NASA hosted KU profs
Two University of Kansas professors, who viewed the Apollo 13 launch on April 11, commented on the possible future of manned space flight.
B. G. Barr, project director of the KU space technology center, and R. K. Moore, director of the space center remote sensing lab, were guests of NASA and Houston's Manned Space Center. Before watching the launch, they toured Cape Kennedy.
Both men agreed that the near disaster of Apollo 13 should not greatly affect future manned flight to the moon.
Moore, also a professor in electrical engineering at KU, said that NASA would continue its moon-flight program, although the launch of Apollo 14 would probably be delayed until the Apollo 13 explosion has been solved.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa (UPI)
—Supporting the tough noamnesty stand of University President Eric A. Walker, a majority of the Pennsylvania State University trustees Wednesday demanded expulsion of students found responsible for campus disorders during the past week.
:The campus was reported "calm" Wednesday by university officials, although about 2,000 students gathered at a rally addressed by student protesters. A force of 280 riot-equipped state policemen sent here the previous day was reduced to 175 and was "slowly being phased out," a spokesman said.
Walker, who polled the trustees, said 80 per cent of them also favored asking a court to make permanent a temporary injunction enjoining demonstrators from taking over buildings and destroying property.
The temporary order was issued by Centre County court, Bellefonte, Pa., when disorder broke out April 15, resulting in injuries to 18 policemen and the arrest of 29 persons.
As an indication of the toughened stand taken by authorities, five students arrested Tuesday in a rock-throwing incident were arraigned before Magistrate Louise Green at Bellefonte, and held in $1,000 bail each on malicious mischief charges.
The five were committed to the county jail when they were unable to post bond.
Student demonstrators arrested last week were released on bond ranging between $100 and $500.
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"The only real effect will be on the reaction of the public to future manned moon flights," Moore said.
Moore said scientists realized sooner or later something was going to happen and they prepared themselves for whatever was to come. The astronauts, too, realized the risks involved with manned space flight, but most of them are test pilots and are prepared for anything.
Barr, a KU associate professor of mechanical engineering, said that it was fortunate that the accident did not happen later on in the flight when they would not have had the lunar module to rely on for back-up life support systems.
Barr said after the moon flight program had ended with the last Apollo mission, NASA would probably continue with manned earth-orbit flights to set up space stations, orbiting astronomical observatories and other such projects. He said the problem with accidents in space would be greatly minimized with earth-orbit flights because of the relative ease of recovering the men.
Barr said it would be better to continue with the manned lunar missions because so much money and time had already been put into equipment for the missions.
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Barr also said he had great confidence in NASA because it could simulate any type of problem that might occur in flight.
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Unmanned space flight shows tremendous potential in all fields of science and public use, Barr said, because advanced weather tracking satellites can be sent up and better communications satellites can be used.
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Both men were impressed with the Apollo launch itself. They were especially impressed by the vastness of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where the Saturn V rockets are put together, and with the rocket itself.
"You don't realize it's that big just looking at it out there with nothing else around it," Moore said, "but it's fantastic when you get inside and look up."
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CULVER, Ind. (UPI) — A 77-year-old tradition will be broken at Culver Military Academy in the fall when the all-boys school goes coeducational.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (UPD)—New York State's regular drivers' vision examination not only helps traffic safety but the eyesight of motorists, according to the state Motor Vehicle Department.
Under state law, a driver must undergo an eye test once every three years before his permit is renewed. In one sample, the department said, 22 per cent of the drivers had to get glasses or have their prescriptions renewed before they could see properly.
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