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AIRMEN TAKE 30-DAY SPACE TRIP'

TWO

men have gone "into space" for 30 days in a stationary space cabin at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex. Inside this oval steel tank, eight feet by 12 feet, they were as cut off from the world as if they were really in space.

The men, Capt. William Hab luetzel and 1st Lt. John J. Har- greaves, were not able to see out of this cabin. So there was no day or night, and they only knew the time by looking at

their watches.

They were not able to talk to those outside the cabin except by radio. To make the "fight" more real even the radio talk was sometimes cut off by arti- ficial, or man-made, static.

problems. that may be met on a real space trip.

When the space travellers saw these problems, they worked the controls just as they would if they were solving that probę lem on a space flight.

There were also controls to change the air pressure, the and the heat in the moisture cabin. These could be worked from inside or outside-but the men outside had the final say about this.

. The air pressure inside the cabin could vary from that of sea level to the thin air of

No home-cooked meals were sent in to these space travellers, and no garbage was taken out. Before the trip started, the, cabin was stored with enough to feed two men for a month. 28,000 feet-too thin for a man There was enough water for to breathe. Abova 20,000 feet them to use two quarts a day. man must have extra oxygen The food was K rations like to breathe to' stay alive. (Of those soldiers carried during course our "space travellers" World War II. There was, had oxygen to use if the air got enough to give them 3,000 too, thit)

• calories a day.

This loss of air pressure is

Each man took enough clothes just what would happen if the to fill an overnight bag-what sealed, pressurised space čabia would fill about two cubic feet, got a slow leak when it was in of space. They had two cuble- outer space. This may happen if feet more to store other person- a small meteorite made a al things.

Inside this space home, were comfortable.swivel chairs, va bed, sanitary, food and cooking devices. There were also many scientific instruments.

in the space cabin. :

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Space cabins will probably have double walls with a punc- ture sealing liquid between. Space" travellers will also have extra oxygen and pressure suits that can be used if the pressure in the cabin drops.

Outside the space.cabin other men watched devices that told them just how the men inside

These studies will help ԱՏ were getting along. They were know just how men will get also able to turn knobs and along in space where there will push buttons to throw pictures be only a small area in which on the television screen inside to move around. · and to make the instrument

panel inside show different Walter B. Hendrickson Jr.

\JHEW, Back on 'Earth' Again—It was a long haul, but there airmen step artificial space cabin with greater knowledge of what they could meet in ă William D. Häbluetzel, left, and 1st Lt. John J. Hargreaves spent more thần 30 da chamber.

CAVERN TREASURE STILL UNCLAIMED

IF YOU WANT TO COLLECT Reel Corner

$16,000,000 IN GOLD...

Auckland.

Do you want $16,000,000? Then all you have to do is to go and get it. It is there, in solid gold bars, buried in sand and silt under a vast cavern on the coast of bleak, uninhabited Auckland Island, 300 miles south-east of New Zealand.

There is no doubt about bas ever carried out a modern sundries and nine tons of the existence of. the systematic search.

{"spelter" (zinc). "Anyone

'Spelter'

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the Nobel Prize for

treasure. Its whereabouts venturous with the right boat, relatives of gold-diggers who a point.

interested and ad- But the department says that has been known since equipment, time, money, paid-up comprised most of the passen He would probably never have 1866, when the General insurances, and friends with gers stated soon after the wreck gained Grant, London-bound from absolute faith in him should that the sundries were largely Literature, but, be said, "I used come in and see us," said Mr gold and the "spelter was a to be a sort of post 20 years Melbourne, sank with the D. H. Fraser, senior officer of trick to avoid Victorian State ago. I was the darling of the loss of 44 lives-and- the 'the department.

export tax on gold, and that it Beverly Hills Ladies Literary ́bullion.

According to the department was, in fact, 46 per cent gold, Society. the General Grant's "manifest” The department has had five -cargo Hst-which is stil at the letters from would-be searchers. The General Grant was Customs House in Melbourne, But none has yet applied for the becalmed in fog, and showed the cargo to be 2,470 lease of Auckland Island. So drifted into a

be ounces of gold, 170 packages of the field is wide open, neath 400ft. cliffs. As the tide rose it pushed the masts against the top of the cave, and they in turn pushed holes in the bottom of the ship. The ship sank quickly in 25 fathoms.

cavern

Since then there have been 14 expeditions to find the gold.

The last expendition's lease of the treasure area has now lapsed. And the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department says that anyone can now apply for the lease.

The department says that no properly equipped expedition

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