| Show resident Ex-resident Gives Significant Aid AidIn In Moon Exploration The United States Apollo program again successfully launched a a moon moon shot last week sending astronauts to explore the moons moon's surface and add their names to other moon pioneers In Inthe inthe inthe the annals of time However sending a name to the moon is old hat for a former Vernal resident resident re re- E E. E Paul Hullinger son of Mr and Mrs Harold E E. E Hullinger Mr Mr Hullinger's Hul- Hul lingers linger's s name was scratched on an inside panel of Surveyor I the first U US U.S. S vehicle to soft soft land land on the moon in 1966 He lie He was one one of those responsible for putting put ting the craft on the moon moon MR HULLINGER was business adminIstrator administrator admin admin- for the Surveyor project while working at the he Jet Propulsion Laboratory Laboratory Labor Labor- atory in Cali California He will be tally jolly Interested as the astronauts of Apollo Apol Apol- lo 10 12 try to land near one of the Surveyor Sur craft and bring back a few parts He lie is presently director of program development at Utah State University A native of Vernal he graduated from the University of Utah where he got his first rocket experience in 1950 AT THE university Mr Hullinger was involved in a program to use high altitude altitude alti alti- tude rockets to take air samples during nuclear test explosions in Nevada He graduated with a degree in physics physics physics phy phy- and entered the Air Force where he really became a pioneer in the rocket business THE VERNAL physicist went to Cape Canaveral now Cape Kennedy when the land was still being cleared for a rocket test site He lie drove a bulldozer to make the first launch pad and had to kill dozens of big snakes which were knocked out of the bushes The area then consisted of an old wooden bridge a lighthouse and a motel Scientific headquarters were set up in t. t b i I z E E. E PAUL HULLINGER R with space program MR HULLINGER recalls that the first mission control center consisted of stacked stack stack- ed cd up sandbags sandbags' with boards laid across the top The first gantry looked like a hay rack on a dairy farm The pioneer launching business was risky too with only about one out of every every six successful Mr Hullinger was in charge of field tests and evaluation and was the man who pushed the fire button for the missile launches FROM CAPE Canaveral's pioneering he went to White Sands Missile Range to to assist in rocket and missile testing After leaving the Air Force he joined Sperry In Salt Lake City and worked on the Sergeant missile development He then went to Hercules leaving the missile field work that kept him away from home five weeks out of every six MR HULLINGER went to at the California Institute of Technology in 1964 where he became involved in the Surveyor program and then to in 1968 Clumsy dancer May I have the last dance Footsore girl Youve just had hadit it |
