Wednesday, March 22.1961 University Daily Kansan
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'Hermits' Guard Big Investment In Space Hopes
CAPE CANVERAL — (UPI) — When the first U.S. astronaut is rocketed toward an orbit around the earth, his safety will depend heavily on a dozen little groups of men living in a unique technological austerity between three continents.
These are scientists and technicians who banished themselves, in the interests of science, to some of the most remote, barren spots of land the Atlantic Ocean has to offer.
THEIR HOMES are the islands that make up the Atlantic missile range, a string of 13 stations running from Cape Canaveral to South America and Africa.
This is a 7,000-mile space-age "shooting gallery." Cape Canaveral pulls the trigger on the rockets — and the task of the downrange stations is to find out where the multi-titon bullets go.
When the first man is launched into orbit, the downrange stations will train radar, cameras and optical instruments on the rocket, gleaning information which computers can digest to give the spaceman his exact speed and orbit - data essential if he is to return alive.
HUNDREDS OF hours of tracking military missiles to their precise targets and satellites into orbit have gone into training the men-and-machinery teams from the Cape to Praetoria, South Africa. Man-intospace will be more important, but hardly anything new.
If ever there was a spot where a man eats, sleeps and breathes his job, the average range station is it — primarily because there is little else to do. To some who have spent months at these points, even the additional money — the prime lure — seemed hardly worth it.
CAPE CANAVERAL is "Station No. 1" on the range, and Jupiter, Fla., is the second. Third in line is Grand Bahama Island, about 152 miles southeast of the Cape and one of the more pleasant stations. The instrumentation at G.B.I. is a complex of radars, radio receivers and transmitters, cameras, computers and tape recorders that are standard equipment at all downrange stations
"You've seen one, you've seen them all," said one Air Force official.
AFTER G.B.I. comes Eleuthera Island, a hot little strip of land subjected to bad weather; then San Salvador, about like Eleuthera only less of it; Mayaguana, a swampy island almost devastated by Hurricane Donna last year; Grand Turk where salt-raking is the prime industry.
English Ad Asks for Slave
LONDON — (UPI) — The Observer newspaper carried this ad yesterday: "Slave wanted. Home offered and the constant sound of children in a Cotswald cottage. Age, creed, race unimportant."
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ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS NAA's On-Campus Interviews
March 29
The NAA industrial family has a career for you
Nuclear power at the Atomics International Division [Canoga Park, Calif.]
Atomics International Division is a leader, both here and abroad, in the development of nuclear reactors for power, research, and mobile systems.
Electronics & electro-mechanics at the Autonetics Division [Downey, Calif.]
Autonetics Division carries out research, development, and manufacture of computers, data systems, inertial guidance, armament controls, flight controls. Builders of guidance systems for Polaris subs, Minuteman ICBM.
Naval aircraft & missiles at the Columbus Division [Columbus, Ohio]
Columbus Division, a complete center of systems capability, produces Navy's Mach 2A3J Vigilante, is developing new Army target missile, and building reflector for world's largest radio / telescope.
Design & development of manned weapon systems at the Los Angeles Division [Los Angeles, Calif.]
Los Angeles Division is the home of next-generation manned weapon system—the Mach 3 B-70 Valkyrie—and America's first manned space vehicle, the X-15.
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