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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sanco of Oregon, Inc., Port
land, was low bidder recently
for production of 29.000 yards
of crushed rock for maintenance
of timber access roads in Lane
County.
The Bureau of Public Roads
announced the firm's hid was
$06,800. The rock will come
from the Nelson Ridge quarry
and be stockpiled at three areas.
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Policies Show
A Backing Off
HAVANA (m Indications
multiplied Saturday that the
Castro government is casing its
socialist farm policies in the
interest of smaller farmers hit
by earlier measures of the rev
olutionary regime.
Foreign observers cited a
speech by Prime Minister Fidel
Castro saying that farms poorly
administered by the government
would be returned to their own
ers if necessary.
Another sign of a softening of
the line was a resolution adopt
ed by the National Agrarian
Reform Institute telling farmers
they are free to slaughter cat
tle, hogs, sheep and chickens on
their own property without re
questing authority. They also
may sell the meat, but not to
middlemen.
The Castro speech, delivered
a month ago but made public
only last week, acknowledged
difficulties between the govern
ment and farmers due, among
other things, to intervention.
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. France con
tends the issue is political and
thus not for the court to decide.
The 15 man tribunal known
officially as the International
Court of Justice is expected to
listen to renowned barristers on
the case for a week or two, then
deliberate and hand down a rul
ing before going into summer
recess a couple months hence.
An Advisory Opinion
The question at issue has
been put to the court by the
General Assembly itself for an
advisory opinion on whether the
U.N. Congo and Middle East
costs are expenses of tho or
ganization within the meaning
of the U.N. charter Article 17,
and thus binding on all U.N.
members.
Article 17 says the expenses
nl the organization shall ba
borne by the members as ap
portioned by the General Assembly.
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