University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
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Discovery readies for third takeoff attempt
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The new space shuttle Discovery, grounded for two months after an aborted launch attempt, is scheduled to make a third takeoff try on Aug. 29 on both additional satellites on board.
Veteran Henry Hartfield and crookies Michael Coats, Richard Mullane, Steven Hawley, Judy Reinik and Charles Walker are scheduled to blast off at 8:35 a.m. EDT from the same Kennedy Space Center pad where their ship fizzled on June 26.
What would have been the shuttle's second mission was canceled this week because of the launch delay. The space agency decided to combine the payloads of two missions onto a single flight, giving the crew three satellites to launch — a record for a shuttle.
By combining two missions into one, NASA was able to maintain its one-a-month shuttle launch schedule for the rest of the year.
DISCOVERY IS SCHEDULED to stay in orbit six days on its first mission - a day less than originally
planned — gliding to a dry lake bed landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., shortly after sunrise on Sept. 4.
The engine that refused to start, causing the launch abort just four seconds before liftoff in June, has been replaced by one that had been removed earlier for repair of a broken internal heat shield.
Engineers believe that small particles of foreign matter may have accumulated in the No 3 engine hydraulic system and interfered with the operation of a device responsible for opening a hydrogen fuel valve that failed to operate properly.
The crew members said at a Houston news conference on Aug. 17 they were confident the engine would work this time.
"I think the overwhelming emotion for all of us at T-minus four seconds when we get appointed at not getting to fly, especially in an engine started," Hartfield said.
"THEHER WAS A letdown but morale has picked up," he said. "It peaked again and we're back to where we were."
In June, Discovery carried only
one satellite — a communications spacecraft leased to the Navy.
Two commercial satellites scheduled for the canceled second flight were added to the payload and an experimental solar cell array from the first mission remained in the flight plan. Both missions included the launch of identical military communications satellites.
One of the two military satellites and a large-format mapping camera from the first mission were bumped to later flights.
Because two shuttle-launched communications satellites ended up in useless orbits earlier this year — through no fault of NASA — the space agency's prestige is on the line for its reentry. The next relay stations aboard Discovery
WESTERN UNION'S WESTAR 6 and Indonesia's identical Palapa satellite soaring into wayward orbits after their payload assist module (PAM) solid rockets misfired in February.
NASA has signed a contract to mount a rescue mission in November to retrieve Palapa and hopes to sign a charter with the under-writers of Westar.
Engineers believe areas of varying
density in the material used to make the rocket nozzles caused them to come apart. Since then, an exhaustive series of tests has been instituted to weed out any suspect nozzles.
Discovery's Satellite Business Systems SBS-D satellite and American Telephone & Telegraph Co's Telstar C-3 both rely on PAM motors for their kick to synchronous orbits 22,300 miles above the equator
BOTH SATELLITES COST $40 million, including the price of the PAM boosters and both companies. The $200 million for the shuttle launch.
The Syncom 4 satellite, a communications relay station leased by the Navy for $83.7 million over five years, does not use a PAM and instead relies on the trusty upper stage of a Minutean ICMB motor. The price tag for the shuttle launch is about $17 million.
Syncom 4, the first of a planned fleet of four, is the first satellite designed specifically for space shuttle launches. All three were built by Hughes Aircraft Co. of El Segundo, Calif.
ABOUT NINE HOURS after blastoff the astronauts will launch SBS-D. About 45 minutes after the
spinning 1,300-pound satellite is pushed away from the shuttle by powerful springs, its PAM rocket motor will fire to boost the relay station into a transfer orbit.
A smaller solid rocket will later stabilize the satellite at the proper 22,300-mile circular altitude.
Syncom 4 is to be deployed Aug. 30.
Unlike the other two satellites, the 14-foot-wide Syncom is mounted horizontally in the payload bay.
With Discovery in the proper orientation, the 15,000-pound satellite will be pushed up from its cradle by springs that will impart a stabilizing force. Its solid rocket motor will fire to bring the trip to geosynchronous orbit.
The Telstar deployment on Aug. 31 will be a repeat of the SBS launch
WALKER, WHO WORKS for the McDonnell Douglas Astronauties Co., will operate the company's continuous flow electrophoresis system, a refrigerator-sized biological processor stored on the orbiter's lower deck, throughout the flight.
McDonnell Douglas and its partners in the venture, Johnson & Johnson Medical Division, hope the much-needed produce enough of a life-saving
hormone to begin human testing
The identity of the hormone is a closely guarded industrial secret. It is accessed by using electric fields in the absorption of bioactive pure samples of biological materials.
THE EXPERIMENTAL FACTORY flow on four previous shuttle missions during development but the upcoming flight will be the first to generate enough of the hormone to begin clinical testing. If all goes well, clinical could be available commercially by the end of the decade.
Walker will be the first non-government sponsored astronaut to make a shuttle trip and has received two hours of training for the mission.
He had been scheduled to make a second shuttle flight in November for additional sample runs but the launch abort and subsequent cancellation of Discovery's second morale M60 rescue douglas to ask for a later mission to allow more time to refurbish its equipment between flights.
Eventually McDonnell Douglas hopes to orbit a self-contained factory satellite to mass produce the material.
'Tightrope' swings to top movie spot
By United Press International
HOLLYWOOD - Clint Eastwood's detective mystery, "Tightrope," debuted in first place at the box office, grossing $9.1 million and easily topping all competitors last weekend, studio officials announced.
The Warner Bros. Inc suspense thriller stars Eastwood as a homicide detective investigating a string of sadistic sex murders in New Orleans.
"We expected it to open strong. The reviews have been almost uniformly excellent across the coun-
ity. It's gaining momentum from day to day, said Barry Reardon, press secretary at the Trump administration.
Although Eastwood does not play his popular San Francisco detective Dirty Harry Calkaghan in "Tightrope," the film almost matched the matching last Christmas of Eastwood's last Harry movie, "Sudden Impact."
"WE EXPECT 'TIGHTROPE' to be one of the summer's biggest grossers." Reardon said after the figures were released Monday.
"Red Dawn," an action adventure film about a Russian invasion of
America that topped the poll last week, finished a distant second, grossing almost $5.6 million in its weekend for a total of $18.5 million
"Ghostbusters," starring Dan Akyreod and Bill Murray, came in third with $5.58 million. After 73 days, the supernatural comedy has earned $171.6 million, making it the top grossing film of 1984.
"Purple Rain," rock star Prince's film debut, placed fourth one notch lower than the previous weekend, for a three-week total of $44.7 million.
"Revenge of the Nerds" was fifth with a gross of $3.6 million and a four-week total of $18.4 million; and "Karate Kid" dropped to sixth with $3.4 million and a two-month take of $99.5 million.
"Sheena," starring former Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts as the legendary queen of the jungle, debuted with a disappointing $2.9 million for a seventh place showing.
"Dreamscape," another new film, also suffered a disappointing debut, opening in eight place with a three-day gross of $2.2 million.
Woman faces extradition in Belushi's death
In the final 30 hours of Belushi's life, he was injected with heroin and or all of those by Smith, according to offidavs from Leslie Marks and
TORONTO — Cathy Evelyn Smith injected comedian John Belushi frequently with a cocaine-heroin mixture during a five-day party at a Los Angeles hotel, two witnesses said in affidavits presented yesterday at an extradition hearing for Smith.
Nelson Lyons, friends of the late comedian.
By United Press International
Marks and Lyons said Smith also injected them with the drug mixture (culture medium).
Smith, 35, of Toronto, faces ex-
tended to California where she is
charged with second-degree murder
in Belushi's drug overdose death in
1982. The former singer and song-
writer was quoted in the National
Enquirer tabloid as admitting she
gave Belushi the fatal dose.
CROWN PROSECUTOR ARH
Cooramawat County High Court
Jason Walker
cocaine or heroin alone that Smith injected into Belushi on March 5 would have killed him. He was found dead that day.
“Mixing the two causes the effect to be mitigated.” Coomaraswamy said, “in other words, one plus one makes it take two — it makes more than two.”
He said Smith was acting intentionally or with reckless disregard for the consequences of her actions when Belushi died that morning.
Miss Smith's layyer, Brian Greenspan, argued that if his client's involvement could be proven, it
would only constitute manslaughter in Canada.
In order to extradite Smith, prosecutors must convince Borins there is sufficient evidence to bring Smith to trial in California and that the charges against him are valid of administering drugs she faces have an equivalent in Canadian law.
Smith was arrested in Toronto on the U.S. warrant in March 1983 after she was indicted by a Los Angeles County grand jury.
Coomaraswamy said he had evidence Smith had been a heroin addict.
Race to take place Sunday
By the Kansan Staff
to KU students, faculty and staff,
and to all others interested.
Medals will be awarded to the first
three men and women in each
division. The course will begin and
end in front of Watson Library.
Student Union Activities' Outdoor Recreation will sponsor the second annual KU Runaround run at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Participation in the run is open
The entry fee will be $6 before the day of the race. An $8 fee will be charged on the day of the race.
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