University Daily Kansan. November 16 1982
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Shuttle
From page one
ing a pair of commercial ships from its winged 60-foot cargo bay was accomplished
Flight director John Cox called "it a very successful flight."
THE AMERICAN SBS-3 communications satellite, launched Thursday, settled some 22,300 miles over the eastern Pacific yesterday, letting down its blue solar cell skirt to provide electricity and flipping its silver dish antenna into an upright position.
The Canadian Anik-C, launched Friday, orbited in a temporary, egg-shaped path reaching 22,800 miles into space. A rocket firing at 12:59 p.m. today was planned to put Anik in an orbit 22,300 miles up, keeping it stationary over the eastern Pacific.
The twin launches earned $18 million for U.S. taxpayers and proved that the shuttle was a workhorse able to routinely carry cargo for hire. NASA officials said the spacecraft problems were minor.
RECOVERING FROM the letdown of the canceled walk, pepper-loving Lenoir asked mission control to order him "a jalapeno burrite and a beer . . . four beers" for his return. Cox said the order, a traditional delicacy for the Texas-trained crew, probably would be filled.
Alen, the mission's comic, jokingly threatened to stow away in Columbia's airlock until the weather came.
Glynn Lunney, shuttle program chief at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said loss of the spacewalk was disappointing, but not a major setback.
"I sure would have liked to have seen the spacewalk go well," Lumney said. "We are obviously disappointed. But we still feel very good about this flight. And we'll be right back."
THE NEXT SCHEDULED spacewalk is on the 11th mission in January 1984. But Lunny said it might be possible to add an spacewalk for one of the flights planned for 1983, including the first mission of the shuttle Challenger this coming January.
Alen and Lenon had planned a 3½-hour houl-strum in Columbia's lenoir cargo bay to test the suits, practice a 1984 satellite repair mission and try working with construction tools in orbit.
THE SUIT PROBLEMS were found while the walkerwalls were still in Columbia's canhaped airlock getting ready to go out.
Both suits, built by the Hamilton Standard division of United Technology in a suit development program, had been thoroughly tested over the past 12 days prior to Columbia's hitoff Thursday.
A motor in Allen's life-support backpack failed first, repeatedly slowing to a stop. The motor, operating at 19,300 revolutions per minute, was required to run both the fan forcing fresh oxygen into Allen's helmet and the pump circulating water through a tube-tubed under-
The failure killed hopes for Allen to go out. Lenior suggested that, he go out "in the solitude of the night."
**ALLEN AGREED:** "I sure would like to make a strong suggestion, if it comes down to it, that Bill proceed with this. He's well trained and knows what he can give you a suggestion from the guy with a bad fan motor."
Mission controllers compromised, saying Lenoir could depressure the airlock and perhaps stick his head through its outer hatch for a test of the new suit in a zero-gravity vacuum.
By United Press International
Demos used issues well, GOP pollster says
KANSAS CITY, Mo—Democrats exploited unemployment to mend their tattered political coalition and turn out the big vote that gave them seven more governorships in the midterm elections, President Reagan's pollster said yesterday.
Richard Wirtlin, who conducts poll for both the White House and GOP candidates, dissected the Nov. 2 results for the Republican Governors to determine the election with 23 members and came out with 16.
Wirthlin's assessment is that the 10.4 percent national jobless rate and concern about Social Security captured voter attention during the campaigns and that the Democrats used them adroitly to woo organized labor and blue-collar workers away from the GOP column.
"THEY ORGANIZED one of the most successful get-out-the-vote efforts we have ever seen." Within told 18 state governors and one president in December, an opening session of the RGA's annual conference.
Wirtlhin's analysis was preceded by much the same message from Gov. James Thompson of Illinois, chairman of the RGA and a near victim himself of the Democratic tide.
"Economic unease and uncertainty are the overwhelming undercurrent of thought running through the minds of Americans today," said Thompson, who called the election "a cry for them. From the voters and warned his GOP college students have just two short years to reply to that."
Wirthlin said his research showed the Democrats did better than Republicans in
ONLY IN THE AREA of collecting campaign funds did the Republicans perform better, Wirthin said, and added, "We can't let that profile abide in 1884."
contacting voters in person, by telephone and by mail and in getting their voters to the polls.
Thompson, opening the meeting, discounted the election results as a repudiation of Reagan economic policies, saying the GOP would have lost control of the Senate, more than 28 House seats and more governorships, including his own, had that been the case.
Wirthin said there were several reasons the Democrats failed "to make it a landslide."
He spoke of a "pool of patience" that kept voters from deserting the GOP en masse, Reagan's success in 'framing the issue in terms of sacrifice', and the absence of a coherent Democratic alternative.
SOME OF THE governors who participated in a free-for-all discussion suggested the GOP is suffering from the image of wealth and unconcern for the poor.
One, William Janklow of South Dakota, also said Republicans ought to firmly repudiate the negative campaign help of New Right groups such as the National Conservative Political Action Committee instead of "dancing around" and "secretly hoping for" aid from such groups.
Warthin said some such groups went too far with negative campaigning and actually helped Democrats, but there was no evidence a majority of voters turned away from their own perception of conservatism — less federal government and stronger state and local government.
Janklow also complained that some Republi cans in Washington were "searing old people to
death” with “screwball plans” to change Social Security. And Gov. John Spellman of Washington said some GOP state legislators hurt the party image by taking the 1888 elections as a prime example of essential social programs, to oppose ERA, and more avidly than the Reagan administration.
GOV-ELECT John Summa of New Hampshire said many Republicans "ran away from the unemployment issue" in the campaign and he "stressed solutions" did better in the volum
Presidential aide Rich Williamson told the governors Reagan viewed the election results "not as a disaster but clearly a disappointment."
Still, he said, the administration believes there remain about 240 Republicans and Democrats — 22 more than a majority — who can be rallied by Reagan programs in the next Congress.
The governors also heard a report on the economy from William Niskanen, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and an official on national policy would be to "stay the course."
NISKANEN SAID that during the latter months of the Carter administration inflation, interest rates and unemployment all went up while in a comparable period at the beginning of the Keagan administration inflation, the prime taxes went down while unemployment increased.
Speaking of the voters, he said "if they raise their sights from today's problems to tomorrow's opportunities, they would recognize that the Reagan administration for the first time in two decades has set the stage for a sustained economic recovery with low inflation."
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