1961-08-26 — Page 21

MOON-BOUND

First

job for the first

men

THE CHINA^ MAIL;, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1961.

PART IV OF PETER FAIRLEY'S PROGRESS REPORT ON THE GREAT SPACE RACE

ONE OF THE FIRST PHOSPHOTORE WILL LAND A MOBILE LABORATORY ON THE MOGH,

on the Moon: find a cave

IAM sitting opposite a man who probably knows

more about the Moon at this moment than MOON FACTS

any other Earthman alive.

His name Is Robert Jastrow, plenty of me to take shelter Under him 17 selentists are busy against the peak periods of cold assembling a massive dossier and heat from minus 150 on the planet for the U.S. degrees centigrade up to bolling National Aeronautics and Space point-in each. Administration, prine to Man's Journey there.

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Where should Moonship land? What will greet the eyes of the lunarnuuls when they open the door? Will it

be sofe?

Most scientists suggest: "Go underground. Find a cave."

Because the planel's pull is only one sixth of Earth's, lunar- outs will be able to explore taking 20 foot strides quickly. with case, What can they expect to find?

Dr Jastrow and his men already know many of the answers. He sums up Moon- "The popular Idea of huge travel like this: "It will be a craggy praks rising sharply from trip into on "extremely husille flat valleys is false," said Dr "We think it is more environment - but

more Jastrow. no Justile than that which the like the Sahara desert than the Intrepid sailors

gentle, Britain, Rocky Mountains - a Portugal and Spain braved to rolling terrain, Only in a few discover new continents cen- places are there licely to be turies ago."

peaks and highlands,"

of

tran suit

The Moon has no protective: He added: "There should be "cocoon" of almusphere. fantastic, contrasts of black and specks of space dust smack un-

"white, almost as though it were Impeded into it. But Dr Jas- night and day in the same place. troy belleves there is only "a

The Moon's rovics are very dark, remote possibility" of n

nearly black. But where they being hurt, or a pressure

face the sun they will dazzle.' punctured, by R.

Most scientists today agree that the whufe of the planet- except, Its helghis Is euvered with dust, which has been spat lored out by meteoritles, But they disagree on its depth,

Shelter

"We think the major bom- hardment by large meteors and lumps of debris-took place long Ko during a short space of time and that there is little going on today," he added.

Man must take his own air there--or dle. There will be no vegetation and, at first sight, no water Water may, however, be trapped deep below the crust.

A moon "dey" equais nearly

Dr Jastrow suggested: *The dust is probably some inches thick, renting on top of a layer of porous cinders or some similar crunchy material, I think the Moon's 'mare' or 'seas' will be places to avoid, There the dust may be quiet deep, so that men or vehicles may sink."

"In

The ideal landing site? the bottom of a largish crater- if one is able to gülde a Moon- ship that accurately,"

14 on Earth, for the planet I asked him why scientists rotates ouly slowly arcund us.

were so keen on getting to the

A "night" lasts more than 300 Moon. His answer was simple. hours. Se there should be The Moon holds a vital clue to

A British Crossword Puzzle

DIAMETER: Approxi-

mately 2,163 milos. MASS; One-eightieth of

carth's. DISTANCE: Between 221,593 and 252,948 miles away. GRAVITY: One-sixth of

carth's.

AGE: Approximately 4,500,000,000 years. DAY TEMPERATURE: Up to 100 degrees centigrade. NIGHT TEMPERA- TURE: Down to 150

contigrade.

system.

Impact Absorber

High Gain

Antenna to transmit Data to Earth

3 Solar Collector

for Power

Equipment Buy

for collecting soil samples

First

dump

Ranger satellite will

instruments

a load of there to "sten" for Moon- quakes.

Then A Surveyor spacecraft, resembling a four-legged pylon. the will nestle down gently on dust to take TV Alms.

And in 1985, a heavier Pros- clumped together, and has al pector "ship" will release a two- wheeled Or tracked vehicle .ways been cold.

which can roll out on to the A look at the Moon's rook, or dull, dg up some rock, auto- subsoil, should give a quiclematically complete a physical answer as to which of these and chemical analysis of the theories is wrong, But the Moon semple, and transmit the news had a double attraction,

back to Earth,

has

Antique

It

But they will not be able to convey a true impression of the uncanny silence, the sense of complete sterility, which must await Man there.

It is a priceless antique.

Nor what Dr Jastrow des- neither wind, rain nor cribed as a "scene of breath- occans to erode it. Its clues taking beauty" as the lunarnouts have been perfectly preserved, look back on an Earth four as the scores of craters pock- times bigger and seven times marking Its face show.

than brighter

their target, hues of brown, coloured in green, blue and yellow and "the whole marvellous image turning perceptibly."

Dr Jestrow explained: "All those craters are exact circles. If you were to stake out a circle of that kind on the Earth and return billions of years later, you would and it distorted beyond all recognition.

Dr Jastrow. the scientist who sces other things on the Moon than prestige, summed up! "We **The best guess is that the are going to achieve an enriched Moon's craters go back to its understanding of Man's place the origin of the whole Solor birth and to the birth of the in the physical world. And it Solar system 4,500,000,000 years will affect our understanding of ago. That is the main motive the laws of Nature and the behind out effort to get there." Universe in a way which I can- That is why Amerien will not precisely predict. It will begin her assault on the planet enrich our whole civilisation." next year, with a series of robot

Yours and mine. spacecraft that can gather preliminary scientific data, os Others says It was formed well as "spy out the land" for whun clouds of space dust astronauts.

Some say that, with the Earth, it was torn from the Săn dur-

ing a collision. with a mighty star; that it began as a lump of while-hot plasma, and solidified as it cooled,

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: – 3 Statues, 7 Choste,

8 Railled, 8 Opal, 11 Blow, 12 Verse, 18 Beet, 16 Rein, 17 Rests, 18 Peal, 10 Deds, 21 Bearers, 22. Atoned, 23 Dradens. Downi 1 Bican, 2 Cajoles, & Straw, 4 Teni, & Tattered, 8 Stuiden, 10 Pot- tered, 11 Beo, 13 Reasons, 14 Sii, 10 Bribed, 18 Pest, 19 Brun, 20 Bide.

Samba and poetry lessons-

at charm school

New York.

OME of the latest graduates from charm schools in the United States are hotel de- tectives. For the American Hotelkeepers' As- soriation wants to change the "house dick" from a cigar-chewing figure who peers suspiciously from behind potted palms to a smooth operator whose sleuthing skill includes the art of doing the samba and carrying on smart small-talk.

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By LEONARD BARDEN

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Аль Association spokerman says: "The house detective should not be recognisable, as he has been in the past. To be truly effective he should merge. "In his old gulse ho was by thieves quickly melted and confidence men. Now he is elegantly anonymous,"

One chain of hotels in Texas and California sends à men la charm courses in Hollywood for three months or more, They are {schooled · In everything from "etiquette to, an Introduction to classical poetry,"

Dancing patter

Cne of the chain's San Fran- cisco hoteis suspected that three wamen in its most expensive suite were running a call-girl racket.

proved

bo Nothing esuld until a house detective, switched from a hotel in Dallas, arrived posing as a New York pinyboy.

He fooled the women with his knowledge of good tood, winu poetry and yachting-all learned at charm school-and they took him into their confidence.

He obtained enough evidence against them to enable the botel to order their eviction without war of a lawsult.

Hotel defectives agree that dancing is a prime asset Int their job.

"Women taik more, on the dance floor" anys ono New York Bleuth. "They tell us if people are bothering them or if they liavo any valuables that should be Jocked in the hotel safe.

"And Brother, if you could rée un operating on the dange floor you'd never dream of calling us faiforia?"

~~(London Express Kervizi),

NEXT WEEK: Beyond the Moon

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