University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 22, 1992
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Deciding where reinforcements are needed, construction engineer Britt Reuss (left) and site supervisor Bill Griffin peruse the structure of the future Amini Scholarship Hall before going over the plans to make changes.
NASA plans first launch of '92
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA tucked boxes carrying billions of organisms — from single cells to slime mold — into the Discovery on Tuesday as the countdown ticked toward the year's first space shuttle flight.
The inventory for Wednesday's launch includes 72 million round-worms, 32 million mouse bone cells and 3 billion yeast cells, plus 180 oat seedlings, 96 wheat seedlings and 360 oat seeds and 120 wheat seeds to be planted by the seven astronauts.
Discovery also will carry stick insects, fruit flies, frog eggs and sperm, slime mold, lentil roots, bacteria and human blood cells.
"It is a mission in which we are going to use the microgravity environment of space to develop new understandings of materials and life sciences that will benefit all of us on here on Earth," said Lennard Fisk, NASA's chief scientist.
Unseasonally cold weather was the launch team's sole concern. Low temperatures could cause dangerous slivers of ice to form on the shuttle's external fuel tank.
Forecaste: said Tuesday there was a 70percent chance the weather would cooperate for the scheduled 8:53 a.m. liftoff.
Launch director Bob Sieck said the flight probably would be delayed if the temperature dips below 47 degrees and the wind falls beneath 6 mph for a half-hour or more after liquid oxygen and hydrogen are pumped into the external tank. An overnight low of 50 was expected; the temperature at lift-off time was predicted at 54.
NASA established strict launch criteria after Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts aboard. The temperature that morning - six years agoon Tuesday - was 36 degrees. Investigators blamed the cold for the failure of an Oring seal in a joint in one of the solid rocket boosters.
Two of the seven astronauts are foreign. Neurologist Roberta Bondar will be the second Canadian, and the first Canadian woman, to fly in space. German physicist Ulf Merbold will be making his second shuttle trip.
The booster joints now have heaters. NASA safely has launched 19 times since the explosion. The coldest liftoff since then has been 53 degrees in 1900.
makes use of the European-built Spacelab, a pressurized laboratory module in the cargo bay.
Discovery's seven-day journey -- shuttle flight No. 45 — is the most internationally diverse mission ever undertaken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It
About 225 scientists from 14 countries are participating in the mission. Each of the international partners in NASA's planned space station is represented.
"We are now building relations and cooperation that signify, I think, the international character of the future of space exploration," said Frederik Engstrom, a European Space Agency director.
The astronauts will split 12-hour work shifts in orbit so engineers be conducted non-stop, including a medical tests, some of them dizying.
Blacks need relief most group says
Researchers hope to learn more about space motion sickness and back pain, common ailments among astronauts in orbit. Doctors also want to know whether exercise helps astronauts adapt better to gravity at the end of a flight.
WASHINGTON — African Americans are in an economic depression and neither President Bush nor his Democratic challengers have an adequate proposals to help, the National Urban League said yesterday.
"Every indicator of economic well-being shows that African Americans are doing far worse than whites," said John Jacob, president of the civil rights group. "We (Black Americans) were in a recession before this recession hit, and now we are in deep economic depression."
The Associated Press
Jacob spoke as the league issued its 17th annual report on "The State of Black America," reiterating its demand for a domestic "Marshall Plan" of economic support for education, job training, transportation, water supplies, waste treatment and telecommunications technology.
Asked about presidential candidates' proposals for relief for middle-income Americans, Jacob said, "I think it'a a diversion issue. I have heard that middle-class people are angry, and what we are seeing is the rebelling of middle-class people to their plight.
"The country cannot deal with her productivity issues, her competitiveness issues, unless she needs with people who have the greatest need," Jacob said.
Asked whether the candidates were ignoring these issues, he said, "I think they have a long way to go to put together a program of inclusiveness."
"I will tell you that if middle-class people are angry because of 18 months of recession, they ought to try being with 400 years of oppression," he said.
He said he thought Democrats to some extent have skirted the issue because of a fear of being perceived as a party of African Americans and a party of special interests.
He said that some proposals to deal with the plight of low-income people had been made but that they were not enough.
"What we need (from the candidates) is a comprehensive plan and a commitment to do something about these concerns and these problems if they are elected," he said.
He also said he was "very disturbed that national leadership, in both parties, thinks this recession can be waited out or fixed with a little tinkering."
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