Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1963 — Page 8

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New Orbital Ship ‘Space-age DC3’ By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. I turn out to be a space-age dir. United Press International igible. , Gape CANAVERAL <UPD —I Byway of familiarization, a The U.S. space agency already is! quickie lesson in aviation history calling its ne«v Gemini orbital is in order. The DC3 is an airship the "Space age DC3." A more ! plane popularly referred to as the somber suspicion is that it may' ’,'gooney-bird.’’ Its illustrious life Everything You Expect Mil flWf|Rft In a Fine Washer... the NEW g | 's— Jt < Jr *> Bi — — —- WITH THE KO | REVOLUTIONARY I ■ FILTHU “HIAGITftTOR The exclusive May- - - t,g Filter-Agitator is the most revolutionary change in the agitator since it was invented by Maytag. It's new, it's fabulous, and it's available only in Maytag. Now full tim. filter to Detergent ditpeneer Ws»h water circulated under water where ln a8i,,,0r pr ? v ’? n through the Filter under water wnere j, mßge to fabric* .... _> ail lint i* filtered out from un di lso lved de- Agitator it forced ou a* water circulate* tergent. Simply add through channels in through agitator. No detergent; circulating the bottom to amplP '■ !’ the way. fO m>. in contact with looser ” even daep clothes. down dirt in seconds Cold Water Wash and Rinse • Delicate Fabric Cycle • Two Speed Action • Automatic Water Level Control rAf ED Appliance and I" AUEK Sporting Goods 147 S. 2nd Street Phone 3-4362

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1 IKMh - HL . ■ |r ■iwf i I 1 * Ib JflK ~ L - - g Nj\\ V il i J MB TOP SELLERS— Six members of the Decatur Peppy Gals 4-H club receive their award, a savings bond, for selling the most packages of potato chips in the recent county-wide potato chip sale. Presenting the award is Don Schlater. Members of the group are Carolyn Bays, front, Regina Hanrell, Janice Call, Marylee Dull, Schlater, Sharon Zwick and Rita Norquest. The top saleslady Dull, was s also presented wi*h a 4-H sweatshirt, and three of the girls, Regina Harrell, Janice Call and Carolyn Bays, were given 4-H autograph books. Mrs. Harry Houk is the group’s leader.—(Photo by MacLeam J I .. - - - - — — ;; ‘ — : '

, is perhaps best summed up by i the ex-pilot who called the DC3 | simply “the best damned plane; i ever built.” The dirigible....-for.—those too : young to recall, was an exotic but • highly unconventional form of air | , travel that was the rage in the 19305. Essentially, it was a balloon hoisted by lighter-than-air gas. Its career was shortened by its own dead-end weaknesses and by the winged airplane. A DC3 - versus - dirigible comparison of the two-man Gemini space capsule would seem a bit premature, inasmuch as it has not even gotten off the ground and will not for another year or so. But space agency administrator James E. Webb made the DC3 remark, so it bears discussion. Next on Program Project Gemini is America's next step in manned conquest of space. Its initial task will be to lift two-man teams of astronauts into earth orbits for periods of up to two weeks, to try out techniques that will be important in later flights to the moon. Now, it seems, the space agen-| cy has started hitching Gemini to another long - neglected program. | lan earth-orbiting manned space station. There is a vision of Geml ini capsules shuttling men -to and j from a giant space laboratory on >I a regular schedule — thus, the

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space-going DC3. The hitch is that, unless some drastic improvements are made, tht goings and particularly the comings of Gemini capsules at the earth level will require upwards j of 20,000 men per shot. The porblem is one of recovering the astronauts. Criticize Capsule There were many on the technical and engineering level who criticized the Mercury capsule, particularly for its bell-shaped construction that required a return by parachute—a comparatively inaccurate method of landing. And these were disappointed when the Gemini capsule turned out to be a Mercury capsule only bigger. They saw the same technical deficiencies — the bluntshaped configuration, the parachute landing. This may be the dead-end weakness that will send the Gemini spaceship the way of the dirigible eventually. Report On Study Gemini’s hopes for a future as a space-age DC3 were hardly en- | hanced by a recent study by sciI entists of the Ford Motor Co. I Their work centered on methodsof re-entering <the atmosphere after space journeys. The scientists concluded, among; other points, that a wingless I craft, of which Gemini is one,

needed “a re-entry path along a precise corridor” and that “a slight variation could either plunge the vehicle into the atmosphere too quick, burning it up, or bounce it away into an endless trip through space.” On the other hand, they said, a spaceship with some sort of wings “would require a less precise re-entry corridor, increasing certainty that re-entry could be accomplished successfully.” Things with wings, it seems, keep winning. Dirigibles didn’t have them. Neither do Gemini capsules. FIRST SPACE (Continued from Page One) of each other. A direct link-up of two ships in space would be the first step toward the creation of a staging platform for longer voyages to the moon and the planets. Both Valentina and Bykovsky said they were a “close distance” from each other. But they gave no indication whether they were within sight or as close as the four miles that at one point sep- ■ arated Nikolayev and Popovich. Miss Tereshkova’s spacecraft was flying at 17,400 miles an hour, ■ taking her round the earth once | every 85 minutes. 1 Moscow Radio said Miss Teresh-

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kova’s orbit carried her 144.8 miles from the earth at its highest point and 113.7 miles at its lowest at an angle of about 65 degrees to the Equator. Farther-Into Space This made her voyage about two-thirds of a mile farther into space and two-thirds of a mile closer to the earth than Bykov-

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sky’s. Lack of information could mean the launchings, highly complex procedures, did not have the accuracy of those in which Nikolayev and Popovich were placed into twin orbits, observers said. The official government newspaper Izvestia and the official Communist party newspaper Prav-

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da both were filled today with extensive accounts of the launching of Vostok VI with the cosmonette aboard. Bykovsky may be headed toward a possible eight-day flight. He already has taken dead-aim on Nikolayev’s 64-orbit stint last August.