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This 217-page Project Blue Book desk file on the 24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico sighting by policeman Lonnie Zamora comes from the Rob Mercer collection. It contains the Blue Book record card, which carries the case as unidentified pending more data, along with Foreign Technology Division messages and resumes and a narrative of the sighting. It also holds inquiries about lunar modules, helicopters and VTOL craft, soil and radiation findings, and a letter by J. Allen Hynek rejecting Donald Menzel's hoax hypothesis.
“Lonnie Zamora”45 pages
~.S. Space Team Could Blast Off for Mars in 19751 Scientist Says !. - BY l\IIL'I BROuHARD haxen·t ·the fmanc1al capa-·for the 300-·HO days i1: Is · Times staff Writer billty to attempt a slmilar .expected to make the round • AXAHEDI-.\. thre~-man proJect unless they com- ' trip. . t:.S. space team could be pletely trample the 111·ateri3 l Th~>. mother -.ship 'vould s~cces sfully landed on }[ar5 need" of their exp ioding ~stabllsh a }[ar:Ian or~m an~ . t d t ·f . 1 popnlatwn ·• he ,;;a>d · -,enrl out the actual landm 0 · o con uc s~n ace exp ora- · . ~ · · craft to"·ards a pre-de~i"'- tfons in 1983 accordiwr to The landmg team would t d 1 d. . Tl "- , ' . o . be composed of the pilot. an •na e an mg at ea. 11" . ~e man ~onnected w1th the astronaut, "·ho would be fllght "·ould last about one pJ:ograrn. trained to act as a scientific :hour. . · : The target date could be assistant once the -!0-day ' Craft De~wbed . 1 advanced several years . - .exploration on }fars actualh- 1 The explorers small draft · perhaps as early as 1975-if aot unden,·a,·; a scientific 'would be able to change · federal go\·ernment officiaL; person tramed in ~eo logy, :direction once inside ~far,;· would gi\·e the program the.physiology and meteorology.!a.tmosphere to m~ke correc- 1 gcrahead at this time, he and a third member who ' tlons from the pnme launch contends. ,would be mi.ented to bioloo\· ·pattern. It "·ould be a tail- "It would take about nine and bio-physic,;. -o. : ~irst l~nding with th~ craft ,-ears to test and a"~emble , m pos1ttoa for blast-off \\·he,, . " )lodified Boosters · h h I · · 'the hard"~are and about six t e retum to t e ont tmg years to train the c;;;;tronauts Beween fiYe .and -~en cur- mother-;;h tp is to ~e made.. , who would make the land- rent Ol' modtfted ~aturn-C :\lo:-t of the equipment m ing," says Dr. Franklin P. biJosters would l~tt!lch the the landing naft w?uld be Dixon ~I a r s Excursion at temPt b~- llftmg al l expendable one e It has :Module 'program director at · ~u~pment neede~ . for an 'served its scientific purpo- ' 1'\e\vport's Aeronutronic mltlal earth- orbltmg way ses. Dr. Dixon satd. Division of the Philco Corp. !station. Ideally. the men would be lU p b F. t · Once the way station was .landed in the springtime o~n ro e ns ·in operation, a nuclear- ~ near }fars' north poliir ice : _He satd. that. c u ,r r .en t pm\·ered spacecraft \\ ould 'cap so the~- could in.-estigate r-IASA proJects lmkeet w!lh a be launched from it toward;; '' dark areas" which he ,.aid -hopefully- succ~ssful as-)I a r s. This mothership mav be some form of life · tron~ut moon. landmg '.nll ,would have a fom to six- •lap.ping up the "·ater created ! provt~e most of t.he nece~- man rt·pu- ::mrl hP nrPn:nPn l hv thP. melting thin ire cap. ' sarv. 1 n f o r m a t 1 o n and equipment needed to land · men on ~[ars and return . them saf~l y. Dr. Dixon re\·ealed thi;; irifo):mation and designs for the space vehicle to be used at Tuesday evening's meet- . ing of the Orange County Chapter of the American · Institute of Aeronautics and , Astronautics at DisneYland Hotel here. · His d1scliosure was based : o'n the final work .\eronu- ' ~onic submitted to :\AS A's 1 Manned Spacecraft Center 1 in ._Houston. The report re-:, q u es t e d by X ASA was . conducted to . check t h e i practicality of such a space c attempt. If He - sa1d the onlv addi- 1, tionaI work needed· beyond ·] current space studies would ! be the final development of a •1 current nuclear engine to ,, propel the landing whicle's , mother ship from an earth orbiting space station and 1 , better knowledge of t.Iars'. atmospheric conditions. Need Government Backing . . "The major hurdle is ar-·: tually to ha,·e the govern-: rnent want to make th f• venture," Dr. Dixon said. -Hr hopes that the possibilities of greater scientifir knowlP.dge and the political acl\·antage ' of ~·.!stripping R us:: 1 an · space efforts " ·ill prodde the · leverage to get appro' a! for the program . "The Russians at tht:; timeRob Mercer
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