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2 COURIEX-POST, Camdtn, N. Wtdn.iday, July 16, 1969 TUP Recovery Ship USS Hornet Plans Big Welcome for Three Astronauts President Will Watch Splashdown If i 4 A '4 If Vii ABOARD THE USS HORNET (UPI) "The three most important people in the world at that time in history will come aboard our ship," Capt. Carl Seiberlich told his crew. "We are the last link in a very important chain." if 'f4' 1 i '1 If ,1 -iP if A Steaming through the South Pacific 1,700 miles southwest of Honolulu, this prime recovery carrier for the Apollo 11 astronauts ran through recove ry exercises and prepared for the biggest welcome ever. Even the President of the United States a former Navy lieutenant commander would UPI-Courler-post Telefax be outranked.

Flag Bridge President Nixon will fly the Hornet to watch the July 24 splashdown from the carrier's MICHAEL COLLINS NEIL ARMSTRONG EDWIN E. ALDRIN flag bridge. Later, he will go down to RETIRED Air Force Col. Edwin E. Aldrin and his daughter, Mrs.

Fay Ann Potter, discuss the Apollo 11 mission at a press conference at Al-drin's Brielle home. The colonel is the father of "Buzz" Aldrin. Astronaut's N.J. Father Gives Space 1st Place peer into the mobile quarantine trailer on the deck and congratulate astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E.

Aldrin THESE are the latest official portraits of the crew of Apollo 11. Astronauts Trained and Ready But Still Face Much Unknown BRIELLE (UPI)-America's space program is America and Michael Collins. Sieberlich, 48, of Palos Verdes, went on the ship's closed-circuit television yesterday to urge his crew to be "doubly vigilant" in performing their recovery duties. Nixon's Presence "The President's presence aboard the Hornet adds greatly "You mean spend it on that after we've gone so far?" Aldrin said that the last he saw of his son, Air Force Col. jampacked news conference Tuesday at this New Jersey seashore town where he lives.

Enjoy Poverty No. 1 priority, according to re SPACE CENTER, Houston proper I many other people have filled tired Col. Edwin E. Aldrin, father of astronaut "Buzz" Al (UPI) The three men of flight," said Michael Collins, 38, able to give the who will wait in the command response to," he said, ship in moon orbit while his two First on Moon Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Aldrin held forth on the; in preparing for this flight, and I think that we may anticipate drin.

Apollo 11 share a common fear about their moon landing comrades explore the surface merits of the Apollo program as newsmen asked him whether the space program's funds The 73-year-old ex-pilot reject "My greatest fear is that at the moment an unusual amount of notoriety, but I'm not' convinced that this will be ed suggestions that poverty, medical research or the pollu there's some detail that has to the national importance of the event," he said. "His being Neil A. Armstrong, 38, commander of the mission and picked as the first man to set foot on the moon: "I guess my only concern is that in our inspection and of a lasting nature." voyage to the moon they fear there is something they may not have learned. "I guess man's greatest fear is the fear of the unknown and I think that's true about this here focuses attention on how Collins also seems eager to should have been spent on: Cancer and heart research? "You can move only so fast in research." The poor? been left uncovered, that I have failed to learn how to do something properly, some situation may arise which I'll not be was Sunday at Cape Kennedy where they had lunch together. "He looked more relaxed than I've ever seen him in months," said the astronaut's father.

One reporter noted that the astronaut appeared tense on the Monday night TV show featuring the Apollo 11 crew. "He's got something on his mind," Aldrin observed. important this accomplishment avoid excessive public notice. tion problem might have been a better recipient of the billions that have gone into the space program. I Once the American flag is really will be.

introspection to date we may The ship's officers and men, "If we gave them $20 million "I've really enjoyed this program immensely," he says. Fascinating Job "The job to me is the most have overlooked some minor flaw in the strategy or except for those standing watch, clustered around the 110 imbedded in the lunar soil they'd still be starving. Some "we can see the dollars were people enjoy being poor." well spent," Aldrin told a Pollution? television sets scattered procedures or techniques we are using that will, in fact, fascinating job in the world. prevent us from doing every On the other hand, I say in through the ship for the captain's message. Sieberlich told his men every effort would be made for thing we hope to do on the all candor that I appreciate remaining anonymous and I'll do the best I can to keep that flight." And Edwin E.

(Buzz) Aldrin, everyone aboard to witness the 39, moon lander pilot and moon going. I like to live a normal, splashdown, recovery and the surface explorer, speaking of private life and my intent is to take whatever action is neces the surface activities: At While House Nixon, Borman See Apollo on Television WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres-cape but called off the plan to Went Nixon watched the Apollojavoid any possibility of "con-11 liftoff today on television with taminating" the three. He tele-the Apollo 8 commander, astro- phoned them instead to wish naut Frank Borman. them well on "this greatest The President viewed the; adventure ever undertaken." President visit. Missed by Some VIP Poor Get Seats At Launch "The difficult things seem to But in addition to a sailor in sary to insure that I can continue to do that.

"I think the world's divided come from our inability to the brig and several in sick anticipate them." They Keep Calm Families Watch Apollo Blastoff SEABROOK, Tex. (UPI) had been through it Just seven minutes after the all before, the early ringing of blastoff of Apollo 11 today, Mrs.the alarm clock, the friends and Joan Aldrin broke a long si-oved ones rall around, coffee lence as she rested her headitn tnrntv upir Rut hie Collins summed it up this bay, the men in the engineroom of the ship also will probably into two kinds of people those who want more publicity and public exposure and those who miss the historic event. way: "spaceflight is the sort of a thing that's pretty easy as "I'm going to have my most CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)- long as everything goes well, and pretty difficult when things want less, and I'm just one of those I couldn't have told you that five or six years ago 'but Rarely have members of Rev. experienced men down there with me," said Cmdr. Robert start not going well." Schmidt of Spring Valley, launcn at Kennedy on a set in a White House aide's ofice.

Nixon has no television I just prefer to have less, that's all," Collins said. Ralph D. Abernathy's Poor People's campaign' been called "very important persons," but Veterans of Space They are a team, these men. the Hornet's chief engineering officer. sets in his office.

on her 13-year-old son's shoul They have worked in the space program for years. All are "Sure it'd be great to be "VIP" seats were arranged to Church Service Borman, who will participate in White House church services Sunday, has been in Washington since Monday. The astronaut, who commanded the epic Christmastime flight around the moon before talcing a space desk job, Former Military Pilot Armstrong, a former military pilot with combat experience in I he President originally in topside and see the big show der. "Wouldn't it be nice to be veterans of the air. All are day for 40 poor blacks near tended to have dinner with the Apollo 11 crew last night at the but the engine room gets paid veterans of space.

time it was different. This time the astronauts were going all the way to the surface of the moon. Kate Collins, the 10-year-old daughter of the command for running the ship. It's a Aldrin says of Armstrong: the launch site of Apollo 11. The VIP permits for Aber- Korea, joined the early research phases of space exploration in 1955 as a test pilot for the forerunner of the National "We've worked together on counting down to splashdown" she said to her son.

Michael, who bears a close resemblance to his astronaut father, Edwin E. Aldrin agreed. returned last week from a trip thrill for us to have the opportunity to play a vital role in the recovery of the first men Apollo 8. were both on the to Russia. nathy and 10 Negro families were granted by Dr.

Thomas O. Areonautics and Space Admin backup crew), shared many common many Borman explained technical aspects of today's launch to istration (NASA). Among the Paine, administrator of the U.S. An American flag fluttered Moon Craft Will Not of the same views. numerous aircraft he tested softly from a flagpole outside on the moon." Abort Plan The Hornet sailed from Pearl Harbor last weekend to be on station today in case the Apollo was the X15 rocket plane.

"And we certainly support the Aldrin home during the space agency, following a dramatic meeting between him and Abernathy in a field near the main entrance to the John He could fly a plane before Nixon. It was a perfect liftoff, and communications between the astronauts and the ground controllers were the best he had ever heard, he told the module pilot, served coffee to newsmen on the lawn of her suburban Nassau Bay brick ranch type home shortly before blastoff. Dressed in yellow shorts and an orange and yellow striped shirt, she carried out trays of coffee cups as photographers took a series of pictures of her and her blond, tousle-haired he could legally drive a car. In each other in the ideas that each of us have as individuals in how to best accomplish the flight." It is obvious these men 1966 he made his first F. Kennedy Space Center takeoff of the historic Apollo 11 moonship.

Inside Mrs. Aldrin, her children and a few friends sat watching a color television set in the den of their suburban 11 spacecraft had to abort its mission in a specified area spaceflight aboard Gemini yesterday. Abernathy asked Paine for meeting and surviving on that 1,767 miles southwest of Honolulu. Earlier, members of the President. Borman joined the President about three minutes before the 9:32 a.m.

EDT liftoff and they mission America's only serious emergency in space. worked to put themselves in a position where they might be the permits, saying "we are proud of our nation's achieve recovery team ran into prob ments in space and of the selected for the moon landing He and his wife, Janet, have watched on a color television heroes who are embarking for two sons Eric, 12, and Mark, flight. But they are not seeking set until about 9:45, the White lems during an exercise with a mock spacecraft. Wind and the public acclaim that goes with it. Blow Up CAPE KENNEDY In spite of scare stories by some European journalists, National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials say there is no chance the lunar landing craft will blow up after it lands.

One overseas press service had run a story saying that when the lunar module (LM) lets its surplus liquid oxygen out on the moon, it might cause an the moon." Kneel to Pray high seas delayed the operation, home. No one said anything from several minutes before blastoff until 11-year-old Andrew broke the silence when the astronauts prepared for staging two minutes after launch. "There it is," he said. About eight minutes after blastoff Mrs. Aldrin got up from an orange tub-type chair and then sharks sent swimmers Credit Due Collins also came to NASA from military and test pilot experience.

An operation to brother, Michael, 6. The two youngsters said they too would like to be astronauts. "It would be a lot of fun," Michael said. "I'll be thinking how much fun it is and how he (her father) has been working so hard," Kate said. "I like science, geography and math." "This moonshot is possible because of our tax money as scurrying back into their liferaft.

Armstrong says the credit goes to many others besides the House said. Will Brief Nixon Borman, now NASA's liaison with the President for the launch, set up a small office on the second floor in the west wing of the White House and kept in touch with Apollo 11 well as your tax money, In spite of the difficulties. Dr. remove a bone spur kept him from making the Apollo 8 moon orbit flight last Christmas. He Donald Stullken, head of hte three crew members: "Even more important than that, I think it's a national Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership NASA space recovery team, got Apollo 11 instead.

walked into her kitchen for a said the exercise was a success He and his wife, Patricia, effort and more specifically developments by telephone with cup of coffee. "We are in no horse race out explosion because we don't there's a few thousand people-there are hundreds of thou have three children Kathleen 10; Ann, and Michael, 6. The scene was similarly quiet the Space Center in Houston. The White House said Bor here. At this stage of the game at the some of astronaut the Hornet is ahead of any ship sands working but there are Aldrin, like Armstrong, flew in Korea.

During his military Michael Collins, a few blocks from the Aldrin residence. we ve had since the beginning of the space program," Stullken said. career he earned a doctorate of Mrs. Collins, shortly after the A violent thunderstorm last night punctuated the launch-eve tension for the wives and children of Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.

Tree Falls The Aldrin home was pelted with branches and leaves, and a 30-foot tree crashed into the yard of the Collins home but missed the house. The tree blew down last man would fill in the President from time to time throughout the day. He plans to fly to Houston later today and return on Saturday. He will read passages from Genesis at the Sunday church services the science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then some thousands. have worked a lot more than they were called on to work," he said.

"They were the people who were there at midnight still working when the rest of the start of the mission, said I think it's beautiful and I'm glad know what the surface of the moon is made of. Other writers have speculated that if some "moondust" gets into the LM while it is open to space, it might make an explosive mixture with the oxygen atmosphere inside after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. repressurize the craft as they get ready to leave the moon. Conference (SCLC), said. Paine, in turn, asked for Abernathy and the 150 Negroes with him from across the South to pray for the Apollo 11 astronauts.

Immediately after Paine left, the Negroes knelt to pray for an end to hunger and racism and for a successful flight for Apollo 11. "I think the people in the space program know what the major problems are," said Walter E. Fauntroy, director of the SCLC's Washington bureau, after the meeting. "I hope the rest of the nation joined the astronaut corps. He the flight is under way." flew aboard Gemini 12 and A spokesman for the family logged more than five hours of same ones he read Christmas spacewalk time.

Eve as he orbited the moon in people went home at 4 or 5 or 6 o'clock because they were! Size, Costs Rise In New Houses ST. LOUIS The median sales price for houses built in 1968 was $23,700 and median square footage was 1,570 up He and his wife Joan have Apollo 8. described the scene in the Collins home as a "family affair." He said Mrs. Collins was tense "but outwardly calm. three children J.

Michael, 13; dedicated to getting the job done and getting it done Janice almost 12; and Andrew who just turned 11. Mrs. Janet Armstrong watch correctly. nigni as Mrs. Collins was preparing to send her excited children Kathleen, 10, Ann, 7, and Michael, 6 to bed.

"We just heard it cracking," Mrs. Collins said. All three astronauts men "They've done 300 per cent of 205 square feet from the size of 1963's new house. can see that we have devoted! ed the launch from Cape Kennedy. The families of the three U.S.

Hot and Colrl NEW YORK The lowest temperature reported to the U.S. Weather Bureau excluding Alaska and Hawaii was 39 degrees at Redmond, Oregon. Yesterday's high was 112 at Buckeye, Arizona. 10 years and billions of dollars to sending a man to the moon and feel the same kind of guilt that there hasn't been a similar At the last press briefing, Apollo program manager George M. Low was asked about the stories.

All are groundless, he said: "There is no danger of an explosion." Ellington Writes 'Moon Maiden' tioned the close ties they have with their families and included their wives and children in their descriptions of activites they considered a lot of fun. "I manage to get home most weekends, whenever possible," Collins said. don't too Disc About Size Of Half Dollar their share." Fame Inescapable Aldrin understands fame will be inescapable with a successful mission. He is stoic about it. "I think this is something that does go along with the that we've ben Assigned," he said.

"I feel that as time goes on, effort against the internal problems of this nation," he said. Slsitcd for Moon New Priorities Philatelists Keep JL Apollo Ship Busy many weekends. I may come in Gannett flews Service Paine said the job of sending on baturaay and leave on OAKLAND More than NEW YORK (UPI) Jazzman 40,000 board feet of lumber can Duke Ellington has prepared be sawed from one Douglas fir new song titled "Moon tree in California. man to the moon was "child Sunday, but I usually manage people will look at our place in the mission and the place that play" in comparison to solving the majority of weekends. ABOARD USS 250,000 already have been (UPI) Stamp collectors from i received Ill Trenton State Prison 1.

iL- the problems that have brought internal disorder to America. "If it were possible for us not to push that button and solve the problems you are talking about we would not push that button," Paine said, referring come in. WASHINGTON A silicone disc about the size of a half-dollar will be among objects placed on the moon Monday by the Apollo 11 astronauts. The disc will bear the names of members of con-g ssional subcommittees handling appropriations for the National Aeronautics and all nvAf th wnrlH nro flnnHinir. ine letters As the letters in tribute to the three astronauts of Apollo 11.

Ellington, 70, composed the song, played it on the piano and sang it during a television taping on a set simulating the lunar landing site. The 10-min-ute tribute will be aired on the ABC Television Network, which commissioned the work, at about 10 p.m. Sunday, when the Apollo 11 recovery ship with requests for "first day covers" and Hornet postmark cancella Apollo View on Death Row to the launch of the moonship, Richards and his crew hanf stamp the envelopes with Uw "first day cover" a large ret stamp depicting the lunal lander and the command ship It says: "Apollo 11. Manned lunat landing. AS506.

U.S. Nav "I want you to hitch your wagon to our rocket and tell the people the NASA program is an example of what this country tions during the first attempt to land men on the moon. "The Hornet will probably cancel more letters the day of Astronauts Neil Armstrong and! can do," he said. "I personally and the members of the space Space Administration, including Sen. Clifford P.

Case, and of Senate and House Space Committees. Also on the disc will be statements by four U.S. presidents, from Eisenhower to Nixon, and goodwill messages from the leaders of 73 nations. Each name the Apollo 11 splashdown than program feel that the space Edwin Aldrin Jr. should be resting in their spaceship parked on the moon's surface.

Ellington's lyric begins this way: "Moon Maiden, Moon Maiden necovery force Pacific." Many of the envelopes beat the six-cent Apollo 8 stamp, showing the earth rise over tht horizon of the moon. It reads: "In the beginning "It would sure be a lot easier program is a program for all Americans and we hope it will have ever been cancelled aboard a ship on a single day in history," said Robert L. Rich on their radios but will have to take turns watching televised programs. Tape Replays "There have been no special arrangements made for them," Warden Howard Yaeg-er said. Most, he added, will end up watching the video tape replays on later newscasts.

"General population" inmates will not be able to see the lunar landing, scheduled to take place before dawn Monday, Yaeger said. TRENTON (UPI) The 22 men on death row in Trenton State Prison are the only inmates of the huge penitentiary here who are able to watch the televised Apollo 11 moon landing. The oondemned men, housed in single nine-by-six-foot cells arranged in three tiers, have television sets outside every other cell and have earphones. Girl Slayer The most famous of the prison's death row inmates is Edgar H. Smith who has spur Amercans to band together to fight the problems you are talking about." ards, the "postmaster" "aboard way out mere in me uwe been there for a dozen years, condemned for the slaying of a 15-year-old girl in 1957.

Awaiting the result of his latest appeal, Smith has written one book, "Brief Against Death" and is writing another. The book was acclaimed by critics, and he received an award by the New Jersey Association of Teachers of English as an "outstanding New Jersey Author." The other inmates will be able to listen to the reports of the lunar mission's process i' and message will be reduced Mnnn Maiden, eot to get to the ship iif we could start cancelline Abernathy said the Negroes ror weeks, stamp collectors i envelopes now," Richards said 200 times to what would appear to the human eye as a barely visible dot. Around the disc's rim will be the words, "From Planet had come to Cape Kennedy to protest "a distorted sense of national priorities" and not to have been mailing "But we have to wait unti self-addressed envelopes fori splashdown before we can put marking with a commemora-ldated postmarks on the enve- you." A spokesman for the network said, "It seemed appropriate as man first sets foot on the moon that we should celebrate the event with music." oppose the launching or try to tive cachet of the astronauts' Earth July, 1969." disrupt space center operations. 'return to earth. More thanjgc.