MONKEYS IN SPACE
Preparations By ■ U.S. Air Force ii'Rcc. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 17., i The United States Air Force re-i . vealed today that teams of two-' [pound monkeys were being pre- 1 >[ pared for space flight. ’! Il said some of them would be' ready to go into orbit by the! middle of next year. , Brigadier General Don Flick-i • mger. director of life sciences for! ' the Air Research and Develop-' •jment Command, said some space! • J experiments with smaller animals! h might be conducted sooner if ‘ rocket space was made available. ?! Dr. Wernhcr Von Braun, the! 1 United States Army missile ex- ? I pert. suggested using a low-level *I space platform as a springboard; > for a frantic dash through the' 11 deadly band of radiation that Ex-' 1 plorcr satellites have found ring- • ing the earth. i He said this now appeared toi be the most promising way for] .1 future space travellers to avoid l [ dangerous doses of gamma rays. ■ The space experts addressed the! 165th Annual Convention of Mili-I >‘tary Surgeons, who arc meeting ’[here to discuss “dynamic medicine and rehabilitation in the] I space ago.” ? i i
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28747, 19 November 1958, Page 15
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