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Friday, September 30, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
DISCOVERY
Continued from p. 1
To the delight of a quarter million people gathered on river banks and highways and an esthetic NASA队 in Launch Control, Discovery lifted off its seaside垫 and streaked into the air. It remained in view less than a minute, but the tension was considerable and the sight was unforgettable.
climb up the side of the ROCE.
"It was not particularly unusual," said NASA's Steve Nessbitt.
Some television viewers reported what they thought was an errant flame shooting from the left booter of a BMW. Officials said that an analysis revealed a harmless phenomena that caused flame from the exhaust to burst.
Cheers rang through Launch Control as the ship lifted, and director Robert Siek kidged his team later: "I knew you couldn't lift it. After a few long years, you've got to let it out." Another NASA official said the room emotion "dwarfs STS1" and the shuttle flight! and all the others."
Discovery, a U.S. flag on its left wing, was making its seventh spaceflight.
Space workers across the country start into cheers of exuberance and celebration, and they cry for nature and frustration as the space shuttle Discovery roared away yesterday and broke through a cloud of space workers across the country.
"This is a airy, very special mission to us all," said John Kallenherr, an 18-year NASA employee who watched at Johnson Space Center in Houston as a senior advance system specialist for Lockheed Corp. "There was probably more apprehension in this one. This one had to fly."
"Relief . . . absolute relief. It feels so good." Kaltenbach exulted.
John Holt, who covered the early days of the U.S. space program for NASA and later served on the magazine and later served on the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster; said, "I was as emotional a flight as I ever wished."
"I didn't cheer, I yelled. I'm still trying to get everything under control," Hotz said.
Shuttle delay
At 4:34 a.m. CDT, a weather balloon showed northern winds at 10 knots above 10,000 ft.
NASA delayed the launch of the shuttle discovery until abnormally calm winds at high attitudes changed.
Winds at this altitude are normally westerly at 40 knots.
How the shuttle fights winds
flight computers
programming are
compensate for
strong winds by
pivoting the
air engines.
Observers of Discovery liftoff fewer than expected, but vocal
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The Associated Press
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - Flags waved, cameras clicked and tears flowed as a smaller-than expected crowd of about 250,000 people along Florida's Space Coast cheered the shuttle Discovery litter off late yesterday morning.
"Oh my ghost, it was great," said 11-year-old Tommy Mathis of Detroit. "It was neat watching. It just looked like a ball of fire at first going up. And it went into a cloud halfway up.
"As soon as it went out, it was beautiful," he said. Patricia Matthias, 35, his mother, who tears just loudly, wrote in the diary:
"I thought the most intense part was when they realized they were past that Challenger stage." The Challenger blew up 73 seconds after launch on Jan. 28, 1966, killing seven astronauts.
The crowds turned out to be far smaller than the 1 million authorities had been advised to prepare for; Mitch Varnes, a spokesman for Kennedy Space Center, said reports of large crowds may have kept some away.
But those who risked traffic jams and launch delays seemed more than satisfied that they had come.
“There’s an awful lot of people that this means a whole bunch to that it didn’t mean a thing to two years ago,” said Robert Zsolzak, a butcher who has seen 16 shuttle launches. He arrived Wednesday night but said he had a hard time setting to sleep in his van, which was named sighing NASA and the Discovery crew good luck.
Many people were sleeping in cars parked along U.S. Highway 1 as the sun rose yesterday.
By midmorning, traffic in Tusnville had slowed to a standstill as the residents boarded the shuttle, which could be seen across Indian River.
The crowds along the river overlooking the space center counted down the final few seconds with the radio broadcast from NASA. They broke into shouts of encouragement as Discovery lifted off.
They quieted when the spaceship disappeared behind a layer of clouds, butats been cheering again when it reappeared. When the crowds heard the announcement 2 months later, they realized that the boosters had separated, the cheers intensified.
Soviets release pictures of 'secret' space shuttle
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union secured the space shuttle yesterday in a move that appeared to steal timed thunder from the moon of District 2.
Tass news agency at about the time the Discovery was scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral
Photos of the Soviet craft, which looks just like the U.S. shuttle, moved on the wires of the official
Western reconnaissance photographs of the craft or mockup versions have been taken.
Along with the photos of the Soviet craft, the agency transmitted a brief dispatch on the U.S. ship.
State-run Soviet television did not broadcast the Discovery launch live, but showed only a film clip of the U.S. craft sitting on the deck of a warship. The announcer read a report on the blastoff during a regularly scheduled newscast a few minutes later.
Despite repeated comments by Soviet officials that their shuttle has a distinct design and capabilities, the Tass photographs indicated it was quite similar to the U.S. version. The Soviet shuttle, in contrast, is since at least 1982, has delta-shaped wings like its U.S. counterpart.
The Soviet shuttle previously was not shown to the Soviet or foreign public, although some
At the Marshell Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., space workers wearing the green ribbons and clothes symbolizing "Go for Discovery prey, clapped, then cheered, then punched," said many sported the "Back to the Funny buttons displaying the unofficial theme for the Discovery mission."
Mayor Peter Knudson called the launch "one of the greatest moments of my life."
Astronauts have an in-flight news conference, answering questions submitted by reporters covering the mission. Deactivate experiments, stow equipment and check flight control systems in preparation for return to Earth.
the Jan. 28, 1986, Challenger explosion.
J. R. Thompson, director of the Marshall Space Center, broke out a foot-long royal Jamaican cigar to celebrate. Inside the Kennedy Space Center control room, he said, there was a progression of smiles, from laughter to roar, "a rowl," as the Discovery discarded each of its initial post-launch tests.
Outside the neighborring Vehicle Assembly building here, hundreds of workers left their stations inside to watch as the company launch that allowed them to again look ahead to a more-stable space. The ground floor has plenty of uncertainty and uncertainty that followed.
"My feeling came at 8% when the engines went off," said Jerry Cox, a engineer who worked on the shuttle's main engine. "I've been involved with that for 2½ years and I have a tremendous relief when that time comes."
"Unique, super, great! All those good words," Forrest McCarynne, Kennedy Space Center director, said of the team's backs and grabbed hands to shake.
Continue experiments. Photograph the horizon "twinkling glow" before sunrise and after sunset. Practice drenning procedures, including denning pressure suits and setting up a telescoping pole that the astronauts use to guide them they had to bail out during gliding flight on an aborted landing attempt.
“It’s an indescible boost to morale,” McCarthy says. “The sale numbers have grown, and I did today. It’s been a very long time for them. This was their living, the lives of our people.”
Trip Diary
Crew: Navy Capt. Frederick Hauck, 47 commander, Air Force Colonel Glove and Clover, 42 pilot, George Lewes, 40 sailor, Marine LTJ. Col. David H. Camers, 38
"Everybody's going out to buy a house now," said a security guard as the workers shook hands and began laughing on the way back to work.
Continue previous experiments and start others that examine the influence of weightlessness on crystals and other substances, photography light the atmosphere and demonstrate the teleported communication links in space.
Utah is home to some 8,000 employees of Morton Thiokol, designers of the Dodge-branded family joint seal on a Challenger bomber was blamed for the explosive
De flor-ob engines and start an hourlong descent, with landing at Edwards Air Force Base. Cait, set for being in flight for 4 days, 55 minutes.
Unlike for the first manned spaceships and the Apollo moonlightshe had a report of Hoz was here watching as the astronaut reacted to the sharp criticism of the Rogers Commission he belonged to. A second man was an unusual wind conditions were said to
In Brigham City, Utah, a tearful
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were part of the new caution of a more-humble NASA, he said.
"I'm very pleased with NASA. They really took the lesson of Challenger to heart." Hotz said.
Some former NASA employees said the launch was long overdue
"I think it was really important to go back in space again," said Sam Gleitner, the former agent who has a private space consultant firm. "I'm disappointed consulting firm."
At the Kennedy Space Center, Larry Kuznetz remained cynical about the space program's future because of political vagaries.
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