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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Moon supplement. Monday july 21, 1969 at the controls in Houston bet pays off London Reuters the successful . Moon Landing sunday won about s26.000 for Bachelor David Threlfall. 26. Who placed a Bel five years that the feat would be accomplished before 1971. Threlfall bet at Odds of logo to one in 1964 with one of Britain s Legal bookmakers Threlfall bet on a human being setting foot on the Moon or any other planet Star or heavenly body of comparable distance from the Earth before january 1971. Receiving his Cheque on a special television program Threlfall said i think i be had my share Don t think i will put any Money on people getting to a spokesman for the maker who accepted die bet said we stand to lose More than if both the americans and the rus sians land before 1971." protests Cool High spirits Glenn at manned space Centre champs t bit by William Ghe Idek Houston special tons like a movie House audience watching at an other worldly thriller the auditorium hustled As the ghostly bulk started to move. A dark outline it looked like a foot dangled in the screen probing for a place to step. It was a foot. I m at the foot of the ladder i m going to step said the voice coming from the movie screen. The newsmen and space pro Gram employees gathered for the show in the manned space Centre auditorium squealed with suspense. Thai s one Small step for . One giant leap for the words were human. In silence the viewers subsided with Relief and Awe too thrilled even in . Satellites closing on Mars by Stuart Aue Ebacio Washington special tons just one week after America s Moon men return to Earth a . Mariner satellite is scheduled to Send Back the closest pictures Ever taken of Mars. And if All goes Well five Days later another Mariner satellite will Fly even closer to Mars and Send Back More pictures. These pictures Alung with other scientific data obtained during these Mariner 6 and 7 s Fly by s of Mars will determine if that planet is Able to support life. The two Mariner missions. Launched last february and March Are preludes to future explorations of Mars that include two Orbital flights in 1971 and unmanned landings in 1973. The flights also illustrate the other Side of the . Space Effort the unmanned missions that pave the Way for the More glamorous Man in space flights and that Send information Back to Earth of scientific and practical use. These unmanned missions Are also probing parts of the universe where Man will probably never go Dart ing for close up peeks at such hostile objects As the fiery Sun or orbiting the Earth for longer periods than Man could stay in space. And they do All this at a Cost far than the manned Spac flights. Space is getting crowded with these unmanned flights. The . Has even had its first space collision the midair sides wiping in 1965 of two . Satellites. When Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy wednesday july 16, space watchers w Ere keeping track of 44 other " satellites All of them unmanned. Some of them such As the orbiting astronomical Observatory Oao Are i forcing scientists to change their ideas about tile Basic Structure of the universe. Other satellites influence the daily lives of americans by providing More accurate Long Range weather fore casts and live telecasts from foreign places. This information was used in the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Forecasters using weather pictures taken by satellites determined if the weather off Cape Kennedy was suit Able Lor wednesday s launch and which recovery site has the Best weather for splash Down. Manned flights two communications Satel Lites played vital roles in maintaining Contact Between ground controllers guiding the Moon bound spacecraft. These satellites also transmitted to the world live pictures of the first Man to step on the Moon. The . Lias launched about 650 satellites since the army s explorer 1 blasted into orbit from Cape Ken Nedy then known As Cape canaveral on Jan. 31, 1958. Only 20 of those space shots carried men. The same is me for the russians Only a Small percentage of the More than 370 satellites they launched since sputnik on oct. 4. 1957, have been manned flights. What do All those Satel Lites do up there in. Space for one thing no Man would have set foot on the Moon today if it were not for the unmanned scouts uie rangers lunar orbiters and surveyors that pre ceded the Apollo 11 mis Sion. These spacecraft sent Back thousands of detailed pictures of the Moon s craters and mountains including the dramatic last shot from Ranger Vii five years ago As it crashed into the lunar sur face. Applaud at the Exi Visil moment. A few Mii Hites later they dissolved in relaxed laugh Ter As they watched Neil Armstrong move about so easily. And they broke up when his companion Edwin Aldrin. Jauntily bounced Down from the last step. The chill of the Climax and tile bravery of men came together in their applause As the astronauts unveiled and read the plaque on their ship we came in peace for All when the american Flag was planted on the Moon the audience As one stood up in respect for the fantastic drama they had just seen. The reverent relict on to the to show from the Moon was quite different from the contrasts experienced Here earlier in the Day when the first heart leaping thrill of the Moon Landing occurred. Gone were the crowds of tourists and the Black demonstrators w h o had appeared earlier. At the Moon Landing the people inside the Nasa buildings listened to the Jumble of navigational numbers the frightening bursts of Static and silence the clipped comments from the two steady voices and the knots tightened in a thousand throats. Yet outside the White buildings of the maimed space Centre Campus Sun Day visitors strolled along uie walkways with dream like disregard. A Small boy Shiu Nied up the leg of a life size replica of the Lem the Craft soaring Down to its Dusty Landing while his dad took his picture. A blonde girl tripped on the Steps and skinned her knee. An As Sembly of about 40 Black children and their mothers welfare recipients from Houston gathered on the grass Terrace beside the Lem to demonstrate. One of them had a transistor radio but she turned it off because the fuzziness both ered her. Then came the. Words which released mortal men from the Bonds of Earth a o t o a Tranquillity base Here the Eagle has the press Centre rever berated with cheers and whistles and pounding on desks. In Mission control arms waved and technicians jumped out of their seats. In the Bright sunlight outside most of the people seemed hardly to notice. A few scattered cheers arose from those with portable radios but most of the tourists were unaware of the precise Climax. Even As Armstrong and Aldrin Hov ered a few feet above the lunar surface the Black kids began to sing led by a bearded Man in an afro an organizer broke omit signs that said Good Luck from the hungry Chil Dren of Houston and "41 cents a Day is not the. White tourists gawked at the demonstrators or ignored them. Mostly they took pictures of their fam Ilies before the Lem and peered through the dark tinted office windows to watch newsmen and Nasa functionaries at work. An excited reporter burst out of the door and hollered at a flock of them do you people realize that two Mer just landed on the Well we kind of suspected that from All the noise we Bill Orr a visitor from Pasadena Cali fornia replied laconically. Well i Hope they get off All right. Say do you know when it s going to be on Houston a Earth bound now and a Spectator he returns like the old halfback to the stadium to find the game faster and tougher the crowds bigger the stakes higher. I m Green Wilh says John Glenn. The first american to orbit the Earth now follows the first men about to land on the Moon from the visitors room at Mission control Centre. He watches closely the Anat omy of the flight on the con soles the to monitors and the lighted track across the surface. Give anything to be up there right he said. Who would the admitted to feeling is a n c i e n tas the Wright Brothers because of the vastly different flight of the current astronauts. Glenn was 48 last week still Ruddy and trim. He is Only four pounds heavier than he was feb. 20. When he flew around the Earth. Thei a s no comparison be tween my flight and this he said. Its like comparing a horse and Wagon with it Glenn never get higher than 1b2 Miles. He no Var saw the Earth As a Ball. His broadest View of the Earth was Miles 900 Miles to the horizon on either Side. Given the same equipment and procedures used on Glenn s countdown the Apollo 11 countdown would have taken six months. Glenn retired As an Astro naut in 1964 for a try at poli tics but failed. Another reason for his retirement from the space pro Gram he said was that he knew he d be too old to Fly to the Moon and he did t want to become the world s oldest training now he watches others reaching the end of an Astro naut s dream. He watches and he knows their fears. Astronauts collect Moon specimens by Victor coi1n the astronauts kept making the Basalt thai makes up the Houston special tons lore geologic reports even i Ocean floors or uie islands that they landed eyes open for ule quiet Man Armstrong was arc Hawaii science and within minutes now the professional reporter sunday two astronauts became now the professional reporter i d we a. Made of at t e lunar explorers. J nearly an Inch the soil is Edwin Buzz Aldrin was soon c cohesive sticking to making Man s first on the spot Getner As in clods. It s hard to report from another planetary u u of in is a clod or a body. Armstrong found a purple me saw a Rock collection Rock around the lunar Lander of sparkle with pretty me lunar Laneir of n laments. Us n y every shape regularity in i scientists had hoped for differ regularity every variety Rol is and seemed to be Finiw mall ill n Ooi ilium and quite a few interest ing this promptly in a d e or. Harold Masursky. Chief of Astrogeology for the . Geological Survey working in one of the science support rooms Here explain they be hit a Good spot to do then Neil Armstrong became first to leave the Craft for the lunar surface. Fit., eager apparently healthy no Moon illness or madness began about to get them. Another report a larger Rock very rounded. Sticking out about one fool it s standing on this seemed to be part of the ejecta material thrown out from a Crater Impact some distance away. Again scientists had hoped the astronauts would be Able to find this kind of material though they won t be Able to bring Back any pieces that Large. On Aldrin i elector scientific set up a one of solar wind the three tre Here this does t mean i can Tell you the Moon s history but his eyes were shining. Ii was a new in lunar study beginning uie first step Iii an Advance beyond the automated and crude eighteenth Century chemistry done on Moon soil by i unmanned Surveyor Landers. They too found lunar rocks and soil that seemed like Basalt. One of the great about the history of uie Moon is whether or not volcanoes have played an important part in shaping it. If basalts indeed make up much of uie Moon. Volcanoes almost certainly must be a part of its Story. One very interesting tiling is that t h e y apparently have landed near a Large its foil billionth the scientific traverse Man s satellite. One of the first things he reported was the Mesa Cunie Down All the was the Modularized equipment stowage acc Embly a trunk in the skin of the i Lem that held both the television camera and scientific equipment. He was quickly giving scion lists More information about the experiments to be i Saij another geologist one of deployed. A r m s Iron g would Lac expert advisory team later pick it up imbedded in Mission control. In would be nearly a of an ounce of solar nature of the lunar surface than they have gained in All their recent years of poking at it with unmanned Landers tie Lem footpads Are Only depressed in the surface about one Inch or two inches and i Only go in a fraction of an Inch the surface was remarkably firm. The surface appears to be if they arc really near a Large Crater they should be wind of solar i Able to pick up ejecta particles that constantly flow i material thrown out when it through space the astronauts was formed from fairly deep in bringing Home a i beneath the surface Sun As Well As the j w can rocks. And this might Tell us for Armstrong successfully col the first time what a Crater of a elected the bulk Sample of lunar material to fill the first of two Rock boxes. Bringing Home lunar material had repeatedly been called the first scientific priority for this Mission. He might have been Able to put about 50 pounds of material in this Box though if much of it was be simulated filled with holes therefore Light weight the total weight for the same bulk would be much less. Specific age looks then from this clue much of the Moon might be dated. To Ages at All now known for any part of the Moon. Scientists expect to study the rocks and the astronauts bring Back and learn both Ages and chemical makeup by the sophisticated methods of the mid-20th Century. Some other facts or very Fine ground As you get close to it. It s almost a powder very Fine Fine and powdery _________., probably because of the Craft landed and the astronauts constant gardening or turning gazed from their High windows Over by meteorites Over the 18 feet off the ground like Ages looking from a second Story but the surface material window. _ _______0 does adhere in Fine layers like first Aldrin gave his go ology Mission controllers at least not powdered charcoal to the sole reports both astronauts enough to spoil vision or Hurt and inside of my have much training in this Hie Landing. He was having no difficulty science and some 35 geologic Landing was four Miles in moving around As he started Field trips to several parts of j off target Ami Pilot Armstrong. Ills walk Linoir ii Roll i to Ili Rindfu nov in Luvi in Fuji Traa. Dunn Liuji i Tula i the lunar science sunday had possibilities about the Moon begun immediately after Uin j emerged within minutes from i the lunar the descent engine raised dust As it neared the surface. But in did not apparently Rise a great Deal of it according to Miv Julij 1 s Elf Stottl Utju his walk How Well astronauts the world would be Able to walk had been i then Neil Armstrong Des one worry. Cried rocks that could be but the Back pack did cause country Basalt is some problem in mobility. Its mainly Rock formed by the flow lugh Centre of Gravity on his Back tended to pull him h was hard to Bend Down. And the astronauts Aldrin had soon joined him moved with glacial slowness. They will look Forward to getting the More Mobile space suits now being developed for future landings. Aldrin also soon reported that the powdery surface of the rocks made them rather on the around chief flight surgeon or. Charles Berry meanwhile reported the Crew is doing Well. The data is Good the readings from heart tracings and oxygen use and Cooling inside the space suit. Armstrong began Gaherin the contingency Sample of lunar Roc Lis to be Man s first and quickly made a report that must have made every geologist and lunar scientist in the world sit up be advised that a lot of the hard rocks appear to have vesicles in the vesicles Are Little holes once filled by Gas. This Means these Are chunks once Gas filled volcanic lava coughed up to the surface by powerful internal events a clue that seemed to say much of the Moon May be the men kept working and i evaluating preparing the Way for future Moon men was one of their main jobs. Walking Sev eral Hundred feet might be Aldrin reported but this May be a function of the of volcanoes. Country just meant Ordinary Garden variety Basalt dark and heavy like though he moved Landing site somewhat to avoid rocks did not move it iliac much. We Don t know Why the Landing was off that a Landing specialists said Here. A lot of people Are looking at this very Wiki speggers join flight in spirit . Are Kindred by we Davies it appeared that half of Winnipeg had gone to the Moon with Armstrong Aldrin and co Ivins. Streets e i e nearly deserted restaurants had just a few customers and nearly everywhere there were the sounds of the radio and television commentaries. Winnipeg had Moon fever. Winnipeg police reported the City was pretty Well deserted much More so than of a Normal sunday but West St. Paul police said traffic was heavy in that area because of the Normal Stream of cars coming Back from the lakes. Charter House motor hotel. Hargrave Street and York Avenue the few people w h o checked in asked How the. Mission was going and then retired to their Roo res to watch it a spokesman said. As at most restaurants by Alan Bak in there is an illuminating feature in uie August Issue of that enterprising Publica Tion. Soviet life a special Issue devoted with a time Liness not always achieved by the publishers to Man and outer the feature brackets five pairs of astronauts or Cosmo nauts As the russians prefer to Call them and sets Side by Side in parallel columns their responses to several rather tedious and prosaic questions. What emerges plainly enough in the answers is a Community of a kinship transcending not Only National frontiers but the most bitter of ideological conflicts. This is nol exactly news the same kinship was amply demonstrated a ref . Astronaut Frank b o i m a n recently visited the soviet Union and gracious tribute was paid to it by the decision that Apollo h should carry to the Moon and Deposit there the Nicuals of two dead soviet cosmonauts and the flight insignia of three dead american spacemen. Air Force it. Col. Virgil i. Grissom. Navy it. Com Mander Roger b. Chaffee and air Force it. Col. Edward h White the americans were killed in a fire on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy Early in 1967 while they were preparing for the first manned Apollo shot. The russians col. Yuri a. Gagarin the first Man in space lost his life in a plane crash and col. Vladimir k o m a r o v died while returning to Earth from an Orbital flight. The widows of the soviet spacemen could sense this kinship. They gave the medals conferred on their husbands to colonel Bor Man asking that the Crew of Apollo 11 take them to the Moon. Nothing that the americans will leave behind them will be More appropriate to the essential spirit of their Mission or better express this natural camaraderie that runs through the responses to the questions posed in soviet life. Why did you become a the first. Question inquires. The answers give some insight into the Community of background interest and temperament among All these men. Nearly All of the russians like nearly All of the americans had been flyers a number of them test pilots that extraordinary Breed of men impelled it would seem by some inner necessity to prove the limits of human resourcefulness and physical endurance. And beyond this impulse there is apparent in All of Zeemen spirits them that restlessness audacity and need for adventure that led Ulysses Long ago to leave the tasks of husbandry and the Solace of the Hearth to sail As he put it. Beyond the Sunset and the paths of All the Western what it is that moves such men is not readily comprehensible to most of us whose orbits Are earthbound. But it binds them together As though they were of a family. What strikes the Reader of soviet life is a similarity Between the soviet and american spacemen. In response to Only one of the four questions put alike to each of them did any significant difference seem apparent. The question was what is most dear to you on the spirit if not the mind rebels at the question. Ii is of itself an impertinence and intrusion. There is. Perhaps nothing to do about such a question but Parry it. And it May Well be that the russians confronted with it. Did precisely that. The answers almost without Exvee Tion Are stuff for the copy books abstract impersonal sententious. As 1 observed the from outer said soviet air Force col. Yes Geni v. Khz nov i tile world As a single whole and i thought about the bound less possibilities of the human mind which is mastering the universe. Our planet is infinitely Beautiful and i hold its Beauty very dear. I want this Beauty to Blossom eternally want the Peoples to preserve peace. This is the most important thing to colonel Khz nov s ame rican counterpart n a v y cmdr. Eugene a. Cernan simply in two words my questioned in the Suney the Ino Onsol meant a slow Day Tor Rae and Jerry s Steak House Portage Avenue there were a few people. But mostly it was a slow a member of the staff said. A television set installed at Pelekis restaurant .1100 main Street made Little difference a spokesman Here said. Business was very quiet. We had a few customers who were driving by and stopped to pick up something and then go Home. We had a few people Here who were watching our set. They were mostly bachelors and people who did t have sets at a Young girl walking from the Regency towers apart ment Block 411 Cumberland Avenue to the Winnipeg free press. 300 gallon Street described the Block s Hall s. As you walked Down the Halls you could hear the sounds of the to sets. Hearing the same thing made it very in ii Earby Central Park she saw tie usual sunday night couples sitting on the grass mostly listening to Western and Rock and Roll music. At a traffic Light four cars pulled up. All the occupants were listening to broadcasts on tie Moon Landing. The Csc building 541 Portage Avenue had a television set in the window with special sound effects so people outside could hear the commentaries. A spokesman said that throughout most of the earlier part of the evening there were usually about 30 people who s topped watched for a time and then moved on As others arrived. Inside two switchboard operators handled More than 200 Calls. A lot of them were about to programs. Whether de Sullivan was on was the news going to be on what about the late movie we also had a few who Lii d an aversion to the whole thing and thought there were More important things on Earp. The girls were Able to handle every thing quite the spokesman said ;