One astronaut could develop measles
Substitute considered for moon shot
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CAPE KENNEDY (UP1) — Space Agency officials said Wednesday they were considering substituting a backup astronaut for Thomas K. Mattingly, whose susceptibility to the measles threaten a one-month delay in the Apollo 13 moon landing mission.
Swigert, he said, appears immune to the measles and "is fairly well prepared" for the mission.
Doctors, however, were continuing to make new laboratory tests to determine if Mattingly's condition has changed from tests run earlier Wednesday. Physicians said the tests showed Mattingly could become ill with the measles in space if launched Saturday.
fly a mission under such conditions. On one of the Gemini flights the two prime crewmen were killed several weeks before the launch in a plane crash and the backup crew flew the space mission.
If the $375-million expedition is delayed until the next launch opportunity, May 9, it would cost taxpayers $800,000 the Space Agency said.
Public affairs officer Alfred Albrando said backup command module pilot John L. Swigert was under consideration as a possible substitute for Saturday's launch.
"Whether we go with him or not, that decision has not been reached," Alibrando said. Such a switch would mark the first time in U. S. space history that a backup pilot was called upon to
men, veteran James A. Lovell and Fred W. Haise, were found to be immune to German measles, a common children's disease. All three were exposed to the measles last week when backup astronaut Charles Duke fell ill with the disease.
The other two Apollo 13 crew-
Dr. Charles A. Berry, the Apollo medical director, said Monday that if tests on the astronaut's blood showed that any of the pilots were without disease-fighting measles anti-bodies, "the odds are very high that they would get it."
"The latest analysis indicates that command module pilot Thomas K. Mattingly has no immunity to this disease," the Space Agency said in a mid-day statement. "This finding creates the
To keep the Apollo spacecraft from being cooked by the sun on its journey to the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration use a rotating motion recommended by Harold L. Finch.
Berry said earlier that measles "certainly could" disable a moon pilot.
Finch, an engineering graduate of the University of Kansas who is now working toward his doctoral degree in Education Administration, said that the spacecraft is rotated to insure a fairly uniform temperature over the vehicle.
Vehicles in space are subject to great extremes in temperature, Finch said. When temperatures on the sunny side were boiling hot, the shaded side of a vehicle could be in a deep freeze, he explained.
"We know that temperatures in space are fatal to people and dangerous to vital parts of the vehicle." Finch said.
The shadow cast by the foot of the Lunar Excursion Modual (LEM), he said, when the Apollo vehicle was in a position that shaded the engine, would cause the temperature of the engine to drop 500 degrees. In one of the Gemini flights, two jets froze up because of this problem, he said.
As a senior engineer at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Finch, under a grant from NASA, worked out a program which enabled scientists to predict the temperature of the Apollo craft at any instant, in any position, anywhere in space.
KU graduate aids in Apollo
Finch said NASA needed to know when and where the dangerous temperatures would occur and then would be able to counteract the extremes of temperature.
possibility that unless there is a change in Mattingly's condition between now and launch, he could develop German measles in
To find out where the sunshine and shadows occurred a model was built, and a searchlight shined parallel beams to simulate the rays of the sun.
Lennon duo separates psychiatrists' orders
Yoko sleeps in one bedroom, John in another, and they communicate by letter because the psychiatrists recommended it, he said. The two American psychiatrists—a man for him and a woman for her—were flown to London to watch over the couple during Yoko's pregnancy, the spokesman said.
LONDON (UPI)—Psychiatrists have separated Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese wife, Yoko Ono, a spokesman for the couple said Wednesday.
Yoko suffered a miscarriage last year, and was admitted to a London nursing home this year because of complications in the early months of her pregnancy.
A model was made because a computer could not calculate the different configurations. The information is physically recorded and then fed into a computer, he said.
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Temperatures that the spacecraft could not tolerate were matched with a technique to counteract them. Finch said.
"We found roughly that a rotation once every hour was best," he said.
If the spacecraft rotated faster, he said, the efficiency of the astronauts would drop. If too slow, the vehicle, like on a rotisserie, would start cooking, he said.
Nixon policy forum topic
Prior to this semester, Finch was the dean of instruction at the new Johnson County Community College in Kansas City. Finch said he was going into education because he found that he is more interested in working with people than "things."
The Latin American Club at KU is sponsoring a panel discussion on "Nixon and the American Policy for Latin America" on Monday April 13 at the Kansas Union Forum Room, Robert Ortiz, Pemberton, N.J., freshman and chairman of the social committee said.
The forum will be conducted by Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science; Robert E. Himshaw, associate professor of anthropology; Robert Nunley associate professor of geography; Sakari Sariola associate professor of sociology; Milton Clarke, graduate student and Reverend Sanchez, adviser at the Westminster Center.
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