European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 18, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 . May wait 18 months before next astronaut flight Cape canaveral. Kin. Lap Viii it he another Jyh mail he before America again sends a Man into space the Man who ouch i to know. D. Brain cd i Dolnics says t Here is better than n 50-50 Chance that it will be at  that lung before a . Astron Nui attain thrills the world. Holmes director of the manned space flight program for the National aeronautics and space administration was asked if another Mercury flight will follow Gordon Cooper s sensational 34-hour mis lion. I sold in stood by hit Parent of Hie iwo Man gemini Cap mile hat i Nasa Lias considered several was loss than a w per that there would be in Eury flight. But he said a de Wall until we not Lyric Gordon Cooper s f i Lull i determine what we la nil Chance other Mit Ision must Dnton from we must ironed from the flight what questions were asked and Are they import tint enough to know before we move on into  because of troubles involving the development of the Titan 2 Booster rocket spacecraft systems and finances the first in nerd flight gemini is an important Bridge tween Mercury and tin Apollo banned inner binding in i Nim. It is to subject men to periods of Irh Lles my test less of up to two weeks techniques of Ronde to using vehicles in spun. Utter in the program one of Imp two pilots will step outside the Craft to see what it s like More than 100 Miles up. All these things must he Learned before Man can venture Forth to the Moon in Apollo. Us twosome con Siil re m Midili Timil on. I fluid hit to perhaps Al a data along these lines. Nasa gemini flights Are to continue Well into 1%7. The air Force also hits n slice of the program to Lesl ill Lenry Rance techniques and Prohn Bly will continue beyond that Date. Apollo depends on development of the advanced Saturn 5 vehicle a monster with 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The forerunner of this giant vehicle the 1.5-Mllllon-Pound thrust Saturn 1, has undergone four Sicri Zirul lest flights. Late this year. Saturn 1 will be Gin lest flying Early Modi is of the Apollo Craft. Manned Earth orbit flights will follow in 1%-j. By 1%7. If nil goes right Saturn 5 is to to Rendy to hurl the three Man Apollo team around the Moon. In 1968. In Apollo Craft is to orbit the Moon and two of the Crew Are to drop onto the lunar surface in an excursion device called a  after a period of exploration they will Fly Hack to the Mother ship for the return trip to Earth. Worst for mrs. Cooper the press conference Houston a we Are a very proud family  that was the Way mrs. Gordon Cooper summarized her family s reaction to the historic space night by her astronaut husband. Or. Cooper and her daughters Cam n in. 14, and Janlyn. 13 were milling As they walked out the front door of their Brick and Stone Home where they and remained in seclusion throughout the .1-Miour, 22-0rbii flight. I fell very Culm and confident mrs. Cooper said when asked How he reacted to news that a Mal function aboard the Faith 7 had forced her husband to use hand controls while preparing for the Pace ship s splash in the Pacific. Both com and Jan said they had not been nervous during the flight. I was not nervous said Cam i knew he could do  Jan sold i was  or. Cooper a pretty Brunette appeared a Bli nervous As the brie news conference got under Way on her front Lawn. The nervousness ended abruptly with the news that her husband was waiting on the  said president Kennedy hat colled immediately after the pm of the flight and invited the family to the White mouse on next Mon  just wished us Well and in a Ltd us to be in Washington 01 monday she said. We plan to 1 there planning to stay Only twi Days in Hawaii where Illey r flying to meet Cooper an hour before the Pacili Plash Down the wives of fou other astronauts Donald k x sooner Home and Rem Alnet lie family. It is Nice to have friends at a Ime like  mrs. Cooper Stile the wives were Good for each  mrs. Cooper sold the news con rence Wax the most  Hong about the past two Days. This is the worst  she Sal with a Iii ugh. But i thank you of our  then mrs. Cooper and on Virgil Grossom. Walter Schurra and Alan Shepard arrived at the tight spots traditional9 to spacemen Cape canaveral. Fin. Karo nut Gordon Cooper s capsule ave the country some anxious moments towards the end of his Pocta Culner flight it this was Only carrying on what apparently As become an american space Rod Talon. Cooper s troubles with the Tittle ight that came on when it Houldin t and that eventually forced him to go to manual con rots on reentry Man the Earth s atmosphere echoed the troubled per fenced by several other Astro nauts. Virrill i. Grossom for instance nearly drowned on n Suho Bilal Light two years ago. After his spaceship the Liberty Dell 7, had dunked Down safely in the Atlan tic Ocean the Hatch cover blew forced to flee out the neck of he capsule Grossom found him self sinking in deep water. To Al Nally was picked up by a helicopter but his in Sulc Sank. Similarly John h. Glenn or. Inc millions of television viewers Hue some trying moments on his historic flight in february 1%2 when a faulty switch old a cosmic fib it indicated erroneously that the Henl shield might come Loose. Glenn had to go to manual con Iron on reentry and was forced t keep his Ritro pack in place in a ind of jettisoning  In Ven the heat shield from falling of in perhaps the most Drumal final act of nil just a year ago Cong it Ati latino or wildest Kennedy ii Penis by special Tele phone Hookup with Intro Natl Gordon pm it aboard the Krar Hui up. We i into daughters began Clu kit rubes for dresses to Wear Honolulu reunion. Haw All and Honolulu hold Happy memories for the Cooper. They met and married there while Stu. Lent at the University of Hawaii. It also was in Hawaii that mrs Cooper obtained a Pilot s Herns Scott Carpenter overshot tin Lam ing Aren by More than 250 Miles for .10 nil mites hobbled Braun on a raft out of Contact. 7arpcnler s rouble like Cooj cars were caused by n fall lire i the automatic control system. T Mako mutters worn. He switched to Ray by Vire a sort of Semi Aulo. Matloc fuel system a prepared Lohm i Retro i Lei. It forgot to turn off the m �.,  system. The result was Ibi it he was Dun her a crossly Low on fun i at reentry. The failure of the Siul Oinazir. Ont Rols prevented him from bringing his capsule into Hie proper personal Praise from president tops . Chorus Washington a president Kennedy s personal congratulations key noted a chorus of Praise for astronaut Gordon Cooper thai swelled in the capital within min utes after he completed his space flip lit. Here s How the Telephone conversation Between or. Kenned and astronaut Cooper went or. Kennedy major. I just annl to congratulate you. That was c great Milit. Cooper thank you very much. Or. Kennedy. We talked Iti you wife and she seemed to Uland h very Well. Cooper very Ond. Or. Kennedy we Inola for inn to seeing you up Here monday by w Are very proud of you Cooper thank you. Sir. It was i of Fli lit. 1 i Joy i it. Or. Kennedy Good Fine i wll look Forward in Sec Ingu monday. Good Luck. Cooper thank you or. Kennedy thanks Mii Jor. Europe Calls feat heroic marvelous9 from i run Dupont rom London marvelous. In red Lilc heroic. Fan Axtle. So West europeans saluted the Pic space voyage of Gordon Coop a and heaved an enormous sigh f Relief when they Learned that he was Safe. In scores of towns and cities in Britain and Continental Europe millions stayed up Way after mid night to listen with Awe to to and radio reports of the tense last min utes of Cooper s 22-Ori it flight. Ruddy  said a Lon Don cop. Incredible incredible said a lome housewife Cost  said a Paris Wir tender. Soon after Cooper bounced Safe y into the Pacific the soviet news Ncncy Tass put out a report on the ending of the space flight. It made no comment but observed the last six orbits were difficult for the  a really great achievement said housewife mlle Winic Stefn j2, in Frankfurt. It is really fantastic How perfectly Coo i r manually managed to make the reentry into the Atmos phere and save bin own  said Oscar Sundstroem. A 57-year-old Stockholm taxi Driver. Policeman tens Chrls Tennen. 28, in Copenhagen said. Wll done by the americans. One Young and pretty russian Pomrin questioned on her any to work said i no very Rind he u Buck wife. I no sure he must 1-Ove worried � a rent Deal after he had to Sii for four hours in the ship i tin first i line when something went  Illi Lude so he was not on Aretini rockets fired. This plus the fact thai the Rocki to did not deliver fun thrust caused overshoot. The dramatic in. 5 per out tax gains Hakius Utin. A. Up1 the House passed a Hill thai would give Pennsylvania a 5 per to no sales tax. La  such Levy of any if i h tuxes. 37 shiites thru have Wiles town affirm car flips fora nil in a born North Hampton. N.h., Upit Donald l. Fool told police he was driving along route 1 when he turned to look it a Girt in shorts no King her dog and crash the teen Ager s car crashed into the rear of on driven by Charles c. Nichols. Police said Foote s car was wrecked and Nichols sustained $500 damage. Retro rocket space brakes brought Cooper Back to   i ct.m.t.1 nil Tia Al la Rhea in vacate canaveral flu. A the rockets which astronaut Gor Don Cooper fired to break his orbit Al flight pattern and return to Earth Are simply space brakes. There arc three such rocket. I package on the Forward Luti. Hic old Section of each Mercury pm c . It is just a matter of pulling a switch and bang they to be fired in succession automatically by an electric signal from tin ground or by the astronaut who flicks a switch. In Cooper s Case the rockets hour. He was then travelling mile per to. This reduction in Speed allowed the natural Force of Gravity sex or l n Grealer attraction on Llu spacecraft which had remained in 1 orbit because of the centrifugal Force exert i d by is Speed. To overcome the Force of Gravity completely requires a Speed of just under 25,000 Milis per hour. For example on my 24, list Bonaut m. Scoti or enter delayed firing his Bra Kink or Retro rot Kels by four to five seconds and overshot i planned Landing area by a i mites. As soon As Cooper s spacecraft dropped from 10o Tilva in allltudi.1 Miles it began encountering the Earth s More o atmosphere and this slowed him still Moie. Rockets intends to land any slowed he spend 350 mile an j planned Impact lire. In any  a e he pull of too from m my leu Altitude to travel to a fell the Rockol starts n 12 Miles. Cooper moved a slant Ong slide Back to Earth. Do since of about 7ft Miles in the rockets have to lie fired at slightly More than five minutes d precise unit if the astronaut his sliced upon a a chins v2 Milts intends to land anywhere near his Altitude was about 27u Miles an hour. Should All the switches have failed and Cooper been unable to fire his Retro Short for retrograde rockets he Stilt would have had some  Arp 18 Little squirt nozzle aboard the spacecraft which Art loaded with Hydrogen peroxide. These i met steam when opened. Which Evert enough Force to Roll the Spect Craft turn it around or raise or lower us not etude in rela. Lion to the horizon. By firer s these nozzles at pre Cise limes and Over a much longer period of course these Little squirts could have brought him Down