University Daily Kansan Friday, May 11, 1962
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Control System Problem Delays Orbital Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — Difficulties in the attitude control system—the same problem that plagued America's first manned orbital flight—cropped up today in the space capsule Astronaut Scott Carpenter is slated to ride into orbit later this month.
The trouble will delay the orbital shot until at least May 22. It originally was scheduled for May 15 but problems with the Atlas booster had already pushed the schedule back two days.
NO NEW LAUNCH DATE was officially set after the new problems came to light today, but informed sources said this meant at least another five day delay.
Because of the Atomic Energy Commission's planned high altitude nuclear tests over the Pacific, no manned space flights can be scheduled for June or July.
The high shots would disturb the earth's ionesphere and play havoc with radio communications and radar for hours and perhaps for days and thus interfere with orbital missions.
Today's postponement thus puts increasing pressure on Project Mercury officials to get Carpenter's mission completed before the end of the month.
BOTH NATIONAL Aeronautic Space Administration and Atomic Energy Commission spokesmen have indicated that the nuclear test program during June and July has top priority.
There had been talk this week of putting crews on weekend overtime to try to launch Carpenter on May 17, but apparently it was decided to let the shot slip a few days and save the overtime for a more critical period—should one arise later.
THE ATTITUDE CONTROL system that is giving trouble is the mechanism that keeps the space capsule correctly positioned as it hurts through space.
Because of attitude control problems last Feb. 20, Astronaut John Glenn, Jr., had been forced into taking over manual control of his space capsule.
Since that time, technicians have worked long and hard to perfect the automatic control system in order to free Carpenter to perform some experiments which Glenn could not undertake because he was occupied with controlling his spacecraft. They thought they had licked the problems, but apparently this was not so.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A two-year campaign against crime which resulted in federal indictments against police officials has earned the Panama City, Fla., News-Herald the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious service in journalism.
Paper Wins Pulitzer Prize
The newspaper's editorial campaign against gambling and illegal liquor operations resulted in indictments of a former police chief and a sheriff of Bay County, Fla., and five others on conspiracy charges.
Announcement of the 46th Pulitzer Prize awards was made yesterday by President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University.
THE PRIZE IN fiction went to Edwin O'Connor for his novel, "The Edge of Sadness," the story of a Roman Catholic priest's battle against alcohol.
The hit Broadway musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, was awarded the drama prize.
A new prize, for general non-fiction, was given to Theodore H. White for "The Making of the President, 1960."
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