ASTRONAUTS ASSIGNED

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30042, 29 January 1963, Page 11

ASTRONAUTS ASSIGNED

Glenn To Work On Moon Shot

(N.Z Press Asm.—Copyright I HOUSTON (Texas), Jan 26 Lieutenant-Colonel John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, was assigned today to pioneex the supreme effort tn the United States space programme—the moon shot. A spokesman for the manned spacecraft centre here announced new assignments for the original seven astronauts and nine new astronauts He specified that assignment of an astronaut to a project does not imply that he will pilot the spacecraft involved United Press International

reported Thus Glenn will not necessarily pilot the first spacecraft rocketed toward the moon tn the Apollo project Lieutenant-Commander Scott

Carpenter will pioneer the Lunar excursion module of the moon shot project. The Lunar excursion module plan is a project to fly a big spacecraft to the vicinity of the moon and explore the moon with a small spacecraft that takes off from the big one Major Virgil Grissom was assigned to the project Gemini—a rendezvous in space between two spacecraft as a prelude to the moon shot

Major Gordon Cooper, Jun.. Is the pilot who win undertake if to 22 orbits ot the earth In a shot tentatively set for April 2. Commander Alan B. Sheppard Jun., the first astronaut to make a Sight, though it was suborbital. win be Cooper's “back-up” man.