 The Autobahn, the high-speed freeway system of West Germany, was recently converted into an emergency airspace. A newly constructed section near Palo Alto, more than Germany, was put to the test when 307 NATO aircraft landed in service and took off in the 700th Street. Pilots reported no problem, landings on the highway. This facility here is real fine. We came in and landed this morning with no problems whatsoever. They have all the facilities you need to go ahead and flight plan and get the information you need to go out and fly another mission. Aside from being a little bit narrow, it's just exactly like a normal landing on any runway. And it'd be no problem at all to use it in wartime or to use it in a peacetime type of emergency. In an ambulance service, the fueling and radar equipment transformed the Autobahn into a... ...airfield. Transmissions had to be planned to offload combat equipment. Fighter aircraft and the service we want is available at a minimum time. It was originally to handle the heavy weapons of Hitler's invading armies. The Autobahn now serves as a cause for grief. The nerve center of the space-tracking mission is located deep inside Cheyenne Mountain of the Colorado Rockets. Computers, fed by a network of centers, include radar, telephoto, radio and computers, maintain a constant record of the movement for more than 4,700 objects still in orbit over the Earth. Ranging in size from small fragments of rocket debris, the size of a grapefruit, to satellites weighing several tons, the space command tracks them all, making some 30,000 observations each day. Special efforts have been given to objects falling in orbit. The man-made objects re-enter the orbit of the average one in a day. The heat and force of atmospheric re-entry causes most to break up and burn. Only the largest ever reached the Earth. Skylab, one of the largest objects in space, became erratic in its orbit in 1979, and the whole world was ordered by the cracking center. Unfortunately, the impact is in the remote area of Australia. Without time, it won't profit. Re-entry information is invaluable to understand the message. Take your device in place. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.