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Besides these hard-shelled projects. Holloman also works with all-too-soft human flesh. The famed Space Surgeon John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12) speeds across the desert on his rocket sled to see how much strain the human body can stand. Another Holloman specialty is radio-controlled drone aircraft, which are used as targets and as a means of improving missile guidance systems. Perhaps the most picturesque program is "space biology," which includes sending living organisms (bacteria to monkeys) up to the edge of space in rockets. The condition in which they return to earth gives some idea...
...screen (Trial, Battleground), and onetime husband of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; of a coronary thrombosis while shaving in his parents' home as he prepared to leave for 20th Century-Fox studios to complete work on his 32nd movie, Threshold of Space, the story of Space Surgeon John Paul Stapp, whom he was playing; in Tarzana, Calif...
...wonder if other readers noticed the psychological tie-in between Colonel Stapp's stern parents and his obviously masochistic choice of career [Sept. 12]. The religiously strict father, and the mother who "tried to strap the unruly youngster in bed," surely drove him to rebel (in pursuit of scientific studies), but later to conform, strapping himself into the rocket sled in death-bent compensation. The many protective straps that he has invented, as well as other devices, show a fortunate outcome of an emotionally unhealthy childhood...
John Paul Stapp is the son of my colleague, Missionary Charles F. Stapp. Knowing something of the joyous humor and the tenacious spirit of his good father, the character of his saintly mother, I could better understand the practical philosopher, the generous-hearted doctor and the scientist, who does not count his life dear unto himself, if only he can live up to his self-chosen ideals...
...COLONEL Stapp wrote one letter before the article appeared: "Let me thank you for one of the most educational experiences that has ever occurred to me. I have been visited by Correspondent Edwin Rees, who spent two weeks with me gathering the material for your Sept. 12 cover article, and by Contributing Editor Richard Seamon, who wrote the article. It was like combining a psychoanalysis with a fraternity initiation...