Vol. 99, No. 25 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday September 30,1988
Discovery reaches for the stars
Space shuttle Discovery launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Picture taken from television coverage.)
Students gather around TV to watch as shuttle lifts off
By Jeremy Kohn
Kansan staff writer
In the Kansas Union yesterday morning, dozens of KU students and faculty held their breath as the space shuttle blasted off for the first time in more than two years.
Belinda Vallee, Overland Park sophomore, said the wait was excited and scary. She said a safe launch would put to rest her fears of a problem-plagued space program.
The successful launch of the space shuttle Discovery seemed to renew hope for the students watching the flight. "It was a big achievement," she said.
"It gives us hope for the future," Vallee said. The room was overflowing with people when the company opened in 2013.
Discovery was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., after being delayed from launch.
Stephanie Young, St. Louis, M., sophomore, said she was impressed by the launch
"I was totally sweating. I don't know if I was hot or nerves." Youna said
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, associate professor of religious studies, took her Religion 104 class to the Union to watch the littfow. The class is studying rituals, and she said watching the launch shuttle was a type of ritual.
"It marks a reconfirmation that we are going forward with space exploration," she said. "It's not simply we're going to be first or best, but Americans have traditionally been the first explore fronters."
Successful launch lauded
Although most had sad memories of the Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger tragedy, most of the students were confi-
dent that they would not be able to remember.
Stin Tuilt, Lawrence sophomore, said. "I think they've looked everything over with a fine-touched look."
The Associated Press
CAPE ANCVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle
DCAFE carried on the U.S. flag back into orbit
the day before the launch of the JPL astronauts riding a 700-foot tail of fire from rockets magnetically redesigned after the Challenger crash.
"Everyone certainly stood tall today," said Kennedy Space Center director Forrest S. McCarthy as Discovery settled into orbit, 184 miles above Earth. Although the flight was going well, a cooling system problem raised the temperature in the cabin to an uncomfortable 72°F and Mission Control advised the astronauts to drink at least eight ounces of water each hour.
Six hours after liftoff, the crew accomplished the main mission of its flight, release of a $100 million satellite that will give NASA nearly complete communication with future shuttle missions.
"We sure appreciate your all getting us up in orbit the way we should be." Discovery's astronauts had already been part of Mission Control. "We're looking forward to the next four days. We have a lot to do, and we're going to work very hard."
Littifo the first and most important milestone, but more was at stake than simply getting into space. The 2:*y*-grounding of the shuttle set back the nation's satellite
delivery capability, and release of the communications satellite was the No.1 task of the mission.
On the fifth orbit of Earth mission specialist John Lounge flipped switches that released NASA's giant Tracking and Data Relay Satellite from Discovery's cargo bay.
But the most difficult part was getting the giant satellite, with its antennas spanning 50 feet, to its duty station 22,300 miles high. Right on time, triggered by an automatic timer, an attached rocket fired and the satellite began its six hour journey. Once there, another burn after midnight was to circulate its orbit so it would over the same spot on Earth for years to come.
The satellite is a twin of the craft that was destroyed aboard Challenger.
In Washington, President Reagan praised the Discovery launch, saying, "America is back in space." He saluted the bravery of the crew and asked God to bless this important voyage.
Launch at 10:37 a.m. can only after NASA weather guidelines to allow for flight through some lighter-than-usual Florida winds. The 8-6 minute delay simply heightened the tension as NASA unveiled a spacecraft that carried a satellite 400 modifications since the Challenger飞船.
Just how well the Discovery's booster rockets work in orbit is an issue of analysis. But J.K. Thornberg, who directed the work from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said, "From everything I see, every rocket is working."
Hack's veteran flight crew consisted of Air Force Col. Richard Covey, Marine Lt. Col. David Hilmers; George "Pinky" Nelson, and James Pike. The flight took place on Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The astronauts had said all along that they were treating the mission as a test mission, a 'shakened flight,' in the words of Covey; and they quickly ran into first flight problems. A water evaporator that provides cooling to the cloud climbs to space and returns to Earth was partly responsible that provides electrical power to move an orbital steering engine was not working.
Neither problem was critical. But to thaw the ice, engineers raised the temperature of radiators and heaters with steam in doors, and that in turn pushed up the cabin temperature by more than 10 degrees and raised it above freezing.
Backup power was available to turn the steering engine.
Please see DISCOVERY, p. 6, col.1
Tom Thompson, Abilene sophomore, applauds the liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery. Students crowded around the big screen television set in the Kansas Union lounge to watch the launch yesterday morning.
Indian affairs bureau investigating Haskell president
The Associated Press
Calvin Dalley, vice president of the National Haskell board of Legends in Sermulem, Oka, said the allegation accused Gerdal E. Gipp of ordering that the company's equipment be changed so that she could graduate with an associate's degree
in secretarial science on May 10, 1987.
An "F" in a records management masa was a required course for Dense Gate学员. The student changed to a "D". Dalley said. The United Indian Tribes elected Dalley
Speaking on Gerald Gipp's behalf, Charles Gebe, de of instruction at Haskell, said that bureau officials were speaking against the others, including Gipp, not to comment
about the investigation until the bureau investigator completed his report. The investigator from the university was on camas last week. Gibean said.
Carl Shaw, director of public relations for the bureau in Washington, confirm that the agency was investigating a conflict-of-interest complaint against Gipp and that it might complete his report this week.
oble administrative misconduct at Haskell met privately last night at a Lawrence residence to tell what they were going to do. The wives were invited to the meeting.
The group included Don Bread, the instructor who originally filed the complaint against Ginp.
Ten people concerned about possi-
Bread said that after he issued the failing grade, Gipp allegedly approached him four times about taking his driving license. Bread returned for the 1887 fall
semester, he said he discovered that, without his consent, Dense's grade for the semester was lower. She had been graduated and hired in Haskell's admissions and records department.
Gipp could not be reached for comment last night.
Bread said he discovered the alleged change when he requested a copy of Denise's transcript from the university. He also wrote a memorandum to Gebe,
stating that he did not agree with the change and that he wanted an adequate explanation.
Ruth Hawkins, the union representative for the National Federation of Federal Employees, said she offended the meeting because she was witness in case any of her faculty members lost their饭后 the meeting.
Hijacker captured by police in Brazil after shooting five
The Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Police shot and captured an armed hijacker as he tried to board a getaway plane with a hostage in the air and ended in an odeal that left one person dead and four injured, officials said.
Federal Police Chief Romeu Tuma told reporters the hijacker saved his bullets wounds and was undergoing surgery. His condition was not improving.
Authorities alleged that the hijacker killed the airliner's co-plant and wounded three other crew members. The hijacker as the hijacker was satirized.
The rest of the passengers and crew of Viacom Aerea Sao Paulo Flight 375 were unlearned h
Tuma identified the hijacker as Raimundo Conceicao, 28.
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Holding a 38-caliber revolver and taking the jet's plot with him, the hijacker descended from the VASP Boeing 757 parked on the munitory of the Santa Genova airbase and nicknamed northwest of Rio de Janeiro.
The hijacker had demanded to talk to President Jose Sarney about the country's economic policies, which
he said he thought were wrong, said Goiaiana police spokesman Morton Luiz.
"Police hit at him as he left the plane and he turned around and shot the Boeing pilot, whom he had taken as his only hostage." *Avolingus* "He ran off into the bushes, and police following close behind shot him.*
A small plane was to take the hijacker and his hostage to Brasilia, the capital, said air force spokesman Col. Eden Aviloune.
Pilot Fernando Murillo Silva was shot in the leg. Avolinsque said.
Hundreds of heavily armed federal and state police and uniformed army troops had surrounded the jet, isolated at the end of a runway.
"We had orders from the president not to negotiate with the hijacker and not to refuse the plane." Avolinque said.
The hijacker ordered the airliner to flown to Brasilia but the government refused, and the plane was almost running out of fuel, the jet landed in Goanaa, 150 miles from São Paulo.
VASP speskman Mona Curia tied Flight 375 was on its daily run from Porto Velho to Rio de Janeiro when it was hijacked.
"He told the control tower he was against the economic policies of the president and insisted on going to a military base to make any other demands." Laws said.
Earlier, VASP and the Rio de Janeiro airport authority had reported a passenger was also killed, but later denied it.
Hoosiers adopt Oz
The Associated Press
CHESTERTON, IND. -- Movie "The most famous said," Theatres.com refers to a reference to Kansas, but the town of Chesterton believes Darothy Gaynor has been a star.
The town board has launched a tongue-in-cheek child custody battle with Kansas this week over Dorothy.
The board passed a resolution declaring Chesterton, home of one of the nation's largest Wizard of Oz festivals, as the barnet of Oz.
Jean Nelson, founder of the Calabron festival, sponsored a sequestered 328 signatures in favor of the resolution, which was
Nelson, who owns the Yellow
Bird book store in Pasadena to
push for custody of Dorothy
after Kansas officials were
interviewed by an Indiana newspaper
Kansas officials told the Sharyn Post-Tribune they were shunning Or public because the movie was violent. Kansas in a favorable light.
Radon-testing group receives complaints
Bv Mark E. McCormick
Kansan staff writer
Stephan says panic helps 'scam artists'
Last December, Dale Jarrett paid radon and Environmental Professionals 2$ to test the level of radon in her home.
Nine months later, the business has apparently folded and the State Department has been forced to file a complaint against the company Jarrett, meanwhile has yet to respond.
Besides Jarrett's case, three other complaints against Radon and Environment Professionals Inc., 1900 W. 31st St., are being investigated by the Kansas attorney general's office, press secretary for the office
"With cancer being such a big health risk, I want to do all I can to protect myself and my family."
"I don't really care about the money," said Jarrett, an Overland Park resident. "I just want the results. Maybe I'm just especially proud of my career in Georgia tested high for radon and we have cracks in our basement.
Complaints from Clay Center, Leawood and Osawatomie were filed in
late August and early June, Horsch said yesterday.
Attorney General Robert Stephan in a news conference Wednesday said reports that cancer-causing radon is poisoning homes may have pushed a panic button, leaving concerned residents vulnerable to "scam artists."
Radon and Environmental Professionals was named in complaints for reportedly violating the consumer privacy by failing to provide a paid a service.
Stephan and Stanley Grant, Kan-
sary secretary of health and envi-
ance, scheduled news conferences in
Detroit to discuss efforts to over-
land Park Wednesday to urge
state residents not to rush into buyi-
ng home-selling kits and to be aware of
Stephan said, "We mutually agreed this was not only a health issue, but certainly a consumer issue. The field is ripe for friand. It is."
Dale Armstrong of the Environmental Protection Agency said
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