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Show utrgft 4A l nj jl "1 T Tribune, Sunday, December The Salt 29, 190! Vstios Greet Hawaii, Then Wing Home ( ontinued From . craft. now a chaned metal cone on the deck One lage of (lie Pacific south of Hawaii. Ocean dark 1.000 miles and blackened T the Yorktown, and looked inside the hatch. Its a great ship, Borman said. The astronauts bubbled with descrip- - Seven liouis after their landing the trio walked around their space Fri-'da- Timetable He re's tions of their flight during a candlelight dinner with the shin's officers Friday night. That was really something, said Borman. Boy, my eyes opened wide on that one. Then be added: It was a beautiful mission. y Reassures Crewmates Many Firsts in Space Apollo 8 Tops the List U S. Gemini spaceships made a rendezvous to within a foot apart. Luna 9 made first soft February landing on moon. February 1966: Two Russian dogs sent through the Van Allen radiation belts (highest flight by living creatures). March 1966: U.S. manned Gemini craft docked with an unmanned Agena Reuters News Agency The Apollo 8's return flight to the , moon is the gi cutest achievement yet in .the 16: iace. Here is a timetable of previous steps Into space: . October 1957: Russias Sputnik 1, first satellite, launched into orbit. November 1 On 7 : Sputnik 2 took ring Laika into space, ; January J9f8: Exploier 1, America's first satellite launched. , Apirl 1961 : Russia's Vostok 1 took the 'Jirst spaceman, Maj. Yuri Gagarin, into nan-mad- e rocket. June 1966: Surveyor 1 made first U.S. soft landing on moon, sending back thousands of television pictuies. , killApril 1967: .Soyuz I Vladimir Komarov Soviet astronaut ing first man to die in a space venture. October 18, 1967 : Venus IV spacecraft marie first soft landing on Venus and sent back scientific information. October 30, 1967: Two unmanned Soviet satellites automatically linked up in space and automatically separated first unmanned space link-up- . unmanned N'ovemtier 1967: One-dathe first full test of flight by Apollo IV the Apollo manned lunar flight program. April 1968: Luna 14, first Soviet nfoon orbital flight. Did not return. September 1968: Soviet Zond 5 first earth craft to round the moon and come back to earth. Unmanned. crash-landed- orbit. May 19(11: Americas' fust .spaceman, Com. Alan Shephard, launched (not into orbit). February 19(12: Lt. Col John Glenn orbited three times. June 196)3: First woman space traveler, Lt. Valentina Tereshkova, orbited 48 limes in Vostok C. Octolier 1964: Soviet spacecraft, Voskhod, took three men into orbit. March 1965: Alexei Leonov took the first walk in space, June 1965: Edward White walked in -- fcpace. December 1965: Two double-manne- d Lovell, a Navy captain, said he was happy to be back at with sailors. Tve been living with two Air Froce men for the past week, he said and its great to be aboard. He joked that he had to reassure his crewmates that the Navy will be there after the spacecraft hit the Pacific. Anders said he was also glad to be at sea, but to tell you the truth, I was just hoping wed hit any ocean. And Lovell cracked: And he was the 5a Race-B- ul Q navigator. 10th annual While the spacemen cruised on the Yorktown, President Johnsons press secretary announced at San Antonio that Anriprs was being promoted to lieutenant colonel. Anders was a major at the time of the launch. Anders promotion is in accord with a policy adopted by Johnson in 1965 of advancing each military astronaut one grade when he makes his first successful space flight. fortuitous fashion event Promoted After Gemini Borman and Lovell received promotions to their present rank after their trip aboard Gemini 7 in December, 1965. Apollo 8 landed within three miles of the carrier, almost precisely the point aimed at from a quarter million miles out in space. After the spacecraft landed in the dark, the astronauts remained aboard the bobbing cone for about an hour, waiting for uawn and enough light for them to be taken aboard a hovering helicopter. Im no sailor," said Borman. Im in the Air Force and I got seasick right away." The astronauts decided not to go through an extensive checkout of the spacecrafts systems since they had all functioned so well. The spacecraft will be delivered to its manufacturer in Califor- nia for examination in detail. Space officials said Friday in Houston that Apollo 8 will lead the way to lunar landings, large space stations and trips to other planets. Feb. ' 28 For Apollo 9 Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Phillips said in a press conference that the Apollo 9 flight, which will include aboard the lunar module the small craft designed to land men on the moon will fly on Feb. 28. He said the mission will be an earth orbit flight to check out the performance of the lunar module and the command and service module as a team. He also said there may be as many as three lunar landings next year, starting with the first expected in r. Within J5oO Associated Glancing backward at space race, ' drawing depicts Russias Sput- - I j Prtsi Wlrephoto e liik I, first satellite sent into orbit, October, 1957. man-mad- 10 Miles of Moon Following Apollo 9, he said, Apollo 10 will fly to an orbit of the moon, taking along the lunar module. Once in lunar orbit, two astronauts will descend to within 10 miles of the moons surface in the lunar module. If all goes well on these flights, he said, Apollo 11, in July or August, will make a lunar landing. The crew for that flight will be named in January. Apollo 8 went precisely as planned from launch to landing. It was launched on the precise second planned months before and landed where it was supposed to within seconds of the time planned. The spacecraft coasted toward the moon for 69 hours, orbited it for 20 hours and returned to eartli in 58 hours. Astros Rank With Adventurers Continued From Page One (hen 600 satellites successfully in'o jqiace. compared to alxnit 350 for the Soviet Union. In each case, more than half hae had military assignments. jBoth nations have harnessed t heir send to rocket power automatic machines to the moon, Mars and Venus, preparing ttie way foi man inevitably to follow. U.S. and Soviet scientists early foresaw trie value of sending men into space, 4nd rushed to be first. The Soviets won when cosmonaut Yim oii Apiil 12, Cagarin orbited once around the globe. 11, T Russians 1 irst '.Less than a month latei. May 5, American astronaut Alan R. Shepard Jr. rode a Redstone rocket and so.ued briefly over the threshold of space on a ballistic flight. iBut the Russians had been fust; they ;Ld a far bigger rocket, and they could (iibit men. They suddenly weie flying in a legion of the environment never before accessible iO man. -The United States knew it had to acquire the same capability, ami quickly, Coprotect itself from unpleasant sui prises from this new arena. "America was far behind m the race. effort was needed, and PresiAn all-odent Kennedy selected the as a goal for harnassing the nation's energies 10 the task en. mem industry-goA massive military team lespanried. and the :mi aoles began. The Von Bi.ui team ..t NASA's Mai shall Space Flight Centv was assigned to build a rocket that could lioost men to the moon. The Satuin 5 went on the drawing boards. - moon-landin- g Glenn Flight John Glenn put America into the orbital race Feb. 20, 1962, when he darted Into space atop an Atlas rocket in his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule There were three more Mercury orbital flights, but the Russians continued to pull ahead with their larger rocket. They launched two- - and three-macrews and even a woman cosmonaut. With the first Gemini flight in March, 196)5, the United States began to take teams charge. In 20 months. 10 i oared into the heavens to perfect all the techniques needed to send men to the moon, including rendezvous and linkup wuh another satellite, maneuvering and walking in space. Russian cosmonauts have not demonstrated complete mastery of any of these vital procedmes. After years of uninterrupted success, the space programs of both nations were shuck by terrible tragedy in 1967. In Apolo team Januaiy. the fust three-madied in a flash fire that swept their spaceship during a routine ground test at Here's how it works: bring in an old coat for donation to Deseret Industries, Catholic Charities, Jewish Relief Organization, Salvation Army or any other charity you and well allow you $2 5 to $80 toward designate the purchase of a new coat from six special famous-lab- aboard. That is the bug-liklunar module that will ferry two astronauts to the surface of the moon while the third orbits in the main ship. e n two-ma- n Cape Kennedy. In April, cosmonaut Vladdied during Komarov through the earth's atmosphere when the parachute ropes snarled on his Soyuz 1 imir craft. I'.S. 1st to Resume In each case, more than IS months were required for redesign. The U.S. was first to resume flights, hulling the three-maApollo 7 intc earth orbit last October. The perfect n Critical Test That critical test is set for Apollo 9, now scheduled as an earth orbit flight to start Feb. 28. After that, the Apollo 10 crew is to orbit the moon with a lunar module next May, with two of the spacemen dropping down to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface before rejoining the mother craft. If there are no problems, Apollo 11 next summer would be the lunar lander. After the first moon landing, the U.S. program will slow considerably. NASA has been forced to abandon or delay several programs because its budget has been cut heavily by a Congress more concerned with Vietnam and domestic problems. Meanwhile, there is a fear by many U.S. ofticials that a long gap in the American program will enable Russia to regain a dominant position in space. Some Soviet scientists said earlier they expected the Americans to be first to the moon, but that the Russians would estab-pis-h the first bases there, launch the first large space stations and send the first cosmonauts to Mars. el groups. , You'll choose from magnificent wools (Forstmann, Stroock, Borraco, Anglo, EinigerJ, some with lavish touches of' mink or fox or other luxury furs. All the most radiant colors of the season are here in coats designed and made by America's finest coat houses. Sizes petite 6-2- 6-1- 0, 6. we'll allow we'll allow on a $65 coat YOU PAY $40 on a $75 coat on YOU PAY YOU PAY we'll allow we'll allow we'll allow $40 a $150 coat $100 Must Be Billing y flight, commanded by Navy Capt. Walter Solan a Jr., opened the way for the AjhiIIo 8 astronauts to orbit the moon. Rusm,i was right behind, sending Gcoigy Beieguvy into space in Soyuz 3 lor four days lter in the montn to rendezvous with the unmanned Soyuz 9 vehicle. Theie weie hints of trouble with the fl.glit. im. hiding a missed linkup attempt, but these were not acknowledged by the Sov lets. Despite the success of Apollo 8. man is r.ot yet ready .o land on the moon. The United Still has one major piece of Apollo hardware to test with man M. The Space Agency hopes Apollo 8 and a moon landing next year will focus attention on the effort and rally the public backing needed for this country to move ahead in space. There are rewards to be reaped in space, officials say but w e must be willing tc go after them. Foi, one day next year when man stands on the surface of the moon and looks back at the globe of the earth, he will know the thrill of Columbus when he stepped ashore in the New World. He will look, too, at the stars, and he will wonder, and then he will go there also. qj? , on a $70 coat YOU PAY on qj; a $130 coat YOU PAY $44 Z we'll allow $95 "Ml FASHION COATS - oil on a $1 80 coat YOU PAY $100 |