Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                M f t b o it Strughold left maj David g. Simons Holder manned balloon record. Ten years of research by space age Pioneer Strughold Heads department at aviation Medicine school to Aid in Man s Conquest of outer space by Alton Blakeslee a staff writer Armstrong with wife gave Strughold Start. Is thursday february 19, 1959 Hubertus Strughold is a Blue eyed Chain smoking scientist who likes to invent new words and collect fossils and who sometimes dreams he s flying. Flying All by himself that is with no plane wings or wires. This dream is by no Means Odd when you consider he spends his Days preoccupied with Man s exciting new Frontier human flight into space someday to the Moon Mars and beyond. For or. Strughold is a famous Pioneer in space Medicine the medical studies aimed at anticipating and solving the fantastic hazards awaiting Man in the Friend less sea of space. He and Oiler specialists started on All this Long before the first sputnik formally ushered in the space age in october 10?i7. On feb. 9 special ceremonies marked the Lola anniversary of the department of space Medicine established by the air Force school of aviation Medicine at Randolph fab Tex. It was the first full fledged space medi Cal Laboratory in the ., with Strughold heading it. Recently it was expanded into a full division headed by col Paul . Or. Strughold is advisory for research. Ten years of intensive research at ran Dolph and at numerous other space labs Are flashing a Green Light for Man to go ahead into  main dangers and problems can be solved. If we had a vehicle ready men could go into orbit for Short times right now. We might gel men on the Moon within five years if we worked very hard or. Strughold says. We Are pretty sure men can tolerate the increased Gravity of take off and the strange Zero Gravity or weightlessness during  might have strange psychological reactions from Zero Gravity. But we Don think there will be really bad physical effects. In fact their hearts should work More easily for their blood would not have any weight. On Mars where Gravity is weaker than on Earth a person with weak circulation might be healthy for that ," he says we perhaps should Check astronauts very carefully for things like gallstones. Under weightlessness the stones might float about and Block the Gall bladder  Charles Lindbergh unwillingly nudged the Blond or. Strughold into a career in aviation and space Medicine. When Lindbergh made his Atlantic flight i saw a new period coming we would need to know More about Hig Altitude physiology. So i took a flying course and got per Mission to teach some aviation Medicine As a sideline while i was teaching physiology at the University of Wuerzburg  in 1928, or. Strughold studied for a year in the United states on a Rockefeller Fellowship. He came to Texas in 1947 atthe invitation of maj Gen Harry Arm Strong then commandant of the aviation school who founded the space Medicine department two years later. Strughold has since become a  Citizen. This school pioneered Jet plane flights on parabolic paths which produced weightlessness for 15 to 30 seconds at a time. It also pioneered sealed Chambers Simu lating Many conditions of space where there is no air where everything you need must be carted along with you. Space Medicine is creating picturesque the stars and stripes new words grave sphere the Earth s effect Ive Field of Gravity Bio gravies Gravity effects on living things Verolla nickname for the scaled space chamber Gravity Divide the Neutral Point Between the Gravity tugs of the Earth and the Moon Spati Graphy the geography of space. Or. Strughold contributes Many of them. It s important to science to have words that Click with meaning he says. It s a Hobby trying to think them up. Space Medicine Calls for new ideas and Little things often spark off the new ideas adds the 60-year-old Bachelor scientist. He flew to Germany about 10 years ago but could t sleep the night he arrived. Then he far overslept missing an important morning appointment. I knew vaguely that something was wrong with me physiologically then i realized the reason. Biologically i was still living by Texas time six hours earlier. My Day night Cycle was upset. About 70per cent of people probably Are sensitive to this. It could be an important consideration in space travel when there is no Divisio Between Day and night. Perhaps space men should live and work As they do in the Navy four hours on duly then four  such duty Tours Are tested in the space chamber where volunteers spend More than a week at a stretch in cramped Soli Lude under watchful medical eyes. More than a year ago enough had been Learned so the school could list the specifications for a liable space Craft Cabin an engineers could design it says maj Gen Otis o. Benson jr., commandant of the aviation school. The work continues for As Gen Benson puts it the goal is not just survival of the Crew but creation of the most efficient Safe and comfortable space Home particularly for flights lasting Many weeks or months. Soon to be built is a sealed chamber Large enough to hold two men living under simulated space flight and testing what happens psychologically Between two me who cannot escape one another for oven a moment and who must depend one upon the other. In the history of aviation Man and machine have kept pretty close together says col Campbell. But now the machine is ahead. We can put vehicles into  be got to make sure we know How to protect the human occupants in this strange new environment. Man s reflexes can be Loo slow for some reactions and decisions. And it s not enough just to get him into orbit we must learn How to bring him Back Home safely even How to Rescue him if some thing goes wrong out in space. Flying in the Earth s air brings prob lems including fierce heat from air Fric Tion at tremendous Speed. Space brings additional problems no oxygen no water vapor new hazards from cosmic rays and meteors that can puncture the Walls of space  and col Campbell adds we must make All the equipment and systems in the space Cabin As Safe As efficient and As Small and lightweight As possible. Right now it takes 1,000 pounds of fuel to lift one Pound of payload into orbit. Whatever we can save in weight increases the chances of  wants and will go into space. First it s the Job of scientists to conquer All the foreseeable problems and give Man a Good Chance of going and coming Back. 11