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Page 2A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, May 13, 196J It Won't Be All Sight-Seeing for Carpenter When astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter goe into orbit in the Mercury capsule, he will perform a number of tests and experiments John Glenn didn't have time to do because he was forced to fly his ship manually. Some of Carpenter's scheduled chores are illustrated in sketches above: Track the booster rocket which launches him for as long as he can. Plot navigation by the stars and use the earth's horizon in determining position and course. (The first two exercises will help future spacemen to rendezvous with each other and with supplies in orbit.) Release a 30-inch "beachball" attached to a cable to find the density of the little atmos phere that is left at his altitude. The ball will be painted different colors and Carpenter will report which are the most visible in space. Carry a transparent plastic tank of colored water In his capsule to see how liquid reacts under weight lessness. (This will help In design of fuel tanks.) Try to get some pictures of the luminescent "fire flics" seen by John Glenn outside his capsule. Otherwise, Carpenter will duplicate Glenn'a three orbit flight around earth. Next U.S. Orbital Experiment Carpenter's Flight to Expand on Qlenn's By flOWARD BENEDICT Or tb. Associated Presi CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. HI Lean, handsome Malcolm Scott Carpenter is about to embark on a journey dangers and fascination of which are known to only three men a pulsating orbit ride more than 100 miles above the earth. If the present schedule holds, Carpenter, outfitted in a silver space suit, will ride an elevator to the 11th level of a red and white rocket service tower on Pad 14 early next Saturday morning. He will wiggle into a cramped space capsule which he personally has named "Aurora 7" and sometime between 7 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. he will be shot Into space by an Atlas missile. Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. took the same dramatic iteps last Feb. 20. His fab ulously successful flight is now history. He circled the earth three times and became a legend instantly, a new hero the United States ecstat ically embraced as a symbol of this nation's great pride. Two other men have ex perienced orbital flight, the Russians Yuri A. Gagarin and Gherman S. Titov. Glenn's flight proved that man can survive for at least short periods in the weight less environment of space, and that he can operate un der stress in this strange new world. Carpenter is to expand on the knowledge gained from Glenn's ride. What he and other astronauts learn in the next few years will ease the path which future American spacemen will take to the moon late in this decade and eventually to Mars, Venus and other planets. Carpenter's assignment bas Ically is the same as Glenn's. The flight plan calls for him to whirl three times around the globe as Glenn did in four hours 56 minutes at 17, 500 miles an hour. I mm J Suited Up (AP Wlrrpholo) Astronaut Scott Carpenter has his space suit checked by technician Joe Schmitt before a simulated mission in his space craft Aurora 7. Carpenter's planned three-orbit trip around the earth is scheduled for this week, probably not before Saturday. Carpenter Captions Capsule After Corner in Colorado CAVK CANAVERAL (ITU Astronaut Scott Carpenter dis closed Saturday he has named the space capsule he will ride into orbit later this month "Au rora 7" partly becauso he grew up on the corner of Aurora and Seventh streets in Houlder. Colo. As the launch schedule now stands, the lanky, 37-year-old Navy lieutenant commander is to be rocketed aloft May 19 for a three-orbit mission similar to the one undertaken by John (ilenn, the first American to cir cle the earth in space. But the flight plan revealed Saturday for Carpenter's trip made clear that his flight will ho far from a carbon copy of Glenn's voyage. Among other things, Carpen ter will be assigned the task of throwing "confetti" into the sky to gather clues about the luminous particles that Glenn reported seeing in flight. The experiment is designed to dem onstrate whether or not space plays tricks on the human eye. Scientists also want Carpenter to tell them something about hnw liquids react to zero grav ity (weightlessness), how col ors appear in the murky world of space, and to get extensive pictures of the heavens, the earth, and the horizon. (ilenn was to have performed some of these chores on his or hital mission, but was unable to I get to them because the aulo I malic attitude control system on ! his Mercury capsule went out and ne nacl to devote most of his attention to manually flying the space vehicle Similar control system prob lems cropped up Friday in Au rora 7 and scientists pushed back the flight schedule two days so the difficulties could be corrected. It was th. second such revision. "Everything to Enhance your Decor" v line lurnnurv mirrors lamps picture urholstering restyling complete drapery servlca fret estimates M oiiiifjoy A rarmirliarl If f, BroUway '1 Many changes have been introduced, some of them to correct problems which cropped up on Glenn's flight. Others give Carpenter, 37, a Navy lieutenant commander, a number of assignments in cluding observation of a trail ing balloon, ejection of man- Salinger Has Busy Day With Premier MOSCOW W White House press secretary Pierre Salinger returned to Moscow Saturday night after a day of talks, motor- boating and skcet-shooting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. Salinger declined to discuss the nature of the unscheduled talks with Khrushchev, saying only: "Any conversation with Khrushchev is an interesting conversation." , Salinger told reporters at the residence of U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson that he brought no message from Presi dent Kennedy nor did Khru shchev give him any word to take back to Washington. Invited by Adzhubei Salinger arrived here Friday night at the invitation of Khru shchev's son-in-law, Alcxci Adz hubei, editor of the government newspaper Izvcstia, to discuss U.S. Soviet news, radio and tele vision contacts. He met reporters after return ing to Moscow from what had originally been described as a visit to Adzhubci's dacha. As it turned out, Salinger spent the night and much of Saturday at a yellow stucco gov ernment dacha on the Moscow River about three miles from Adzhubci's private country resi dence. It is the same country house where former Vice President Richard M. Nixon stayed when he visited the Soviet Union in 11)59. Salinger dined Friday night with his host and a group of Soviet newsmen. After that they saw a movie, "The Amphibious Man," in a private theater at the house. Family Appears Saturday morning Adzhubei, Mrs. Adzhubei the premier's daughter and two of the Ad zhubei children showed up for a big breakfast. Khrushchev appeared a few hours later and the party went motorhoating up and down the Moscow River with a profession al at the controls. Then they came back to the shore for a round of skcet-shooting. Afterwards the premier and Salinger took a long walk in the woods, during which they had a private conversation. Fol lowing lunch the two men had another private eonversiation, which lasted until 6:30 p.m., when Khrushchev went home and Salinger drove back to the residence of the U.S. ambassador. made luminous particles, study of liquid in weightless ness and several photographic duties. Near the end of Glenn's first orbit, the automatic con onstrating that man is better than machine in space. With out a human pilot, the cap sule would have been ordered to the ground after the sec ond orbit, just as Enos the drift off the planned attitude and Glenn took over manual control of the craft the last two orbits, conclusively dem hydrogen peroxide gas to help keep the spacecraft properly oriented became clogged. This caused the capsule to functioned slightly. Two small jets which emit streams of trol system in his capsule mal chimpanzce was when his craft developed similar prob lems in a preliminary Project Mercury flight last Novem ber. The fault was traced to breaking under excessive heat of a stainless steel screen at the mouth of the jet fuel line, with pieces of the screen be ing sucked into the line. Plat inum wire has been substi tuted on Carpenter's capsule. Carpenter will try experi ments Glenn was unable to carry out because of his oc cupation with the manual controls. Among them are ob servation of the stars, exer cising, eating more fre quently, and preplanned man ual control tests. Actually, about half the flight is planned to be auto matic and half manually di rected. At times, "Aurora 7" will be permitted to drift off its intended attitude course to determine what happens to communications. This could afford a hint to the type of radio antennas which will be needed on moon-bound spaceships. ;,".: w . Ti ! " 1 ylX - spx i iAP VirDHotol n The National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued this ajDaCe drawing Saturday to show how a Mylar aluminum inflated balloon is to be released from Astronaut Scott Carpenter's spacecraft Rallnrin dur'n8 oro''al flight. The test is designed to show visual charac UclllUUll tcristics of colors in outer space and to measure aerodynamic drag. 1 Fire Runs 1 (From 11 a.m. daylight i Saturday until 10 p.m. '. daylight Saturday) None. Eugene 5 Springfield r' ; None. a -??""? 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This is the administration of private property by the state, a move one step away from out right nationalization. A few days before the speech, the government had returned to private ownership at least three farms it had been administer ing. One of these was the prop erty of a Belgian citizen, Jean Wittouck, run by his American son-in-law, Lawrence Lunt, of Cheyenne, Wyo. Castro said different treat ment was due to small farmers from that received by large ab sentee landholders, who were the first to be vhit by the gov ernment's land reform laws. Court Case Could Decide U.N. Future Bears Directly On Finance Issue WASHINGTON OrV-The World Court starts hearings Monday in a case which could have a major impact on the future of the United Nations. The case, on sharing costs of its Congo and Middle East op erations, bears directly on the U. N. struggle to keep afloat financially and pay for future peacekeeping forces. Indirectly, it could lead to ward loss of Communist coun tries of their vote in the U.N. General Assembly and affect the congressional prospects of President Kennedy's disputed $100-million U.N. bond request. Lose Vote by 1961 U. S. statisticians figure that with a favorable court ruling and the bond plan in effect, the Soviets will lose their General Assembly vote by 1964 unless they switch tactics and pay their full U. N. assessments plus an other $9 million of arrears. The State Department has as signed its top lawyer, legal ad viser Abram Chayes, and his as sistant, Stephen M. Schwebel, to present the U.S. argument at ! the World Court's seat at The Hague. Lined up with similar views arc Australia, Canada, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Britain. The opponents include a mix ture of Reds, such as the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia on the one hand, and non-Reds, such as France, Upper Volta, Spain, Tortugal and South Afri ca on the other. 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