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Big Task Force Is
Ready To Pluck
Schirra From Sea
ABOARD THE USS HEAR-
SARGE (UPD — The lix-orbit
flight of astronaut Walter M.
Schirra may be the only one ever
to land in the Pacific — and an
armada of men, ships, planes and
space age gadgets were primed
today to make it a perfect opera-
tion.
Weather in the target recovery
area about 1,300 miles northwest
of Honolulu was reported “fine'
and the seas were calm.
Morale aboard this 41 OOO-ton
helicopter carrier and six accom-
panying recovery destroyers was
high among the 4.000 men of the
task force. It was bound to go
even higher when word was
flashed that Schirra had passed
the third orbit and was then a
Pacific responsibility.
Space experts said Sdiirra's
flight probably would be the last
one involving orbits of less than
24 hours length and that all
others probably would be timed
for daylight landings in the At-
lantic near Cape Canaveral.
The Kearsarge and destroyers
were cruising m an elliptical area
off Midway.
The destroyers Walker, Radford
and Epperson were stationed 170
miles due east of Midway where
Schirra would land if his flight
terminated after four orbits.
The Kearsarge and destroyers
Renshaw, Philip and O'Bannon
were rtrnng out Indian file in the
prime recovery area about 275
miles northeast of Midway where
the astronaut would land after
five or six orbits.
So pul pa (Okla.) Herald, Wednesday, October 3, 1962—Page 5
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Schirra Was A Natural'Selection
For United State Space Program
CAPE CANAVERAL <UPI>-
What makes a man venture into
space? Many men can give you
many answers, but there seems
one above all for Wally Schirra—
he is his father's son.
Call it destiny or fate or what-
ever, but this man was almost
a ‘'natural'' to become what he
is today — America's newest
spaceman, off on the most am-
bitious adventure his country has
ever undertaken.
Walter M. Schirra Jr. presents
striking picture, whether as a
Navy commander or test pilot or
astronaut — and he is all these.
But there is a haunting quality
about it — a faded portrait from
four decades in the past, or an-
other young flier with a fearless
lieart for adventure.
Flying offered this man a
chance to do something new, and
he fell in love with it. He be-
came quite good at it. enough to
gain the title of "Aoe" during
World War I for the U S. Army
Air Corps. After the war, he
stayed with it as a barnstorming
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pilot across the United States.
Ever Searching
Still, there was that incessant
desire for something new, some-
thing daring, something to prove
something else. He had one idea:
How about flying an airplane
through the Arch of Triumph in
Paris?
"It was an interesting idea,"
says Walter M. Schirra Sr.—and
it was part of a colorful heritage
of ideas and the daring to carry
them through that he passed along
to his son. born March 12, 1923.
in Hackensack, N.J.
The elder Schirra never carried
through the Arch of Triumph stunt
because that was what it was—
a stunt, proving little if anything.
And thus it was that Wally Schir-
ra Jr., now grown up and looking
for things to do. grappled with
the prospect of becoming an as-
tronaut.
Was this simply a space • age
version of flying through the Arch
of Triumph, or was there really
something worthwhile in it?
Shows No Fear
The younger Schirra was not
afraid of the task. Far from it.
That kind of fear cannot exist in
a man who flew 90 combat mis-
sions in the Korean War and came
out of it with credit for downing
one Russian-built MIG jet plane
and a "probable” on another.
Tight spots didn't worry him.
Schirra already had been in plen
ty of those in his elected profes-
sion as a jet test pilot. He once
had a Sidewinder missile, fired
from his own jet plane, double
back on him. He calmly eluded
the deadly missile until it ran out
of fuel.
Here Are Some Of The Things Man
Flying To Venus Would Encounter
What bothered Schirra was the
criteria that his father already
had made a way of life—Don't
risk your neck unless there's a
good and useful reason for it
Was the Mercury man-in-space
program such a reason, or simply
a propaganda stunt. Schirra want-
ed none of the latter.
He took two full weeks before
he decided to accept the Invita-
tion to become a member of
America's first team in space, the
Mercury astronauts.
Rugged And Handsome
Wally Schirra doesn't particu-
larly look like an astronaut he
is ruggedly handsome, but his 5-
foot - 10 - inch, 170 • pound frame
doesn't truly distinguish him from
a salesman or lumberjack or col-
lege football player.
He is perhaps the friendliest of
the Mercury astronauts. A wry
smile constantly flicks from his
Ups. Perhaps his most remark-
able physical feature is his eyes,
which no artist yet has been able
to put on canvas.
What counts is that he acts
uke an astronaut. A brain, sharp
reflexes and confident step set
him off from others — and he
he underscores it with a rugged
brand of individualism that
has no tolerance for foolishness,
stupidity or wasted time or en-
ergy.
Schirra is a refreshing man of
candor and unminced words to a
program otherwise thoroughly
bogged down in tired old cliches
like "A-O.K." and "Everything is
Go’ ” — comments attributed in
the past to other astronauts but
suspiciously unlike them.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Each gen-
eration has been stirred by the
exploit* of its explorers—Colum-
bus' lonely voyage of discov-
ery; Livingstone's steamy trek
through Africa; Peary's ble^k
struggle to the North Pole. \o»
man has planted a tentative
foot In space, with his eyes on
the planets themselves. What
dangers lace hint in that dound-
less vacuum; what glories will
he see? The following dispatch,
based on the flight o( the Venus
exploration rocket Mariner II,
provides some of the answers.
By JOSEPH L. WYLER
United Press International
WASHINGTON <UP1» - For an
astronaut, the 109-day journey to
Venus in which Mariner II is so
brilliantly embarked would be a
terribly lonely and perilous ven-
ture.
It also would be an introduction
to beauty and grandeur on a scale
hardly imaginable.
The Manner astronaut would
see the magnificent slow-motion
dance of the sun's sky-filling co-
ronal streamers, the luminous
and seemingly endless ocean of
the zodiacal light, and a blinding
closeup of the great shining globe
of Venus.
Mariner II left Cape Canaveral,
Fla.. Aug. 27. 1962. on a 180.2
million mile voyage to the out
skirts of Venus, the "twin of
earth” in the family of planets
which wheels perpetually around
the sun.
Climax of the flight will be
30-minute period on Dec. 14 when
Mariner passes across the sunlit
face of Venus only 9,000 miles
from the brightest and most mys-
terious of earth's near planetary
neighbors.
Most Gifted Spacecraft
The 447-pound Mariner, resem-
bling a miniature oil derrick with acal light.
flaps, is the most intricate and
gifted spacecraft ever launched
It carries instruments which
should tell us, on Dec. 14, wheth-
er life is possible on the cloud-
masked planet whose surface has
never been seen by man,
Direct descendants of Mariner
some time in the 1970's will
carry even better instruments—
the eyes and mind of a human
pilot. But for this pioneering ven-
ture there was no room aboard
for a man.
Nevertheless, many an astrono-
mer would be glad to risk his life
to see what Mariner II'* eyeless
instruments can only infer. Given
picture window looking out on
solar space, what might a human
observer see and feel on the way
to Venus?
If he looked sharp, he might
have seen the blue horizons of
earth described by astronauts
John H. Glenn Jr. and M. Scott
Carpenter. A minute later he
might have seen simultaneous au-
roral flashes in the northern and
southern hemispheres.
Pulling free of the earth's grav
Rational domination, thousands of
miles out into space, a backward
glance would reveal a monster
gray-blue globe little resembling
the green earth he had left.
Shicking Sight
When the astronaut had got as
far from the earth as the moon,
what he saw might give him
shock — the lovely globular earth
at that distance might resemble
a giant tadpole with a tail of lu-
minous gas streaming behind the
planet under the pressure of the
solar wind like a comets tenuous
appendage.
The big jolt would come mo-
ments later. With the mass of the
earth and moon out of the way.
he would abruptly become aware
of the sun's corona and the zodi-
The sun. if he looked at it
through eye-shielding glasses,
would be a crisp, sharp disc,
erupting into space all around
would be the everchanging coro-
na, a seething region of pearly
white streamers shooting perhaps
half-way from the sun to near
planets such as earth.
The streamer material surges
into space at something like 500
miles per second. But from the
Mariner astronaut's perspective
they would seem to change in
shape and size impercitibly, like
clouds.
About half-w-ay between sun and
earth he would see the streamers
break up into blobs and patches,
showing where the magnetic-
fields containing the streamers
had begun to lose their control.
Anithrr Brilliance
The corona owes its beautiful
diffuse light to the scattering ef-
fect of electrons amongst the
charged particles spewed con-
stantly from the dynamic sun. In
the so-called plane of the ecliptic,
the great wheel in space within
which are embedded the planets
revolving around the sun, there
is another briilance, as bright as
the Milky Way.
It is the zodiacal light, a glow-
ing sea created by the diffusing
effect of cosmic dust in the sun's
radiance. This dust may be the
residue of comets.
Whatever it is, it appears to fill
solar space, and wherever Mari-
ner II goes its imaginary pilot
will see it as a gigantic glow ex-
tending toward and away from
the sun.
These lights, coronal and zodi-
cal, may merge and blend. They
are thin. Distant stars and plan-
ets are visible through them. Far
away from the earth's obscuring
and distorting atmosphere, the
sky background is black, stars no
longer twinkle, and the sun be-
omes sharper and brighter.
Few Physical Sensations
On his way to Venus the astro-
naut would have few physical
sensations, assuming he was ap-
propriately shielded against the
sun s unobstructed brilliance in
space.
At mid-course correction on
Sept. 4. when Mariner II respond
ed to whispered radio instructions
from earth with the promptness
and grace of a cow pony, the as-
tronaut might have thought the
sky was revolving around him.
Actually, the spacecraft was
tumbling nearly 140 degrees to
put its guidance rocket in the
right position to fire. This patch-
ing maneuver might have gone
unnoticed by a human observer
if it had not been for the fact
that the visible stars and planets
would appear to have swung loose
from their moorings.
When the course-changing rock-
et fired, pushing the craft into a
tighter orbit around the sun and
pulling it therefore closer to the
path of Venus, the astronaut
might have felt a slight sensation
comparable to the tug of gravity-
on earth.
But it was soon over and the
feeling of weightlessness, which
had prevailed for more than a
week, would return. In this con-
dition. with motion counteracting
the pull of the various competing
heavenly bodies, the astronaut
would feel lighter, in fact, than
a feather.
By the time it passes within
9.000 miles of Venus, Mariner II
will have plunged one-third of the
distance from the earth te -the
sun. The sun then will be a far
sharper and brighter and larger
and grander object that it was
as seen from earth.
Venus at 9,000 miles will be
considerably more impressive
than the earth was at the sairrf
distance. Venus' dense clouds re-
flect twice as much sunlight as
does the earth. They make the
earth's moon seem pale by com-
parison. The moon is about 240,-
ooo miles from the earth.
At a distance of 9,000 miles,
Venus would appear to- be more
than 100 times the size of the
moon and brighter by far than
any moon.
Schirra Is Fourth
Junior In Space
CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD-
Walter M. Schirra Jr. is the
fourth "Junior" American aero-
naut to leap into space.
The junior doesn't refer to age,
experience or nickname. It's just
that like three of the four pre-
vious Americans in space, Schir-
ra is named after his father.
The others were Alan B. Shep-
ard Jr., John H. Glenn Jr. and
M. Scott Carpenter Jr. So far,
Virgil Grissom is the only U S.
spaceman who didn’t have a Jun-
ior tacked onto his name.
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Schirra's Flight
At A Glance
CAPE CANAVERAL (UPD—
Mereury-Atlas-8, spaceship for or-
bital flight of astronaut Walter
M. Schirra Jr., at a glance:
Booster — Modified Atlas inter-
continental ballistic missile, de-
livering 360.000 pounds of thrust.
Capsule — Bell-shaped Mercury
spacecraft, named “Sigma 7."
pilot — Waiter M Schirra Jr..
38, Navy commander.
Length of MAS — 95 feet.
Weight at lift-elf — 360.100
pounds.
Weight of Mercury capsule at
lift-off — More than two tons, in-
cluding escape tower.
Weight of fuel (high grade ker-
osene cnlled RP-1) — 73.000
pounds.
Weight of liquid oxygen (oxi-
dizer to burn fuel in airless
space — 160.000 pounds
Launch site—Pad No. 14, Cape
Canaveral.
Period of powered rorket flighi
—About five minutes.
Number of parts In Atlas-
More than 300.000. of which about
50,000 are moving parts.
Bullseye Shot Is
Needed In Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL <UPD-
Tliey shoot for an invisible bulls-
eye in the sky when they try to
put a-man into orbit. Their aim
has to be excellent.
The bullseye is about 100 miles
high and 500 miles downrange
from Cape Canaveral roughly
somewhere over Bermuda
To put a man into orbit, they
must come within 1.700 feet of the
center of the bullseye.
Not only that, but the Atlas
Ixwster with the Mercury capsule
atop it must be going 17.500 miles
an hour the instant it reaches the
target.
Unless both aim and speed are
correct, the space cabin either
will go into the wrong orbit or
not into orbit at all.
Should the cabin fail to go into
orbit after its separation from the
Atlas booster rocket, the astro
naut would fail in his capsule
into the ocean.
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