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Part July 22, 1969 ir0fi( flnfftfeil Hfotttf 2 Plans for Next Wife Says Are More Freeways Dangerous Space Decad i Being Prepared Moon Landing's Success Expected to Bolster Chances for Greater Exploration Programs BY RUDY ABRAMSON Tim (tH Wriltr I 'U i s. I- 1 vi' 0 rVWSm ifj EL LAGO, Tex. (UPI)-Mrs. Neil A. Armstrong, happy with the liftoff and the docking maneuver that gave her astronaut husband a handsome sendoff on the long voyage home from the moon, said Monday there was more danger driving on a freeway on earth than there was on the space trip of the Apollo 11.

She said she was more relaxed after the successful performance of the lunar module in Its first-ever flight from the moon's surface but added: "Let'3 remember, we have a long way to go." Asked which part of the lunar trip made her happiest, she replied: "The landing and the ascent burn." Reporters asked her in a news conference in front of the Armstrong home if she thought her husband got adequate recompense for the dangers of the flight in the feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment in an achievement of the moon flight's magnitude. Greater Bisks in War "He's getting a great deal (of compensation)," she replied. "I don't feel there are that many dangers. The risks are a great deal less than when he was in the Korean war. "They know what they're doing here in the space program.

There is more danger driving down our freeways here on earth than there is on these space trips." Mrs. Armstrong was wearing on the white collar of her striped blouse the same tiny model of the lunar module, bearing her initials, J.A., that she wore Sunday during the historic first moon landing and walk. She appeared much less effervescent than she did then and showed a bit of tiredness. She said she was sure that Armstrong "was enjoying every minute" of his walk on the moon and added: "I detected he was tired near the end, but if you ran around up there as long as he did you'd have been tired too. It was toward the end when they were trying to achieve the mission objectives." Asked if her husband was going to quit active space flight now, she said: "I asked him about that once and he said he couldn't afford to retire.

I don't know what he's going to do." She said her two boys, Mark, 6, tion became a subject of considerable controversy. It was not surprising, then, to see Apollo 11 deliver to the moon a plaque to immortalize 78 members of Congress, who sit on committees controlling the space budget. If Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins have increased the stature of man in the exploration of space, the rocks they are bringing home will be critical in deciding how much attention the moon itself will get in the next decade. Their description of the variety of rocks around their landing craft seemed to confirm suspicions that their visit would create more new questions about the moon than it would answer. Scientists, who see the moon as the key to finding the oldest secrets of the solar system, feel it is necessary to visit several different kinds of lunar terrain before making conclui sions about the evolution of the earth's satellite.

At the moment, NASA plans nine more Apollo landings on the moon. Because Apollo 11 was successful, manned space missions will now be launched with less frequency and NASA will use the money it saves to develop more sophisticated scientific packages for later Apollo landings. Apollo 12, now expected to be launched about Nov. 12, will be essentially a repeat of Apollo 11, except it will stay somewhat longer on the moon, giving astronauts Charles Conrad and Allan Bean a chance for two walks on the moon. Elaborate Instruments It will also carry a more elaborate package of scientific instruments.

If Apollo 11 brings home some wildly Unexpected information, such as evidence that life once existed on the moon, it would dramatically raise the importance of the moon in future space exploration plans. Otherwise, attention probably will focus on development of space stations and flight vehicles which can make the journey from earth to orbit time and time again, reducing the cost of traveling in space. The moon may be put aside after several Apollo flights and explored no more until it is possible to send a larger expedition, roam long distances over the surface, and stay there for weeks or months. But the way Armstrong and Aldrin were able to cavort about on the moon, officials will naturally reassess whether later Apollo missions can be made more ambitious than they have anticipated. THAT HISTORIC FIRST STEP his left foot from ladder to Neil A.

Armstrong as he extended touch the surface of the moon. HOUSTON A little more than a month from ndw, President Nixon will get a suggested blueprint for the United States' next decade of space exploration. If there were any doubt that human explorers would play a major role, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.

eliminated it at Tranquility Base, man's first temporary outpost on the moon. The ease with which the astronauts confronted and survived the hostile environment surprised even the most optimistic proponents of manned space exploration. The situation today is much as it was in May, 1961, when Alan B. Shepard put the country in a state of euphoria with a modest but at the time spectacular suborbital flight over the Atlantic. Reaction to Shepard's flight was sufficient that Congress accepted John F.

Kennedy's proposal to land on the moon almost without debate. Area for Competition Although the cold war motivated the moon race more than anything else, it was the Shepard flight which convinced the country space was the place to compete for the minds of men. Today, Apollo is America's big success story. Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins are coming home to the same kind of adulation which greeted Shepard, only this time the whole world, not just the United States, is waiting. As they receive their worldwide acclaim in the months ahead, the Nixon Administration will be pondering a task force report on the next 10 years in space and preparing a fiscal 1971 budget which must in some measure come to grips with the question of what to do after Apollo.

Mr. Nixon's actions during his first months in office already indicate he not agree that space explora-tioji should be powered down to save money for pressing domestic needs. More Money Provided One of his first actions was to modify the budget left behind by the Johnson Administration so that the space program got more money instead of less. He has associated himself with the flight of Apollo 11 as much as he tactfully could without appearing to take credit for a successful program produced by two Democratic administrations. He spoke with the astronauts before they were launched from Cape Kennedy, he called them while they were exploring the moon and he will be aboard the aircraft carrier Hornet when they come home Thursday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to make the most of the Apollo 11 triumph and the fortunate timing. Top NASA officials were meeting Mre Monday, as Apollo 11 prepared to leave the moon, discussing a new national space commitment. Some of them will fly to Washington today to continue talks on how best to take advantage of the situation. Although NASA is young as a government agency, it learned politics very rapidly as its budget boomed and manned space explora IROQUOIS FEAR MONSTERS Praise Echoes Around Globe but Some Voice Superstitions Congratulatory Rhetoric Flows From Both Houses of Congress and Eric, 12, realized the significance of what their father was doing and that Mark kept demanding why daddy didn't start exploring outsid the lander irrJriiediately after it landed. "I stayed up as long as I could last night but I finally fell asleep," she said.

"I was very pleased to see the TV camera work as well as it did. From what Neil told me earlier, I didn't expect it to be as good as it was." She had anticipated the moonwalk would take place much earlier than the projected schedule. "I know Neil he's eager," she explained. "I assumed that if he did stay inside for the full time scheduled he wouldn't be asleep unless he was awfully tired. I'm sure he would have had one eye cocked out the window." No Change Expected She didn't expect the trip to change him personally: "He'll be the same old Neil, as always He's a very loving husband." The trip had been easier on her than she had expected, she said, because there had been; no problems.

"It's been a good spacecraft and a marvelous LM." Joan Aldrin, wife of Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Armstrong's fellow moonwalker, said at liftoff from the moon "I was so excited I got Buzz's voice mixed up with Neil's." She began her news conference after the docking of the lunar vehicle with the command module piloted by Michael Collins by volunteering: "Congratulations to my husband, Neil, and Mike." "I really was so confident this time, as opposed to liftoff, and I guess it shows," she continued. "It's all downhill now: we have one burn and that's it." As for her husband's moonwalk, she said: "You know they were having a ball, I'm sure." Clasping both hands over her head she added: "I am, quote, thrilled, proud, and happy, unquote." At her home in Nassau Bay near that of the Aldrins, Mrs. Collins, wearing white slacks and a blue and red knit top, said of the docking: "Wasn't it just wonderful? It's very quiet in our house now.

Everybody is sleepy. We didn't sleep very much last night. But after the docking everybody just sat back and relaxed." turning point in the history of mankind," said McCormack, who had stuck to his television set past 2 a.m. to watch the lunar broadcast. McCormack recalled that he was chairman of the first temporary House Space Committee, set up in 1957, and that President Lyndon B.

Johnson, then Senate majority leader, headed a similar group in the Senate. Rep. James G. Fulton senior Republican on the permanent House Space Committee created later, and a member of the original group, told the House that McCormack played a key role then in congressional deliberations that led to creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the later decision by President John F. Kennedy to push for a moon landing by 1970.

Fulton, who also serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, currently considering the annual Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 f. 1-: I'A-Si 1 0 ut -niJ I LONDON UP) Czechoslovakia issued two postage stamps depicting astronauts on the moon and Nationalist China invited the three U.S. lunar spacemen to its traditional Moon Festival in September. Surveying their stationhouse blotters, Italian police in Rome discovered they had just experienced the most crime-free night of the year.

Even the crooks, they said, stayed home to watch man land and walk on the moon. The world was still agog Monday about Apollo ll's historic exploration of the moon's surface. But there remained some misgivings. According to Joseph Logan medicine man and hereditary chief of the Longhouse People of the Iroquois Indians in Brantford, man's landing on the moon may plunge the earth into darkess and release monsters and beasts from the earth's core. The moon is sacred to his people, Logan said, and "we are not supposed to disturb her." In Turkey an Orthodox Moslem said: "God will strike us all dead for interfering in His affairs." Czechoslovakia's gesture in issuing man-on-the-moon stamps contrasted to the cool manner in which the Soviet news media treated man's first landing on the moon.

The Soviet Union's top space scientist told a Russian television audience Monday that the landing was an "outstanding achievement" Astronauts Praised as 'Pathfinders of the Universe' by Reagan SACRAMENTO (UPI) Gov. Reagan Monday praised the three Apollo 11 astronauts as "pathfinders of the universe, first citizens of the interplanetary community." "May each of us, in the spirit of their great achievement, make a strong commitment to brotherhood and human understanding," Reagan said in a released when the lunar ship Eagle left the moon's surface. In the State Assembly, lawmakers broke into applause when Speaker Robert T. Monagan announced that Eagle had lifted off. WASHINGTON (UPI) Key lawmakers hailed the moon landing Monday as the most historic event since Columbus found the New World.

They congratulated everybody concerned, including themselves for having started it all. Three members of Congress urged that days be designated to honor the event. Rep. Williams Jennings Bryan Dorn introduced a resolution to make July 21a holiday and Rep. Glenn M.

Anderson (D-Calif.) introduced another to designate the third Monday in July as a national Day of Recognition. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) said he would introduce a resolution to make July 20 "Apollo 11 Day." Speaker John W. McCormack of Massachusetts touched off a round of laudatory speeches moments after the House convened at noon and well before the astronauts fired their ascent engine to lift off the moon.

"This historic event marks a I) WlriPhoto but more data per ruble could have been gathered by unmanned space probes. However, Georgy Petrov, director of the Soviet Institute for Cosmic Research, called the mission a "great step." "It really concerns the determination of man, born on earth, to enter into the mastery of the entire universe," he said. The government newspaper Izves-tia gave the Soviet people their first relatively detailed account of the U.S. moon landing Monday, but the news was subordinated to a big spread on Soviet-Polish friendship and a day-old communique on Luna 13. On Page 5 of the six-page newspaper, Soviet cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov called the Apollo feat a "major landmark in the development of cosmonautics." Feoktistov joined Petrov on the evening television program, giving viewers a comprehensive account of the mission.

Soviet television showed 10-min-ute recorded segments of transmissions from the lunar surface several times during the day. In Taipei the leading member of Nationalist i a' parliament, Hsieh Jen-chao, invited moon walkers Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and command module pilot Michael Collins to come to the Moon Festival, this year honoring Please Turn to Page 10, Col.

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