الفصول الدراسية
Life’s a journey
hile circling the Moon in the Apollo
15 space craft in 1971, the American
astronaut Al Worden was heard
to say, ‘After The King’s training,
I feel that I’ve been here before.’
Back on Earth, in the NASA control center, Florida,
the assembled scientists cheered for ‘The King’,
Egyptian-born geologist Farouq al-Baz, secretary
of lunar landing site selection and chairman of
astronaut training in visual observations and
photography.
‘Why did they call me “The King”?’ joked Dr
al-Baz in a recent interview. ‘I guess it must have
been because I was an Egyptian guy, and the only
Egyptian called Farouq that the Americans had
heard of in those days was King Farouq!
