Countdown #3 - 1971-03-06TOP SECRET US.A.F. BASE OMAHA...
"ANTWERP DOCKS... SECRET CONSIGNMENT OF DEFENSIVE] [ARMS BEING SHIBPED TO ANEW AFRICAN STATE,
THE LONE FIGURE OF SAM LOVER. FORMULATE A COUNTER” ES EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING THE CRACKLE Feeny hyde rar OF GUNSHOTS DSSTURB AWESTEND CLL-DE-SAC.
FTHECALM ANNOUNCEMENTOF HIS IDENTITY] ISENDS THE EMGASSY INTO UPROAR...
COMPLAINT Mt. LOOVER.
Tit SEEKING POLITICAL ASYLUM Ma. AMBASSADOR,
lazing Lunokhod 1 be- came the first lunar roving jehicle following the success-
ful soft landing of Luna 17 on the moon on Ni
‘above ‘shows Luno- ‘over simu- inset photo
isan artist's drawing of the oight- wheeled vehicle as it prepares to roll down the ramp and off the Luna 17 landing craft. Lunokhod is driven
forward, ‘backward, or make turns. Each of the eight spoked wheels has its own electric motor, ‘A hatch on top of Lui
on command to expo: solar cells to sunlight. a storage battery which vides the pos and operate the instruments.
‘The moon rover carries an X-ray telescope, a laser reflector and devices to analyse the soll. By January 18 Lunokhod had made a ‘complete round trip of 2.2 miles and returned fo the Luna 17 landing craft through craters up to 60 feet
@ On the cover Jon Pertwee plays the title role in the popular television series Dr. Who. The Doctor has been run-
ning on the BBC since 1963 and he returned last January with a new girl co-star. Katy Manning plays the part of Jo Grant, a secret agent from
. Nick Courtney appears the Brigadier and Roger
Delgado is Dr. Who's op- ponent, The Master. The series can be seen
Saturdays at 5.15 on BBCI.
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MAGINE yourself taking a simulated space You're standing in front of a part-task trainer which consists of a spacecraft cabin fitted with a three-axis
control, an instructor's console, a bank of computers, and a visual display that reproduces the earth as seen from space. Climb into the cabin and sink back in the astronaut's
reclining chair. Feel a bit hemmed in? That array of contro! panels, with hun-
and warning lights, seems uncomfortably close to your face. Never mind, you'll soon get used to it. Let your hands fall naturally to each side. On the left is the abort handle or “chicken switch”. It fires the escape tower to hurl your spacecratt clear if anything ‘goes wrong on the launch pad. On the right is the three-axis control (pitch, yaw and roll) which will stabilise and orient your craft in outer space.
Your trainer-capsule is poised ‘ona steel ball and cushioned by a layer of compressed air. The slightest movement you make will tlt it over or send it spinning round. Tho throe-axis control oper-
ates compressed-air jets that will turn your craft in any direc- tion. Push the control bar for- ward and the capsule will pitch (nod up and down). Twist the control and you'll yaw (swing from side to side). Move it left fr right and you'll turn over In a slow roll.
Careful with those compres- sed-air jets, Use them in short
Right: A space suit undergoes pr ly air-tight, ‘The visor is coated with gold to pro- 8 from the harsh light and heat from the sun.
I Collins checks one of the 800 and displays jn the Apollo Command Module,
@ by our Space Correspondent
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bursts only, oF you'll spin out of control. Try to grasp the mean- ing of all those coloured lights ‘on the control panel. But keep a wary eye on the earth as well. ‘You do this by fleeting glances through a window, much the same as a driver does when he glances into his rear view mirror. What you really sees a revolving map, but it looks as if the world is rushing by at five miles a
second, Now it's time for re-entry—
fire your rockets. Press the but- ton on your left and brace your- solf for the shock. As the retros fire you feel as if some powerful force is pushing you right through your seat. Thatwas only 8g. During re-entry you'll have to stand up to 16g.
Gradually the pressures and the shaking and the shuddering will stop. Signal to the instructor and he'll switch off the power. You've made a good start,
Next week: practice a dezvous in space with the docking trainer.
trodes are taped to the skin to detect pulse and breath:
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THE EARTH ffleeBE DEAD! CONTROLLER. 1 | te the starship Countdown | doomed?” While entering the
solar system after a fifty-year
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THE COUNTDOWN, COMMANDER HAS HEARD ENOUGH.
LONG HOURS PASS AND, THEORY AFTER THEORY IS FED THROUGH THE COMPUTERS WITH FRUSTRATINGLY NEGATIVE RESULTS:
EVERY INTENTION OF SURVIVING WITH! OR WiTHOUT VOU ALL, SO LET'S GET DOWN O'S WORK, SHALL WE? THAT, YNCLUDES YOU, Bldg
THINK IVE GOT SOMETHING, COMMANDER,
IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE.
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© 1971 Century "THE PACIFIC COAST OF AMERICA... AMONSTROUS WAVE OVER SEVENTY FEET HIGH SMASHES J™ JHE DEFENCELESS COAST,
THE FOLLOWING MORNING AWASB HELUET FLIES QVER THE AREA TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE.
SOME SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILES OFF THE CALIFORNIAN COAST) STINGRAY INSPECTS THE STILL MURKY OCEAN FLOOR
YEA NOTA FISHIN. SIGH Let's GET THOSE. SEISMOGRAPHIC REPORTS: “AND GET BACK TO
MARINE VILLE =
TATER THAT SAME DAY, 'STINGRAY'S CAPTAIN HANDS| THE FOLLOWING MORNING A 750 WITHOUT FURTHER ADO OVER HIS REPORT. - = HIGH LEVEL CONFERENCE |S GENTLEMEN, ILL LET CAPT
HELO AT MARINEVILLE. + « TEMBEST GIVE US. HIS
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‘ON STANDBY FRIDAY. (adiGHT THREATEN THE PROJECT, TROY.
THAT'S WHY / AGREED TWAT STINGRAY ‘SHOLILD BE USED AS PROTECTION VESSEL. /7 SURE WOULD AE SOME “OPPORTUNITY TO K.O.MARINEVILLE J?
SET HARDER THAN /RON /GIVEN, TIME IT WILL THEN SULT Ub.
INTHE EARLY HOURS OF THE FOLLOWING MORNING AS fraaaa] THE NEWS GOES QUICKLY TO MARINEVILLE ANO SOON THE W.A-5.P. ONE SNIET CHANGES OVER FROM ANOTHER AT THE WINTER MEN ARE BACK AT THE WINTERHOUSE YARD. ROUSE SHIBVARO, THERE IS AN EXPLOSION ABOARO 'SEA SLUG‘. (AN HOUR LATER THE COMMANDER'S|
VIEW IS CONFIRMED. » « "77 WAS TITAN'S WORK ALL RIGHT, ‘SiR FRAGMENTS OF THAT WET EXPLOSIVE THEY USE, EVERYWHERE,
MR WINTERHOUSE, 7S TITAN'S WOR!
Tuar's ust WHAT | NEEDED, THANKS.
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OR. VARRANT? IT'S TwVELVE \ GADGET FITTED TO THE SEAL MILES OBEDINTHAT TEIT SHOWS ANY SIGN OF
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HE year 1948 opened with incredibl yaper head- ‘across the United States, the papers carri
Courier of January 7: "F
story Is now a classic in UFO history; in 1948 it mad trifying reading.
‘The scene is Godman Air Force Base, near Louisville, Kentucky. Att.15 p.m. on January 7, the state police called Godman control tower to re- port that several people in
mmivseat ot toumvine mod LTT EY LCST "eRe Le the police. called
pace ace INCIDENT 350 to 00 feet in diameter”. PURINE
ing UFO's—a U.S. Air Force pilot is killed
MALT to owe during a UFO chase. ‘opersiions efieat and the y Robin Hilborn intelligence officer. Using De yiiloors
8°50 binoculars none ofthe fen ould identi the object. Base Commander Colonel tis artved the pilots could not see the UFO rine control tower; he was at 8 at this time—and the three air- toes for an explanation. {rat disappeared from view. ‘As. they. climbed past 10.00
DISAGREEMENT — ‘Siuche sconces spas Mantell was far" ahoad of ther, barely visible. At 24 the fight
They couldn't agres on a des- leader calle at cpt, caling the UEO ” “eon
checked on movernents: the flights in the area.
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ind and white,” tower asked for a description of ror metallic,” a whathe saw. His reply, as best as
small white object," or “one can be remembered by'the men in fourth the size of the full moon." the tower, was “I've sighted th
"At'230 a flight of Air Forco thing. It looks metallic and it F-51's approached from the south. yendous in size ‘The fight leader, Captal I, starting to climb ‘was instructed to go in for and I'm gaining on Took at the UFO. Mantell and his 20,000 feet.” As with their des {wo wing. men were given a cription of the object, the peop! Southerly heading by the tower— In the tower couldn't agree on
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‘Top right: A Stratos ‘to 77,000 feet in 1963 in order to observe the Mars from a position af ‘ent of the earth's dust and water vapour. The small balloon on top, showing its {aur filing tubes, carried the 600-foot main balloon (uninflated) rapidly Co the upper atmosphere where the lower air [pressure allowed the helium to expand into the main balloon. Rboves The launching of a U.S. Air Force meteorological balloon, a type similar to the “skyhook” balloon, is shown ieahis 1958 photograph taken at Vernalis, California. The balloon is being inflated with hydrogen gas through & ‘0ootong tube.
They wore Captain Mantel fast Words. None. of the. F-St's wore equipped with oxyoon and $5.00" leet was. the maximum altitude a pilot could fy without Blacking ost, The two wing men fovelid of at this height and to {heirropeated radio callathere was fo answer. They returned fo their Base: One F-51 was reuolled and Searched the area again. He saw nothing. "At 350 the ground observers lost. sight of the UFO. Shor Ihereater, they heard that Mantel had crashed. "The accident report seid that the Pst had Tost wing due to fxcessive sped. in a dive after Mantll had blacked out due to « tack of oxygen. ‘Nowspepor editors wore frantic for explanations andthe Air Force was ready, The planet Venus hiad_beon’ “chased” by an Ait Force F-31 several wooks earlier Under similar circumstances. So ifaw the’ newer the ears received.
vvincod, until ay official ‘report on the | Mant Incident retracted the Venus planation. {im to be seen In the afternoo! ‘50 "it could have been a balloon. As astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek has “pointed oul, Venus ‘appears asa. pinpoint of light ‘whereas the observers described fan object with a visibl
"The U.S. Navy at this time was
secretly launching 100-foo! ‘diameter “skyhook” balloons art ofa highly cassiied project. itis possible that such a balloor drifting. with the high-altitu winds n 60,000 matali" obe ell would
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‘So far, no one has found any records.‘ of a skyhook balloon being launched on January’ 7, 4948, although this is still the official explanation of th Incident. “The Condon study of UFO's commissioned by
US. Air Force, concludes,
‘to this story, only ques~ tions, Would a giant. high- altitude balloon, unfamiliar “to
tell, have fooled the experi. fenced "pilot into. risking—and osing-—his life by climbing above 18000 feet without oxygen” Or
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by people in nearby towns ? Next week: aliens on the moon ?—the 1835 moon hot
Australian desert. There, he accidentally stumbles upon
us and highly- secret international project. He is being interrogated by the Security Police. .
WHO, /NDEED? ye WANT YOUR REAL NAME ANO WOW YOUGOT
WITH THIS SIMPLE STATEMENT THE DocTOR SWITCHES OFF
BELIEVE WE; THEN DON, (SE TO Ai “ANY MORE OF YOUR. INFERNAL QUESTIONS,
NSWER IPS NOUSE,
BUT BEFORE THE SECURITY MAN CAN OBEY HIS ORDERS, "A SCREAMING SIREN ECHOES ITS ALARM THROUGH ‘THE UNDERGROUND LAL NO SOONER DOES THE DOOR SLIDE SHUT BEHIND. THEM, THAN.
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{the solar system's centr : ‘could, produce ious consequences.
QUESTIONS! COME (OWE You wan TO. ‘STAY FREY QUICR: Up HERE.
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THE CLARION NEWSPAPER HAS PUBLISHED A STORY REVEALING SOME OF THE SECRETS OF SHABO AND ITS FIGHT AGAINST THE ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE.COMMANDER ED ETRAKER REALISES THAT SOMEWHERE WIA His OREANISATION (S-AN INFORMER, BUT THEN; AED ALERT COMMENCES LEAONG TOAUFO BENG SHOT COWN BY PETER KARLIN IN Sky THE ALIEN GRAEY CRASHES IN NSE FOG CLOSE TOWH Sen, AVOUNG ORALCNTSMANIS FISHING.
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LETTERS but how can I find out?
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The National Aeronautics en aS Ind Space Adminstration [i Miele ae (NASA) has. announced pee! {he following launch dates forits 1971 space missions of ace eens POG ROM RS A tat Unizentied ying mR tN A ‘Objects are spacecraft from sone aiady the: Rants: other planets but this still joncapiere, remains to be proved (and Perea [cis be proved (and Iites to test. methods of (i ania ae SCNTMRRROSTAI io arc uying vo do ust tha: ERG row this question right AEM 2ack 81 You it may, provoke
Ramah your friends: Assuming UFO's ire alien craft, coming from a co-project with Germany to. study the lower tonosphere with barium aerosols launched by'amall rockets, Hippos in May: two Mariner probes nemesis the Thames days apart; six. months later, the. first attempt to orbit’ another planet—the eet n to travel back two probes will photo- in time in the near future, graph 70 per cent of Mars you'd be advisedto equip PRR COMTEE ORM yourself with safari goar— May: SSS-A, Small Scien- tific Satelliteto be launched PMMOSTIETCME period (11 million years ago SCRCOME SEEMS to 1 million years ago) coast. would find the climate dune: Ariel 4 (UK-4), fourth ike today. The US-UK satellite to study were joined the ionosphere to the Continent and ele- OE PRNCRER COCR phants roamed as far north CSCS MCE os Suffolk and Norfolk. carry a lunar roving vehicle ‘The last million years RCO RUOMEEUI MN (the Pleistocene Period) Rille area. have experienced extreme VPRO OREIRCESI climatic changes. ‘These MEMES varied from ice Ages in POMICECRUCMIIGEEN which glaciers covered sat 4 network enormous land PDC to. warmer —Intorcla 4 Periods. Late 1971: OAO-3, third In one ice period, Arctic CCIE fox and reindeer roamed POPRCROUEI SECM southern Englan reflecting telescope mer periods, lions ranged STROM EESE across the Yorkshire coun- MIE tryside and. hippopota- EOMCMEMECINTICNIE uses swam. in the test satellite,
HINK TANK! Each week on this page I'll print letters, news its puzzles, and pictures. Write in with ys questior Sny subject, sclentinc or mechanical-t'll ty to anew the best ones and will pay £1 for each letter printes
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outside the Solar System (since the odds are against any of ‘our neighbouring planets. be~ ing inhabited), what would be the reasons of a highly ad- vanced civilisation crossing dozens of light-years (at least) to make prolonged, close range observations ‘of this rather small planet, Earth? Or are they so far advanced that their “reasons” would make no sense to lowly humans’ ) 0 es Sores ron
Jack Fox Bexley Heath, Kent
AAs, Russian for “union”, The Soyuz spacecraft are
designed to join together while in orbit, Other Russian names: Vostok means “east”, Voskhod is. “‘sunrise”, Luna means moon” and Lunokhod means
“moon vehicle.”
y art in the study of trinity ing objects. ‘Start kywatchers.
Club with your Mende won you make a sighting a an unknown aera object, prepare a_sight-
th the follow Ing detalls: name, and. location of the o
‘observation, weather'con- ditions, and names and addres ‘other wit-
you know them, Post your report to Saucer’ Review, Court, Chang 6 Road, London
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