European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse A decade Nasa photo mosaic relayed to Earth by satellite gives Man new View of his planet. The Moon the immediate goal Wernher von Brcin right helped America join race to the stars. Continued from Page 11 poor management carelessness negligence Sloppy work and the failure to adequately consider the safety of the astronauts. As insurance against future fires Nasa has undertaken a $75 million pro Gram to improve the Apollo spacecraft. There have been numerous manage ment changes in both the space Agency and North american and other Indus trial firms have been enlisted to help build future Apollo ships. Nasa also has instituted tighter inspection safety supervisory and Quality control stand Ards. To demonstrate its desire to push ahead Nasa has named a Crew to Fly the first Apollo ship when it is team is headed by Navy capt. Wal Ter m. Schirra Veteran of Mercury an gemini flights. Named with him were air Force maj. Donn Eisele and civilian Walter Cunningham. He earliest possible Date for their flight planned for two weeks Neath orbit is next May More than a year after Apollo 1 was to have lifted Apollo 1 was to have lifted off. The delay makes the timetable tight for Landing men on the Moon in this decade. But some officials Are hopeful hat advances in spacecraft design and the lessons Learned from the fire will enable planners to make up for lost time and permit a manned lunar Landingin 1969. But there Are problems with other phases of the Apollo program. The Saturn 5 rocket which will be theman to the Moon Booster has had Sec Ond stage troubles. There also have been difficulties i developing the Bug like capsule in which iwo members of a three Man Apoll Crew will land on the lunar surface. With Apollo beset by problems Many predicted Russia would overtake the . Space Lead. Then tragedy struck the soviet program. Last april 23, a Veteran soviet cosmonaut col. Vladimir m. Komarov rocketed into orbit in the soyuz 1 space Craft Russia s first manned flight in More than two years. But there were indications in the Early hours that Komarov was having difficulty with his control and communications systems. On the 18th orbit after 25 hours aloft Komarov fired his Retro rockets and started Back to Earth. But when his main Parachute opened at a height of 4.3 Miles the straps got twisted per haps because of spacecraft control prob lems and the spaceship crashed kill ing the cosmonaut. The soviet program now is undergo ing the same investigation and reappraisal that the . Program did after the Apollo 1 cosmonauts and astronauts grounded temporarily the . And rus Sia Are continuing extensive exploration of space with unmanned Date the United states has sent nearly 500 satellites successfully int space about twice As Many As Russia. Three fourths of the american and about one half of the soviet Craft had military assignments mainly reconnaissance. The nonmilitary satellites Are starting to pay dividends for Man especially in the Fields of weather fore casting and communications. In this area the . Has made far greater strides than scientific Community is extremely pleased with the information space probes Are transmitting on the Iono sphere the Van Allen belts interplanetary space the Moon Mars and Venus. Within a few years Nasa plans to launch satellites to Survey the resources of the Earth. Their senors will report on water supplies including locations of underground Rivers Oil and minerals soil Fertility the movements of fish and wildlife and an inventory of forests including the health of individual Trees All to the possible Benefit of Mankind. Unmanned scientific exploration will continue As Man investigates mysteries of the universe. Probes will Fly to Man areas of the solar system and in the 1970s will probably land on Mars an Venus and zip within camera Range of Jupiter and astronauts have thoroughly mastered space manned stations May replace most of these automatic Satel huge manned laboratories equally spaced around the Equator at an Alti tude of 22,300 Miles could Survey the entire Earth at All times and also peer into billions of Miles of the universe with telescopes and other instruments. B y late 1968 or Early 1969, Nasa plans to have a three Man space station orbiting the Earth for 28 Days. The Astro nauts will ride an Apollo Craft to linkup with the burned out second stage of a Saturn 1 rocket converting the Stag into a workshop. Their main purpose will be medical research. They will leave the workshop in orbit and will be used by later three Man Crews to conduct various experiments in life sciences astronomy space physics and applications studies such As weather combining three such workshops the . Could have a nine Man space station orbiting 250 Miles above the Earth by 1972. Some of the astronauts May re main in space a year or More. The first american two Man team Toland on the Moon plans to stay there for 18 hours 22 minutes leaving behind a array of instruments to report for Sev eral months on lunar plans one such lunar surface Mission per year starting in 1970 or 1971.if Nasa funding continues at its pre sent rate of about $5 billion annually some officials foresee the possibility of sending an eight-to-12-Man Crew on Mission by 1985 to Fly past Mars and re turn to Earth a roundtrip that would take nearly two years. A Landing on Mars might be achieved in the late1980s. Nasa Saturn 5 America s Moon rocket 12 the stars and stripes sunday october
