Landings scheduled for today
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It's in the corridor, it's shallow coming in slightly too steeply, but its re-entering."
Ground controllers took the pilots through the entire routine they must follow to get home safely, beginning at the start of their 6:23 a.m. today work day, when they line up their navigation equipment and warm up their maneuvering jets.
Thousands of specialists have worked day and night devising, and proofing out, the special procedures needed to get the stricken spaceship safely home.
Engineers investigating events leading to Apollo 13's emergency in space believe "some sort of foreign matter" in an oxygen tank may have heated the gas until something burst, informed sources said today.
The highly placed space agency
sources said many members of a hand-picked group of investigators reached this conclusion while trying to determine the condition of the Apollo 13 service module where the explosion occurred Monday night.
"We started looking right away at the probable condition of the service module—with no intention of using it again but to establish what its effect would be on conditions of recovery of the astronauts," he source said.
Of the many possible theories as to the cause of the nation's worst spaceflight crisis, many member of the team believe some oxygen system component is the most likely source. They reached this conclusion while trying to determine the sequence of events.
"Although a meteoroid impact can't be excluded as a possibility," one source said, "some of those engineers think a probable
cause of the original event could have been a reaction between oxygen and some sort of foreign matter—the nature of which has not been determined—in the tank itself which heated the oxygen at a rate which led the pressure to rise faster than the relief valve could contain it.
"They feel this caused the rupture of a yet-to-be identified component-tubing, a fitting, a valve or the oxygen tank itself—which carried away adjacent redundant systems, resulting in the loss of all three fuel cells systems."
Before it can re-enter earth's atmosphere, Apollo 13 must first jettison the lunar lander, Aquarius, which has powered it home, and also get rid of the damaged service module. Special procedures are required in both cases, and it was a down to the wire race to see if the procedures could be worked out.
Several times during the day Lovell reminded ground controllers he had to have the instructions so he and his crew could check them out.
By late evening, a note of impatience had crept into his voice.
"We've got to realize we've got to establish a worklist," Lovell told the Houston Space Center. "We can't just wait around up here. We've got to . . . get the people asleep. So take that into consideration. . . ."
Shortly thereafter, they began the long readout of figures that could spell life or death to the space fliers.
"I know, Jim, we're very conscious of that," said controller Vance Brand. "We should be ready to go in another five minutes, that's all I can say."
Because of concern over whether Apollo 13 could get home safely, officials had held off
announcing any welcoming plans for them.
Arsonists strike high schools
TOPEKA (UPI) — About two hours after an arsonist apparently caused heavy fire damage at the Highland Park High School auditorium Thursday, another fire set at Topeka High School was quickly snuffed out.
"I'm not sure really what's
Police dispersed-
But with prospects for a safe landing growing brighter, the band aboard the prime recovery ship, the carrier Iwo Jima, disclosed Thursday night it would serenade the astronauts with a swinging version of "Aquarius," when they step aboard.
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The paper said, "This is the Declaration of the Black Students and parents of Lawrence, Kansas. Let this not be confused or read as any type of compromise or manifesto. This is our Declaration with no condition."
Black literature, history and communications along with African history were also listed.
A black KU student who gathered in Veterans Park said "None of this trouble would have ever happened if the school administration would have just let the black students have their cheerleader and queen."
"It isn't too much to ask," he continued, "to have black students represented by a cheerleader and a queen."
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Knox added that several school board members had been threatened.
In addition to the black high school students and the several KU students gathered in the park with them, there was also a group of parents of black students present at the school throughout the day.
The only reason, the KU student explained, there were any people from the University there was "to make sure nobody tries to beat on these kids."
Later in the afternoon, a minor rock-throwing incident began across from Veteran's Park drawing nearly 30 helmeted policemen to the scene. No arrests were made and no one was reported injured.
In an interview Knox said several bomb threats were reported throughout the school system in addition to the threat at Central.
going on," said Fire Chief Floyd Dibbern following the second fire.
Robert Jennings, Highland Park principal, said the fire occurred shortly after Black students disagreed with him over an assembly they wanted during "black awareness week" at the school.
Dibbern said he didn't know yet how the fires were started, but he was sure they were set.
The other odor
The fire chief said a security officer snuffed the fire out at Topeka High. The fire there, the same as the one at Highland Park, started in the stage area of an auditorium. There was no damage at Topeka High School.
Seven fire units were sent to the Highland Park fire which was quickly put out, although there was extensive smoke and fire damage to the floor, curtains, seats, and a piano. No damage estimates were available.
Dibbern said several seats had been ripped by vandals, and there were reports of windows broken at the school.
Joe Hays, a school security
Police were called to the scene when fights broke out between black and white youths outside the school, but no one was injured.
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officer, was the only person injured in the fire. He suffered a slight case of smoke inhalation. He was in satisfactory condition at a Topeka hospital.
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