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rrfr "TT 11 Aug. 5,1973 Minneapolis Tribune WEIGHT watchers; Skylab II crew: Good guys facing a tough challenge to-' ifiWTOww1" Jack Lousma: Marine first Pi Gratia Kay Smelzer of Ann Arbor, recalled, "He never had a doubt In the world they would come home. It was nerve-racking all the same. It was a nightmare, one you don't soon forget. The one good point was that the world stopped and became concerned about one thing." Mrs.

Lousma was the class homecoming queen at Ann Arbor High School, where she and her future husband were members of the same graduating class. Lousma (the first syllable rhymes with was born Feb. 29, 1936, in Grand Rapids, one of five children of Jacob Louwsma, who moved to Ann Arbor in 1944 as a University of i i a power plant employee. Lowsma dropped the on his son's birth certificate to make it easier to spell. Now retired and widowed, Louwsma lives in Jackson, Mich.

At the University of Michigan, Lousma switched from business to aeronatu-ical engineering, and lettered in football in his sophomore year before being sidelined by an elbow injury. The same year he married. 1 Wf A tmi Ti 'I'M rtliiiiffiWillli il SI lrum 1 SmMmtMxir rmmmmm iiiinr NASA Photo Astronauts Owen K. Garriott, left; Jack R. Lousma, center, and Alan Bean in Skylab 2's command ship.

now 10, was born a few months before Bean was selected as an astronaut. a i the Beans' son, Clay, now 17, was born. Their daughter, Amy Sue, cm qeto mssm qd I 3 I jVN no-waxvinyi fVli 'k: CARPET TILE Fl00R TllE V- Dense, velvety olefin fibers Lustrous marble chip LffA give Jong wear for a low design lasts a fci cost! Vivid colors! 12x12 in. 'y Never, never needs wax- -X' VINYL ASBESTOS FLOOR TILE Thrifty, durable 12x12 in. tiles in a big choice of colors! So easy to install! 1 now i After graduating in 1959 he entered the Marine Corps Reserve and won his wings as a pilot in 1960.

He describes himself as "a Marine first and an astronaut second." The Lousmas have three children, Timothy, Matthew, and Mary, who will be 5 on Sept. 22, just three days before father is scheduled to return to earth. The family lives "in the country" on two acres in the Texas community of Friendswood, eight miles from the Johnson Space Center southeast of Houston. An avid hunter and golfer, Lousma was one of 19 as-tronauts selected from among 351 applicants in April 1966. Among Lousma's many astronaut duties was membership in the support crews of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital test of the lunar landing module, the Apollo 10 lunar-orbit mission and Apollo 13.

In May it was announced that Lousma would serve on the backup crew for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission of American and Russian spacecraft. He has already taken some Russian spacecraft. goods UNUSED TILE FOR A FULL CASH REFUND! New York Times Service New York, N.Y. Marine Maj. Jack Robert Lousma, now 37 years old, was at the "capsule com-m I a console in Mission Control at Houston when he heard Navy Capt.

James Lovell commander of the Apollo 13 flight, say that his craft was venting gas into space. The gas was oxygen and Apollo 13 had suffered an explosion 200,000 miles from earth. For more than an hour that night of April 13, 1970, Lousma, as the astronaut who communicated with the men in space, pressed the flight director, Eugene Kranz, for an explanation of the difficulties so he could send more specific guidance to Lovell and his two crewmates. In the hours after that, as Lousma continued to talk with the beleaguered astronauts, the men in Mission Control found out the seriousness of the accident. The astronauts entered their lunar module "lifeboat" and altered their course to begin a long journey home to earth.

Lousma's wife, the former Phone 633-4876 WEST ST. PAUL 1399 S. Robert St. Phone 227-8758 Alan Bean: Space veteran New York Times Service New York, N.Y. Navy Capt.

Alan Lavern 41, made his last previous flight in space aboard Apollo 12 in November 1969. It was a dramatic, 10-day trip to and from the moon's Ocean of Storms to gather Information about the, early history of another planet. Now, as commander of the second Skylab crew, Bean is spending 59 rather straightforward days orbiting the earth to promote knowledge about conditions on his home planet. As Bean travels from 50 degrees north of the equator to 50 degrees south on each 1 i he is passing over most of the spots he visited during a good-will 'tour after Apollo 12. On that trip, Bean was able to sample many ways of preparing spaghetti, a dish he began to like back in college when he had little money to spend on fancier food.

He has collected hundreds of spaghetti recipes, and a modification of his favorite one is aboard Skylab so he can have a spaghetti meal every fifth day. To the quietly confident, bright-eyed and cheerful Bean, the changed conditions of Skylab require "self-discipline." told reporters recently that Skylab astronauts had a lot of "repetitive" work to do. "A lot of it is boring is not the word for it but riot as exciting as some other- things to do," he said. "To operate properly up there, you're going to have to keep the scientific he added. "You're not only going to have to do the job, but you're going to have to be thinking at the moment how to do it better." Bean already, has a major scientific achievement to his credit placing the first permanent scientific observatory on the moon during the 32-hour Apollo 12 stay.

It is still operating and giving impof tant seismological, dues about the moon's interior make-up. Setting up the station with Bean was his com-m a Navy Capt. Charles Conrad who commanded the first Sky- Owen Garriott: New York Times Service New York, N.Y. The oldest and thinnest member of the second crew of Skylab astronauts Is the 140-pound Dr. Owen K.

Garriott, 42, who ran four miles several days a week in training for his 59-day mission in space. All three of his sons are runners: Randall, 18, who is to enter the University of Texas in September; 16; and Richard, 12. Also a runner is Gar-riott's daughter, Linda, who will turn 7 on Sept. 7, while her father is still in space. Garriott's wife, the former Helen Mary Walker, com-m en ted laughingly, Td rather swim.

Everybody's running except me and I'm about to start." All the running points to a key concern of Garriott and his two Skylab colleagues. When the first three Skylab astronauts set foot on the recovery carrier June 22 after 28 days in the. weightless environment of space, they felt wobbly despite a demanding program of daily rides on an exercycle. It took them several days to recover their prcflight capacity for exercise and to readjust to the pull of earth's gravity. The prescript i for the next crew: more exercise.

Garriott has been interested In electrical engineering since his boyhood In Enid, Okla. Born Nov. 22, 1930, the mustached scientist-pilot worked for a bam radio operator's license as a teen-ager. His father worked for his license at Jan Schonwetter nrfpr Director Weight Watrhrrunt the Lpper Midwett Dear Jam I want you to know what a great program Weight Watchers has. My daughter lost her boby fat with you.

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in lab crew on its 28-day mission aboard the orbiting laboratory from May 25 to June 22. Conrad is the man who recruited Bean for the astronaut corps. They were to-gether at the Navy's school for test pilots at Patuxent River, Md. Bean turned down an invitation to join the Navy's aerobat-' ic pilot team, the Blue Angels, to become an astronaut in October 1963. Bean was born in Wheeler, Texas, March 15, 1932.

He was the older of two children of Mr, and Mrs. Arnold H. Bean, who have long lived in Forth Worth, Texas. Very early, his mother has reported, he began showing the drive that made him a pilot. She said, "He was always climbing to the top of some tree and testing the strength of its limbs.

He always liked to be up high when he was little, and to go fast." So at age 17, he brought home 4he Navy Reserve application papers that would open a flying career. His mother would not sign them, but his father did. In his senior year at the University of Texas, he married Sue Ragsdale of Dallas. In December 1955, a few months after gradu- Oldest of crew the same time and until the last two years, when crew duties wiped out most of the younger Garriott's leisure interests, father and son called each other frequently on their ham sets. Graduated from Enid High School in 1948 and the University of Oklahoma in 1953.

Garriott served as a Navv electronics officer "aboard destroyers before beginning graduate work in electrical engineering at Stanford University. He received a master's degree in 1957 and a doctorate in 1960. Garriott then spent a year onaNational Science Foundation fellowship at Cambridge University and the radio research station at Slouch, not far from London. He returned to Stanford as an associate professor of physics before becom-inn one of six scientists Hir.sen as astronauts in 1965. He had already qunl ificdasapilot.

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