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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 10, 1969
NASA building bids are due next week
By DONNA SHRADER
Kansan Staff Writer
Bids will be received January 23 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) building to open at KU in the fall of 1970.
The $2.3 million building is
Crewman named for lunar landing in July moon shot
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The space agency said Thursday that the first U.S. astronauts to try to land on the moon will be Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buz" Aldrin.
Armstrong, a former X15 rocket plane pilot, will command the landing flight, called Apollo 11. It is expected in July and there is a launch "window" for shooting for the moon between July 11 and 22.
Armstrong and Aldrin will be the two astronauts who explore the chalk-gray lunar surface, while Collins remains in lunar orbit 69 miles above them inside an Apollo spaceship similar to the one used last month by Apollo 8.
Their backup crew on the moon-landing venture, set as a national goal by President Kennedy in May of 1961, will be two members of the Apollo 8 crew that orbited the moon Christmas week and one rookie space flier.
Apollo 8 veteran James Lovell, who has spent more time in space than any other man, commands the backup crew. William Anders, systems engineer of Apollo 8, and rookie Fred Haise are the other two members of the backup team.
In April or May, Apollo 10 will carry astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan to the moon. Stafford and Cernan will fly within 10 miles of the lunar surface in the Apollo moon landing craft, but not actually touch down.
Opera workshop to be Sunday
The annual Opera Workshop will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall. Murphy Hall.
Dr. George Lawn r, head of KU operatic activities, is in charge of the program. He is assisted by David Holloway, instructor in voice, Charles Axton, Lawrence graduate student and Harlan Jennings, Topeka graduate student.
The program is accomplished with a minimum of scenery and costumes. Scenes include the Italian Grand Opera, romantic, modern folk and comedy.
The School of Fine Arts production was scheduled earlier in the semester, but was cancelled when KU's Christmas vacation began early.
Page one photo of Kathy Snodgrass, Wichita junior, by Kansan photographer Mark Bernstein.
Holloway said the lead tenor, David Borgeson, Lawrence graduate student, will fly from Chicago because of the postponement.
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being built through a $1.8 million grant from NASA for an interdisciplinary research center. The building will be located 100 yards east of the Center for Research in Engineering Science (CRES), Campus West-west of Iowa Street. The Kansas legislature appropriated $345,000 for the building and equipment and furniture will cost an additional $146,000 to be provided by the University from other sources.
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The University disciplines, which will be housed in the new three-story building, will include: botany, business chemistry, electrical engineering geography, geology, human development and family life pharmacy, physics, and physiology.
The building will represent a
"sort of experiment in research building design." B. G. Barr, associate professor of mechanical engineering and associate director of CRES. The building with "its openness will attempt to facilitate the communications between these disciplines."
The building will include 36 laboratories and 77 offices planned for the "greatest flexibility." The labs "will have walls which may easily be moved to facilitate changes in research needs," he said.
A major feature to expand communications is the central access tower in a domed court. The tower includes an elevator and a circular staircase, and is designed to contribute through visibility to the interdisciplinary principle. From the staircase 11
of the 36 labs may be viewed through their glass walls.
The sidewalks will "direct the professors and visitors to the central court area of the building," Barr said, "then the professors will be more apt not to slip out a side door where they would never see what else was going on in the building."
A conference room is planned for each of the upper two floors, and the main floor will have a 120-seat auditorium with a projection room and provision for closed-circuit television. The auditorium could also facilitate bilingual conferences. If "the need develops, a language set-up like that in the United Nations could be installed," Barr said.
If the bids are accepted and the building can be built for the money aavailable, Barr said, "it
"Plans for the building began back as far as 1962. It took a lot of planning to even get the grant from NASA (KU received the grant in April, 1967), and we have received many inquiries from other schools in the Midwest on how we did it. Our plans all worked out and as the NASA man said when we presented our building plans 'It may fly,' " Barr said.
will be because of the combined effort of students and faculty."
The work and the planning will all come to the "critical point when the bids are received," Barr said. After the bids are accepted and the building can be completed with the funds available, Barr hopes the building will be "an integral part of the developing KU research campus."
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