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Show DESERET NEWS, Apollo 10: 'On The Moon, But Can f Land! By WILLIAM J. CROMIE Snoopy" will venture to In within 50,000 feet of the moon vhile Charlie Brown orbits overhead ready to rescue him. Snoopy is the code name for the lunar module that will carry astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan on mans closest approach to the moon. Charlie Brown is the call sign of the command module from which Jolin Young will be keeping a watchful eye on his companions below. The names replace Spider and Gumdrop used on Apollo 9. This Apollo 10 mission, scheduled for launch May 18, will be a full rehearsal of a flight that includes every maneuver but the final approach and touchdown on the surface. Why go all the way to the moon and stop less than 10 miles short? The lunar module (LM) on Apollo 10 cannot carry enough fuel for a landing; NASA feels it does not have all the information and experience needed, and going below 50,000 leet would take the astronauts beyond the point of rescue. Air Force For Stafford, a colonel from Weatherford, Okla., and Cernan, a Navy commander from Chicago, the temptation to land might seem overpowering. But as the tall, balding Stafford points cut, I have enough fuel to land, but not to take off again. The first LMs made were too heavy to carry enough fuel for a landing. The booster rocket simply could not handle this much weight. Then two special programs, in which the manufacturer spent up to $50,000 to slice off a single pound, drastically reduced the burden. The LM to fly on Apollo 10 i3 still too heavy, but the Apollo 11 lunar module is fit for a landing. ' Even if the necessary 400 pounds of fuel could be added, Snoopy would still not make a landing. NASA needs more experience in operating lid, more data on the landing sites and more information about the problems of navigating in the vicinity of the moon. On both this mission and the lunar-landiflight, LM and the command module will orbit the moon nose to nose at an altitude of 69 miles. Then LM will separate from its mothership and fire its engines to get into an elliptical orbit which will take it about 50,000 feet from the lunar surface at its low point. For a landing, the descent .engine would ignite at this altitude and the LM pilots would proceed to make a powered touchdown about nine minutes later. On Apollo 10 the same engine will be fired, but instead of landing, LM will go into a more elliptical orbit. In this orbit, it will coast upward to 220 miles altitude then back down to about 10 miles above the mid-Ma- spacecraft, flight controllers hope to determine wht effects these traps have on flight paths, and so compensate for them y moon-landin- on Apollo 11. Stafford, Young and Ceinan will reach the moon a little over three days after they are launched from Cape Kennedy. On their second orbit around Earth, the astronauts will fire the tnird stage engine long enough to start them on their coasting flight to the moon. About two hours later, Stafford, the mission commander, will separate Ihe command and service module combination from the third stage. He then makes turn and docks with the LM, a wliich i3 carried on the third stage. After docking, the LM is extracted and the third stage is cast away into space. g surface. Upon reaching the moon, the crew circular maneuvers into a orbit. Then Stafford and Cernan crawl through a tunnel into the LM. They get everything ready for the descent, then return to the mothership for eight or nine hours sleep. The next day calls for 20 hours of intense activity the longest, most difficult day ever experienced by a space crew. (It will be even tougher on Apollo 11.) LM will be away from its mother-shi- p about six hours during its two passes down to 50,000 feet and the subsequent rendezvous and docking. While Shoopy and Charlie Brown are in separate orbits, they will be as far as 400 miles apart. But the two craft will never be out of sight of one another, according to Mil-to-n Windier, one of the Apollo 10 flight controllers. Astronauts will inspect and photograph two proposed landing sites as craft descends to about 50,000 feet. and Stafford still photographs of the sites. Stafford also hopes to use a television camera that will give Earthbound viewers the first live color telecast from the moon. the The spidery LM has two stages both of descent and ascent stages which have rocket engines. As Snoopy comes down on its second pass over the landing areas, the descent stage separates. Ten minutes later the astronauts in the ascent stage fire that engine and head back up for a rendezvous with, Navy Commander Young in the command module. Firing the ascent engine is the most crucial maneuver on a landing mission. When the complete LM sits on the moons surface, the descent stage serves as a launch pad when the astronauts begin their journey homeward in the ascent stage. If the ascent engine does not fire, the men will be stranded on the moon with no hope of rescue. Firing this engine on Apollo 10 comes closest to testing it under conditions. If it does not ignite, or burns improperly, on this mission, Charlie Brown can still rescue Snoopy as it coasts up on its elliptical orbit. lunar-launchin- g The two orbits will take the astronauts over two potential landing sites. As the spacecraft moves between 100,000 and 50,000 feet, Cernan will shoot movies John Young, 38, a San Francisco napilot who has tive, is a superbly-skille- d flown on two space missions und has more time in the command module simulator than any 'other astronaut. Stafford is also a veteran of two flights, one of which involved the first American rendezvous in space. Cernan served as a with Stafford on the latters second flight, during which three rendezvous were made and Cernan took a walk in and thereby changed the launch date of Apollo 10 from May 17 to 18. This puts the LM over Site 2 when lighting conditions are right, and gives the astronauts a chance to inspect Site 3. Launch date for the landing mission also slipped from July 15 to 16, indicating that the space agency will aim for Site 2, a three-b- y Jive mile elliptical area in the southwest part of the Sea of Tranquility. NASA geologist John W. Dietrich de- space. scribes this place as a very' flat area with the peaks of low hills visible to the southwest He says it may be overlaid with volcanic ash since its surface is dark. If so, walking on it will feel like walking on dry, course sand. Apollo 10 must also check out gravity traps on the moon before a landing can be made. These are regions where lunar gravity is unusually high, causing uneven accelerations in the flight path of the spacecraft. The increased gravity is thought to be produced by concentrations of iron below the surface, and engineers feel that the wobble they cause in the landflight path could lead to a ing error. This increases the risk of coming down in terrain too rough for a safe landing. By closely tracking the Apollo 10 co-pil- The landing areas that Apollo 10 will investigate are two of five possible sites NASA chose for the lunar landing. They are relatively smooth areas spaced across the near side of the moon and dose to its equator. During the actual landing. NASA wants the sun to be low in the lunar sky so that light and shadow conditions make differences in topography easy to see. The sun moves from east to west across the lunar surface, and delays in the launch can be compensated for by moving one site to the west for each days delay. During Apollo 8, astronauts got a close look at Site 1, the easternmost. NASA rejected this as a landing area -- six-mi- le After firing the ascent engine to start back from 50,000 feet, the astronauts make two more burns to circularize their elliptical orbit. This will put Snoopy behind and below Charlie Brown. In the final maneuver, Snoopy will gradually overtake and dock with the mothership. After docking, Stafford and Cernan will crawl wearily through the tunnel and join John Young in the command module. Next, the crew will separate from Snoopy. Ground controllers will then ignite Snoopys engines and send the $41 million spacecraft into orbit around the sun. Charlie Brown will make 11 more revolutions of the moon before starting home. During that time the crew will concentrate on getting experience navigating in lunar orbit. They will attempt to determine their own position, the location of lunar landmarks and the effect of gravity traps on their orbit. They will also take photographs and transmit TV views of the moon to Earth. After more than 60 hour? in moon orbit, three times longer than Apollo 8, the crew will ignite the main engine and start for home. A splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa, 192 hours (eight days) after launch, will bring the most exciting and complex space mission to date to a successful end. 17 Aprif 21, 1969 Monday, OUR MAN JONES If He'd Just Come Out And Fight! By HARRY JONES Monday is an obstacle course . . . of the working class. It should be outlawed at the special session of the' ,l . upcoming Utah Legislature. But add to Monday the chore of cleaning up the yard after a hard winter, and ; its the disaster day of tire year. You ought to get out into the yard, said my wife Donna, the green thumb of the outfit. It's time you raked out the flower beds and planted the pansies. We are still waiting for the tulips that ' I planted two years ago to come up. They were planted upside down or some- - curse thing. I Besides, have to remember what the doctor said," I told her. And what did the doctor say! asked Donna. J ". He said not to overdo it . . . take no it easy I heavy lifting, answered. He was talk-in- g ... to your Mr. Jones uncle it wasnt blanket medical coverage or advice. Besides, the sun will do you good. . . get rid of that poolroom tan, Donna said. About the only work done in the yard y so far tills year has been done by a.;' pesky animal that made a mole hill cut of a mountain of a rock garden. We, meaning the mole and X, have lived in peaceful coexistence over the" , ' winter after a summer of fighting. He have I and has been asleep underground, been hibernating in front of the idiot t . v tube. Last summer saw chemical warfare,', in the bitter battle for control of the lawn. I used a gas to smoke him out. It killed a sheep across the alley when the v wind shifted. A window was shattered during a shootout. The mole rightfully belongs in the field across the alley. But he tunneled his way under the alley, and also under the ditch over into the backyard. We used poison peanuts during on'es weekend skirmish. I put them by t"e mailt entrance of his subway system. He stayed healthy, but the neighbors cat al ' most died. The next line of attack was a small squirrel trap. I snared a neighbor. No one his age should go around barefooted. Once, while putting gasoline in thel. lawn mower, I got the idea of pouring; some down the really big hole the mole had dug. And to show you just how extensive the tunnels are, it started a fire in the , field across the alley. I borrowed a small cat from a friend; F The cat had a real reputation as a mous-e- r. But he couldnt get down the hole. So the mole came up and made friends with 7 him. The mole gathered a few recruits v since last summer . . . direct kin, I prd- sume. They are a slightly different color because of their youth. So things haven't improved maybe worsened. But Im not going to give you a lot of statistics about killing 30 or 40 moles with ' only the neighbors foot being our casual-ty. But, on the other hand, Im not going to criticize the administration about Vietnam, because I have a situation on my hands that I cant handle, either! '' . Nixons Advisers Split On Plane Incident Ey DREW PEARSON When President Nixon first received the news of the Navy plane shot down over the Japan Sea, he faced the problem of deciding between two groups of advisers. His Secretary of State, William P. Rogers, . advised extreme . caution. Some of the military and politically minded . . advisers urged ac-- . tion. They had in . mind the rather . Mr. Pearson bellicose statement . Nixon himself had made at Miami Beach and elsewhere during the political campaign, taunting President Johnson over his inaction regarding the USS Pueblo. The President confided to advisers that he couldnt let the incident pass without some kind of response, though he promised it would not be inflammatory. One facta which weighted on the side of his tough-actio- n advisers was an intelligence estimate from the Pentagon that Kim II Sung, the hotheaded North Korean dictator, didnt want a resumption of the Korean war. Sung, it was reported, - MfRRY-GO-ROUN- D was Impressed with the beefing up of American and South Korean forces by the Pentagon since the Pueblo incident. Meanwhile, however, he had sent a personal message to the Kremlin, and Secretary Rogers had also spoken to Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin. This brought immediate cooperation from Russian destroyers and search planes in trying to locate the downed crew of the Navy plane. At the same time, it imposed some problems for Nixon. He had to decide, in addition to the other alternatives, whether he wanted to alienate Russian good will by adopting tough retaliatory tactics toward North Korea. There has been an amazing change on the part of the Soviet Union in regard to espionage flights. Both the United States and Russia conduct them, and have done so ever since the end of the war. However, the Russian attitude toward the United States has changed drastically since 1958 when Nikita Khrushchev gave orders to Soviet pilots to shoot down with EXPERIENCES. By Arnold Toynbee. Oxford University Press. $8.75. This certainly is a very odd way for a major historian to give a message to posterity about his own life and beliefs. Instead of writing an autobiography, Toynbee has written this volume and an The presearlier one, "Acquaintances. ent one Is divided into three sections, of which the third is a completely irrelevant collection of the authors poems in Greek and Latin. The first section is more or less a memoir and the second is a series of iecture-typ- e essays on Human Affairs in My Lifetime." In the first section he gives a garrulous account of his education in the antique English manner. His essays on human affairs cover such subjects as the Victorian age, the effects of war on the human mind, the uses and abuses of technology, the welfare state, the principles of education and religion, and matters concerned with drugs, medicine ard surgery. The book is repetitious and luteins a great many academic cliches. It is a confession that tills historian never got beyond the borders of the classical tradition in scholarship, into the realm of science and sociology. , Miles A Smith. About Cause And Care Of St. Vitus Dance There also have been' cases of American vessels making observation voyages fairly close to the Siberian coastline. This policy between the United States and Russia has even extended to reconnaissance flights by fighter planes off the Alaskan coast There was a time when if Soviet planes By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. appeared on the radars copes of our Alaskan bases, American fighters immediateDear Sir: My niece has what we used ly scrambled to get in the air and to call St. Vitus dance and does not seem meet them and, If any danger developed, to be making any headway toward recovhead them off. ery. Rest and a certain diet is all she has In recent months this scrambling been told to do. What is the cause of this practice has more or less been abansickness and what should be done for it? doned. When Soviet fighters make pracHow long does it usually take to recover? tice trips over the Bering Sea, American -Mrs. M.H.B. planes frequently do not get into the air if Answer: St Vitus dance (technically to investigate. They know that war, start it In the years that have passed, howevknown as chorea, or Syndenhams choever comes, is not going to be precipitatnot ed by Soviet fighter planes. It will come er, things have changed. rea) is a part of rheumatic fever Both the United States and Russia from giant intercontinental ballistic misin all cases, of course, but that is what have adopted a general policy that it is siles instead. causes it Most of the patients are chilwiser if each side knows what the other And since Nixon has been able to dren under the age of 14, and more often is doing. As a result, Soviet electronic es- achieve an amazing response from the they are girls than boys. pionage ships have come within a few Russians ever since he essumed office, It involves spasmodic, jerky movemiles of Long Island, off New York City, with no edkorial criticism of him in the and the young patients often ments, and on at least one occasion have Soviet press, he was lbath to risk sacrimake faces, quite involuntarily. They with inside the tactics limit American ficing this by any tough strayed drop things, stumble on stairs, have authorities gave that ship the benefit of Northern Korea, which enjoys a mutual trouble writing. the doubt, and no seizure was made. defense pact with the Soviet. The condition gradually corrects itself, but it frequently takes in the neighborhood of three months or so, which can seem like a long time. In About a third of all cases there will be recurrences (perhaps two or three ficult Concerto for Violin and Orchesattacks) which are more likely to occur MUSICAL WHIRL tra. His decision to be a mathematician in springtime. The reason for this is not rather than a musician, is the wise one clear. for him Im sure, but because his playing There is no specific treatment, but those who followed her, Holly Lee Johnsince the bizarre movements are less possesses such temperament and integriston played the long and challenging ty, the decision is a loss for our musical likely to occur while the child is sleeping, oboe solo role of the Francaix Flower world. Much to his credit was his serving or resting, rest is important. In many dock, giving each of the hours an as concertmaster for his colleagues becases sedation may be advisable. fore assuming the soloists role himself. concept architecturally Diet has no direct effect on St. Vitus that was both beautiful in performance Tamera Nielsen, a Sterling Scholardence, but since the child is not in robust and sound. ship music candidate of last week, gave health, and may have a poor appetite, it Jana Lee Blair disclosed an enormous a performance of the slow movement of makes sense to see that she be given meals. variety of sound in her performance of the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Debussys Danses sacree et profane for Orchestra that had both a lyrical and ' One thing must not be forgotten. Since Harp and Orchestra. In addition to pleasing tone. More than that, she also St. Vitus dance is touched off by rheuplaying with delicate sensitivity, Jana played with grace and poetry. Perhaps matic fever, and since rheumatic fever Lee also electrified her audience with Dr. Shand selected the Brahms with an can cause heart damage, the basic disher entrancing sudden attacks. idea to balancing his program, but ease must be watched and treated. whether any high school senior has quite Dr. Shand correctly treated the BerDear Dr. Thosteson: My the maturity to probe the noble depths or lioz Harold in Italy, as a Symphony swallowed a chicken bone. I daughter with Viola Obbligato rather than in the project the lofty expansiveness of the see it, but she cried and said a didnt to In question. tradition"! but incorrect manner of a Brahms is, I think, open bone was caught in her throat. I fed her Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, any event, Tameras interpretation was a few pieces of bread and soon she said beautiful and and warm thoughtful. What this meant, of course, was that it was gone and didnt complain any In the third public performance of Dr. more. I wonder if she should see a docJoel Rosenberg was frequently Schreiners "Concerto for tor? N.G.C. covered. Joel, who has become one of Alexander our musical communitys busiest as well Organ and Orchestra (the composer Answer: That was excellent first aid. as one of our most mature young artists, played the first two; with the Utah Symshould be no further trouble. There layed with poetic polish and intense fire phony and the Claremont College SymDr. Thosteson: Is it normal for Dear that disclosed the in one of string solo repertoires most exphony), Jon Meilstrup girl to have a concerto is an exciting and majestic a healthy, citing masterpieces. heartbeat (pulse rate) of 90 beats per Bennett James, concertmaster of the work and that he is an Imposing and asminute? C.N. sured young organist. He vividly reproUniversity Symphony, gave, as he almelodies and techAnswer: ves, but I doubt that it is at the duced an of exciting rhythms ways does, amazing display that rate most of the time. That is to nique and perceptive musicianship in his on the giant instrument, and his performpenormance of the first movement of ance of the pedal cadenza thundered out say, it is perfectly normal for a pulse rate reach 90 at times. Sibelipss highly individualistic and dif-- clear, Ijnamic, and dazzling. Impressive Group Of Young Soloists BOOKS Toynbee Issues An Odd Memoir out warning any American planes near the Soviet frontier. It was during this unfriendly period between the USA and the USSR that Russia shot down the RB-4- 7 naval fliers, July 2, 1960. They were on a reconnaissance trip out of England over the Baltic, and penetrated Soviet air space over the Barents Sea in the vicinity of the Kola Peninsula. Two of the fliers who were rescued were the subject of controversy by the U.S. and Russia for some time. Earlier, Soviet passions were aroused when Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the U-- 2 spy plane, was shot down over the Interior of Russia just before the Paris Summit Conference was scheduled to YOUR HEALTH HAROLD LUNDSTROM By Deseret News Music Editor The of Utah University Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Dr. David Shand, were back in the Tabernacle Saturday evening for their second annual Scholarship Fund Benefit Concert. A year ago excellent musicians initiated the series with the ComUniversity bined Choruses in a performance of Mr, Meilstrup Haydns oratorio, The Creation." Saturday they brought six soloists of impressive proportions, and they were welcomed, indeed, by one of the most enthusiastic audiences ever. The program was especially interesting conin that it was made up of certos. If the audience had been any place but the Tabernacle, the place would have been filled. What it lacked in full size, it more than made up , with rounds of applause. opening Following the orchestras work, a rather blurred account of WaOrb and ltons Coronation March everyone was warmed up for Scepter, tlie first of the impressive series of artistic perfojnances. Setting a high level for these Ji E7i9s non-pian- . , ' Wit End. ... but Its National Egg Week no yolks about taking a chick please out to lunch. ... ; uuimimimumanmnnTmminunmtnnQnninmuiiiiiiuuB BIG TALK m' I d d t "No one has any interest in the, 72 campaign. But already unin- are taking terested on junk- -, cameramen es non-politic- al ' Cist i.- V. McNaaly far tt Dasarat Newi ycpular daily Baby Birthday taatu Pram yhotw Wmn W Uoitel min iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:ii:iiiir.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikiutiii -. , |