Crew 'OK' after space abort
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(Continued to page 16) But it soon became apparent the Odyssey's supporting service module had been severely damaged by the mysterious failure. In three hours it was dead.
Lovell and Haise quickly turned their attention to the lunar module and fought to control the ship's tumble so they could use its lunar landing guidance equipment to steer the pilots back home.
"Why the hell are we maneuvering," barked Haise when the big tandem spacecraft rolled and bucked as it continued to speed toward the moon.
"I can't take that doggone roll out," replied Lovell. Later the pilots managed to activate the lunar lander's control rockets and settle the ship down.
They owed their lives to the hundreds of quick-reacting controllers and the spindly landing craft that fortunately still was latched to the nose of the command ship Odyssey. Had it not been there, the pilots would have died.
The explosion apparently ruptured one of the ship's fuel cell power generators and an oxygen
tank, rapidly spewing oxygen into space. Without that oxygen, the generators could not run and the command ship was powerless except for batteries that will be used for the re-entry into the atmosphere.
Water is a minor problem for the Apollo 13 crew, which had only a 44-hour supply in the lunar module fuel cells with 77 hours remaining in the mission, a NASA spokesman said.
The crew still has a 48-hour supply of water in its survival kits in the command service module, the spokesman said. This totals to 92 hours of water for drinking and food preparation if the flight can be brought down Fridav as planned.
Food is no problem, the spokesman said, except that the crew may change its menu to use food which does not require water in preparation.
There is no problem with oxygen.
"We have 48 pounds of oxygen in the LM descent tanks which is more than adequate to do the mission," said James A. McDivitt, Apollo spacecraft program manager.
Aquarius also had six batteries designed to support men on the
"I think we'll have to be very frugal on how we use it," Kraft added.
moon and in lunar orbit for two days—and McDivitt said this too was enough "to do the whole mission."
Neil A. Armstrong, the first man on the moon, and Alan L. Bean, the latest man on the moon, conceded today the electrical failure on Apollo 13 "happened at a very good time if it had to happen."
"Their concensus is that it gives the astronauts time to research the problem and do something about it as opposed to another part of the mission when they wouldn't have the time available to them," said a NASA official who talked to Armstrong and Bean.
According to the latest figuring Lovell, Swigert and Haise will loop the moon tonight, fire the big landing engine again and speed back to a Pacific Ocean splashdown at 1 p.m. EST Friday.
As soon as they were back on a good trajectory, the astronauts found time to worry about sleep. Controllers told Haise to sleep for six hours while Lovell and Swigert maintained a watch.
Besides periling the three moon pilots, the failure wrecked expensive plans to carry out man's most ambitious exploration of the lunar surface. It was the nation's third moon landing mission and cost American taxpayers $375 million.
It was America's fifth flight to the moon and the third landing expedition. The next mission,
Apollo 14, is scheduled for launch Oct. 1.
At their homes near the Manned Spacecraft Center, the wives of Lovell and Haise were worried but calm and confident their husbands would be safe. Swigert is a bachelor.
Contract reached with union strike
TOPEKA (UPI) — A new contract settlement was reached Monday with one of six striking construction unions that have almost entirely shutdown major building in the capital city area for the past two weeks.
ABA's returned clearance sought
Regent's letter-
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newsletter to which Weiss took offense was not politically oriented.
"There wasn't a damn thing political about it." Bubb said.
"I'm not accusing him of anything." Bubb said referring to tc Weiss, "but I don't want to dignify him by starting a running argument with him."
"I thought he was pretty damned narrow minded," Bubb said of Weiss.
"I am not opposed to a professor teaching liberal or conservative thoughts. I think students should have both sides of the picture. Otherwise, a professor shouldn't be teaching students," Bubb emphasized.
Wilson said he later received a telephone call from Bubb in which Bubb apologized for the incident and used the use of Regents stationery was a mistake. Governor Docking and the Kansas Attorney General were both aware of Bubb's letter. Wilson said.
Weiss told the Kansan that following receipt of the letter, Paul Wilson, then president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Board of Regents.
Weiss was contacted this morning by the Kansan but declined to comment on the issue.
16 KANSAN Apr.14 1970
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Shortly after President Nixon nominated Warren E. Burger as chief justice he abandoned the usual practice of clearing Supreme Court nominations with an American Bar Association (ABA) committee.
In the aftermath of the Senate rejections of Nixon's next two nominees, ABA President Bernard G. Segal is seeking a meeting with Nixon to try to convince him to return to the method of his predecessors, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Segal testified Monday before the Senate subcommittee on improvements in judicial machinery that Nixon retained the old system of advance clearance with the ABA's committee on the federal judiciary for district and circuit court judges. But, he testified, Nixon specifically ruled it out for Supreme Court nominations.
fied by the ABA committee even though they enjoyed "the strongest kind of political backing."
If Nixon declines to return to the old system, Segal said, he will urge the ABA committee to change its method of rating Supreme Court nominees.
Because Nixon kept advance clearance for the lower courts they have "been spared several judges" who were rated unquali-
Carswell's was the first nomination to be considered under a new ABA system which allowed only two ratings—"qualified" or "not qualified." The old system admitted a third, "well qualified."
"The Senate and the American people are entitled to more than a single world of classification," Segal said. Its rating, he said, should answer these questions: "Is he a man just barely qualified? Is he a man who makes your spirits soar?"
The committee was severely criticized in rating G. Harrold Carswell of Florida "qualified" a few days after Nixon made the nomination Jan. 19 and before Carswell's 1948 white supremacy speech came to light.
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