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Repeat Lighting Storm
Could Delay Apollo Shot
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
CAPE KENNEDY (UPD—
Astronauts and ground crew are
sailing through preparations for
Sunday’s Apollo 10 blastoff with
hopes the weather won’t
become a last-minute obstacle.
A lightning storm Wednesday
drove ground crews from the
pad where the rocket and
spacecraft are being readied.
The launch director said such a
storm near takeoff time could
force the poised astronauts out
of their spacecraft.
A space program weather
man said the general weather
situation is right to produce
electrical storms, although It’s
too early to make a forecast for
Sunday.
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P. Stafford, John W. Young and
Eugene A. Cernan are keeping
an eye on the weather, but
staying relaxed in the final
stages of getting ready for their
eight-day moon orbiting mis
sion, which will be followed by
tne Apollo 11 moon landing in
July if all goes well.
Launch Director Rocco a.
Petrone said in an interview
Wednesday while the countdown
was going on, "Right now,
we’re clear to go Sunday—l
think we’re in very good
shape.”
The astronauts’ schedule to
day called for more brushing
up on landmarks of tire lunar
landscape they will use to
pinpoint the manned landing
site they are assigned to
visually check out and photo-
Apollo 10 Families
Suspense, Tension
Bear Heavy On Wives
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPD—While their men fly to
the moon, the women of Apollo
10 face the trying task of
maintaining at lease a trace of
normal life for their families on
earth.
Fay Stafford, Barbara Young
and Barbara Ceman all have
been through it before, so they
know what to expect. Their
husbands —Thomas P. Stafford,
John W. Young and Eugene A.
Cernan —are the first Apollo
crew composed completely of
veteran space pilots.
Knowing what to expect
helps. But the suspense and
tension of knowing their hus
bands are on the most
dangerous space mission ever j
flown, the strain of company in I
the house and reporters on the
front lawn, can create a
wearying load for the young
wives.
Just as the task of becoming
both father and mother to their
children during the husband’s
long months of pre-fltght
training away from home
already has been a tough job.
“If I’m reincarnated, I want
to come back as the wife of a
mailman or somebody with a
regular 9-to-5 work day, who’ll
have regular evenings and
weekends at home,” Mrs.
Stafford once said.
Apollo Crew
Trio Os Contrasts
Mesh Into Teamwork
By United Press International
They’re a trio of contrasts,
the crewmen of Apollo 10, yet
they mesh their varied persona
lities into a brand of teamwork
that goes beyond brotherhood in
its closeness.
Thomas P. Stafford, 38, a
baldlsh six-footer from Oklaho
ma, commands the team. In
small but significant ways, the
other two show that the soft
spoken air force colonel is the
undisputed boss —and that they
like ii that way.
John V/. Young, 38, shortest
member of the crew and the
man of fewest words, flies as
navigator. But behind Young's
outward reserve lies a dry wit
and a love of fun that has
occasionally gotten the boyish
pilot with a shock of unruly
brown hair in trouble with staid
space agency officialdom.
Eugene A. Cernan, 35, a tall
and suave young man from the
sedate Chicago suburb Bellview,
Hl., qualifies as the crew's poet
and philosopher. He also serves
as its systems engineer,
charged with keeping watch
over the myriad pieces of
equipment that make up Apollo
10.
All three men are veteran
space pilots. Their mission with
Apollo 10: fly to moon orbit and
practice every step of a lunar
landing except the final touch
down itself, to clear the way
for other Americans to walk
the lunar surface on July 20.
1 Os the three Apollo 10 wives,
she is the one who shies away
most from the spotlight a
spaceflight brings. A pretty
brunette from the little Oklaho
ma village of Thomas. Mrs.
Stafford yearns for a routine;
homelife.
She and Stafford have two !
daughters. Dionne ’s 14 and |
Karin is 11. Neither Mrs. |
Stafford nor her children have
been at Cape Kennedy fori
Stafford’s past two space
missions, and during Apollo 101
they again planned to watch the
launch on a television set in
their Houston home.
Young’s wife, Barbara, an
attractive brunette from Z.tlan-
I ta, felt “no reservations what
| soever” when her husband
I switched from the Navy to the
astronaut corps in 1962.
She takes a. philosophical
attitude toward the dangers
spaceflight always must bring.
"Some lives are going to be
1 given to further our space
effort, but I’ve felt and I still
1 feel that none of us can think!
we’re going to retire at 65 ano!
■ live to 80,” she said.
I
l j Despite this philosophy, the
I moment of launcn is one of
1 j tension. After Young’s first
liftoff in 1965 aboard Gemini 3
| she said watching the television
"It requires a great deal of
teamwork,” said Cernan, who
will hurtle to within 9.5 miles of
the moon with Stafford In the
lunar landing craft while Young
orbits alone 69 miles above the
surface.
"You’ve got t o live with
each other for eight days.
You’ve got to work with each
other. You’ve got to understand
each other. And you’ve got to
depend on each other. This Is
probably the most risky or
dangerous mission to date.”
Stafford, Young and Cernan
might have cause to be bitter
men If they were not so
thoroughly sure of the impor
tance of their pathfinding
mi sion. Until the moon landing
craft ran into development
problems last year, they stood
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graph from nine miles above
the moon’s surface to clear the
way for the Apollo 11 landing.
At the launch pad, ground
crews ended a 12-hour rest
period at mid-afternoon Wed
nesday and resumed making
the thousand-and-one prepara
tions to launch the 36-story
Saturn-Apollo space machine at
12:49 p.m. EDT Sunday.
Meterologist Ernest Ammon,
who makes forecasts for Apollo
launches, said it was too early
to say what the weather may
be like at blastoff time, but
that rain and lightning storms
could be a problem.
He said May has been
abnormally wet and that the
conditions which produced the
heavy rains are still present
over Florida.
screen while his Titan rocket
roared off the launch pad "was
probably the hardest two
minutes of my life.”
She and her two children, 12-
I year-old daughter Sandy and 16
year-old son, John, will he
glued to the television set
during Apollo 10’s liftoff and
’ flight. They remained in
I Houston for both of Young’s
| Gemini flights, as they planned
i to do for Apollo 19.
Apollo 10 is Barbara Cernan’s
j second space mission. Tire first
was in 1966, when her husband
co-piloted Gemini 9 with
Stafford and performed a 2
i hour 10 minute spacewalk.
An outgoing blonde from
Houston who flew as a
commercial airline stewardess
for five years and met Cernan
i aboard an airliner, Mrs Cernan
shares her husband’s love of
flying.
While he trained for his first
flight, she learned to pilot a
single-engine aircraft.
Mrs. Cernan remained at
j home in Houston with their
; daughter Teresa, who was too
j young to know what was going
| on, during the launch of Gen-ini
i 9. But Cernan deeded she and
Teresa, now 6, snoul’. be at
Cape Kennedy to sea him blast
off in Apollo 10.
I a good chance of being the first
i landing crew.
"IQT’S A GOOD POSSIBILI-
Ith I would have made the
' landing,” Stafford said recent
! Jy. “But I’m not really sorry.
| I’m really thrilled with this
flight. If I can pull this flight
off and get it all squared away
so they can do a safe (landing),
I’m perfectly happy.”
Young and Cernan agree in
this sentiment. All three want
to go into space again to
explore the moon, and Young
wants to go twice more.
And should Apollo 10 wind up
in earth orbit instead of flying
around the moon because of
some spaceship failure, Young
said, "You can bet your life
there’<l be three miserable
guys.”
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are (from left) Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Ceman.
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