University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 5, 1990
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Glassblowing
Patrick Moore, Kansas City, Kan., senior, shapes a glass vase as it cools after removing it from an oven. Moore created the vase yesterday at Chamney Barn on 15th Street.
A loose beam and new court actions may hamper NASA
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA suffered another setback yesterday when a misplaced beam was found inside the space shuttle Atlantis. NASA used it for the scheduled weekend launch of Discovery.
If Discovery does not lift off by Oct. 23, the mission will have to wait 13 months for the proper planetary alignment.
The judge did not say when he would rule. The satellite, called Ulysses, is to be sent to study the sun in the Discovery mission scheduled for liftoff Saturday.
The space agency also faces a hurdle in a Washington courtroom. A federal judge took under advisement a request by anti-nuclear activists to lift the suspension of the Tehran狱舍ite is powered by highly radioactive plutonium.
The 70 pound metal beam, painted bright yellow, was accidentally left by workers inside Atlantis' engine compartment, said Forrest McCarrney, director of Kennedy Space Center. The beam was heard breaking on its way to the orbiting day when the orbiter was being raised into an unright position in the assembly building.
Workers found the 8-foot-11-inch-long beam on a pile of cables inside the compartment after the solid fuel booster rockets and external tank were attached to the orbiter yesterday.
McCarterey said a quick survey of the compartment found that insulation covering some components and plumbing had been dented. He said it was too soon to tell if the accident will delay Atlantis' secret military flight scheduled for early November.
Atlantis' mission already is four months late because of hydrogen fuel leaks that grounded the craft in June. The leak repairs were completed Friday.
In Washington, the activists they feared an accident like the explosion of the shuttle Challenger crashed on April 27.
The activists, in their latest action, cited NASA's inability to launch a shuttle in nearly half a year. Columbia, like Atlantis, has been grounded for months by hydrogen leaks.
Ulysses carries nearly 23.7 pounds of plutonium 238. The decaying plutonium will provide electricity for Ulysses during its 1.86 billion-mile journey through space.
Office offers enrollment refresher course
Kansan staff writer
By Karen Park
A program designed to remind KU students of adving and enrollment procedures will begin in the fall.
The program, which is being offered by the Office of New Student Orientation, will be geared toward freshmen and transfer students, said Kathryn Kretschmer, director of new student orientation. This is the first year that orientation for the spring semester has been offered during the fall.
Six programs will take place in residence halls.
and one session will be offered in the Kansas Union.
Each session will last about one hour and help students prepare better for the enrollment process.
Representatives from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Applied English Center, the School of Fine Arts and the department of health, physical education and recreation will speak at the
"We want to be able to help students throughout their first year at KU." Kretschmer said.
She said that students were told during the
summer how to enroll but that they might be confused during enrollment for the spring semes
Pam Houston, director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Center, said, "We hold their hands a little bit more during the summer."
She said expectations during enrolment for the spring semester were different than those during enrolment for the fall semester
"We expect them to be more familiar with the timetable and the catalog." Houston said.
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