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Show Will Success Spoil Apollo Program? By FRANK MAOOMBEIt tration still has 43 astronauts, most of them fit physically to fly into space but only a selected few with actual mission assignments through the Apoi-l- o 12 and 13 manned lunar landings. In an interview, Stafford said he believes Phillips and Hage resigned because they a had achieved their goal successful American manned moon landing and now want to get back to their Copley News Service l'h federal space agency, ironically, is beset with more serious personnel troubles now than it had before the triumphant Apollo 11 manned landing on the moon. Air Force CoL Tom Stafford, Apollo 10 mission commander and now chief of the U.S. astronauts office at the fanned Spacecraft Center, Houston, thinks he has most of the answers to the puzzle of why some key officials and some astronauts are quitting aboard. They may have been led, unintentionally, to believe there would be more missions than are now planned. impossible to hand along to their successors. kuow-iiO- w for the dissatisfaction among the remaining 13 over their futures in the space program, Stafford explains it this way: As Right now it is possible that we have too many astronauts. astro-scientic- ts I think some of the scientists who entered the space program failed to understand the mission when they came the original 16 three have quit the program. The last to resign, in late July, was Frank Curtis Of astro-scientist- regular jobs. Boeing official As late as Aug. 21 NASA officials conceded that nine of programs before he was borrowed by NASA for the Apollo program. space In the wake of the historia July 21 moon walks of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwjn Aldrin, Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Phillips resigned as boss of the' Apollo project. So did George Hage, mission director for the Apol- Nevertheless they are astro-scientis- ts 9 5-- PM. 9 couksi CHICKEN DINNER Miclwra CUcktf r Tmm'4 lafcW Ptst Tip Top Tttttd Iihr Special Nt (Met This makes it doubtful that any of them ever will land on the moon, especially If the additional nine projected Apollo lunar expeditions are cut back either by the Nixon Administration or Congress. m on working ms. & WED. THIS IS WHAT YOU GIT: in the the 13 space corps will have to wait at least two years before getting flight assignments. 9, 1969 VifdiUi SaM sad HiMf of Drink Reg. $1.70 VaniltelMCrMa TAKI HOMI ORDERS 364-07- 17 Phillips is a career Air Force officer and Hage was a Americas space program. Michel, He complained he could see no chance that he w'ould fly in space and that too much emphasis is being put on engineering, as opposed to science. Civilian scientists outside the program have voiced the same complaint. DESERET NEWS, Tuasday, Septembor X tak- ing with them a lot of space tq P 0 lo 11 moon flight. Phillips went back on active Air Force duty as commander of the services big space and missile systems center at Los Angeles. Hage returned to the Boeing Co. as a vice president for products development. - v Tf.M 11 .i i 4 Half a dozen astronaut - scientists have resigned in the last 18 months, one of them since the Apollo 11 flight, primarily because they could see no chance of ever flying to the moon and back. - s Today the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tern111 fyRA-ttn- y nmaitt ; imw Mnwg. ; f VI l t . at . tRiR Mh,r I: WOt Jt a w A tr Sr. va EES Jt.ssnie. REGULAR 2.19 3-L- 1 bears , , Shop m L. (2) Staggs Howl 't ss cahyax IplllilicUfelliilillllllN .. V mi-glo- FOLGER'S COFFEE B. can of Falser delicious coffee in regular grind only! 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