European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday june 7, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 7 did t Realise it was the space hero at first Navy chaplain thumbs a flight with "gordo5 editor s note a . War chaplain hitchhiked a ride to Vath Toffton with astronaut l. Gordon Cooper without knowing at / rot who is Benefactor to. Tho Catap Tain a Are recon nerd in the following Dix path. By Ted Swift Washington thou Sands of americana probably wished they could have been with a u Gordon Cooper As the Astro naut orbited the Earth 22.9 Umiat 17,000 mile an hour. Still others a Little leu daring just have wanted to lit Down after it was All Over and talk with the new hero about his of. His hopi Fen a a melt ions or what was it like up there at least one Man and the of port Unity to talk. He hitchhiked a ride with Cooper when the Astro naut new to Washington after the National emotion Over his Orbital flight had was just a Man who happened to be at the right place at the nighttime. A Cooper landed Only a handful of people were on hand to Greet him in contrast to the half million who had turned out the previous week. The group was startled to discover that Cooper was not alone to i Small Fisher to Nln a astronaut no. Just a Navy chaplain hitchhiking to a religious meeting in Bon ton. The Way the chaplain. It cmdr it in closer Toltl it. Hitching a ride with the world s latest space hero was As easy by boarding a by. I was waiting it Patrick air Force base tape recording about to pc lure in Panorama in Engleh French German and dutch. Fiat hat . Be Choub both Stanley to Lent com her Moat Valu a a Flea fire that i writ bar borne in Albany aae dated Pana photo wrinkled Echo still orbiting and bouncing Washington App Echo balloon satellite America put into orbit in 1960. Now is partially crumpled and riddled by meteor ites. But it still is whirling around the Earth and visible to the naked Eye at Sunset the Federal space Agency said. Echo s orbit is holding up Fine a spokesman for the National aeronautics find space administration Nasa said and the huge alumn led satellite could stay up or another year or More. Echo i was 100 feet in diameter when launched from Cape Cana veral and inflated in orbit aug. 13. 1960. The satellite was designed Asa passive communications Satel Lite meaning that radio Waves Are bounced off its surface to increase their Range. It still in being used by Collin radio corp., for com Mun Lent Ion Between the firm s offices in Cedar rapids. Iowa and Dallas Tex. Echo s orbit varies from fairly circular to elliptical and Bock again Nasa said but the orbit shows no signs of decaying to i a Point where the satellite will hit the Earth s atmosphere and 1 Burn satellite no longer is perfectly round and has been punctured so often by tiny meteorite that it is partially crumpled Ufa a big Ball of Nasa said. Denver api the United states is planning a doubleheader space shot to the neighbourhood Olathe planet Mars in the autumn of 1964, it was reported Here. It would be the Trail Blazer fora manned shot about another dec Ade later at the very twin Bill firings would con Sist of tw0 successive launching of unmanned 570-Pound identical payloads within about a month on a seven month. 300 million mile journey to within some 14,000 Miles of the red planet on Fly by mis Sions. The second shot would relaunched when the first had trav eled at the most Only about one seventh the distance required to intercept Mars at a time when it would be Only about 35 million Miles from the Earth. Mars of All the planets. Is rated As having the Best Chance of supporting Home form of of the planned double header came on the eve of a two Day symposium on the exploration of Mars for which Many of the nation s top space scientists Are gathering. They plan to assess All possibilities for Landing an american expedition on Mars at a Tyr Home time in the 1980s. The symposium is being staged by the american astronautical so Clety. With the coupons orthly of the National aeronautics and space administration and three other space conscious scientific groups. The idea of the twin Bill scientists told a reporter. Is to have maximum insurance that at least one of the planetary probes would successful hurtle to the area of Mars. And they would both have Tobe fired within 30 to 40 Days be ginning in late november 1964, in order to come within the launching window when Mars and the Earth will Bein favourable relative positions. Failure of both would mean await until 1966 when the two planets would again be in favor Able position. Payload would consist Ofa 570-Pound Mariner a spacecraft somewhat different and heavier than the Marlner-2 that achieved the historic Fly by of the plane Venu last december. Launching would be by Atlas Agena Type boosters earn packing some 380,000 pounds of thrust. The spacecraft resembling a giant octagonal Pillbox tapped by four wings containing solar cells would be packed with scientific gear designed to get the first close up look at the planet s surface audits tenuous atmosphere and further information on interplanetary space Between the Earth and special television camera in each Craft would be designed event the 14.000 mile Fly by distance define surface areas As Toul a three Miles in diameter com pared a Ltd approximately 50 Milesis the Best achievement of Earth bound telescopes. Experiments wll also be designed to determine whether Mars has a Van Allen Type radiation Belt an appreciable magnetic Field and if its neighbor Hood is pelted by any unusual num Bers of micrometer Orlds grime blamed on dope new York up mayor Rob Ert p. Wagner sold half the City scrime is associated with the illegal use of narcotics which he called the leprosy of our he controls. I d never flown in Alet fighter before. I and this Sud Den feeling i was Riding with a pretty competent fellow though. Sitting there next to him. Thu Dently hit me that i had two choices Gunser mid. Either 1could pump him with questions to satisfy my curiosity or i could pet is Prev icy and keep my Mouth shut. It was a pretty hard Choice. 1cept thinking about Niy friends. I knew they d wonder Why did you ask him this and Why did t you Oak him that i decided to keep quiet natural subject but conversation developed. Andone of the first things they touched on was god which seemed like natural for a chaplain and a Man who has flown As High As any other american. Cooper told me the most impressive thing about his whole it was the sudden realization of How insignificant Man is com pared with god s wonderful uni Glaser related you know he wrote that Little prayer up there. I m a chaplain ind i was very glad for that i thanked him for doing somethings simple and Beautiful and told him he had made a lot of people very Happy. He said it had t been planned at All. It was just closer one of Only two chaplains in the Navy was dressed in a Bright Orange flying suit and carried one of Cooper s extra crash helmets in his looked like an experienced Jet Pilot i Don t Fly at All readmitted ruefully. He pointed at Cooper who a Busy obliging Hotdog rangers. He s already got h is wings. Then he patted his shoulder Blades and grinned. And i guess i m still working Felt secure i Tell you. It was a pretty secure feeling up there. I knew i was with the Guy who probably knew most about flying. I wonder if he realized Don t know a thing. Once we talked about weightlessness. I told him i d done some scuba diving and had expel no d that sort of Oid l r he said he d been diving too Ftp that he knew what i meant but weightlessness in space is an entirely different experience he told me. He said it was easy to adjust to. You know it was really wonder Ful being Able to talk with Cooper like that i watched him on Tele vision and read about him in thei in cars. But i never dreamed i d Ever meet him. I came away with the feeling that Here is a very Fine and genuinely Humble Man. Once when i was talking to him he made a think of � lot of other people we have in service thou Sands of Good honest and dedicate people i think that Gordon Cooper symbolizes every one of them. Yale will Grant Law degree it denied woman 41 years ago new Haven Conn. Up Yale has rectified a a Loup and 75-year-old Matilda Fenberg prominent Chicago attorney an former associate of Clarence Dar Row will get her Low degree de Nied her 41 years ago. Yale officials said a Mere three tenths of a percentage Point had blocked her getting her Bachelor of Laws degree 41 years ago. Miss Fenberg has notified Dean Eugene v. Rostow of the Law school that the will be present to revive the degree at Yale s 262nd commencement exercise monday. She spent three years in her Law studies at Yale. She fulfilled All requirements for her degree except that her weighed average Grade for her third year was 60.3points, just j03 Betow the school requisite 60.5," but Yale officials acknowledge now that she had taken a course to criminal Law at Columbia University during the summer of 1819, and made the Grade a for which she has now been Given cred it this is sufficient to raise her above the requisite average. Miss Penberg was admitted tothe Illinois bar in 1923 and from 19m to 1929 was a Law associate of Clarence Darrow. She has writ ten Many articles about the lame attorney
