Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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President
he can observe and make plans
judgments that no instrument Apollo s
or animal can accomplish.
As an example, Douglas said
that Glenn, on his own initia­
tive, had turned his space·
craft around 180 degrees on
his s e c on d orbit to see
Glenn,
tried to
terious "f'
held 35-mi
filled with
Force doct
tives showe
ible but the
whether the mysterious "fire- larged for clo
flies" he had noticed on his perts.
first orbit might be paint or
In reloading
other particles from his craft. Douglas said, G
The astronaut found that the grip on a film o
unknown o b j e ct s streamed floated in front
past his window in the same weightless flight.
direction as on his first sight- for H the tip of
ing, proving they were inde- it and it "sailed
pendent of the spacecraft.
never could get
_Scientists here b~lieve the again."
s~1ll unknown luminous par-
The astronaut r
ticles, when fu~ther explored, he had no trouble
may lead to rmportant new ta b 1e ts and a
knowledge of space ph~nom- s ueezed from a
ena. No unmanned satelhte or Dq
g 1a
'd
0
observation from earth had de-
u
s sai
tected anything like this be- ----------,
fore.
Glenn reported they were
small, but as he lacked any
checkpoint, it could be that
the particles were more distant
and larger than he th()lllght.
Similarly, scientists are much
interested in the luminous
haze belt Glenn saw about 7
11ILK-Frou1,
For An·t
1 \ to 8 degrees above the horizon I
over the dark pa_rt of the wards year•~ end an
earth Tuesday. Soviet cosmo-
.
.
naut Gherman Titov reported again next pring.
seeing about the same thing,
If the estimated level
but there has been no expla- to be those actuall.ly
nation of it as yet.
d the
will sti'll
These observations, say Mer- ence •
Y"
. .
cury officials, are an answer below the
perm1ss1ble
to those who have opposed els set by Government
sending man into space when ciails.
in~ruments can make obser- N M k d Strontiu
Ris
vations better and cheaper.
0
ar e
m
Astronaut Glenn
himself
The PHS yesterday also
believes that the m~st signifi'. I ported that radioactive str
cant technical result of his tium measurements from Se
flight was to prove the im- tember
through NovemlJ
portance of man as a pilot in 1961, do not "differ materia
space travel.
from those found prior to
"We have piped man aboard! sumption of Russian nucle
as_ th~ pilot ~f spacecraft," he weapons te~ts." Milk sampl
said in nautical lingo. "Now from Washington, for exa
we can get rid of some of that ple, averaged seven micro
automatic equipment."
microcuries per liter during
Much of the weight of the September and 10 micromioro­
Friendship 7 capsule includes curies during October and No-I
duplicating systems put in be• vember.
cause
it
was
not
known
These figures do not vary
whether man could function in Igreatly from those reported
a weightless state.
for
other
American cities,
The fact that man can be with the exception of Port
an active pilot and not largely land, Ore., which showed 3
a passenger on a spacecraft micromicrocuries per 1i t
will have its impact on future during November.
A P
Mercury flights
and
later spokesman said the Port
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