Spaulding High School - Our Echo Yearbook (Barre, VT)

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AN END - AND A BEGINNING All of us involved have the responsibility to strive to make the flight to the Moon not an end in itself, but the spearhead for a whole set of undertakings over the entire front of positive human endeavors, be they in science or the arts, social progress or medicine. - Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Astronomer, 1963 No space trip just happens. There are years of careful planning and advance programming; no one realizes this planning more than Mis- sion Control. Mission Control is an intricate organization comprised of a Flight Director and his Assistant, the Capsule Communica- tions Center, the Guidance Center, the Ground Crew, and, most important, the Flight Crew itself. The Flight Director for Odyssey '69 was Dr. Anatole G. Pendo; his Assistant, Mr. Robert M. Burdett. All programming was placed in their capable hands, and we owe much gratitude to them for their painstaking efforts to insure the success of our voyage. Our Capsule Communications Center, the behind-the-scenes, integral part of the success- ful flight of Odyssey '69, was staffed by the dedicated Faculty of Spaulding High School. It is the responsibility of Cap Com to maintain continuous contact between the ground and the space travelers, and without the invaluable help of CAP COM, we might have been lost in space. The course of Odyssey '69 was very capably directed by Mr. William Rochon and his fine assistants, Mrs. Ernest Hicks and Mr. Robert Abbiati. Most of the crew members did not know at the time of the launching what course oiir ship would take; the Guidance Center helped us to discover where we were headed. Mr. Campbell Donaldson, Mr. Clifford )ohn- son, Mr. Russell Riddel, and Mrs. Gertrude West jointly assumed the duties of managing the Ground Crew, whose job it was to ready the ship for the impending journey and to main- tain it in excellent operating condition. 1150 voyagers boarded Odyssey '69, with crew members divided into four teams - se- niors, the Prime Crew, with juniors, sopho- mores, and freshmen forming three back-up crews. This logbook records the activities of these travelers from the launching of the ship in September until splashdown in )une. To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. -Archibald MacLeish, December 25, 1968