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Thursday, November 9, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Saturn-Apollo launch successful
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—The mighty Saturn 5 rocket thundered perfectly into orbit on its maiden flight today and appeared headed toward a solid new lead for the United States in the race to the moon.
The 36-story, 6.2 million-pound rocket, the heaviest man-made object ever to leave the earth, lifted ponderously off the pad at 7 a.m. EST, on schedule to the second.
Minutes later, it reached an orbit 115 miles above the earth. Space officials said it was working as expected on a flight in which it later was scheduled to shoot an unmanned Apollo capsule 11,400 miles into space and bring it back into the atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour.
If all went well, the Apollo capsule was expected to parachute into the Pacific at 3:41 p.m. EST, proving that the system works and that it can carry astronauts to the moon and back.
Triumphant launch
"We're all go! We're all go!" exuberant ground controllers
shouted as the rocket lifted off on the first flight from the new spaceport adjacent to Cape Kennedy.
Cheers broke from newsmen and launch crews as the huge rocket climbed slowly upward, an awesome river of fire washing the pad.
It rose into partly cloudy skies, rolled over and streaked over the choppy gray Atlantic toward orbit. Its 278,000-pound upper stages, which weighed more than the entire rocket and capsule of the first Mercury orbital flight, formed the heaviest payload ever put into orbit.
Ready to go
"You bet I'd ride one of those," said Mercury veteran Gordon Cooper, watching the brilliant triange of flames 500 feet long stream from the Saturn's tail.
Cooper and several fellow astronauts watched the launch from the cape as the first stage separated in clear view and splashed into the Atlantic. Ships raced to the scene to try to recover it. The
second and then third stages ignited on schedule.
"We have a good separation," Saturn control reported.
Seven minutes following lift-off, mission control reported that all systems were working properly. The Saturn 5 at that point was 510 miles downrange.
The mission is the first flight test in the $23 billion Apollo project since three astronauts were killed in a ground fire here last January, and it marks America's most significant step in space since the start of the cosmic age 10 years ago.
Dual test
The mission has the double-barreled goal of testing both the rocket built to send men to the moon and the spacecraft that will return lunar astronauts to earth.
If successfully completed, the $2^{1 / 2}$-orbit mission would for the first time give U.S. scientists an undisputed lead over Russia in terms of rocket power—a crucial factor in the ability to send men to the moon.
The 363-foot Saturn 5 packs the explosive potential of 610 tons of TNT and its fueled weight of 6.2 million pounds is equal to that of a Navy destroyer. The rocket power is of sufficient force to orbit all the satellites ever launched by the United States.
The first manned lunar landing shot is now set for late 1969.
Moon flight pattern
The first three hours of the mission are planned to virtually duplicate the beginning steps of a moon flight. Only the astronauts were missing. The final portion of
the eight hour and 41 minute mission is devoted to the Apollo 4. After reaching a peak altitude of 11,400 miles, the spacecraft is programmed to nose over, fire its own rocket engine and rush into earth's atmosphere at the 25,000 mph return speed Apollo moon pilots will face.
The aircraft carrier Bennington is standing by in the Pacific Ocean about 600 miles northwest of Hawaii to retrieve the scorched Apollo command section to see if it withstood the 4,500 degree reentry heat.
Foreign aid reaches 20-year low
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—Congress today sent to the White House a $2.7 billion foreign aid authorization, the smallest since the Marshall Plan went into action in 1948.
President Johnson, who asked Congress nine months ago for a $3.4 billion foreign aid program,
was expected to reluctantly sign the sharply reduced measure.
The authorization bill approved by both the House and Senate Wednesday also was burdened by the severest restrictions of any foreign aid measure in the post-World War II history of the program.
Even deeper money cuts are expected when Congress acts on the actual appropriations bill. The House Appropriations Committee has recommended only $2.2 billion.
The House approved the authorization bill Wednesday on a vote of 205 to 187 and the Senate passed it on a voice vote.
Owl Society pledges six
They are: Richard H. Grote, Alton, Ill.; Charles W. Hastings, Topeka; Everold W. Hosein, Trinidad, West Indies; David L. Morgan, Wauwatosa, Wis.; Gary R. O'Neal, Prairie Village, and David G. Wood, Wichita.
Six new members of the Owl Society, junior men's honorary, were announced this week.
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