European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes monday april 8, 1963 Lunik lapse hints Russ Moon trip at least 2 years off from prow just what did the russians accomplish of seek to accomplish with. Lunik it most Western observers be Lieve the shot � partial failure. The soviet press has reinforced this theory with Brief communiques telling Only that the space ship passed the Moon at a Dis Tance of 5,281 Miles. But the fact remains that Lunik in was big enough to carry Man. The. Soviet Union doubtless could Send a Man to the Moon today. The Sticky part of the problem is in figuring out a Way to get him Back to Earth preferably alive and healthy. On this score the . And so Viet Man to the Moon projects re probably in the same boat the accommodations for lunar bound astronauts must be round trip. In the opinion of Many experts this makes a russian manned lunar Landing unlikely for at least another two years. Russia May or May not have a lower regard for the lives of it cosmonaut that can be left to the theories of moralists. Certainly there u yet no Concrete evidence of Wanton expenditure of lives in space by the soviets. But the russians an politically quite astute. This alone. It would seem probably rules out the possibility that soviet cosmonaut might a sent on a one Man trip to the Moon. Sending Man off into space with no Chance of getting Back live could be a difficult thing to explain even by the soviet prop guide machine. Speculation about a russian manned one Way flight into space1s As old a the space age itself it flared anew when the soviet Union sent its Lunik in probe caring toward the Moon april 2. Now Doto planned dispatches some experts in this country at first interpreted it As meaning Russia was on the verge of shoot ing Man to that nearest of heavenly neighbors. Cape canaveral has Long  for accepting  space accomplishments with shrug but Cape canaveral generally gets upset about such thing when there is something technically Worth getting upset about with Lunik in there was t the russian Moon probe weighed 3,130 pounds. It was a sizable piece of machinery. But from another standpoint that i just a Shade Over the weight of the fell shaped Mercury capsule that the United states has use Din putting its first astronauts into orbit the Mercury program s sardine can qualities have been dwelt upon at length. An astronaut would find it mighty Tough going if he had to spend several Day Iii a spaceship this size going to the  could make it to the Moon in a spaceship u big or a Small a Lunik in or one oven smaller for that matter if he were willing to go Light on food water and breathing. But there Junt would t be enough room to cart along Rock ets for a return trip. If  in generated any stir Prises at Cape canaveral it was one of finding the russians this Little this late. The probe s site indicated it probably was launched with the same Booster that the soviet Union has been using for three Yean one certainly not nearly big enough to propel men on around trip lunar flight. Otherwise the russians showed nothing particularly new or unexpected. Of says radiation Belt from a shots to linger Bedford Man a a secret air Force space venture Baa dug up additional evidence that the artificial radiation Bel created by Ian summer s Ameri can High Altitude nuclear shot will last up to 10 Yean. Tola was reported by the airfare s top research command. A scientist of the air fore Cambridge research laboratories disclosed that a satellite launched late last october by the defense department on an  was actually loaded with dwt Fly gear designed to probe the new radiation Belt created bythe july 9 american nuclear blast some 330 Miles above Johnston Island in the Pacific As things turned out the Patel. Lite described in Only the vaguest tanks at the urn of launching so oct � not Only probed the american made Belt but was launched la time to get prime in formation on the series of three soviet High Altitude nuclear blasts mov x touched off Between oct 22 and Ludwig Kau disclosed the american venture to newsmen making a tour of the key air Force space research laboratories. Before the air Force satellite was launched the government had decided largely on the basis of findings by the telstar communications satellite that the artificial radiation Belt would persist much longer than had originally been expected Possi Bly for Many  this View was steadfastly opposed for months by James Vanallen. Recently Van Allen re versed his stand saying that various american satellites had produced evidence that now con Vinced him the Man made Belt would persist for about decade. Van Allen was not very specific on which satellites had produced the evidence. Air Force spokesmen said the Felt the evidence dug up by their Patel late figured largely in Vanallen s change of mind. Hungary s rockets the hungarian communist regime take advantage of a National Carman drama about Pope plus Xii Holiday to unveil its rocket in Bod Apee Parade watched by top red officials. Key ites . Plans off for disputed play Berlin new York producer Leo Ken has announced he will not produce a controversial German play about Pope plus Xii in the unite states. The play has been condemned As anti Catholic. Ken who designed the sets for the Berlin premiere of Dor Stelle Treter said he was dropping his option to produce the play in the United Stales because he feared it is giving com fort for nails. He said in a statement he thought those responsible for the extermination of jews May land undeserved Comfort in the Contention of the play that Pope plus Xii should have openly condemned Hitler. The play by Rolf Hochhuth 31-year-old West Userman protestant accuses the Pope of refusing to oppose the nazi extermination of jews through. Fear of endangering the Church and aiding the russians. Kent said he believed Tite reaction was wrong to blame the Pope for the murder of jews. Silence does not condone he said in his stats ment. Pentagon bracing for gop budget a Washington up the defense department is storing up ammunition for a Battle wit Republican critics who claim there should be Sharp slashes i president Kenned a 153 billion military appropriation request. Counterclaims Are being pre pared contending that cuts could result in elimination of army divisions cutbacks in air Force menu Leman intercontinental mis Sile orders and a slowdown in Navy ship construction. Other effects according to the rebuttals could be a hastening of base closings reductions in Mili tary construction projects an stretching out of Jet plane procurement for troop transport congressional Republican budget critics argue that the Pentagon could take a s3 billion Cut. Spread evenly Over the army Navy and air Force. Former president Dwight d. Eisenhower has spoken of a 113 billion Federal budget lash much of it presumably in the defense establishment or. Kennedy has pointed out that the appropriations request now before Congress for the fiscal year starting july 1 is 13 billion less than the armed forces Orl Len ally proposed. Stricken from service request were major -11 e m a which some congressmen would ilk to re Instate. These include production of thereto War plane and Nike zeus antimissile missile. Another Dele Tion was us Sybolt missile. An example of what republicans Are Likely to be told. If they make headway with budget Cut demands concerns the army. It has been reckoned that a cutoff to billion to jl-5 billion in that service would Force elimination of two of its present 18 divisions. That would take it Back to the number on its roster when or Kennedy took office. Instead of cutting defense out lays the administration apparently faces possible increases. For example an urgent efforts under Way to develop a better missile defense than the Nike zeus. The new system is called Nike x. 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