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Oshawa Times (1958-), 30 Aug 1965, p. 2

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AIRBORNE AGAIN, one of the Gemini 5 astronaut: is hoisted to a rescue helico- IT'S THE END of the line for astronaut Charles Contrad as he is hoisted aboard a helicopter from a raft in the Atlantic, Conrad _ BIGHT DAY (Continued From Page One) Later, on board the recovery ship, Cooper said: 'We were hanging on a cliff all eight days of the flight, It/of the two men on the carrier, | Mauls l could have ended at any time,"| "Look at them. They still love they had in Kraft and his Tropical storm Betsy caused|one another after eight days." sound control teams, the flight to be cut short one orbit. It was the first U.S manned mission to be short- ened. On the 120th orbit--the last before re-entry began--the two astronauts' wives stood in their yards in suburban Houston and watched as it twinkled past. "It was funny," Jane Conrad said, "watching my husband go by looking like a star," The dangerous re entry started southeast of Hawaii at 8:2 a.m. All four of the 100 pound retro rockets fired per fectly, braking the spacecraft into its descent, Gemini 5 headed down, slow ing from 17,457 to 17,150 miles an hour. The cut in speed meant that the capsule couldn't Maintain its orbit any longer. The thickening atmos re slowed it more as it plunged earthward The spacecraft blazed on @own in the dawn sky, its bot tom end red-hot from the at- mospheric friction, "Drogue chute open,"' Conrad said calmly, although Dr, Berry revealed later the jaunty astro- naut's heart was pounding at a record rate of 180 beats a min- ute--a high for the flight, After being stabilized by thé drogue chute, the big, orange- striped main parachute bios somed out, Four minutes later the spacecraft splashed into the Atlantic. "We are feeling fine," Cooper in a on the water and came the voice oc faint radio trans- mission and then there was no; other word from the astronauts antil the frogmen arrived about 30 minutes later. Sailors lined the carrier deck for a look at the new space herors who bounced the carrier deck and started kid each other about their pe: eona] appearance. to ' ' ter from the Atlantic yester- day. Both men were plucked from the water after a re- THE GEMINI 5 space- craft which rode the heay- ens for nearly eight days is Two More Flights Despite Problems HOUSTON, Tex, (AP)--Space; sibly because of long space ex- agency officials are confident) nosure--will require re-design. they can move ahead with two! more Gemini flights this year) F/VE REMAIN ae -- which plagued) jive more rendezvous and emini 5, "king y e Gemini 6, during which astro- en i ag Bh oon bel gr a -- oe uled next yeay and wilsattempt ROMAS F. SUATOFG OTe (0 MINK) tg perfect the technique for up with another satellite, is set later Apollo Ynoon shots, r Oct, 25, for Oct, plan| In 1967, thr®a-man Apollo The radar system the to use in hee manbeuves re-| teams will be hoiste@ into earth ceived a trial run on Gemini 5/ orbit to practice for moon trips. cord breaking eight-day or- bital flight, --(AP Wirephoto) ' , sure|is scheduled for 1969, but could nares gee gpg et Rat not| be advanced to 1968 if there are the range. no serious problems, Gemini 7, a 14-day mission by; In 1968, the air force will astronauts Frank Borman andj|start launching manned orbit- James A. Lovell Jr., is sched-|ing- laboratories the size of a uled for December, But difficul-| house trailer to determine if ties with a fuel cell system, jet}man can perform useful mili- thrusters and 10 other pieces|tary missions in space. Two of equipment--some of it pos-|men will ride each laboratory. Astronauts Unruttled and Gordon Cooper com- pleted a historic eight-day flight in space Sunday, Joked, Composed Songs HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)---The Gemini 5 spacecraft whirled from one crisis to another dur- ing eight days in space. nothing seemed to bother either| the astronauts or their ground) The flexibility of the space- controllers, craft and its countless backup Command Pilot L. Gordon) systems was a major factor in Cooper Jr, and Pilot Charles! successful completion of the Conrad remained unruffied and Q kept their sense of humor flight, which experienced a to- throughout their record orbital|'@! of 12 equipment failures, journey, They joked, composed) "In the Mercury program, poems and songs, kidded with) problems of the magnitude of those on Gemini 5 probably the ground teams. is 'evidence that the U.S. space program |has reached a high level of so phistication, --AP Wirephoto | SIN SPACE _ | 'Frankenstein meets the wolf man," Mrs, Conrad observed after seeing photographs taken Each had a beard, Cooper's was flecked with grey and was heavier than Conrad's. President Johnson told them he wanted them to be space public relations men as soon as the Il + day debriefing was, over, : | "Are you ready to see some of the world at ground level?" he asked. He said he wanted them and other astronauis to accept invitations "to share your achievements with = the peoples of other lands." In going 3,338,200 miles, Coo- per and Conrad brokPevery space record for endurance, Mrs, Cooper and Mrs, Con- rad talked to their husbands on a special telephone hookup be tween the carrier and Gemini control, "It was a private conversa tion," Trudy Cooper said, Sun- day was the 18th anniversary of her marriage. '! will wait until Gordon comes home for a celebration," she said, Mrs, Conrad remembered what she said to her husband: "Pete said: 'I'll see you in three days,' and I said: 'That's what you think,' I told him it will be 11 days. But I keep hop- Ang they (space officials) will change their minds and let us see them before 11 days."' Leslie B. Leith, advertis- ing director of The Oshawa Times, will attend the angual convention af the Newspaper Advertisin Managers Associa (Eastern Canada) at Sheraton Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal in mid-Sep- tember, Speakers have been recruited from among the top men in the advertising a WSpape busi ~ the ground and engaged in a beard-growing contest, would have caused us to shorten "Their cool attitude made it) the flight," Kraft said, "But we easier on us during critical de- learned a lot from the Mercury cision ~ making times," com:| DPOStam that enabled us to de- mented Flight Director Christo: velop the Gemini as a flexible pher-C, Kraft, "They performed] SPacectatt, like true test pilots in all emer- gencies,"' The calmness of the astro- showed the confidence SCIENCE CAN'T MATCH Cosmic ray particles coming from outside the solar system have millions of times more en- ergy than modern physicists The superb performances ofican build up in the laboratory, HERE and THERE Although many members of the Oshawa Travel Trail- er Club are rolling across Canada with their "homes on wheels," 13 trailers were in attendance at the recent August rendezvous at Balsam = Lake provincial park. Those at the gather ing enjoyed a dessert pot luck, fish pond (for the youngsters), a sing-song, fishing and swimming, Get- ting lots of use was an- other addition to club prop- erty -- a three-burner pro- pane gas stove, (A first-aid kit complete with resuscita- tor was purchased in July.) Clara and Ed LaValllee got the attendance prize at the rendezvous, A tentative location on Lake Chemong was chosen for the Septem- ber meeting and {wo pos- sible sites will be scouted for the Thanksgiving week- end, Two Oshawa and district ic cen Home Delivery or Pick-Up ---- Phone -- 728-7321 522 Ritson Rd, South DELIVERED PIPING HOT companies have received letters patent of incorpora- tion, They are Birchdale Investments Limited, of Oshawa and Newcastle Cement Block Company, of Newcastle, Recent Oshawa visitors to the Whiteface - Lake Placid region of New York state included Doris Day, 317 Sim- coe st, n., and Mr, and Mrs, S. V. Scoville of 155 Brock st. @, Port Hope Kinsmen Ran- tams defeated Ajax 7 to 0 last week in the fifth and deciding game of their EORA series, Dave Remma restricted the Ajax team to seven hits and struck out five. Brian Resroches and Gordon McCosh shared the mound duties for Ajax, Port Hope meets Newmarket in the next round of the play- Ss. brought on board the car- rier USS Lake Champlain 'in the Atlantic, A flotation WEATHER FORECAST ie: be Ey ak yl Lora apg SOLID LINE indicates the splashdown area for the Gemini 5 astronauts while HOUSTON, Tex, (AP)--Astro- nauts on future space flights will have a simple way of tak-| jing care of the excess fuel cell) | water which was a major prob- 'lem on Gemini 5, They will! collar encircles the space | drink it, capsule. The water produced by Gem- ini 5's fuel cell threatened to "drown out" the eight-day mis: sion, It caused the astronauts to fly most of the time powered- AP Wirephoto Arctic Blast Starts ' Scramble For Woollies down because the more elec- tricity that is used from the cell, the more water it pro- duces. Excessive production, if not drained off, can ruin the fuel cell, Original plans called for Gemini 5 space twins L, Gordon Excess Water Threatened Drown Out 8- OEE RE A BEE GS ORT IT LOT I PO ED cause of approach of tropical storm Betsy, ~AP Wirephoto GOOD FOOD. BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCH 12 Noon to iM, DINNER 5:30 to 6 P.M, FULLY LICENSED DINING ROOM HOTEL LANCASTER 27 King St, W., Oshawe the broken line indicates the intended splashdown area, Flight was ¢ut short be» ® 8 Day Mission things floating in it," said Con-| rad, So two 189-pound tanks of drinking water were placed in| the spacecraft, Teeth Can Now Be Reimplanted If one of your children has @ tooth knocked out, dan't despoir, Just carefully wrap it up in @ clean wet cloth or keep it in water, Bring it with your child te your denti ven if it's dirty. He can clean it up and the odds are he can replant it in your child's mouth sucess. fully, Modern dental techniques for preparing the tooth and socket makes even tronsplanting possible, | By THE CANADIAN PRESS |Toronto, Sudbury, North Bay: | With hundreds of Canadians/Mainly sunny Tuesday but with still on vacation, Arctic|increasing cloudiness in the weather swept down into Al-|@fternoon, warmer; light winds, Cooper Jr, and Charles Conrad Jr, to drink the water, but the pre-launch tests showed that the Your dentist now has new drugs and techniques which enable him to prevent pein and assure positive bene- fits, We co-operate by carrying in stock the drugs and {berta, Quebec and Ontario dur>| jing the weekend, setting off a' jlate-summer scramble for wool: Snow fell near Edmonton and [Knob Lake, Que,, and record) low temperatures for August! were reached in five Ontario W \cities, and caused some concern be-| The first manned lunar. landing) At Knob Lake, near Hudson| {Hamilton /Bay, four inches of snow fell| and six to eight inches blank-| eted isolated sections of the} {Rocky Mountains near Edmon:| jton, | | The sudden eastern arctic jblast swept across Hudson Bay from Iceland and Greenland after a-low pressure area {Labrador combined with a high pressure area over Ontario, Sudbury recorded a low of 33 degrees, two below the previ- ous August record set Aug, 30, 1934; while the 20 degree mark at Timmins was one de-/ gree below the Aug. 23, 1081) record, Toronto International Airport jrecorded an August low of 44 |degrees, three under the pre: lvious record set Aug. 25, 1942.| Hamilton's 40 degree mark! was one lower than the previ-| ous record of Aug. 24, 1913) while Trenton tied its previous) August low of 38 degrees set on' Aug. 24, 1940. |TOPS ALSO LOW Sudbury, Ottawa and North Bay set new low maximum) temperatures for the day, Ot} jtlawa and Sudbury both had readings of 54 degrees, while in North Bay the maximum tem- perature reached during the day was 52 degrees, TORONTO (CP) -- Forecasts issued-at 3330 am, EDT; Synopsis; An extensive area of unsettled cloudy weather, moving across the western lake areas today will slowly spread into southwestern and northern /Ontario on Tuesday, j | Warmer weaher, with show: ers in some areas, are forecast) for Tuesday. 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