European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday october 21, 1967 plans hinge on paying the fare i by Edward k. Delong Houston up spaceship designers looking into the 1970s say the compact Craft is out and the orbiting mini bus is also on the in list is Atwo Man flying Moon taxi. Money however is out a least for the time being and on that Point hangs the future of these vehicles. The space mini bus and the Moon taxi Are two projects currently in a state of suspension at the manned spacecraft Cen Ter s advanced spacecraft technology division. Congressional cutting of the National aeronautics and space administration budget has put the brakes on Many space Agency activities including advanced Mission planning. These two spacecraft fall into the advanced category. William e. Stoney jr., chief of the advanced spacecraft Divi Sion said studies have Bee made on these future space vehicles and tentative designs have been drawn up. He said further activity is Uncertain because of the budget situation. Stoney said the mini bus of future space travel May look like an overgrown version of the Ell shaped Mercury and gemini spacecraft rather than like the one shaped Apollo. The flying Moon taxi he said has the potential of application in the Moon Landing program fit receives necessary funds. It s up in the air and it important because it could affect Apollo the later flights Stoney said. The Way things Are going now it won t be the taxi is a flying platform on which two astronauts could sit or stand while skimming Over craters and Plains. Emotions of pilots studied Washington up the Pilot who gets killed taking an unnecessary Chance in his Light plane May be using it As a sex substitute. Or he May regard the weath Erman As a father figure. Chances Are he wants to prove he is a he Man. These Are the types of emotional hang the Federal aviation Agency is studying in it search for an explanation of hundreds of mysterious Light plane crashes each year. Stanley r. Mohler chief of the Faa s aeromedical applications division said in an inter View that of 554 pilots killed in 1966 Light plane accidents only10 per cent died As a result of structural failure or unexpectedly bad weather. Ninety per cent of the fatal accidents he said resulted from unwarranted Low level flying drinking or deliberately flying in bad weather. Mohler said psychologists be Lieve some May be acting out their hero concept of an Avi Ator. This drives them to Fly in bad weather. Other theories explain continued flights in bad weather As a rebellion against the weath Erman whom the Pilot sees As a Stern father like figure try ing to Stop him from doing something he wants to do. It could be designed As a space surfboard which the astronaut would steer by shifting his weight or it might be made with a Steerable a Range up to 100 Miles it would be valuable to Astro nauts in exploring the Moon Stoney said. It would allow the to cover More ground in the what s ahead in space buses and taxis limited time their oxygen sup ply will last and also would allow them to hover mid Way Down the Side of a Crater Wall and explore areas which would otherwise be inaccessible. Stoney said the initial design of this Craft might take a year and a half with another three years devoted to developing the flight Model after it received funding go ahead. The space mini bus is farther in the future. Rather than the one two an three seat vehicles used so far in astronaut flight programs the mini bus would carry any where from six to nine two astronauts would Pilot the new Craft. The rest would be passengers. Stoney said the most Likely application of such a Craft would be in connection with Earth re source space stations also hold ing six to nine men looking Down from space to Tell the Farmers How to farm and where to on scent of guerrillas a tracker dog and his handler splash through a Rice Paddy near Saigon As helicopters land a unit of the 199th Light inf brigade for an attack on a Viet Cong guerrilla area. The dog later sniffed out the reds. A dissident demo groups dump lbj9 move spreads new York a grassroots movements designed to Block renomination of president Johnson in 1968, or to persuade him to abandon the race retaking shape today in a number of states coast to to the president s policies in Vietnam motivate most of the dissident groups. Some As in new York Illi Nois Oregon and new Hamp Shire Are trying to promote sen. Robert f. Kennedy of new York for the democratic nomination although Kennedy repeatedly has disavowed their efforts. Others backing no specific candidate plan to Challenge Johnson by various methods i presidential primary elections next year. By entering anti Johnson slates of delegates they say they will offer voter the Opportunity to Register Dis approval. Or in Wisconsin the can simply vote no opposite Johnson s name. The total size and strength of the dump Johnson groups is unclear. The largest How Ever appear to be in California and new York. The California democratic Council with 33,000 Volunteer members voted recently to oppose pro Johnson delegates in the 1968 primary with a slate of Delegate pledged to make peace in Vietnam. Or. Martin Shepard of new York City National Yochai Romanof citizens for Kennedy in 68, said his organization has drives under Way in California col Orado Illinois new Hampshire new York Nevada Oregon South Dakota and Washington state. In new York City last week,500 dissident democrats at tended the organizational Rall of the coalition for a democratic alternative. Their aim isto elect an anti Johnson slate of delegates in the new Yor primary next june. Leaders of the anti Johnson groups in some states acknowledge that democratic part chiefs Are ignoring us Indi Cating that the regulars Are no attaching any great importance to the dissidents at this time. Said John Burns chairman of the new York state democratic committee they will not Belarge in numbers. All the major party leaders will be working hard for Johnson s in Wisconsin atty. Gen. Bron son c. Lafollette said the efforts to Challenge the president will be futile and certainly could be the citizens for Kennedy in 68 in new Hampshire is headed by Eugene Daniell jr., former mayor of Franklin who asserts that a Kennedy Victory in misstate s primary next March 12the nation s first will per Suade Johnson not to seek re nomination. A group calling itself concerned Wisconsin democrats announced last week it will at tempt to defeat Johnson in that state s primary april 2 and Sendan uncommitted delegation to the democratic National convention. In Oregon another state witha closely watched primary the citizens for Kennedy in 68 i headed by Charles o. Porter a two term congressman who was Defeated in 1960 and has failed since to win democratic nomination to the House. The California democratic Council has said that a candidate for the delegation it plans to run against the party Reg ulars must meet these specifications he must favor an immediate cessation of the bombing in Vietnam negotiations including All participants for settlement of the War so that american armed forces May be withdrawn and International guarantees of no intervention in european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett managing editor Elmer d. 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