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Show Gene Townsend Apollo Worthwhile Man, nature's most complex, complete and knowledgable special, has decided to leave his secure earthly domain and shoot for the moon. WHY THE United States wants to spend 'between '$20 and $40 billion to land two men on the moon (a third will be left in lunar orbit or-bit 80 miles above the adaisical attitude in the 1950'$ the United States lost miles of prestige gained by Russia with her emphasis on space. AFRICAN nuetral nations began be-gan to take notice of the society soc-iety that could orbit a satellite knowing full well that the pay. load could just as easy be an atomic Jbomb. Dr. Shea, national research director of project Apollo, had something more concrete to base his arguments on last Monday than Dr. Elzioni did Tuesday. SPEAKING FOR the "pros" of project Apollo, Shea said that the moon is only one of the nice by-products of project pro-ject Apollo. His main point was that the United States must pursue something as challenging challeng-ing as the moon to develop the military by-products necessary for our national survival. 'Maybe $20 or $30 billion is a lot of money to pour into one project, but none of it is just poured down th drain. IN FACT there will be much economic fall-out poured into our national economy from project pro-ject Apollo in the form of people hired for research and contractors to build the craft. If we do not "aim for the moon" our country will again become lackadaisial and find herself behind in national prest-ege prest-ege and military might to the Soviet Union. WHAT WILL man find on Mr. Townsend moon's surface) is presently generating much two-sided argument. The "cons" argue that we should channel our moon-money moon-money into U.S. education, research re-search and African stomachs. TRUE, $40 billion is a lot of money. If one stretched 40 billion dollar bills end-on-end, they would reach to the moon and back twice. Dr. Amitai Etzioni, professor of sociology at Columbia University, Uni-versity, Tuesday contended that the United States Will not gain any prestige by putting a man on the moon when large number num-ber of the world's people are concerned only with where and how they will get their next meal. THE "PROS" have a much better argument. Apollo proponents argue that due to the United 'State's lack- the moon? What are some the space hazards? and what are his chances of getting ba 3.1 ivc? The trip to the moon will be full of space hazards, but tne United States will not sen Apollo up unless it has a per cent safety factor for J three man crew and a 90 F cent chance for total mission success. . ONCE READY to land, g Apollo crew will be present with a new set of dangers. The astronaut's moon vironment is ilar to on God may have dreamed J J his extremes of helUt ' W degrees Centigrade in the and -153 degrees Centigrade the shade. nctant-METEORITES nctant-METEORITES maycoM ly bombard the moons J Apollo's safe remit J pends on achieving ha -1. curacy that would alent to shooting th a tennis ball, but not J the ball, from a distance or yaTdHEIR LIVES depend hitting this corridor corridor in the earths phere 300 miles wide miles deep. d cent H If their angle or o too shallow, Apollo out of the atmosph hurtle on into space, orbiting the sun. t is IF THE angle or O tioj too steep, abrupt dece in the thickening atf pie the crew like Pump under a shoe. Sociologists are urgnw the moon race. UNITED STATES Ijg have just flnujrfj in getting us there |