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engineers simulate astronnuis during "take
off" in mockup Apollo iwo-man Spacecraft.
Allhoimh experiments an' firmly secured
by safely apparatus, at other times during
the five-day trin. they will be able to move
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'Orbital Rendezvous1 Won't Be
Easy, Space Scientists Report
By JOSEPH L. MYLEH
United Prats International
Washington-iUPIi-Some time
in 1964 two American astro
nauts will try to couple their
Gemini spacecraft with an
Agena-B rocket in orbit above
the Earth
their trade that they could
fire a two-man Gemini space
craft into precisely the orbit
occupied by a previously
launched Agena-B. - As Du
BridKe has noted, "an orbit is
not a racetrack in which one
vehicle can overtake an-
Upori the success of the j other. ' 1
Gemini program to perfect the If the Gemini astronauts
art of "orbital rendejvous" dc-1 fired a burst from their pro-
pends the success of the
Apollo program to land men
on the moon before 1971),
Apollo plans call for the-decoupling
and recoupling of
craft in space.
Space being what it is,
bringing objects together out
there won't be easy. If the
Gemini spacecraft and Agena
B rocket were automobiles on
a circular track, all one would
have to do to catch the other
would be to move faster.
In space, however, that
would defeat the purpose. Dr.
L. A. DuBridgc, president of
the California Institute of
Technology, once remarked
that space is a peculiar "en
vironment where one mu.;t
slow down in order to go
faster."
Not a Race Track
Suppose by 1964 thai the
launch crews at Cape Canav
eral had become so good at
pulsion rocket to accelerate
their craft in the direction it
was going, it would just move
off on a tangent into a higher
orbit. As it moved out against
the earth's gravitational pull,
it would slow down.
It is a rule of celestial me
chanics that the higher the
orbit, the slower the speed.
Gemini spacecraft in orbit at
an altitude of 150 miles will
be going about 17,500 miles
an hour. The moon, which
orbits the earth about 240,000
miles, is traveling at only
2,300 miles an hour.
Increase Orbital Speed
So if the Gemini pilots want
to increase their orbital speed,
they will have to reduce it
temporarily by firing retro,
or braking, rockets. This will
drop them into a lower orbit
in which they will whirl
faster.
By alternating between pro-
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Falima, Portugal -IUPH- Vis
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hill lands more than 100 miles
north of Lisbon.
Fatima is one of the Roman
Calliojic world's major Euro
pean shrines. But tens of thou
sands of non-Catholics make
the trek, if not the pilgrimage,
to Falima every year.
The Shrine of Our Lady of
Falima is, according to Cath
olic belief, the scene of the
apparitjon of- the Blessed
Mary, Mother of Christ, to
three Portuguese shepherd
children six times butween
May 13 and Oct. 13, 1917, and
I he famed three predictions of
Falima.
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foretelling the end of World
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However, its contents never
have been disclosed and prob
ably never will be, according
to an American priest who is
an authority on Fatima.
Picturesque Countryside
The drive here from Lis
bon, best taken by tour bus
.over tile, narrow, unfamiliar
roads, passes through some
picturesque countryside and
villages to the quadrangle-like
collection of while buildings
that mark the shrine.
Focal point of the shrine,
even more than the single
towered while Basilica and its
flanking colonaded wings, is
a tiny open-sided, red tile
roofed building set at one side
of 1he expanse of ground that
sweeps hack from the Basilica.
The little building stands
on the spot of Iho little oak
Irec where the children said
they saw Ihe visions. The tree
is long since gone, literally
torn to slivers of wood by
early visitors. Under cover of
the root is a plain white and
gold-trimnieri statue of Our
Lady of Fatima.
Thousands of people collect
about the little building, kneel
ing in prayer or even circling
Ihe .shrine on their knees. A
reverent hush hangs over Ihe
area
Flanking two sides of the
quadrangle are plain white
buildings, one a hospital for
the sick who visit the shrine,
and the other a building to
house the clergy.
Pilgrims Gather
A towering cross stands on
the fourth side facing across
the expanse toward the Ba
silica. These acres are where
the thousands of pilgrims
gather each month from May
through October on the night
of the twelfth for a candlc-lit
visil of prayer and the com
pletion of their pilgrimage the
following day after Mass said
on an open air altar in front
of Ihe Basilica.
Although the shrine attracts
visitors every day, it is on the
piliriniage days and espe
cially those in May and Oc
tober, when I lie mass of peo-
' pic overflows out of 1 lie
! grounds - - that Fatima is at
! its must remarkable.
The tombs of two of the
j children who saw the appari
tions - Jacinta and Francisco
i Mario, a brother and sister--
are at the front of the Basilica.
iiiiirked by marble plaques.
The third shepherd child is
i now a nun. Sister Mary, and
lives in a cloistered convent
' near Lisbon.
Moose Defined Flying Object For Insurance
pulsion and braking, assum
ing they had plenty of fuel
and their rockets could be
throttled, the astronauts thus
could flit from orbit to orbit
until they got on Agena-B's
tail.
According to a recent Sen- i
ate Space committee report,
the "target" Agena and the
"seeker" spacecraft probably
will be launched into differ
ent but converging orbits
which will bring the two close
together at precalculalcd
times.
By GORDON W. SCHULTZ
Fairbanks, Alaska - lUPt -When
is a moose not a moose?
Simple. When a moose is
flying object, that's when.
Two Fairbanks residents on
a trip over the Alaska high
way between here and Tok
answered the question of a
moose's identity - only they
did it the hard way.
Kathleen and Betty Reap
drove right to the source for
the answer. Or should it be
thai Ihc source came to them?
The Reaps, like many mo-
Thfl A O o n 4 iirniil,! U
launched one day and the lorists on the h'8hway, found
Gemini capsule the next. This
ca!h; for great aiming preci
sion and fine timing. A mistake
of a few seconds would find
the two vehicles hundreds of
miles apart at the planned
time of rendezvous.
Have Propulsion Units
Still, both would have pro
pulsion units aboard and
would be able to maneuver
subject, of course, to the laws
of celestial mechanics. Any
maneuvering of the Agena
would be by controllers on the
ground who would have to co
ordinate their operations with
those of the Gemini pilots.
It will be a lot harder to
do than it sounds. Suppose,
however, that seeker and tar
get do manage to get within
a few miles of one another.
They are traveling at ap
proximately the same speeds.
The seeker, say, is going
17,530 miles an hour, Ihe tar
get 17,500.
The speed of the one rel
ative to the other would be
only 30 miles an hour. If they
can't get it down further, how
ever, they might as well give
up, go their separate 'ways,
and try again later.
For, "if they were to hit at
30 miles per hour," according
to House Space experts, "the
result might not be loo differ
ent from hitting a parked car
with its brakes off at the same
speed."
themselves on a collision
course with one of the huge
critters. But this moose, un
like many of his stubborn
relatives, decided to yield the
right of way to the motorist.
And with the grace and
poise that only another moose
could appreciate, this traffic
conscious moose decided to
jump over the oncoming car.
He did - almost.
The short-sighted animal
came down a little early ind
poked one leg through the
windshield of the Reap s car
But only the car was damaged
and that was when the sisters
found out the real moose iden
tity. Everyone knows that a
moose is not a car - even in
surance agents - so the dam
age could not be charged as a
collision.
But in this case the damage
came under the "comprehen
sive" insurance category - one
that covers damage by fire,
theft or falling objects
through no fault of the car's
owner.
From this point it was sim
ple. The moose had to be a
falling object and so he was.
The two sisters were happy
to have the damage paid and
insurance company morj than
likely glad to settle the claim.
As for the moose, he may
not be so happy nursing a sora
leg. Maybe the next time ha
hurales a car he'll have eyeglasses.
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