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666 FLIGHT International, 26 April 1962 Missiles and Spaceflight The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration exhibited a mock-up of the three- man Apollo spacecraft at Ames Research Center earlier this month. Here the crew of the mock-up prepare to go aboard, dressed in "spaceflight restraining gear." Interior photo graphs of the craft appear below SPACE WARFARE AND EUROPE Presenting An Introduction to Space Warfare before the Royal United Service Institution on April 11, Mr M. N. Golovine of Hawker Siddeley's A.T.S. Ltd suggested that "a fullscale orbital war might well be the only sane solution of the apparently inex tricable East-West ideological and political opposition. If my hypothesis proves correct, the conflict could thus be resolved with out major devastations on the surface of the Earth." Although the "sane" quality attributed to this solution might be open to argument, Mr Golovine's paper included also a thought ful discussion of Europe's role. It continued: "The Western Euro pean nations cannot afford to ignore the rapid and, in a way, men acing development of astronautics. Even assuming that the defence of the whole of the western hemisphere were to be wholly depen dent upon the USA, the non-American NATO members must at least make the initial effort of a full and unbiased evaluation of aerospace from the political, military and industrial points of view. "I do not believe that the Western European countries acting singly and independently can make a significant contribution to the aerospace struggle which is developing between USA and USSR, but a detailed review of areas in which Western Europe could support the USA would fall urder two main headings:— (a) Participation in those basic projects where the US scientific. technological and industrial potential is beginning to show signs of overload; (b) Collaboration with the USA in the field of advanced studies, of new techniques and technological application of entirely new concepts, including work in the very advanced field of anti-gravities. "Technical collaboration, complemented by more direct militar. aid, including the operation of communications satellites and the creation of ground-based anti-orbital defence zones under NATO command, can only be achieved by an immediate activation of certain specific sections of the Western European aerospace indus tries. Space launching and space research organizations of the ELDO and ESRO type are interesting, but it remains to be seen whether the results achieved will go beyond a limited and some what ponderous form of collaboration between a number of Government agencies. This is certainly not the way to build up the military Western European aerospace potential as a significant contribution to Western defence as a whole." In addition to his post as managing director of the A.T.S. com pany, Mr Golovine is a vice-president of Eurospace, the European space industry group. Interior views show that the NASA mock-up of the Apollo craft (left and right below) differs in detail from that exhibited at Downey by North American Aviation (illustrated in last week's issue). Different versions of Apollo will be used for Earth- orbital, circumlunar and lunar missions
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