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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
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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.
But not 86,000 pounds.
If Lunik-4 generated any
surprises at Cape Canaveral,
orbit.
No Return Rockets
The Mercury program's
sardine can qualities have
been dwell upon at length.
An astronaut would find it
mighty tough going indeed if
he had to spend several days
in a spaceship this size going
to the moon.
He could make it to the i
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