Wednesdav, May 3, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
NASA sets liftoff time for launch of Atlantis
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An abbreviated countdown began yesterday for launching Atlantis tomorrow on a once-delayed planetary
The shuttle will carry into space the $580 million Magellan probe, a robot spacecraft bound for Venus. It will be the first U.S. planetary mission in 11 years and the first to be launched from a space shuttle.
Lifteff is scheduled for 12:48 p.m. CDT tomorrow.
"Right now we are confident we can make the launch on schedule pending any weather impacts." said launch test director Ron Phelps. "Up to now it's been a real smooth run. The bird looks real good."
loots A launch Friday was scrubbed just 31 seconds before liftoff because of a short circuit in a fuel pump.
Technicians working around the clock replaced the pump and a leaky fuel line in half the time expected, and NASA scheduled another launch for tomorrow, at least a day earlier than they originally thought they could.
The five astronauts, who returner to their training base in Houston after the postponement, were dying Monday at home as mother Dearie Walker, pilot Ronald
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Grabe and mission specialists Mary Cleave, Mark Lee and Norman Thagard
Air Force Capt. Thomas Strange, the shuttle meteorologist, said the weather outlook for the next decade would be a percent chance there would be a condition that would
violate weather constraints
The biggest problem, and it was slight, he said, might be high cross-winds that could be dangerous if Atlantis had to make an emergency landing on a runway near the launch pad.
Little critters big problem to food chain
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A spiny-tailed little creature with a big appetite, which may have hitched a ride from Europe aboard Soviet freighters, is one of the Great Lakes, the food chain in the Great Lakes, a federal scientist said yesterday.
Only a half-inch long, the predator called bythorephes is a variety of a water flea with a long, spiny tail, said Henry A. Vanderpelope, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
What bythetrophles lacks in size, makes up for in appetite. Vanderloeg laughed his research showed one of the little creatures in a day could clear $1\frac{1}{4}$ waters of the native fish that provide food for newborn fish.
"For an animal this small, it represents a high rate of clearance," said Gareth Cates, the Green Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The water fleas native to the Great Lakes provide food for juvenile alewives, blaters and perch, which in turn feed on zooplankton trout and other large predatory fish.
Because of bythropthes, in future years "it is possible that, for example, alewives, certain forage fish, could be less abundant, and since these forage fish would be less abundant, salmon and trout could also become less abundant." Vanderploeg said.
WASHINGTON — The United States is discussing with the troubled West German government a potential compromise to the dispute about short-range nuclear missiles that involves development of a non-nuclear West German rocket, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The West German government decided in February to suspend research and development of the FK90, which is classified as a tactical weapon with a range below 300 miles. But in seeking a compromise in the dispute about the Lance missile, going ahead with the German missile is under discussion, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The missile could target airfields and other Warsaw Pact military installations covered by the nuclear-armed Lances that Chancellor Helmut Kohl is trying to persuade Nazi back and eventually dimentate.
Gen. Henning von Ordzaar, the commander-in-chief of the West German army, is in Washington having talks at the Pentagon and the State Department on options intended to the straits near the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Associated Press
Radioactivity in Soviet sub a concern of group
Britain has lined up with the United States in trying to persuade Kohl to agree to expand the range of the aging Lance and to drop his demand for U.S. negotiations with the Soviets on reducing short-range nuclear weapons, Denmark and the NATO countries are siding with West Germany.
release up to 20 million curies of radioactivity if the vessel was not recovered.
officials said 42 of the 69 sailors on board were killed.
Moscow said earlier this month that a decision on whether to attempt to raise the sub would not be made for several months. It said the vessel's two nuclear reactors were shut down before the crew evacuated and that there was no danger of radiation leaks.
WASHINGTON — The release of huge amounts of radioactivity may eventually result from the corrosion of the nuclear reactor aboard a Soviet submarine. Researchers at the environmental group Greenpeace said yesterday.
U.S discusses idea for optional missile
That is equal to one-third of the radiation released by the April 1966 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Ukraine, and three-Thirty-one people died in the Chernobyl accident.
Another option is to have NATO make unilateral cuts in its short-range nucleus兵位 to meet the lower levels, U.S. and NATO officials said.
Non-nuclear rocket is an alternative
Failure to heal the rift could cloud President Bush's summit meeting in Brussels from May 29 to 30 with the leaders of the NATO countries.
back on the Lances, after the range of the missile is more than tripled to about 259 miles, was suggested in a recent study by U.S. Gen. John Galvin, the alliance's supreme military commander in Europe.
The Associated Press
The group said a study done by John Large and Associates, a london nuclear engineering company, has found that the number of cancer cases may
Kobi, who is up for re-election next year, is under considerable political pressure from a West German electorate with growing concern about the concentration of nuclear weapons in the country.
The idea was quietly proposed to Kohl's government several weeks ago, but the chancellor persisted in demanding a delay in modernizing U.S. negotiations with the Soviets about them. U.S. officials said.
NATO is already retiring tactical nuclear artillery weapons. Cutting
The development of a non-nuclear missile might ease some of those pressures and also permit NATO to use fewer Lancers, a U.S. official said.
In Brussels, a NATO official said the U.S. proposal for unilateral reductions after the Lances are made more potent was designed "for a working document for how to proactively deal with them" would be taken up by Bush and the other allied leaders at the summit meeting.
The Soviet submarine caught fire and sank in 5,000 feet of water off northern Norway. Soviet
NATO defense ministers, at a nuclear strategy session last month, gave only lukewarm backing to the Lance modernization program, saying nuclear forces "must be kept up-to-date where necessary."
U. S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he was satisfied with the endorsement and was "reasonably confident" that Congress would provide more money to continue development of the new generation Lance.
There are 88 Lance launchers, most of which are based in West Germany. Officials have said the Warsaw Pact outnumbers NATO by about 12- to 14 in short-range nuclear missile launchers.
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