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Did Russia's Moon Rocket Really Do It?
DID Russia's Lunik rocker really pass the moon and go into heard its signal. After the first announcement of subor
orbit round the sun? No Western scientist saw it
Russia has said nothing. Now, for the first fimë a British scientist publicly voices the doubt 'in Western minds.
PROFESSOR BERNARD LOVELL, professor of radio astronomy and director of Jodrell Bank, is still -tracking America's successful probe 300,000 miles in space. Here he answers 10 questions about Lunik in an interview with PETER FAIRLEY.
QUESTION: Do you that Lunik passed within 5,000 miles of the moon?
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doubt tracking Lunik so far with ne- hops in military establishmenta
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of which so trò uilaformed. ANSWER: No. There was no QUESTION: Has any Western ANSWER: As for as I khow evidence that Russia had other scientist proof that Lunik was there is no evidence outside then simple forms of tracking the success the Russians have Russia which enables us to apparatus. In fact, we were claimed? whether the Russian told that the radio tracking wes claim is correct. But it la im- left to amateur?M portant to remember that the We were inclined to believe orbit of such a probe can be de- this because of the apparent de- termined by
Russia on measurements pendence of
track made within a few hours of ing stations in other countries. launching. There is no reason to doubt that Russia made such measuremenla.
QUESTION: Do you believe Russla tracked 11 past the moon as she said?
The proof?
ANSWER: The scientific pur- pose of Lunik was, presumably, to get data about conditions near the earth and the moon. We have no evidence that it got It. Success would depend on the correct functioning of apparatus In the probe thð successful ·re- For example, in Д recent ception of the signat on earth. Hessian book data about ac- It may be that, Russia will celeration of Sputnik One are soON publish results, but at those obtained st Cambridge present there is no information,
QUESTION: University.
Why did QUESTION: Do you suspect world's largest radio-telescope at detect Russia has apparatus which is Jodrell Dank full to QUESTION: Last autumn, so capable?
Lunik? when you visited Itussin, did ANSWER: Not in ordinary ANSWER: This is puzzling. you see apparatus capable of scientife observatories.
.Per- When Lunik was said to be closest to the moon the Jodrell Bank telescope was scanning on the frequency (183 megaeycles) sold by the Russians to be the tracking frequency.
ANSWER: I am still waiting for scientific evidence that this was done.
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No signals were received. The telescope was sensitive enough to detect a very small trans- mitter at that distance. But it possible that Lunik had a bracon which was under ground entrol from Russia.
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POWER CAPITALS
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TODAY: WASHINGTON by ROSS MARK
Leadership lies like sceptre
a discarded
DÜLLES
in America today
Washington.
THIS city SHOULD be a capital of the move. Down in the shallow, gentle cup of green land
that is the Potomac Valley, the river is unfreezing and starting to flow. A warm spring Summit. sun has thawed the Virginia and Maryland foothills unleashing the freshets, full and quick,
Between the White House and the great pentagonal Defence Department, a rabbit warren of 30,000 workers, the tidal basin stirs brownly, sluggishly, like a million million gallons of coffee, and the ice looks like thick floating hunks of cream.
Spring has brought life to Washington. The ellipse, the parkland running from the Potomac River up to the back lawns of the White House, is still earthy brown, yet with a veil of filmy green. Signs say "Seeded--no short cuts."
is bound to discover.
ment there, has been a tendency to scoff at Mr Macmillan's efforts to lead the way to the
One offelal told me: "Take
look
nt Mr Macollin's travel log - Zondon, Moscow, Paris, Bonn, and now Ottawa and Washington, Who does he think he is Mr Dulles?"
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Challenge
All the signs are for a great Mr Macmillan's challenge to energy and skills, Leadership jes like a discarded sceptre in Washington today.
Yet make no mistake, America is no "softie" nation.
one
to be the smallest dog in the Experiments showed that world has confessed that he has QUESTION: Have you asked
The freezing winter thaw is Each is a worthy, perhaps bent horribly altacked moths which
with arthrills, be all right for Britons, but eggs had to buy one of the
Information most Russia for
about tucking up its skirts and going. even great, man. But each is He gets through life with the that did not make that sort of smeared with the mixture were expensive cars, because the Lunik?
Yes, by all tokens, Washing- cruelly stricken with a disease old of pain-killing drugs. killed, smul that eggs unsmeared file sybarite will ride
thing good for Americans too. in 20 ANSWER: Yes. I have tried to
ion should be a capital on the that has made him an invalid, If I seem to paint the sombre word ignored by the winged other. Such a dog is bound to get na
The American Press has been explanation of the op- move. But no.
er coddled convalescent.. This being so there take marauders,
aserne in Washington, let me inclined to write off the Moc- lack of signals on the funcy to flying one day,
Here is the astonishing and There is President Eisen- swing swiftly to would seem to be no need to
and the owner will have to buy tracking_frequency.
the uplifting millar trip an "election brazing situation that Mr Mac- lower, felled three times in prospects. smear eggs at all. But that
private
gimmick." Life magazine called Just as it was when China QUESTION; plane, Then the
Do
Cinicmillan, am sure, suspects and three years by diseases- heart would be to ignore the best question of a yacht
Here In this city will arise, Russia, like the Amerleans, was
open for it just a munbeam in a mush threatened war over the Quemoy pitack, leltis, and a stroke - contemporary thought. What is "Tiny dogs," sid
leadership is an opportunity for
room collar, a breeder, directing the bulk of her space
coastal Islands, the mood in plodding through the tag-end of needed now is a chemical which, have an interiority
Let me sketch the background. s White House reign. of
Jnines Now, Mr complex. resources on a programme
Reston, Americ today is
for when smeared on foghorns, will That is why they
sense of leadership. denand lunar probes?
In the immediate fiture the
For three Week to week I watch him, weeks now prevent bres stinging them, luxury."
United States, and, of course, in this kindly, boyish, honest have been
respondent of the New York Union, all American eyes Times, tried to analyse Mr acting on the assumption that Seesaw tug-of-war
the rest of the Western world. man there is no sign
on such
With its own leadership, back- of the Mr. Macmillan, as he so superb- no bees will go within
Eisenhower's snapplehness. is going to have to make
Ing and filing, 1 do feel that cf unsmeared foghorna To alt, spring in the
Mir Reston suggested that ke many Americans would wel- crucial decision.
"hurt" by reports that come from Mr Macmillan leadership of the West had been pointer towards negotiations. transferred not to Mr Elsen- hower but to Mr Macmillan following Mr Dulles's illness,
Certainly in the State Depart-
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protect foghorns from creatures which have no intention of attacking them," sald on of the scheme, "Is opponent rather
roundabout method."
In passing
Im-
ANSWER: The Russian scientists informed me Jast August that they had no mediote intention of launching a lunar rocket. In our experience, our Russian colleagues are most is must soolable ut such scazon gemine in the information they as this one, and we have a gnew give us, hangle. We will persent
ayre will roomind our patrons of our springs in the ayre, seesaw
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I therefore believe that dur-
you
toguvwar hon the seesaw, threeing the autumn Russia redirec- men nsyde with Kazbulah and ted her efforts in view of the me keepin the plonk steddy at partial American success with POIN
DOINTING out the gratifying each hend, while Rizamughan Pioneer One.
results of compulsory educa- takes the strane on his belly, tion, an expert referred to the the both teams of pullers - icom-spirit fostered at school, ting erstride the plonk and and carried out into the world grippin the roape like by those who have learned that meeteuropallitan perlice yan valuable lesson. He might have buree, Will not this be fun, ho added that every day some gang yes plecze of armed hooligans gives
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QUESTION: What dd think is receiving priority in the Russiary space programme?
ANSWER: Undoubtedly the problem of getting a man into orbit round the earth and then into space.
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Simply-will America try to negotiate seriously with the Russions to break loose the stupefying deadlock of East West power politics that has gripped Europe for the last 14 years?
at one who
a Briton with an Elizabethan distinguished Washington cor- square dealing with the Soviet
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verve, sparkle, or the sort of ly weathered the vagaries, and leadership ringeratt that is so acid test
was Kremlin-style essential to meet the Nikita- diplomacy. brand challenge.
But for Mr Elsenhower prob- ably the greatest ordeal in this last-gasp phase of his Adminis- tralion is the merciless cancer slack that has stricken his Goliath aide, and comfort, and
lend Mr Dalles.
Mr Macmillan and Mr Selwyn Lloyd are going to have to cover the waterfront in this next trip The crisis is at hand, and, to Washington. It will be an has followed the international conference such as fateful progress of our modern the world has not seen before. druma in this prime Western power capital I prickle with apprehension.
Not only has America nol made up lis mind, it las
not even at this moment selected a
clear-cut voice or leader on the mighty Issues that confront this world with alomic war.
Stricken
Unless there is a sudden, and unforeseea, chapge in Washing ton, Mr Matfrlih dealing with uriumvirate of will be
cripples.
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Does that sound cruel?
It is just what a lot of Americans are thinking. Indeed, some are saying it,
Crutches
Mr Dulles lles nine miles north of the White House in Walter Reed
Army Hospital. There
wages his irrepressibly gallant battle against cancer of The digestive, organs.
Yet he feels he can and must curry on through this great time of crisis.
toddle along to the State De- Mr Macmillan will have to partment to catch the third section of America's broken valce on world affairs.
There, in the huge Afth-foor office of the Secretary of State he will consult Christian Herter. If he glances to his left he will
On the spot
From one Ameriena news analysis came thia
comment: Tho Khrushchev challenge for a one-two conference on Berlin. first of Foreign Ministers then the United States on the spot. of Heads of Government, puls
weak Eisenhower. Who will re- We have a sick Dulles ant a prosent us?"
on
Yet America is in a strange, contradictory madód
the question of leadership.
From Congress and the Press toll demands for action, calls for Ike to replace Mr Dulles early, to wrest the initiative from the Soviet Union.
Yet America has turnéd, i stubborn, even resentful back. on Mr Macmillan's efforts to snap the grey East-West cold) war deadlock.
hower dealt with Supermuc's ideas and initiatives at his Press conterence last week.
In testy fashion Mr Elsen-
Freckled hands grasping the microphone before him, Ike snapped:
FIRST, he thought Mr Mac- millon's proposals for an atomic Let me show you Just study ste nesting against the wall a test agreement with Russia were this dolotul dramalla persone pair of gleaming aluminium-arm-impractical
crutches.
a American leadership.
Mr Macmillan's conversations CM with President Elien- hower Secretary of Sale John Foster Dulles, and acting Secre- tary of State Christian Herter,
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