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Show ROLLO-glyphics KLIEN HOLLO Neil Armstrong, comandor of Apollo 11 was the first to set foot on the moon. Now America must decide where it must place its values val-ues relative to the costs of space flight and domestic problems that exist throughout through-out the country. Dr. Fletcher, formerly of the University of Utah, has taken over the re'ns of NASA, to guide this i i'c; am. A p;o-;;u p;o-;;u i t it 1 pc i; 1 v. .1; et . j: ;! s' gr d I.rv:; in l e. p-ing p-ing with the total nci'ds and total concept on the nation. It's been an eventful 1C years ai. j.rpensho ten years va1 .'s und ncv object- ": neeci to bo s;?t. Our best w.shes to br. Fletcher in thi? endeavor into a second decade c' F.we exploration. It is hard to believe, but it was ji'-st ten short years ago, May 5, lDlU, to be exact, when America's first astronaut ventured into space. Albeit just a 15-minute sub-orbital flight, and no big thing in comparison to today's space spectaculars, nevertheless, in those days it was a wondrous and brave adventure by anyone's any-one's standards. Alan Shepard was the American Am-erican astronaut wao too!: t first major risk in h:u o.ie--ian Mercury capsule, Free-lom Free-lom 7. It developed that his .areer in the space program pans those firrt 1C years be-ause be-ause it was he ws.o enly hrce months ago cimiman-'ed .he flight to the RoOi; of Vppollo 14. In the 10 years bo.vrr1 ohopard's two space ventrrcs there were 22 other maui-ei spaceflights. His was the third o make it to the moon and back. And even as this if written NASA is readying fo Appolo 15 with a launch date tentatively set for July 23 to kick off the second decade o. manned space flight. Shepard's name is on the roster of 27 other Americans who have made spaceflights. Together they have amassed a total of 6,913 hours in space flight, and if this doesn't sound impressive it breaks down into 288 days some achievement considering Shepard's She-pard's first flight was only 15 minutes. America achieved many 'ViM"" in snaee. but the big one was July 20, 1969 when f |