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10 Ahnosordo Daily SwJiy, Oct. 16,1977 ISHF induction on Nov. 3 will honor five MILLIKEN OCTOBER COUPON SPECIAL Prr 100 iq. ft. imltllfd to K-19 insulation John Glenn Glenn was among first astronauts The first American to orbit the earth, U.S.

Senator John H. Glenn of Ohio is one of five space pioneers who will be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo in festive ceremonies Nov. 3. Glenn was bom July 18,1921 at Cambridge, Ohio. He attended local schools at New Concord, Ohio, received his BS in Engineering at Muskingum College, and after graduation became a U.S.

Naval aviation cadet in 1943. He was commissioned into the Marine Corps, became an instructor pilot, and during World War II, flew 59 combat missions. He flew 63 combat missions during the Korean conflict. As an AF exchange pilot along the Yalu River, he downed three MIGs. In 1957, Glenn set a transcontinental speed record on an F8U in all-supersonic flight in three hours and 23 minutes.

The holder of four honorary degrees, Glenn was among the first seven astronauts selected in 1959. On Feb. 20, 1962, he performed three orbits of the earth in an elapsed time of four hours, 44 minutes and 23 seconds. During the flight, he reached a 17,500 miles per hour speed and an altitude of 162 statute miles. Glenn retired from the Marine Corps and NASA in 1965 to devote his time to business and politics in Ohio.

He was elected junior Senator from Ohio in 1974. For Glenn, his swearing-in as U.S. Senator on Christmas Eve, 1974, was another milestone in a career encompassing military service, private business, science, civic activities and politics and space, exploration. Glenn married his childhood sweetheart, Anna Margaret Castor, in 1943. They have a daughter, Lyn, 30, and a son, Dave, 31.

Clirton P. Anderson Michael T. Collins Wilhelm Unge Harrison Schmitt Anderson given 'Apollo' credit Rats may inhabit the crown of a Pacific island coconut palm and not descend to the ground for generations, ording to National Geographic. The late Sen. Clinton P.

Anderson of New Mexico, who distinguished himself as a statesman and leading proponent of space exploration, will be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo during ceremonies Nov. 3. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1945 when he was appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President Harry S. Truman. He resigned the cabinet post in 1948 to seek election to the U.S.

Senate, and began his long and distinguished career in the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress Jan. 3,1949. He was re-elected in 1954, 1960 and again in 1966, for a term which expired Jan. 3,1973.

Recognized as one of a select few most influential men in the world in space exploration during the 1950s and 1960s, Senator Anderson largely was responsible for the successful Apollo program and its predecessors. He was telling audiences in the mid- 1950s that the United States would land men on the moon, perhaps within a decade. He lived to see that accomplishment repeated a number of times. Sen. Anderson was born Oct.

23, 1895, in Centerville, S.D. and moved to New Mexico in 1917 because of illness. He was a newspaper reporter in South Dakota, and later became managing editor of the Albuquerque Journal before entering public life. He became a banker and insurance executive and served as Rotary International President in 1932-33, which spurred his interest in international affairs. He was appointed state treasurer of New Mexico in 1933 to begin his 40 years of public service.

He was New Mexico relief administrator in 1935. In the U.S. Senate, Anderson became deeply involved in the atomic energy program and later the space program. He served for years as a member of the Senate Committee and the Joint Atomic Energy Committee for a number of years. He was a member of the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs.

During his long career, he served on the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Anderson was instrumental in bringing the benefits of space to the classroom; of developing NASA relationships with industry. One of the programs most closely identified with Anderson is the joint responsibility of NASA and the Atomic Energy Commission for the application of nuclear power to rocket propulsion for long space voyages. He was married in 1921 to Henrietta McCartney. There are two children, Sherburne P.

Anderson and Mrs. Ben L. Roberts. Sen. Anderson died Nov.

11, 1975, at his home in the South Valley of Albuquerque. (A portion of the information on Sen Anderson was provided Or. Ernst Steinhoff, New Mexico Research Institute, through Frank DiLutno, former scientific advisor on Sen Anderson's staff Steinhoff is incorporating information on Sen. Anderson, and the four other space pioneers to be inducted Nov. 1 into the ISMF the second volume of his book "The Eagle Has Returned" which will be available on Nov.

Collins in on initial moon landing Michael Collins, command module pilot of Apollo XI in 1969 that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin to historic first landing on the moon, is one of five space pioneers who will be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame at Alamogordo Nov. 3,1977. Bom Oct. 31,1930, in Rome, Italy, Collins selected an Air Force career after receiving his BS degree at West Point. He served as an experimental flight test officer at Edwards AFB, and became a member of the third astronaut pilot group selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in October, 1963.

In July 1966, on Gemini 10, Collins and Command Pilot John Young performed docking with an Agena, a changing orbit plane, rendezvoused with a second passive Agena. It was between July 16-24, 1969, that he served as command module pilot of on station in lunar orbit, while Armstrong and Aldrin made the first lunar landing. After retiring from NASA and the Air Force, Collins (Continued on Page 22) Unge work pre-dated One of five space pioneers to be inducted Nov. 3 is Wilhelm Theodor Unge, who achieved giant steps in rocketry at the end of the 19th century. Born in Stockholm in 1845, Unge started his military career in 1866, following graduation from college.

He soon started a career as an inventor in military technology. After his first invention, a telemeter, in 1887, he patented several improvements for an automatic rifle. In the late 1880s, Unge became interested in artillery and regarded rocketry as a method of improving artillery. His early work in rocketry corresponded with that of Konstantin Tsiol- kovskiy in Russia and came about 10 years before Robert H. Goddard in the United States.

Alfred Nobel joined Unge in 1892. Patents on unproved rockets followed through the years, with Unge developing propellants and methods of control. Following a sad experience with Krupp in (Continued on Page 13) Schmitt one of those who has been there U.S. Sen. Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico is one of the five space pioneers who will be inducted Nov.

3. Schmitt fits the requisite fully he is one of those who has been there to the moon. Born July 3, 1935, in Santa Rita, N.M., Schmitt received a BS degree in Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1957; studied at the University of Oslo in Norway during 1957-58; received a doctorate in geology from Harvard University in 1964. He did geological work for the Norwegian Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey prior to becoming a teaching fellow at Harvard in 1961.

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He was accompanied on the voyage of the command module and the lunar module by Eugene Cernan (spacecraft commander) and Ronald Evans (command module pilot). Dr. Schmitt maneuvered Challenger to a landing on the southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis. He and Cernan activated a base of operations facilitating their completion of three successful excursions to the nearby craters and the Tauras Mountains. This last lunar landing flight broke several records.

Schmitt and Cernan spent 22 hours and four minutes on extravehicular activity on the surface of the moon and provided the largest lunar sample return, an estimated 249 pounds. Dr. Schmitt logged 301 hours and 51 minutes in space. SAVE On Best Seller NYLON SCULPTURA CARPET Reg. With This CoMpon CARPETS 903 N.w York COUPON He became chief of scientist- astronauts at the Lyndon B.

Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in 1974; later accepted the position of assistant administrator of the Office of Energy Programs at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. He returned to New Mexico in 1976 to make a successful run for the U.S. Senate, where he began his duties in January, 1977. Schmitt plans to be present for the Nov. 3 induction ceremony.

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Unge, Sweden U.S. Sen. Harrison Schmitt, R-NM; U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio; and Michael Collins, director of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Schmitt, Glenn and Collins are former National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts.

Sen. Anderson was a key figure in the U.S. Congress in promoting and funding the U.S. space program. Schmitt was one of two astronauts who landed on the moon in the final Apollo 17 in December, 1972.

Unge was prominent in rocketry development during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The induction ceremony will start at 3 p.m. Nov. 3. The program will include a flyover by the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing, Holloman Air Force Base; national anthem, Alamogordo High School marching band; pledge of allegiance, invocation, introduction of guests, welcome address by Mayor G.

M. Glover, keynote address, responses from members of New Mexico Congressional delegation: Sens. Schmitt and Pete V. Domenici, and U.S. Reps.

Harold Runnels and Manuel Lujan; induction of honorees, and benediction. Jerry Watkins, superintendent of the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped, will serve as master of ceremonies. The five honorees will join 35 other space pioneers who were enshrined during dedication of the International Space Hall of Fame on Oct. 5,1976. Following the Nov.

3 public ceremony, the Hall of Fame will hold Visitors will have an opportunity to tour the four-story structure which houses pylons containing plaques and information on the ISHF honorees, and space-age artifacts. Included are models of the Soviet Vostok space vehicle, the NASA Apollo lunar landing module, inertial guidance systems, the high speed test tract sled on which Dr. John Stapp set a world land speed record in 1954, exhibits of the Mars Voyager flights, weather satellites and numerous other space-related exhibits..