University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 20, 1964
Space Shots Set For Late Spring
CAPE KENNEDY —(UPI)— The flight gap in America's man-in-space program will end this spring with maiden shots for dummy two-man Gemini and three-man Apollo spacecraft.
Both ships were sitting side by side today for the first time in a huge hangar only a few miles from the pad where the last Mercury manned capsule was rocketed into space for a day last May.
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The two upcoming shots will be unmanned and both spaceships are designed to burn up on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. But the Gemini flight will pave the way for a manned shot late this year or in early 1965.
THE GEMINI program is designed to keep two men in earth orbit for up to two weeks, and the Apollo is scheduled to send three men to the moon by 1970.
The $3 \frac{1}{2} -$ton dummy Gemini capsule is set to be hurled aloft by a modified Titan-2 rocket the last week in March. The 9-ton Apollo will be carried into orbit by a mighty Saturn-1 in early May if all goes as planned.
The man-to-the-moon program moved to the rocket port yesterday with the arrival, in three sections by plane, of the Apollo spacecraft. At the same time, a barge pulled into the spacecenter with the 80-foot Saturn first stage that will carry the Apollo into space.
THE GEMINI capsule is a basic production model but carries only enough instruments to measure launch vibrations, heat and pressures.
The Apollo ship, 63-feet tall, with its escape tower, is called a "boiler-plate" model because it carries only a few test instruments and has a thinner skin than production versions.
The Apollo shot will be the first time the Saturn is tested with a useful payload.
"WE CONSIDER this a really important phase in the test program," said J. J. McCall, deputy director of research at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "It's the first time we've got the complete vehicle."
With the Apollo spacecraft mated to it, the Saturn I will be 190 feet tall, 28 feet higher than the 16-story Saturn that boosted the world's heaviest satellite, at 19 tons, into orbit three weeks ago. It is expected to continue circling the globe for about 500 days.
The satellite to be placed into orbit in the upcoming Saturn-Apollo launch also will weigh about 19 tons. The Apollo ship for the moon mission late this decade will weigh about 45 tons.
KU Police Say Cars Increasing
More than 65 per cent of the KU student body has registered automobiles with the KU Traffic and Security Office as of Feb. 3.
Students registered 7,452 cars, and university and faculty members registered 2,471 cars.
E. P. Moomau, chief of the KU police department, said the number is continuing to increase.
More than 1,000 automobile registrants had not yet registered their license plate numbers. The KU Parking and Traffic Regulations manual allows 48 hours after the penalty date set by state law before unreported license numbers at KU constitute an automatic violation.
Liscense plates from every state except Alaska, Delaware, and Rhode Island have been registered. Out-of-State tags -some 980 at last count represent 15 per cent of all cars registered on campus.
Missouri license tags led the out-of-state registration with 398; California was second with 55; Illinois and Oklahoma tied for third with 53 each; Texas was fourth with 38. Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa tied for fifth with 32 each.
AT LEAST THREE more unmanned Apollo flights are planned, the last to come with a more powerful Saturn-1B rocket. The first manned flights, to come in late 1966 at the earliest, will be practice missions before later lunar flights with a Saturn-5, five times as powerful as the Saturn-1.
The first Gemini flight with two astronauts aboard should come sooner. Current plans call for a second unmanned flight late this summer with a manned shot in December or early next year.
Five $1000 Preliminary Examination Fellowships have been awarded to graduate students who are PhD. candidates for the spring semester.
$1,000 Grants Awarded To 5 Ph.D. Candidates
The grants are designed to free these students from other responsibilities while they are preparing for preliminary examinations.
The fellowships are paid from Woodrow Wilson Foundation funds, and are available to Ph.D. candidates in their second or third year of graduate study, if the candidates plan to enter college teaching. They need not be a Woodrow Wilson fellow to receive a grant.
Recipients of the fellowships are Otis D. Simmons, Kansas City; Ronald Dean Mathis, Liberty, Mo.; Robert W. Bernard, St. Paul, Minn.; William M. Causey, Shelby, Miss.; and Marjorie A. Ward, Lawrence.
P-t-P Needs Pen Pals South of the Border
By Margaret Richards United Press International
A Fort Worth, Tex., woman who wrote to People-to-People requesting a Latin American pen friend said, "It would be so nice to see a friendly 'just-because I-want-to-write letter' in among my bills."
LETTERS REVEAL a variety of reasons for wanting a Latin American correspondent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI) —People-to-People's mail-order diplomacy branch is having a little trouble matching supply with demand, a spokesman for the international goodwill organization says
Another woman wrote, "I am curious to learn about people from countries I have heard a great deal about, but have never visited. I have a million questions to ask."
It needs more "pen pals" in Latin America to correspond with women in the United States. Thousands of North American women, a spokesman said, have applied to write their counterparts in Latin America. They want to exchange opinions, learn of other cultures and folk-ways and build bridges of friendship.
ONE WOMAN requested the name of a housewife to write, so they could compare notes on the joys and exasperations of raising small children.
These letters were among about 10,000 letters received at People-to-People headquarters here from North Americans, most of them housewives 21 years of age or older, who would like to correspond with Latin American women.
People-to-People calls the requests for Latin American correspondents "overwhelming." As a result, the supply of names is depleted.
PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE is a nonprofit, non-political movement of private citizens working to promote international understanding through individual communication.
The letter exchange program is one of the areas in which it hopes to stimulate international friendship through a simple, direct exchange of ideas and beliefs.
In the past year, People-to-People successfully has matched 24,000 United States citizens with writers sharing the same interests in 127 other countries.
VOLUNTEER workers in charge of the matching have established a system which sorts correspondents on the basis of common interests. Housewives correspond with housewives, students with students, business and professional people with their counterparts in other lands.
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GOP Hopefuls Weigh LBJ Foreign Policy
—(UPI)— Undaunted by heavy snow, Presidential aspirants Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller slogged through New Hampshire streets today.
Speaking at small gatherings, the two hammered away at the Johnson administration, accusing it of foreign policy defeats and failure to face up to communism
GOLDWATER told a group of Plymouth State College students at Hanover, N. H., last night that the Russian economy is close to "total collapse."
"If it weren't for the fact that we are helping Russia's economy and if our allies weren't helping, we might have her in a position to talk turkey," the Arizona conservative candidate for the GOP Presidential nomination said.
Communism continues to be safe in its Cuban stronghold, Goldwater said. Thousands of Russian Troops still remain on the island and there are bases for Russian submarines around the Cuban coast, he said.
GOLDWATER said Johnson had glossed over Cuba and "whistles in the dark about it trying to tell you that everything's all right."
During Rockefeller's tour yesterday the New York governor attacked the administration for not taking measures "a long time ago" to provide water to the Guantanamo U.S. Naval Ease to prevent a "slap in the face" from Premier Fidel Castro.
ROCKEFELLER also suggested that Congress hold hearings to "get the feelings of the people" about the Supreme Court's 1962 Prayer Decision that ruled a state could not order prayers to be read in public schools.
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