470     January 29, 1962
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Oren Nix from Washington, DC:  “I’m the director of the United States program…to send scientific instruments to the moon” 
On January 26, Ranger 3 had been launched from Cape Canaveral with the goal of impacting on the moon’s surface and relaying information back to Earth.  When the guidance system failed soon after launch, the spacecraft ended up missing the moon by more than 20,000 miles.  There would be several more systemic failures in the Ranger program until Ranger 7 successfully returned images from the moon in January 1964.  Two more successful Ranger missions would follow.  Nix brings a model of the spacecraft and describes how it should have worked.   


Mr. Ronald Paul Schneider from Louisville, Kentucky: “My wife is backstage” and Mrs. Ronald Paul Schneider from Louisville: “My husband is backstage” 
Wacky matrimony. On Saturday, just two days earlier, Judith Peake and Evelyn Ann Mudd each married different men named Ronald Paul Schneider.  The women had been childhood friends but hadn’t spoken in a while before one saw the other’s wedding announcement in the newspaper and marveled at the coincidence.  The coincidences didn’t end there.  They married in the same church, they both bought their wedding gowns at the same store, and both hired the same photographer to take pictures.   


Special guest Michel de la Vega returns to perform the same “substitution trunk” magic trick he performed a month earlier (E463), this time with a random audience member observing on stage.  Garry notes the overwhelming audience response to the first performance as the reason for duplicating the segment so quickly.  The magician would return a third time two weeks later ( E472 ) with a new trick.

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