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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1962
New Motto of Spaceman Is to Stay Up There, Put Him to Work
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. lis the new motto. With this, space as the clamorous stage.,
United Press International added criteria in mind, U. S. He wouldn't even join th Mcr
Cape Canaveral iL'Pfj The i Project Mercury scientists ap- cury program until he was
day is past when an astro-, parently have a perfect match ; certain it wasn't a propaganda
naut's job was simply to fly
into space and get back down
alive and as fast as possible.
The fad now is to put him to
work, the longer the better.
"Stay up there and do
things, preferably useful ones''
between their newest manned
1 spaceflight mission and the
man they have picked for the
job.
Astronaut Walter Marty
(Wally) Schirra Jr. isn't a
"showboat," not even with
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Ting of Propaganda
Probably the early manned
shots in the $500 million Mer
cury Project bore a tinge of
propaganda, even until the
three-orbit missions of John
Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
There simply wasn't enough
time in flight for these men to
find out much about their
true capabilities in this
strange new environment.
Time is one thing that
slender, serious Wally Schirra
will have plenty of - more
than nine hours, if all goes
well, as he whirls through six
45-minute "days" and "nights"
at a speed of better than 17,
000 miles per hour.
In many ways, Wally Schir
ra will be working in the
kind of emotional atmosphere
he likes. It will be one free
of much of the publicity mad
ness and propaganda pressure,
because many of the spectacu
lar "firsts" that generate al
most unbearable tension al
ready have gone before.
Not First Spaceman
Schirra, 39, certainly won't
face the pressure of being first
into orbit. Russian Cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin nabbed that hon
or back in April 12, 1961,
when he soared once around
the globe aboard Vostok-1.
Schirra's Mercury pal, John
Glenn, did it for America last
Feb. 20.
Schirra won't stay up the
longest. Soviet "space brot.lv
ers" Andrian Nikolayev and
Pavel Popovich last month
set a space endurance record
that the United States won't
touch for another two years
or more.
What Schirra's flight will
do, if things go according to
plan, is to bridge the gap be
tween the early "toe in space"
flights of the Mercury Project
and the day-long missions that
ard the day-long missions that
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U. S. scientists are planning
starting early in 1963.
Sitting in a hangar on Cape
Canaveral today is a bell-
j shaped Mercury capsule simi
I lar in appearance to the one
that Schirra will ride. There
is a difference - this new
spacecraft is designed to keep
an astronaut alive and well
for up to 24 hours or so in
space.
The one-day-in-orbit flight
by one of the seven Mercury
astronauts, to match the feat
that Russia's Gherman Titov
performed 13 months ago, will
be next up on the schedule if
Schirra's "MA-8" trip is fully
successful.
The "if" is a big one, de
spite the relative abundance
of Soviet manned flights, Rus
sian iron curtain secrecy has
kept a wealth of valuable
knowledge from the U.S. sci
entists knowledge about the
problems of prolonged
manned flight in space. And
knowledge that this nation
obviously will have to win
the hard way.
Myriad Unknowns I
There are myriad un
knowns. Can man's physical
make-up, tied to earth for
millenia, survive safely and
sanely the weird feeling of :
"no gravity?" An astronaut
isn't going to be much good
on a long trip through space
if he spends the entire time
with his gills a tainted green
and his head in one or those
"emergency" bags you find in
airplanes.
How quickly does an astro
naut tire? Can be keep his
mind fully on his work? How
well does he take the stresses
of re-entry through the atmos
phere after a prolonged
period of "zero-gravity!"
These questions are ques
tions the American shots to
date haven't been able to an
swer fully, and the Russians
have been reluctant to help
with. It will be up to Schirra
to supply the answers.
The easygoing spaceman-to-be,
son of a former barn
storming pilot, has had his
share of tough moments.
Many of them came in Korea,
when he was flying 90 mis
sions in F84E jets. He tangled I sule pointed in a certain di
with Russian technology rection. The spacecraft will
there, too MIG jets. He was
credited with downing one
MIG. with another as a
"probable."
And there was a time when
Schirra wasn't the least in
terested in climbing aboard
a missile. He was too busy
dodging one. A deadly little
sidewinder missile, launched
from his own jet airplane,
doubled back on him. He
calmly evaded it until the
sidewinder ran out of fuel.
On his orbital voyage,
Schirra will have more time
to spend on his scientific
work than did either Glenn
or Carpenter. For one thing,
he won't have to be forever
busy trying to keep his cap-
"dnft about half the time.
Not Enough Fuel
It couldn't be otherwise.
There won't be enough fuel
on board to permit a constant
"attitude" correction, because
of weight restrictions.
A lot of the astronaut's
work will be involved with
testing systems and tech
niques rather than in trying
out new items placed aboard
the capsule. One of the most
important will be a modifica
tion of the spacecraft's radio
communications system.
On board will be a compact
antenna, attached to the re
trorocket package on the base
of the capsule. In orbit, the
antenna will be "telescoped"
so it will reach a length of
about 26 feet. This "telescop
ing" works on the same prin
ciple as the automobile an
tenna. The purpose will be to try
to improve radio communica
tions between the astronaut
and ground stations on com
paratively low frequencies. A
poor antenna system on pre
vious shots prevented these
communications from being
very attractive.
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