NATION, YOUR WORLD Trump shifts to defend rally crowd President renews attacks on congresswoman while reversing previous criticisms of North Carolina crowd. A3 Inmates released by First Step Act Criminal justice overhaul passed last year allows more nonviolent offenders to qualify for reduced sentences. A4 Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years Man apologized for storing massive trove of decades’ worth of stolen classified documents in his home. A4 ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company A6 Orlando Sentinel TANKER Continued from Page A1 CBS NEWS VIA YOUTUBE IMAGES Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong is show taking his first step on the moon in this image captured from CBS News’ coverage of the moon landing. VIEWED Continued from Page A1 11 audio while CBS showed a simulation of the lunar module on the moon. TV coverage of the first moon landing in1969 relied heavily on fabricated images. “People saw the networks re-creating on a sound stage what was going on,” said Robert Stone, director-writer of PBS’ “Chasing the Moon.” “They had actors dressed up in spacesuits. They had animation. It wasn’t until they landed and the video camera was pulled out that we saw anything. Before that, it was a radio show with enactments.” When Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface, television relayed primitive visuals. “Look at those pictures. Wow. It’s a little shadowy,” Cronkite said. “They were very crude, blurry, fuzzy, black-and-white images, very low tech,” Stone said. Yet viewers, in large public settings and small gatherings, reacted with joy. “Thank you, television, for letting us watch this one,” Schirra said during the CBS coverage. The content mattered more than the quality of the images. “If it hadn’t been for the live TV broadcast, I don’t think the event would have had the resonance it did,” Stone said. “People around the world could experience it live in real time. It’s what made it a moment of global unity. It’s one of the lasting legacies of the race to the moon.” Television had closely covered the race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cronkite’s reaction during the moon landing carried special symbolism. “Cronkite led the nation in mourning after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Now he was leading it in exultation,” said Ron Simon, curator of television and radio at the Paley Center for Media in New York. Yet the more than 30 straight hours of coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC — there were just three networks — was more complicated than the moon walk, Simon said. “They were trying to interpret what it meant, what does this exploration of space mean to us,” Simon said. “Where should the money be spent? Is this the best use? It was put in context of the Vietnam War and poverty at home. There was a young reporter questioning the cost of the space program, and that was Gloria Steinem.” On CBS, authors Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein discussed the space program’s future. For ABC, “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling moderated a panel of writers, and Duke Ellington performed “Moon Maiden,” a commissioned work. On the moon, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the coverage to an unforgettable level. “At the time, it was a moment where the whole world stood still, and we all felt our common humanity,” Stone said. “We all felt that we as human beings had pulled this off together.” In Orlando, Schmidt recalled being in the WDBO control room. “Everybody was CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite removes his glasses after exclaiming “whew” and “oh, boy” after the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. ■ Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing with the Orlando Sentinel’s new book, “Apollo 50.” Order today and get $10 off the retail price. Go to OrlandoSentinel.com/ apollo50 ■ This story is part of the Orlando Sentinel’s “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary of the historic first steps on moon on July 20, 1969. More stories, photos and videos at OrlandoSentinel.com/Apollo11. Inside: Jonathan Duggins, an Orlando video producer and photographer, began creating Lego dioramas inspired by space exploration about 2 1/2 years ago, calling his photographic project, “Let’s Build Space.” Story, B1 glued to the TV. If you weren’t glued to the TV, you were glued to radio,” he said. “When I got off shift, they were still on the moon. I remember driving home, late at night, it was a ghost town. There was no one on the street.” The moon landing offered a break from the tumultuous times of assassinations, war and unrest. “I remember how proud everybody was — 1969 was a terrible year,” Schmidt said. “I just remember how there intense pride in our country that was sorely needed.” The British government said it was “urgently” seeking further information about both tankers. The operator of the Stena Impero tanker, Stena Bulk and Northern Marine Management, said the vessel was in international waters when it was “approached by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter during transit of the Strait of Hormuz.” The ship diverted on a course north toward Iran and then contact was lost, the company said. Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was “extremely concerned” by the possible seizures. “We’re not looking at military options — we’re looking at a diplomatic way to resolve the situation — but we are very clear that it must be resolved,” Hunt added. When asked by journalists in Washington about the latest incidents, President Donald Trump said: “Let’s see what happens.” Meanwhile, U.S. Central Command said the U.S. has intensified air patrols over the Strait of Hormuz in response to the tanker seizure. A Central Command spokesman, Lt. Col. Earl Brown, said a small number of additional patrol aircraft are flying in international airspace to monitor the situation. He also said Central Command’s naval arm has been in contact with U.S. ships operating in the area to ensure their safety. The apparent diversions Friday follow Iran’s threats to retaliate for the seizure of an Iranian tanker by British forces off Gibraltar in July on suspicion of smuggling oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions. If confirmed, however, Friday’s actions mark a wider escalation by Iran in its two-month-old campaign of threats and attacks against U.S. and allied warships and commercial shipping in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, as Iran seeks to push back against the Trump administration’s imposition of tough new sanctions. Iran has denied U.S. allegations that it is behind most of the attacks. The new tensions coincide with the arrival in the region of U.S. naval reinforcements aimed at deterring just such attacks against international shipping. Among the U.S. warships that have arrived in the region is the USS Boxer, which brought down an Iranian drone Thursday that had approached dangerously near, according to Trump and the Pentagon. On Friday, Iranian television aired footage showing drone images of warships that the broadcaster said disproved Trump’s assertion that the U.S. military had destroyed an Iranian drone. The television station said the footage was provided by the Revolutionary Guard and showed the USS Boxer entering the Strait of Hormuz. The video was also posted by Iran’s Press TV and included images taken from above what appeared to be a warship, but the veracity of the footage could not immediately be verified. This latest spike in tensions came almost a month after Iran downed a U.S. drone over the same waterway, prompting Trump to consider launching a military strike against Iran. Trump said Thursday that the USS Boxer destroyed the drone after it approached within 1,000 yards of the amphibious assault ship. The Pentagon confirmed that the incident took place. Iran denied, however, that any encounter had occurred between one of its drones and a U.S. warship, insisting that all its drones were accounted for. “We have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else,” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on his Twitter account. He suggested that the United States may have shot down one of its own drones “by mistake.” Iran’s top military spokesman also said there had been no incident involving any Iranian drone. “All Iranian drones that are in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, including the one which the U.S. mentioned, after carrying out scheduled identification and control missions, have returned to their bases,” said Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekari, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. The USS Boxer is part of an amphibious force that includes more than 2,000 Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which arrived in the region this week. The Trump administration has accused Iran of being behind a string of incidents, including attacks and harassment against commercial shipping, that have contributed to the rising tensions in the region as the United States sets about squeezing Iran with tighter sanctions. Iran has denied involvement. Associated Press contributed. 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Don’t wait until you have a problem! SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE SENTINEL AND SAVE $25 OFF ANY PLUMBING SERVICE! FREE In Home Estimate Call Today! 407-204-9267 Servicing Central Florida and surrounding areas RC SPACE CENTER, Houston – Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon Sunday. His first words as he set foot on the lunar surface moments before 11 p.m. were: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” “The Eagle has landed,” were Armstrong’s first words as he and Edwin Aldrin settled softly on the moon’s craggy surface in their gro (Continued on Pg. 2-A, Col. 1) Inside this 4-page special section Flashback to 1969 Your ‘moon memories’ Why haven’t we gone back? It’s been 47 years since Americans walked on the moon — but why is that? 12 more pages from the Orlando Sentinel and Orlando Evening Star from July 21, 1969 Page E2 Page E3 Page E4 OrlandoSentinel.com/eNewspaper Read more stories — as they appeared — from our 1969 coverage of the moon landing Readers reflect on their experiences surrrounding the historic day Please recycle. Newsprint is a renewable resource. eNewspaper bonus ©2019 Orlando Sentinel Communications Company E2 Orlando Sentinel Sunday, July 21, 2019 APOLLO 11 50 YEARS LATER 2—A Monday, July 21, 1969 ‘One Small Step For Man – One Giant Leap For Mankind’ From Page 1 tesque spacecraft nicknamed Eagle. The time was 4:17 Sunday afternoon. Touchdown was 62 miles east of Sabine Crater, and about four miles downrange from the scheduled landing site. A few minutes after landing, Armstrong and Aldrin removed their helments and gloves and, for the first time, had a chance to look at the moon’s surface from only a few feet away. ALDRIN described the view: “It looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, granularity, and every variety of rock you could find. “The color is going to vary pretty much on how you look at it relative to the sun. There doesn’t appear to be much of a general color at all. “However, the rocks and boulder of which ere are quite a few in the near area look as through they are going to have some interesting color to them.” Fifteen minutes later, after the astronauts exchanged technical data with mission control in Houston, Aldrin continued: “We landed on a relatively level plain cratered with a large number of craters of the five to 50-foot variety, and some reaches 20 to 30-feet high. There are thousands of little one and two-foot craters in the area. “WE SEE some rocks out several hundred feet in front of us that are probably two feed in size and have angular edges. There is a hill in view south of us, about a half-mile to a mile away.” He also said the rocket’s engine cracked open several lunar rocks as they descended. He described these rocks as being chalky gray on the outside and a darker, ashen gray on the inside. Aldrin removed an overhead hatch and said he could see the earth. “IT’S BIG and bright and beautiful,” he said. Aldrin also paused to make a simple request on behalf of the astronauts. “We ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.” AS THE Eagle neared the lunar surface a few minutes earlier, Armstrong had to take manual control of the flight to avoid crashing into a rocky crater located at the site scheduled for the landing. He said the selected site turned out to be “a footballfield sized crater with a large number of boulders and rocks. I had to fly manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good landing area.” The landing site selected was within the margin of safety. THE ROCKET’S engines began kicking up lunar dust at an altitude of about 40 feed. It smashed the rocks as the Eagle touched down. “You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue,” mission control radioed. Then mission control radioed to Michael Collins, orbiting above in the command module: “He has landed as Tranquility base. He is at Tranquility base.” “Yea, I heard the whole thing,” Collins said. “It was fantastic.” “BE ADVISED there are a lot of smiling faces in this room and all over the world,” mission control told the moon astronauts. “And don’t forget two up here,” Armstrong replied. “And don’t forget one in the command module,” Collins said from his vantage point 60 miles above. “YOU GUYS sounded great,” he added. “You guys did a fantastic job.” Mission control positions monitoring Armstrong’s heart beat said it climbed from 90 beats a minute early in the descent stage of the Eagle’s flight to 110 as he neared the moon. At touchdown it was156. The historic day began for the astronauts when mission control’s voice woke them at the end of their ninth lunar orbit about 6:30 a.m. Orlando time. THEY ATE breakfast with a minimum of conversation with earthbound directors, and began getting ready for the descent to the moon. Aldrin entered the lunar module at 8 a.m. and Armstrong at about 8:30. They spent most of the morning giving the spiderlike craft its final checkouts before the moon journey began. At 1:50 p.m., while the spaceship was on the moon’s dark side, thus out of contact with radio monitors here, the LEM detached itself from the command module. FLYING in close formation as they whirled back to the earth side of the moon flight directors asked the spacemen how they undocking went. “The Eagle has wings,” Armstrong replied. A few minutes later, Collins, now alone in the command module, told Armstrong and Aldrin, “You’ve got a fine looking flying machine there, Eagle, despite the fact you’re upside down.” “SOMEBODY’S upside down,” Armstrong replied. This was a reference to the fact the LEM was upside down in relation to the moon but the command module was upside down in relation to the earth. Shortly after 2 p.m. Collins began an eight-second burn of the command module’s reaction control thrusters to begin moving away from Eagle at a rate of 2.5 feet per second. He pulled about 1,100 feet away so Armstrong and Aldrin could perform their critical 28.5-second “descent orbit insertion” burn of the descent state engine. THE BURN which was made on the backside of the moon, dropped them into an orbit which was 66 miles above the moon at the highest point and 9.8 miles at the low point. “Everything’s going swimmingly,” Armstrong reported. At 4 p.m. mission control gave Aldrin permission to turn on the Eagle’s engine and be- ‘Tranquility Base Here — The Eagle Has Landed’ SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — The dialogue during man’s first landing on the moon: Capsule communicator Charles M. Duke—Eagle you’re looking great. Coming up 9 minutes. MISSION CONTROL – We’re now in the approach phase. Everything looking good. Altitude 5,200 feet. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.—Manual attitude. Control is good. Duke—Roger. Copy. MISSION CONTROL – Altitude, 4,200 feet. Duke—Houston, you’re go for landing. Over. Aldrin—Roger. Understand go for landing. Duke – We’re Go. Think Tight. We’re go. Aldrin—2,000 feet. Into the AGS (abort guidance system). 47 degrees. Duke—Roger. ALDRIN – 37 degrees. DUKE – Eagle, looking great. You’re go. Mission Control – Altitude, 1,600 DUKE – 1,400 feet. Still looking good. Aldrin—35 degrees. Duke—35 degrees. ALDRIN – 750 coming down to 23. 700 feet—21down, 33 degrees … feet down to 19. 540 down to 30 … 15. 400 feet down at 9 (static). (The figures given for forward and down by Eagle are Apollo Astronauts In Good Condition SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) The chief physician in charge of the Apollo 11 crew expressed delight Sunday with their physical condition. “We couldn’t be happier with their physiological state right now,” said Dr. Charles Berry. “We feel they’re very comfortable and we’ve got a crew that is rested.” DUKE – Roger Tranquility. We copy. You are on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot. ‘Moon Time’ Landing 7 A.M. HOUSTON — In “moon time” it was about 7 a.m. when the Apollo 11 lunar module landed Sunday. The lunar day if four weeks long, with two weeks of scorching sunlight and two weeks of frigid darkness. When the module landed the sun was 10.5 degrees about the horizon, having risen some 20 earth hours earlier. When the module lifts off the moon about 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Monday the sun will have slowly climbed to 21 degrees above the horizon. In terms of an earth day, this would be only an hour and a half after sunrise. CONCERT Orlando present: U.S. Navy Street Drum Band, Eola Park Bandshell, 8:30 p.m. CARDS Orlando Bridge Club, Sunshine park, 7:30 a.m. EXHIBITIONS Center Street Gallery, 136 Park Ave., South, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Galleries Intenation, 401-B, Park Ave., North, Winter Park, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. KaryAnna Gallery, 342 Park Ave., North, Winter Park, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Apollo Services Held In Area Several churches held special services for the success of the Apollo 11 mission Sunday. Others have announced plans for services to be held today. St. James Catholic Church will hold a special mass today at noon in honor of the occasion. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will hold a service with special prayers for the astronauts at 7 a.m. this morning, and held two services Sunday including prayers for the Apollo 11 voyagers. The first Christian Church has announced that its facilities will be open for meditation and prayers today after 1:30 p.m. Among other area churches holding services and prayers Sunday for Apollo 11 were First Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church, St. Charles Catholic Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, and Park Lake Presbyterian Church. An aura of “Christmas in July” surrounded the Sunday landing of earth’s first men on the moon for Mrs. Rita Bauer of Winter Park. “It was just like the spirit of Christmas all over town,” she said after the successful landing at 4:17 p.m. “A quiet kindness and peaceful atmosphere prevailed throughout the day.” Mrs. Bauer, her husband Richard and Stuart Miller, a Rollins College student, heard details of the history-making landing on television in the couple’s living room at 1177 Park Avenue. with splashdown recovery units on earlier space flights. “I was quite surprised that both the older and younger views were the same. We all thought it was tremendous. The venture gives us new hope for the future.” Bauer said he partially discounted some beliefs the moon landing would leave directly to world peace on earth. “But there are great implications here,” he said. “The cooperation evidenced by the Russians with Luna 15 and the almost worldwide efforts within the scientific community in this field might ultimately boil over into the international diplomatic area.” moon adventure gives to our country.” For the Phillip Finnigans, 4821 Vaughn Dr., Orland, the astronauts’ celestial success was “great” and “fantastic.” For their French poodle, Berna, it was just another day. “He just sat by the door as “WE REALLY got a twogeneration view,” said Bauer, a retired Navy man who served FOR THE moment, Bauer added, “I will settle for the huge sense of unification the “LIKE MOST, I guess I was a bit worried,” said Armstrong, (no relation to astro- Sentinel Staff AS THE Eagle covered the last several hundred feet, the astronauts reported several alarm light flashed on. This meant the on-board computer had more work to do than it could handle, so mission control took over some of its duties and the problem eased by time of touchdown. After landing, some fluid got caught in the LEM’s descent engine and caused an increase in fuel pressure. However, the astronauts vented the fluid before the pressure increased to a dangerous level. Another NASA official said the “football-field sized crater” explained why the spacecraft did not down down at the scheduled landing site, but there was no explanation immediately on why it touched down four miles away. Sentinel Calendar $300,000 Life Suits Protect Astronauts On Alien Planet SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Staying alive on the moon requires the world’ most expensive wardrobe. The $300,000 suits donned by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. to protect them on the lunar surface are really an attempt to bring their earth atmosphere with them. ON THE moon, there is no oxygen, water or shade. Nor is there an atmosphere to shield the sun’s radiation or burn up meteorites streaking toward the lunar surface. And temperatures – in the middle of the lunar day – range from 250 degrees above zero in the sun to 250 degrees below zero in the shadows only a few yards away. To survive, an earthman must carry his own tiny atmosphere – oxygen, air conditioning, sun visors and a meteorite shield. THE ASTRONAUTS’ spacesuits are really balloons inflated with oxygen. A plastic bubble helmet attaches to the neck of the suit with a metal ring. Two visors on the helmet filter sunlight and shield meteorites. Gloves designed for maximum flexibility also attach with metal rings. OXYGEN TO inflate the suit is from an elaborate back pack. The pack, called the portable life support system or PLSS also provides electrical power for radio communications and air conditions the suit. Together, suit and pack weigh a staggering 190 pounds on earth but only 30 pounds in the moon’s onesixth gravity. THE ASTRONAUTS’ underwear has a system of pipes next to the body through which water circulates. The water transfer heat from the body to a radiator in the back pack where it is released into space. Cooling also comes from the oxygen pumped into the suit from the back pack at a temperature of 40-50 degrees. Moon Landing Stirs ‘Christmas In July’ Mood By JOE LAMBERT THE IGNITION marked the end of the free return portion of the trip. From this point on, any engine malfunction on board the LEM would mean Armstrong and Aldrin would be stranded on the moon with no hope for survival. “You’re looking great to us, Eagle,” mission control radioed as the spidery craft passed the1,600-foot level. “You’re go for landing,” control said. “ALL WE know is that Neil flew the Eagle until he decided to put it down,” said Thomas O. Payne, NASA administrator. He said that if Armstrong had not taken over the controls manually, or if Apollo 11 had been unmanned, the lunar module probably would have crashed in the rocky crater. reports of their speed—velocity in feet per second—both across the face of the moon and down toward its surface.) Aldrin—300 feet. Down 31⁄2, 47 forward. One minute, 11⁄2 down, 70. Altitude velocity light. 15 forward. Coming down nicely. 200 feet. 41⁄2 down, 51⁄2 down. 9 forward. 100 feet, 1⁄2 down, 9 forward. 75 feet. Looking good. Down ½. 6 forward, 60 second lights on. Down 21⁄2. Forward. Picking up some dust. Big shadow. For 4 forward. 4 forward drifting to the right a little. Down 1⁄2. 30 seconds. ASTRONAUT NEIL A. Armstrong – contact light. Okay, engine stopped. ACA at a descent. Mode control both auto. Descent engine command override off. Engine arm off 413 is in. (When Armstrong reported "contract light," probes on the lunar module’s landing pads had touched the moon.) Armstrong – Houston. We uh … Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. gin the historic descent to the moon. He did so at 4:05 p.m., two minutes ahead of schedule. • Astronauts’ Families Reactions1-C always,” said Mrs. Finnigan. “Berna doesn’t care much for television.” Twenty-two-year-old Dan Armstrong, 504 Sunglow Dr., was most apprehensive as he listened to the astronauts’ dialogue in the final four or five minutes of the landing. naut Neil Armstrong). “But they know what they are doing. They must to have gotten this far. “It adds to the excitement to know the first man to put his food on the moon has the same name I have. Something to tell my grandchildren,” he said. Highways and streets in the Orlando area showed little activity as motorists were transformed to stay-at-homes for the moon landing. Traffic slowed to an extent rare, even on a Sunday, according to Orlando Police Department patrolman William Krywick. area highways. “Everything slowed to a bare minimum,” he said. Deputy Roy Hancock of the Orange County Sheriff’s office said phone calls, usually averaging about one per minute, “were near zero from 3:15 throughout the remainder of the afternoon.” Reservists on weekend with the U.S. Army 68th Transportation Group at Orlando’s Executive Center were given time off from regular duties to see the moon-landing television reports. KRYWICK, WHO was driving to the station from Conway Road on a circuitous route through Pine Hills, reported few motorists on any Astrology 5C Classified 7C Comics 4C Editorial 12A Financial 5B Obituaries 7C Index Opinion 13A Sports 1B Television 7B Weather 8C Women 1C Movies 6B CLUBS Orlando Jaycees, First Federal of Orlando, noon. 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Sunrise 6:41, Sunset 8:22 Moonrise 12:57 p.m., Moonset 12:20 a.m. Tuesday. Morning Stars Mercury, Venus, Saturn. Evening Stars Mars, Jupiter. For 24 Hours Ended 8 p.m. Yesterday: Temperatures, High 91, Low 75, Mean 83, Normal 83. Relative Humidity 7 a.m. 90 per cent; 1 p.m. 60; 7 p.m. 90. Precipitation, .77 in; Month’s Total 5.43 in; Normal for July .00 in; Year’s Total 25.29 in; deficiency through June, 1.92 in. Highest Win Velocity, 24 m.p.h. at 3 p.m. from S. Barometer, 7 a.m. 30,03 in; 7 p.m. 30.00 in. (Map and Other Reports on Pg. 8C.)