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PAGE A 4 THE EVENING SUN, BALTIMORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1971 People In The News i Tapes Of Western Music With Roosa On Moon Vigil Voice Of The Past Resounds In Space 1 i New York Times Newt Servict be passive," Roosa said. "My job is to get as much scientmc Houston Stuart Roosa Is on his way to the moon but he probably won't get too homesick return as possible." for his favorite kind of music. He will be taking pictures of He had some of it specially the lunar surface and will also taped for the voyage by some of point his 'battery of cameras at quickly, "I'd come home alonVj After I was sure there was notft-1 ing I could do to help them." Stuart Allen Roosa was born August 16, 1933 in Durango, Colo. He attended grade school and high school in Claremore, 1 and Oklahoma State UniT versity for two years before, -signing up. with the Air Force in 1953.

He was a pilot at several i tarv bases for a few vears be-1 the top artists in the field. interesting phenomena lar out in space. Absolute Blackness Johnny Cash was one, because Astronaut Roosa is an avid fan of country and western music. "When you're on the back side He grooves on songs such as of the moon and you re no long- 'Tm Just An Okie From Musko er in earth shine," the astronaut gee" and "A Boy Named Sue." "I guess I'm just a hillbilly at fore coins back to school at th said, "you're in the darkest spot you can get. It's absolutely pure heart," he said recently.

University of Colorado. There he earned, with honors, a blackness." Hillbilly or not, Major Roosa, of science decree in aeronauti of the Air Force, does prefer to while away his extra time with cal engineering. On the back side of the moon, Roosa will douse all his cabin lights a few times to take pictures. "It'll be pure blackness," he said. "But I don't think I'll have After two years of duty in Ja-oan he spent most of his time" more or less rough and tumble activities such as boating, fishing, hunting or playing touch football with his sons rather before becoming an astronaut in 1966 flying aircraft as an expert mental pilot.

than, say, listening to chamber any qualms. I'm going to take music or watching television. time to look at tne scene ana Durins one stint at Lanelev probably appreciate it." self-confidence, he once said, "All you need do is close out the fear and concentrate on the job." Another time he said, "I think if a person wants something badly enough, he's just got to hang in there and keep at it." Shepard has wanted to fly in space again very badly, and he has "hung in there" doggedly despite circumstances that would have made most people quit long ago. Scheduled to fly the first two-man Gemini mission in 1963, the astronaut was suddenly grounded. He was not even allowed to fly an airplane by himself.

The reason was beyond his control. Inner Ear Shepard had developed an ailment called Meniere's syndromean excessive build-up of fluid pressure in the inner ear. He was often dizzy, nauseous, and in a few years, nearly deaf in his left ear. With a 20 to 25 per cent chance that the problem would clear up gy itself, Shepard took a job at the space agency, as chief of the astronaut office. He hung on there for six years.

Then, in 1969, he decided to have an operation on his ear. He went to a special Los Angeles physician, checked into the hospital under the name Victor Poulis (to avoid publicity, he explained) and had a small tube planted in his inner ear. The tube was designed to drain the fluid into a spinal cavity. It work. Shepard was ungrounded in May, 1969.

He was I Houston Ten years ago, on the morning of May 5, a voice came crackling out of loud speakers from a tiny American space capsule: "Aaah, Rober. Liftoff, and the clock is started Yes, sir, reading you loud and clear. This is Freedom 7. The fuel is go Oxygen is go. Freedom 7 is go." The voice belonged to Alan Shepard, America's first space hero, who, on the heels of a Fdssian lead in the space race, rode his tiny Mercury capsule 116.5 miles up into the sky, 302 miles down range from the launch site, at a speed of 5,160 miles per hour, for a 15-minute 22-second, suborbital ride in space.

Heard Again Today, Navy Captain She-pard's voice could foe heard again in soace. This time Shepard is on a 9-day, 500,000 mile flight at speeds up to 46,000 feet per second. If all goes well, he will be the fifth American to step foot on the moon. Shepard, 47, is the oldest astronaut ever to fly in space. But, doctors say, he has the reflexes and stamina of a man 10 years his junior.

His brown hair is a bit longer than it used to be, and he combs it forward. His blue eyes, which bug out a little when he looks to the side, are still clear. The lines are a bit deeper in his face than they were 10 years ago. Typical of Shepard's supreme HEAD FOR LAUNCH PAD All three Apollo 14 astronauts smile broadly as they leave quarters for the launch pad. From left, Edgar D.

Mitchell, Stuart A. Roosa, Alan B. Shepard. Country-Boy Looks He looks the part of a country Air Force Base, Roosa met a seventh erade history teacher. While he apprecates beauty, Roosa is also a realist.

Asked what he would do if his compa boy turned astronaut as well. Joan C. Barrett, and in 1957 he, married her. His lean and hard 5-foot-10 named commander of Apollo 14 in November, 1969. And he was nions got stranded, he replied body is topped off with a crop of elated.

red hair. His face is freckled, During his years on the section of Houston with his wife, the former Louise Brewer. He also owns a $75,000 country house in Austin. He has two grown daughters and also raised a niece. The family are practicing Christian and his nickname, apart from Stu as he is often called, is Smo- ground, became well known as the richest American key.

astronaut. He picked that name up from his college days in Oklahoma Scientists. when he worked in the forest Two Homes His wealth is reported to be between $1 million and $5 mil service as a smoke jumper. He made 12 jumps. After serving on a destroyer in the Pacific at the end of World War II, he went to flight school and got his wings.

He held variousa ssignments as a test pilot and flight instructor until he was chosen in 1959 to be an astronaut. Why go back now, Shepard has been asked? "Because," he replied, "it's about the only business I know. It's something I believe in It's something which has to be done and kept going. It's something which I can do, know I can do, and I am happy to do it." lion. When the Apollo 14 astronauts zAfterlnventory Glearance A dramatic variety of winter fashions Now 1A Price In partnership with several reach the moon, it will be Roos- friends.

Shepard has bought and a task to stay with the com sold banks, oil wells, quarter mand ship while his companions Alan Bartlett Shepard, was born in East Derry, N.H. November 11, 1923. He was an eighth generation Shepard born in New England. His father, a retired Army colonel, was in the insurance business. Young Shepard began his Navy career after graduating from the Naval Academy in 1944.

horses and land (in Texas, go take a look at the surface. 40 Hours Alone Nevada, Kansas and Oregon). He also holds stock in a broker He will spend almost 40 hours age firm. Shepard shares an 11-room, $150,000 house in an exclusive fern vm alone, orbiting the moon every two hours, out of touch with the earth for 45 minutes of each revolution. "I have always liked to fly by myself," the 37-year-old pilot said recently.

"My whole flying career I always felt like you only needed one seat in the air Mitchell, Once A Cow poke, Is An Intellectual distinctive ladies' fashions 1636 Reisterstown Road Pikesville Beltway Exit 20 Bouth primarily as a scientist by the doing, the technical accomplish New York Times News Service Houston Ed Mitchell on his phenomenon of extra-sensory perception, or "thought trans plane. So, I think I'm ideally suited for the role." "During lunar orbit, I won't I ments that have made this possible, it really staggers the im ference." agination." "I think we are learning and i mi i 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 win i "I'm not going to pursue have learned that there is a something that I think is use great deal about the human less," the astronaut has said. "I Edgar Dean Mitchell was born in Hereford, Texas, September 17, 1930, but he considers Arte-sia, N.M., his home town. As a child he was captivated by aviation. He hero-worshiped the crop duster pilots who flew old biplanes from a small airfield near his home.

He used to scrub down planes in exchange for free rides. At 14, Mitchell started to fly. He got his student's license and then his private license at the earliest nossitole ape. t. do happen to think, and have nology in Pittsburgh, young Mitchell met Louise Randall of Muskegon, Mich.

He later married her and the couple has two children, Karlyn, 17, and Elizabeth, 11. Mitchell received a bachelor of science degree in industrial management from Carnegie hi 1952, a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Navy's Postgraduate School in 19G1 and his doctor of science from MIT in 1964. "My academic credentials," the astronaut said recently, "were very planned with the space program in mind." very planned with the space pro- thought for a long time, that mind, the human spirit, the essence of humanity, that is somewhat different from what we've thought in the past," Mitchell said recently. space exploration was beneficial that it brought us knowledge way to becoming the sixth American to set foot on the moon, used to be a cowpoke on the dry Arizona range. "He could ride and rope and brand," his wife said.

"He was very good at it." Commander Mitchell, soft-spoken and insatiably curious, may also be very good at being an astronaut. Many observers at the space center in Houston say that the 40-year-old pilot is by far the most intellectual astronaut in the corps. Doctor Of Science He holds a doctor of science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachu that we could use. But aside To me it is very similar to from that, at least part of it is looking at space flights 15 years the great personal challenge. It's exhilarating.

And most of us enjoy facing that kind of chal Baltimore St. at Charles ti On his first day of college, at the Carnegie Institute of Tech un nis first flay of college, at lenge." ago. It a new horizon. I think it's an important horizon. Certainly it's closer to the human mind than space flight is.

For that reason I find it exciting-it's an unknown. It's important. It's related to the human mind." But Mitchell also has his rea setts Institute of Technology. He admits he is a stickler for de sons for finding space flight im tails and that he continually an portant and exciting. We like to be blase about space flight because our profession demands alyzes all situations it is simply his nature to do so.

It is also his nature to wonder it, he said. "However, when you stop and reflect on what and ponder over things that he, we're doing not we, but the and other men cannot understand. Mitchell is fascinated system in wnat all of us are Dunagin's People HDUltUCitd lW S-- 3 1 Al nH'h' SURE TO KEEP YOU WARM Sh HWm SALE I JS Winter Weight OVERCOATS HI I FOLKS MIST EE FROM THE I L. 2 A HOTEL ONE CALL DOES ITI lTi faB I Mf The weather man predicts more cold weather ahead! Come to K. Katz for a really warm, winter weight overcoat.

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