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LONELINESS, WEIGHTLESSNESS ARE TWO SPACE PROBLEMS ASTRONAUTS MUST CONQUER

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STRONAUTS are very carefully chosen for space travel. They are men who are quick in thought and action, able to stand the jolts and jars of space flight and cool when danger threatens.

Since the men are selected before spaceships are bullt, they are being trained with simulated space craft: In this training, we found that while space men must at the duties of space ex- ploration, the space ships must also fit the needs of the men who will pilot them.

So, as the astronauts train for space flight they make sugges- tions about the spaceship's de- sign One suggestion helped solve one of the biggest space travel problems, the loneliness of space.

· Scientists knew that one man -or even two men-would find a space cabin (at least the ones we will have at the beginning of space travel) very small. The hours would seem very long and lonely, but they did not think of a way to change this. When the astronauts made practice space "flights" in space ship mock-ups, however, they soon thought of * something,

Window

A window, of course, would- let the space man-look out at the wonders of outer space. You have en this window in plc- tures of the Project Mercury space capsule. It was not there in the first space ship designs.

When a space ship is launch- ed, the astronaut will feel 8 strong pull of gravity. In spite of this, he must be able to con- trol his ship with various but- fons and levers.

To see how

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A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE

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Credit card to Manid Gafoor

A DREAMER'S Autumn leaves ·

PARADISE

My eyes to this world

霉

close

While I sit back and

repose,

well be can do this, a machine man pushed a button on the And wander far away. has been made that will imitate space ship control board, this high gravity.

Would be go floating back- ward away from the button?

From this Worki's

may,

-lies.

Astronauts training for space Scientists know that he would To enter in a paradise travel ride this machine and do just that, and they must Where my happiness control their "ship" under these, solve this problem. conditions. Here, too, they have made suggestions as to the best kind of controls, and where they should be located.

They have ways to imitate For here I find the joy the weightlessness of space,

Which nothing can de and as the “astronauts train" to

stroy. manage themselves while they are weightless, they also give suggestions as to the best type You have seen pictures of of controls for use while weight- astronauts floating weightless less. This problem is still being in space flight, and perhaps you

Pictures

studied.

have wondered what would hap-Walter B. Hendrickson pen when a weightless space

SAFETY FIRST

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wander. into

land

Where Nature doth com-

mand.

Here the wild wind blows

Through where the calm

grass grows. These slender blades

-green

·Reign o'er the - magnifi-

Scent scene

As they bend their heads

so low

To kiss the ground be

low.

THE AIR IS COLD THIS

AUTUMN DAY,..

YET - THERE IS WARMTH

FOR ME

AS MUCH AS I HAVE ALL

MY FRIENDS.

TO KEEP ME COMPANY.

THE ONE WHO CALL OR

SEND A LETTER, AND WHO ARE - ALL

AROUND

AS - FREQUENTLY.”

THERE ARE "LEAVES, THAT. FLUTTER TO THE

GROUND.

BUT - IN. NO OTHER WAY

DO THEY REMIND ME OF A LEAF, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT FADE AND DIE.E NOR SPONSOR ANY GRIEF

NOT EVEN WHEN THEIR

- DAYS ARE, DONE AND THEY MUST PASS

AWAY,

(IN MEMORY THEY

COMFORT MP. EACH. MOMENT.

-DAYL

-AND-SO“. THERE IS NO WIND OR RAIN;">

· OR ANY HAIL OR SNOW TO BOTHER ME・ AS LONG-

∙AS I AMĒR

LIKED BY THOSE I KNOW. Credit card to Rosemarie

-Noronha.

بية

THE hind

sturdy trees

Are huddled by the wind

I hear the churning leaves That whisper in the

breeze.

A stripling stream's How

Dissects the soft. meadow As - o'er the stones

wimples Melodiously, as it ripples.

your name Murphy

Roy tay

Credit Card to Roy Fay

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ET me enjoy this

spell,

Awake me not to hell, Leave me in my tranée,

Bring me not to

senses.

my

For I have found a peace

• Where I may be at pase. So let me dream away.

This noisy world's dis-

may.

.....

-Credit card to Daya Gulab

MURPHY MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ORIGINAL: LEATHERNECK, SINCE THIS OLD IRISH NAME ONCE MEANT "SEĄ WARRIORS

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