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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 2005
SPACE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The International Space Station, shown in this 2000 NASA photo, was built by a cooperative group of 16 countries. Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of continuous human presence onboard the space station.
Space station marks five years of use
BY PAM EASTON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — The international space station Wednesday marked five continuous years of people living and working aboard it.
But there wasn't much time for celebration.
The station's two residents spent the day cleaning air filters, upgrading exercise equipment and doing other maintenance. Astronaut William McArthur Jr. and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, who arrived Oct. 3 for a six-month stay, also prepared for a spacewalk next week.
"It's not that we're not feeling celebratory," McArthur said. "The space shuttle isn't flying right now. And we got to figure out how to finish flying the space shuttle in the next four years and to finish building the space station like we promised to."
People first began living on the orbiting science lab on Nov. 2, 2000, after 16 countries joined to construct it.
"It absolutely calls for celebration," the astronaut said from orbit during a series of broadcast interviews. "We have done things that were absolutely inconceivable 50 years ago."
The 15,000-foot space station, about half complete, includes living quarters, an exercise room and a galley. It is now the equivalent of a three-bedroom house. Nearly 100 people from 10 countries have visited the station, and 29 have lived
The 15,000-foot space station, about half complete, includes living quarters an exercise room and a galley and is now the equivalent of a three-bedroom house. Nearly 100 people from 10 countries have visited the station, and 29 have lived aboard it, often for six months at a time.
aboard it, often for six months at a time.
NASA partnered with the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in building the station.
"It's not the pristine world that you see on Star Trek, where you see the neatly pressed uniforms," McArthur said. "What we have is perhaps, from a storage and organization standpoint, is well-managed chaos."
Paul Cloutier, a Rice University professor of physics and astronomy, said when people first started living in space, many were optimistic but also naive about the challenges of long-term orbital trips.
"Just the fact that it is up there is a major accomplishment," he said.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
New ticket system kicks off
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
After nearly a year of planning and discussion, students got their first taste of the new men's basketball ticket validation system this week.
Wednesday was the final day of the first ticket pickup period for the first three home games. Students had two options to validate their tickets: in person at the Athletics Department ticket office or online using the department's Web site, www.kuathletics.com.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said he had not heard of any major problems with the new validation system.
"I haven't had any great uproar." Marchiony said.
The ticket office is now located at the southeast corner of the Booth Family Hall of Athletics at the fieldhouse. Students can visit the ticket office to test their KUIDs in the remaining days leading up to the first game to verify that they will scan on game day.
Students such as Christie Omon, Lawrence junior, had trouble using the new system for the first time.
"I was just really confused by the online system," Omon said. "I wasn't sure what to do or where to click."
Omon said it was easier to validate her tickets in person at the ticket office, but she said the online option might help students with busy schedules.
Stephen Prokopiak, Denver sophomore, picked up his tickets in person.
When he visited the ticket office, his KUID was added to the list of IDs accepted on game day. Students who picked up their football tickets at the beginning of the year had their
KUID added into the system at that time.
Prokopiak said he would pick up his tickets for future games in person to avoid the online fee of $1 per game.
Marchiony said the department was charged the $1 fee per game by its online ticket provider, and the department was passing that fee on to students.
He said students who had suggestions or comments for how to improve the system could contact the ticket office. Marchiony said the department would discuss suggested options for improving the system after basketball season.
Several fieldhouse staff members will be devoted to the two student entrances to help minimize delays at the first game on Nov. 9, Marchiony said. He said staff would be equipped with scanners to slide the students' KUIDs as they entered Allen Fieldhouse.
The ticket office is now located at the southeast corner of the Booth Family Hall of Athletics at the fieldhouse. Students can visit the ticket office to test their KUIDs in the remaining days leading up to the first game to verify that they will scan on game day.
If student tickets are still available, Marchiony said students would be able to validate their vouchers on game day.
The first exhibition game is Wednesday at 7 p.m. versus Fort Hays State University.
Funeral for Rosa Parks draws thousands
- Edited by Tricia Masenthin
CIVIL RIGHTS
Georan Sherrill of Detroit takes part in a musical during Rosa Parks' funeral at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Parka, a civil rights icon, had in honor in the Capitol Rotunda before her funeral Wednesday.
BY KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carlos Osorio/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT — A church packed with 4,000 mourners celebrated the life of Rosa Parks Wednesday in an impassioned, song-filled funeral, with a crowd of notables giving thanks for the humble woman whose dignity and defiance helped transform a nation.
"The woman we honored today held no public office, she wasn't a wealthy woman, didn't appear in the society pages," said Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois). "And yet when the history of this country is written, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten."
The funeral, which stretched well past its three-hour scheduled time, followed a week of remembrances during which Parks' coffin was brought from Detroit, where she died Oct. 24; to montgomery, Ala., where she sparked the civil rights movement 50 years ago by refusing to give her bus seat to a white man; to Washington, where she became the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
Those in the audience held hands and sang the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" as family members filed past her casket before it was closed.
"Mother Parks, take your rest. You have certainly earned it," said Bishop Charles Ellis III of Greater Grace Temple, who led the service.
Singers included Aretha Franklin and mezzo-soprano Brenda Jackson, who sang a soaring version of the Lord's Praver.
Speakers described Parks, who died at 92, as both a warrior and a woman of peace who never stopped working toward a future of racial equality.
"The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry," said former President Clinton, who presented Parks with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, not yet born when Parks took her stand, was one of many who attributed their success to the doors Parks opened.
"Thank you for sacrificing for us," he said. "Thank you for praying when we were too cool and too cute to pray for ourselves. ... Thank you for allowing us to step on your mighty shoulders."
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