Medford mail tribune., February 01, 1961, Image 2

Scientists To Study Chimp Astronaut
Cape Canaveral -IUPU- Ham,
the boy chimp astronaut, re
turns here today to help scien
tists decide whether space
jaunts are yet safe for human
astronauts.
Ham survived a 5,000 mile-an-hour
rocket ride down the
Atlantic missile range Tues
day which went half wrong
and half right.
The Mercury "life support"
spacecraft in which he rode,
and its escape system worked
line throughout most of
Ham's trail-blazing trip.
But the souped-up Redstone
rocket which launched him
155 miles up and 420 miles
out over the sea did more than
was expected of it and trig
gered a chain of events whiched out of the Atlantic three
All he got for his work was
ic friends as "Animal Subject
No. 65," was scheduled to go
craft away from the booster.
for a while put the chimp's
hours later by a Marine corps
helicopter piloted by Lt. John
A. Hellricgel of Gainesville,
Fla.
He was put aboard the land
ing ship dock Donner where
Maj. R. E. Benson, an Air
Force veterinarian attached to
the Atomic Energy commis
sion, greeted him and was re
warded with a handshake.
In view of what he had
been through and despite the
fact that he was in "very good
spirits," according to a report
by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration,
Ham was put to bed in the
Donner's sick bay after a very
light lunch.
one apple, one-half an orange
and a skimpy wedge of let
tuce. Then he was faced today
with a dull sea ride to Grand
Bahama Island, at roughly
l-160th the speed of his rocket
ride, plus more medical check
ups and an airplane trip back
to the United States.
NASA expected him to ar
rive at Patrick Air Force Base
on the Cape late in the after
noon. For one of the healthiest
chimps in the world, he has
been getting and will keep on
getting for days the most thor
ough examination medical sci
ence knows how to give.
Ham, known to his scientif
But in so doing it hiked its
speed to more than 5,000 miles
an hour.
Through all this and the
subsequent dive back down
through the atmosphere, Ham
underwent forces seven to 12
times those of gravity. But the
Mercury "life support" sys
tem and his form -fitting
couch sustained him.
NEWSMAN REMEMBERED
Washington - (UPD - The Na
tional Press club has posted
the following iiotice:
"John F. Kennedy, a for
mer newspaperman now in
politics, was approved to
membership."
PUPILS ESCAPE INJURY
Maryland, Tenn. - (UPI) - A
two - room mountain school
was destroyed by fire just
before school was out Tues
day, but the 43 pupils escaped
without injury.
fate in doubt.
The round-bellied, 3 '4 year
old Ham, a scene-stealing ado
lescent who won't be truly
adult for another four years
or so, appeared to think it
was merely a lark arranged
to give him a chance to show
off.
On being plucked from the
sea and freed from his sealed
space cabin Tuesday after
noon, about 175 miles east of
Grand Bahama island, Ham
posed for a picture shaking
hands with his veterinarian.
Ham was launched from
Cape Canaveral at 8:55 a.m.
(PST) Tuesday and was haul-
only 115 miles up and 290
miles down range. But the
modified Redstone rocket add
ed 40 miles to his peak alti
tude and tacked 130 miles on
to the range by burning its
fuel faster than planned.
This caused a "thrust de
cay" when the rocket ran out
of fuel and that, in turn, trig
gered the Mercury space
craft's emergency escape sys
tem. By the time that happened,
however, spacecraft and
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NOW YOU KNOW
United Press International
The f a s t t measured
speed for a snake if that of
the black mamba. On a
.favorable, surface, it can at
tain nearly seven miles per
hour.
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chimp-astronaut were shooting
along at about 4,000 miles an
hour. The emergency escape
rocket, as it should, ripped the
'CAPSULE PLUCKED A Marine helicopter is shown mov
ing down to pick up the space capsule containing the chimp
flown through space Tuesday. Standing by is the destroyer
USS Ellison. . i (UPI Telephoto)
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Participate in
African Program
Eugene - The University of
Oregon will be one of some
80 colleges and universities
in the nation to participate in
an African scholarship pro
gram which will begin next
fall.
Under the program,- which
was developed at Harvard uni
verslty for the purpose of
helping educate leaders for
emerging African nations, as
many as 200 African students
will be brought to American
universities on four-year schol
arships.
The' University of Oregon
will receive at least one, pos
sibly morr, African students
under the program. The uni
versity wili provide tuition
scholarships for them, while
the International Co-operation
administration will pay for
the students' living expenses,
books, and other supplies.
The African - American In
stitute, which is the adminis
tering agency for the pro
gram, has opened a central of
fice in Tangnnyiku. Field
agents In each of the partici
pating East and Central Afri
can countries will help select
the students.
At the present, there are
eight African students at the
University of Oregon. Four
ore from Ghana, three from
Nigeria, and one from Ugan
da. Of these two have scholar
ships from their country, two
have U.S. government grants,
two hove partial foreign stu
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stale of Oregon, and two are
completely on their own.
Educators In Uganda, Nya-
soland, and other African
countries are very optimistic
and have expressed thanks for
the new program which they
hope will help create good
leadership for their nations.
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