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THUHBDAY, JANUARY 17, 1863
MEDFOHD MAIL- TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Ploims IPirobe Initio Meighboiriiinig Space This Year
(Editor-! Nolt: Solving tht
mytteriet oi ipse with
men and celettiel machines
remeint lha naiion'a major
fcianiifie challanga in this
now Yaar. Thara alio will
ba mora raiaarch into a
tranga naw kind oi light,
into lha daap anigma of
what makes human and
yegetable lifa tick, and
mora probat into other
tciantiiic spheres. In the
following dispatch a United
Press International Science
writer reports on the
thresholds man will ap
proach this year.)
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - In 1963
man should learn more about
the earth, moon, planets, sun,
and himself than he ever
knew before.
The United States plans
this year to launch two geo
physical observa t o r i e s to
study the earth from space,
three moon probes to take the
first closeup television pic
tures of the lunar surface, two
orbiting observatories to in
vestigate solar eruptions, and
many a scientific satellite to
glean more knowledge about
apace near the earth.
This year also will see the
first cooperative space ven
tures by Russia and the
United States.
Scientists all over the
world, meanwhile, are push-'
ing efforts to crack the ge
netic code of life, to harness
H-bomb reactions for peace
time power, to put a strange
new kind of light to work in
communications and industry,
and to solve the remaining
mysteries of photosynthesis,
the process by which nature
manufactures food and fiber
from sunlight, carbon dioxide,
water, and soil.
Life on Venus
Spacecraft already aloft
should provide some answers
to the question whether life
can exist on Venus, what Mars
looks like to spaccborne tele.
vision cameras flying by, and
what hazard, if any, is posed
to man's space machines by
the tiny bits of cosmic dust
and debris which swarm In
the solar system.
America's Mariner 2, the
447 pound spacecraft which
flew past Venus last Dec. 14,
has reported more informa
tion than was ever available
before about the brilliant
planet and its space environ
ment. Information still to be
translated should' indicate
whether Venus is cool enough
and whether it has water
enough to support life like
Earth's.
Russia's Mars probe,
launched last Nov. 1, should
provide science with new in
formation about the red
planet.' It is equipped to take
tele vision photographs of
Mara for eventual transmis
sion to earth.
America's Explorr 16,
launched Dec. 16 to study
tiny grains of meteoric matter
near the earth, will report
this year whether there is
enough of this material in the
space trails to endanger astro
nauts and their craft.
View Our Planet
Two U.S. satellites ached
uled for 1963, known as Ogo
and Ego, will gaze at the
earth instead of objects far
ther out in space. Their Jobs
to give science a better idea
of the exact shape and size
of our planet and its gravi
tational nnd magnetic char
acteristics.
Two solar observatories will
seek clues from the surface
of the boiling and erupting
sun to the origin of charged
particles and ionized mole
cules which throng In plane
tary space. They may help
man to find means of fore
casting the gigantic solar
flares which eject radiations
dangerous to astronauts.
The lunar studies will be
made by three Ranger space
craft carrying clusters of tele
vision cameras designed to
transmit moon pictures up to
the moment of impact. They
will show objects as small as
a beach umbrella.
Scientists hope from these
pictures to map safe landing
areas on the moon for the
Apollo astronauts.
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RUSSIA TO COOPERATE U.S. space
goals and instruments that will be used to
achieve them are shown in tills artist's con
ception. Besides sending up sounding roc
kets and observatories, V. 8. also will have
first cooperative space venture with Soviet
Union in 1963. (UPI)
These flights by the 750-
pound Ranger spacecraft will,
if they succeed, be the most
spectacular space projects
planned by the United States
in i3.
One 1963 Flight
America has only one
manned flight definitely on
the 1963 space calendar.. This
is the one-day orbital ' trip
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planned for Astronaut Leroy
Cordon Cooper, Jr., aboard
a Mercury capsule in April.
The Russians already have
made far longer journeys in
space than the Coope- mis
sion. If Cooper's flight ac
complishes all expected of it,
the United States will at
tempt no more manned space
Jaunts until 1964 when it
launches the first trips in the
two-man Gemini spacecraft.
With Gemini, in 1964 and
1065, the United States will
train astronauts in the ren-
'Duck Preview' Day
Activities Slated
Eugene - Representatives
of all major' fields of study
will be available to interested
high school seniors during
"Duck Preview" at the Uni
versity of Oregon Jan. 26.
The seniors will be given
the opportunity to attend ses
sions in the department or
school of their first and sec
ond preference during the
afternoon. At this time, course
offerings, degree programs,
and professional opportunities
in the various fields will be
outlined by faculty members.
Special tours will take the
visitors to the science build
ing, school of music, school
of architecture and allied arts,
library, University thea t e r,
museum of art, ROTC depart
ment, Erb Memorial Student
union, freshman dormitories
and the Honors college.
The office of student af
fairs will have an informa
tion center with representa
tives of the admissions office,
scholarship committee, dormi
tory office, dean of women's
office, dean of men's office,
co-operative housing, panhel
lenic and Inter - fraternity
councils available. The Uni
versity Counseling Center
also will be represented.
Guest speakers and student
entertainment will highlight
the luncheon to be held in
the Erb Memorial Student
union.
dczvous techniques - the cou
pling of craft in space - which
will be used in subsequent
Apollo missions to the moon.
Toward the end of this year
a Gemini craft may be put
through an unmanned sub
orbital flight.
The United States, mean
while, will send up more com
munication and weather satel
lites. These will include Syn
com, an advanced communica
tion satellite which will be
put in an orbit, 22,300 miles
out in space, where it will
seem to hover. Satellites In
such "fixed orbits" theoreti
cally could cover the whole
earth if properly spotted
above the equator.
First Nimbus
Additional Tiros weather
satellites will be launched,
but the big event of 1963 in
this field will be the lofting
of thejirst Nimbus. Nimbus
will swing around the earth
on a pole-to-pole orbit, and
its instruments - unlike Tiros'
- will 'always point down to
ward the planet.
IT'S YOUR LAW -
Rtspttt or Law Mates Dtmncracy tivt
The following article was
prepared by the Oregon State
Bar information service as a
public service. Persons in
need of legal advise are urged
to consult an attarney with
all of the facts since a slight
changa in facts may greatly
alter a case.
JURY DUTY
One of these days - per
haps soon - you may get a
notice telling you to report
for jury duty - and to "fail
not." In serving, you share
one of the most solemn duties
known to our democracy.
Some people try to get out
of Jury service. It may be in
convenient or unpleasant. Yet,
when you are put on a jury
you should think of this as a
chance to help make good one
of the promises of our Consti
tution - trial by jury. Say the
following to yourself:
"My forefathers wrested my
right to serve as a juror from
tyrants.
"Under our law no one's
life, liberty, or property can
be taken without due process
of law.
"Trial by jury is our basic
right. All who seek their day
in court should have a fair
hearing. They will get it from
me.
"I will not ask to be ex
cused from jury service' ex
cept in an emergency.
"On my oath I will well
and truly try each case be
fore me, and a true verdict
render under the law given
me by the judge and the evi
dence at the trial without
fear, favor, or hope of re
ward. "I will listen closely, with
open mind to all of the testi
mony, instructions and argu
ments. I will not make up my
mind until all the facts are
in and the judge has instruct
ed the jury on the law.
"I will search for the truth
regardless of wealth or pov
erty, friendship or enmity, of
any party or witnesses.
"To someone my decision
may mean the difference be
tween freedom or imprison
ment, poverty or wealth.
"Justice, once but a dream,
is a reality when I, as a juror,
do my full duty. No act of
mine shall bring shame to our
system of liberty under law."
4-H NEWS
Central Point Porkies
The fourth meeting of the
Central Point Porkies 4-H
club was held in the Central
Point gymnasium. Plans for
a window display for 4-H
week were discussed. The
next meeting will be held at
the home of Eldred Charley
Feb. 11.
John Swartsfager,
Reporter
On Nimbus, the weather bu
reau pins its hopes for a de
pendable, routinely operating
satellite weather system.
Also in 1963 the United
States will launch Echo 2, a
bigger and more rigid version
of the Echo I and radio mirror
launched in 1961 and still -in
orbit.
Echo 2, as high as a 13
story building, will provide a
reflecting surface against
which Soviet and American
scientists will bounce radio
signals for the first space
communications between the
two nations.
This year, too, will see the
final orgai.ization of a corpo
ration authorized by the Unit
ed States to develop a global
system of space communications-Russia
will participate
in this system if she wants to.
Try H-bomb Control
In non-space fields scien
tists are striving to control
H-bomb reactions for power.
They do not expect immediate
success. But "impressive"
progress was recently report
ed by the Oak Ridge National
laboratory of the Atomic En
ergy commission, there is
enough hydrogen fuel in the
earth's waters to give man
an inexhaustible supply f
power if he ever manages to
harness the reactions in
volved. Scientists have discovered
that the genetic code, which
directs the activities of living
organisms and controls hered
ity, is tvritten in a chemical
compound called DNA. Mas
tery of the code and how to
manipulate it would give man
the power to create new be
ings and direct their develop
ment. He might even control
his own heredity.
Scientists have partially
cracked the code. But' the
more progress they make, the
more difficulties they en
counter. This year may see
some of the difficulties re
moved. New Laser Light
A couple of years ago sci
entists created a new kind of
light with an instrument call
ed the Laser. Laser light is
all one frequency and not the
jumble of wavelengths en-.
countered in ordinary light.
Laser light - may be trans
mitted through space in ex
tremely tight pencil like
beams capable, like radio, of
carrying intelligence.
Focused at close quarters,
Laser light can burn holes
through diamond, drill
through steel, and perform
delicate masterpieces of sur
gery. Theretically it might de
velop into a weapon against
missiles, or into a means of
transmitting power from
spacecraft to spacecraft.
In space communications,
it should have many thou
sands of times the capacity
of radio. One Laser potenti
ally could handle more in
formation than 25,000 tele
vision stations operating at
once.
This year may produce
practical means of creating
steady sources of Laser light
and of "modulating" light
beams to carry messages.
Every year sees a bit more
of the mystery of photosyn
thesis stripped away. If man
could copy, and improve
upon, this process of nature's
he could multiply the re
sources needed to maintain
the earth's evergrowing popu
lations. Major progress to
ward this end is possible in
1963.
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