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...drag of gravity forces (far more powerful than the earth's) from the rocket's acceleration piles tip a crushing impact on the spaceman, whose normal weight -say 150 Ibs. -multiplies to three-quarters of a ton. On the outer skin of his capsule, hurtling away from earth at 25,000 m.p.h., the friction of the atmosphere generates temperatures tip to 1,600°F. Beyond the atmosphere, the outside temperature drops to -454°F. -close to absolute zero -and gone is the atmospheric pressure that keeps man's organs from exploding like a blood bomb...
...high but steady speed; when the second stage blasts off, he can take it, and his body is also ready for the acceleration of the final blast. On reentry, the g forces loosed by deceleration are likely to be far more perilous. Impact of hitting even the thinnest outer layer of the atmosphere head-on at 18,000 m.p.h. is like driving a car through a blast furnace against a cliff at 60 m.p.h. To slow down, the pilot may have to glide in at an angle of no more than 4°, then skip out to cool...
Three Chimps First. With all these pressing medical problems to be solved, why does man feel himself impelled toward, the dark unfathom'd caves of outer space? For one thing, despite his physical and emotional inadequacies, he is still a space-saving, weight-saving gadget compared with any electronic brain yet constructed. A cynical explanation favored in cybernetic circles: "Nowhere else can you obtain a self-maintaining computer with built-in judgment, which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor -and by people who like their work so well." To Dr. Simons, first man to have so long...
...whatever his motives or apparent fitness, no man is likely to take off from the U.S. for outer space until Colonel Stapp, now head of Wright's Aero Medical Lab, is sure that he has a good chance to get back intact. Stapp plans to test the Air Force and Navy on finding and recovering a capsule dropped in the ocean, as it might drop a returning spaceman. Then he will try again, with a capsule fired downward at 3,000 to 4,000 m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite...
...president (his father, 66, is a director) of Hal Roach Studios, which now produces TV films. ¶ Gene Fowler Jr., 40, a film editor for nearly 20 years, last year directed I Was a Teenage Werewolf, is now producing and directing Paramount's I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Father Gene Fowler, 68, oldtime cirrhosis-be-damned newsman and biographer of the John Barrymore era, wrote Barrymore's biography (Good Night, Sweet Prince...