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This, of course, did not include public information costs, equipment 

 wear and tear, et cetera. 



The site selected was the island of St. John. We looked at some nine 

 sites, including a site survey by the senior aquanaut of the major sites 

 and selected a site in the National Park on the Island of St. John in 

 the Virgin Islands. An actual photograph of the site from a hilltop 

 showing the nice blue water, the seniitropical or tropical foliage. 



The actual underwater site was just beyond the sliip which can be 

 seen in the center of the slide. 



GE built the house. You will hear a detailed description of the habi- 

 tat a little later. The Seabees built a place called Camp Honeysuckle 

 on the island to house the support personnel. A major control station 

 was built to insure safety of the aquanauts providing monitoring 24 

 hours a day of their activities and of the principal life support features. 



On February 15, as scheduled, Acting Governor King of the Virgin 

 Islands shook hands with the boys. They had not at this point grown 

 their beards, as you can see. They went over the side on schedule. 



In spite of our modern-day technology, the Seabees wound up de- 

 vising methods of transportation M^iich have been used for a large 

 number of years. 



Early on the morning of April 15, the aquanauts entered the per- 

 sonnel transfer capsule on the ocean floor. The capsule was sealed and 

 brought to the surface. The men were transferred from this capsule 

 to the major decompression chamber, the blue chamber in the bottom 

 of the photograph, and spent some 20 hours during which the pressure 

 was slowly lowered to the pressure of our normal atmosphere, and they 

 reentered our normal world on schedule, having accomplished all of 

 the objectives of the program safely and, while we do not yet have the 

 data from the computer, we are sure that it will justify manifold the 

 expenditures. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



I would like to introduce Mr. Douglas Lord of the National Aero- 

 nautics and Space Administration as the next speaker, with your 

 permission, sir. 



Mr. Lennon'. Thank you, sir. 



We are delighted to have you, too, Mr. Lord. 



STATEMENT OF DOTJGLAS E. LOED, DEPUTY DIRECTOE, ADVANCED 

 MANNED MISSIONS PEO&EAM, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

 SPACE ADMINISTEATION 



Mr, Lord. Mr. Chairman and members, I would like to take this 

 opportunity to acquaint you with some brief historical facts about 

 Telvtite as viewed by NASA. 



Two years ago informal discussions were initiated by NASA with 

 the Navy on the possibility of obtaining data useful to long duration 

 space flight for man's involvement in the ocean. As a result of these 

 discussions two study contracts were awarded by NASA to examine 

 the premise that experience in an underwater environment would be 

 useful in obtaining data beneficial to the planning of long duration 

 manned space missions. 



The study program extended for approximately 6 months and was 

 guided by a joint NASA and Navy committee. The study program 



