Astronaut Cooper
Scheduled to Orbit
Earth Tuesday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UFl —
Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.
has his “ditty bag” packed and
the Mercury Travel Agency has
ticketed him for the most exten
sive round-the-world tour ever
planned for an American.
Next Tuesday, if the present
schedule, holds, Cooper will rocket
into space on an intended 22-orbit
mission lasting 34 hours and 19
minutes. His only luggage will be a
lunch box of bite-size tidbits and
dehydrated food and the ditty bag
—a packet for storing cameras and
miscellaneous items.
A glance at the flight plan re
veals these highlights:
Cooper’s “Faith 7” spacecraft
will travel nearly 600,000 miles
and cover more than one million
square miles of the earth’s sur
face—at altitudes ranging from
100 to 170 miles.
As Cooper circles the globe, he
will traverse all areas between
32.5 degrees north and 32.5 de
grees south latitudes, which in the
Western Hemisphere extends
roughly from Charleston, S.C., to
Santiago, Chile, and in the Eastern
Hemisphere from Shanghai, China,
to Sydney, Australia.
He will pass over parts of five
continents, North and South Amer
ica, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Africa and South America will be
crossed frequently.
Cooper will be the first U.S. as
tronaut to fly over Red China,
spending a total of about 45 min
utes over the Communist nation
on passes lasting from four to
eight minutes during orbits No. 7,
8, 9, 10, 11 and 22. Should an emer
gency force a landing in China,
America could be faced with a
diplomatic headache.
If it’s a clear day, Cooper will
be the first American space pilot
to peek behind the Iron Curtain.
As he crosses above Afghanistan
on the 10th and 11th orbits he |
briefly will be within a couple I
hundred miles of the southern So
viet border—within easy viewing
distance from his sky-high vantage
point.
Cooper’s crossings of the United
States will be confined to the
extreme southern area on orbits
No. 1, 2, 3, 15, 16, 17 and 18. Near
the end of 1, 3, 16 and 18 he will
be practically over his present
home in Houston, Tex.
Cooper’s Atlas booster is sched
uled to blast off between 8 a.m.
and 10:30 a.m. EST. If the flight
goes the full distance he will land
in the Pacific Ocean southeast of
Midway Island between 6:19 p.m.
and 8:49 p.m. EST the next day.
Primary recovery areas, which
will have greatest concentration of
ships and planes, will be southeast i
of Midway and east of Bermuda in
the Atlantic. Each spot covers sev
eral orbital paths.
The assigned recovery force in
cludes 2 7ships, 125 aircraft and
more than 19,000 persons, most of
them shipboard personnel.
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Freight Rates Will Not
Be Changed to Alaska
SEATTLE — Freight rates
to Alaska will not be changed by
the Maritime Commisison’s ap
proval this week of an Alaska
Steamship Co. rate increase, the
company said yesterday.
“The commission has approved
the rate increase which went into
effect Jan. 10, 1960,” a spokesman
for the company said.
“Rates are the same now as
they have been for three years.”
The commission, which has been
reviewing the rate increase, said
it was “found to be just, reasonable
and lawful.”
The commission called for fur
ther testimony, however, in its
review of rates filed by several
other companies in the Alaska
trade, including the Puget Sound
Alaska Van Lines, Alaska North
ern Express, Alaska Freight Lines
and Garrison Fast Freight Division
of Consolidated Freightways.
JFK Believes Russia
Will Make Additional
Spectacular Effort in Space
WASHINGTON UR — President
Kennedy, debating in public yes
terday with a key adviser to for
mer President Dwight Eisenhower,
said he expects the Soviet Union
“to make additional spectacular
efforts” in space in the next few
months.
Kennedy used this forecast as
a major prop for his argument
that the $4.5 billion federal spend
ing increase he has recommended
is wise.
In an impromptu, off-the-cuff
confrontation at a luncheon of top
businessmen, Kennedy’s budget
hike was challenged by Dr. Ga
briel Hauge, who was Eisenhower’s
special assistant for economic af
fairs.
Kennedy addressed the trustees
of the Committee for Economic
Development.
Musial Is New Homer King
ST. LOUIS UR — Babe Ruth’s
career high of 1,356 extra base hits
went out of baseball’s record books
Wednesday night when Stan Mu
sial walloped a 4th inning homer
against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The wallop gave the St. Louis
Cardinal start a total of 1,357 extra
base hits, breaking the tie he had
last week with the old time Yankee
slugger.
Musial now holds or shares 42
National League records and 15
major league marks.
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