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4 B THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 19S3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Man and Space: Nothing Spectacular in Lunar Space Probe by Russians BY ALVIN B. WEBB Cape Canaveral - (UPO - The Soviet Union doubtless could tend a man to the moon today. The sticky part of the prob lem is in figuring out a way to get him back to earth, per ferably alive and healthy. On this score the U.S. and Soviet man-to-moon projects are probably in the same boat-the accommodations for lunar-bound astronauts must be roundtrip. In the opinion of many experts, this makes a Russian manned lunar land ing unlikely for at least an other two years, maybe long ed. Russia may or may not have a lower regard for the lives of its "cosmonauts" - that can be left to the theories of mor alists. Certainly there is yet no concrete evidence of wan ton expenditure of lives in space by the Soviets, although there are opinions aplenty. But the Russians are po litically quite astute. This alone, it would seem, prob ably rules out the possibility that a Soviet cosmonaut might be sent on a one-way trip to the moon. Sending a man off into space with no chance of get ting back alive could be a difficult thing to explain, even by the masterful Soviet propaganda machine. People and nations tend to frown upon such things. Speculation about a Rus sian manned one-way flight into space is as old as the space age itself. It flared anew when the Soviet Union sent its Lunik-4 probe soar ing toward the moon April 2. Some experts in this coun try interpreted it as meaning Russia was on the verge of shooting a man to that near est of heavenly neighbors. For some reason, an agon izing appraisal of the U. fc space program by experts and non-experts alike always follows a Soviet space spec tacular. Tilts one was no ex ception - particularly coming, as it did, in the midst of sun dry congressional hearings. And there always has been a tendency toward somewhat exaggerated interpretations or guesses - of Just what the Russians might be up to. This one, again, was no excep tion. Cape Canaveral has long been criticized for accepting Russian rpace accomplish menu with a shrug of the i a sizable piece of machinery But from another standpoint, that is just a shade over the weight of the bell-shaped Mercury capsule that the United States has used in put ting its first astronauts into moon in a spaceship as big or as small - as Lunik-4 - or one even smaller, for that matter, if he were willing to go light on food, water and breathing. But there just it was one of finding the Rus sians this little this late. The probe's size indicated it prob ably was launched with the same booster that the Soviet Union has been using for three years - one certainly not nearly big enough to pro pel men on a roundtrip lunar flight. And the result is that the moon probably is going to remain a beautiful, virginal wilderness in the sky for sometime to come. Both the United States and Russia, it would seem, have a long way to go. shoulders while the rest of the country jumps up and down. But the Cape is well stocked with brains that can separate technical soundness from spectacular headlines. Which is another way of saying that Cape Canaveral generally gets upset about such things when there is something technically worth getting upset about. With Lunik-4, there wasn't. The Russian moon probe weighed 3,130 pounds. It was BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Indent-rial Reiidentiil Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvjniied and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE 772-6660 would not be enough room to cart along rockets for a return trip. The vehicle that will carry the first U. S. astronauts to the moon will weigh about 90,000 pounds. Conceivably, the Soviet Union might be able to chop a little off that. 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