8 Thursday, June 14, 1979 Summer Session Kansan Officials ready for Skylab plunge By ROBIN ROBERTS Staff Reporter After the failure of all efforts to save the $300 million Skylab, the U.S. government is preparing for the mammoth space station a fiery plunge to Earth. The North American Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Cole., has been tracking Skylab. NORAD predicted yesterday that its orbit will decay into the Earth's atmosphere, with 25, with 60 percent chance that it will have fallen to earth by July 16. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration previously thought that Skyla's orbit could be maintained by sending the space station an additional shuttle to the orbit. The shuttle co-pilot Joe Engle told a former aeronautics engineer at KU last fall. ENGLE, A 1955 KU graduate, said that because of delays in completing the shuttle, a spacecraft that can be used on numerous missions, NASA officials had ordered the Shuttle to be ready shuttle ready for life in time to escort Skylab safely into the ocean. However, Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan, senior member of the House Space Applications subcommittee, said early this week that both possibilities had been "The shuttle will be strictly experimental the first time out," he said. Winn said the shuttle fell behind schedule when it was taken from California to Cape Kennedy piggyback on a DC-9. "THE MAIN REASON for the delay was that hundreds of custom-built tiles, used for heat shielding, popped off." Winn said. "It's hard to imagine a case like that and it got down there in very bad shape." Winn said he had known for a long time that the space shuttle would not be able to prevent Skylab from falling to Earth. He said he had wanted to know why the United States could not ask the U.S.S.R. to help keep Skylab up. NASA officials told him that the Russian and American docking systems were incompatible, he said, and that it would take too much time and money to make the systems compatible. Wim said the CIA was incompatible. HOWEVER, considering the Apollo 18 link-up with the Russian Soluz 10 is a good way to know why NASA had not considered the docking systems when Skylab was built, Wim Saa14. "We're all great morning morning quarterbacks, though," he said. Winn said that NASA officials had told him there were other reasons a link-up with the Russians would not be feasible. He said he thought something might be classified on Skylab. "NASA said there were other reasons." he said, "I just put two and two together, one and one." With the failure of the plans to keep Skylab in orbit, the space station is losing altitude at a rate of about one half a mile a day, a NORAD spokesman said. ACCORDING TO MILES Waggoner, of NASA's public relations office, about 500 pieces weighing a total of about 50,000 pounds will reach the Earth at speeds over 300 mph. The rest of the 85-ton Skylab will dismantle upon entry into the at- Waggoner said the pieces would be scattered over an area parallel to the equator, 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long. But he said that chances were slim that any damage to people or property would result. After all, he said, one was reported to be hit when 6,000 pound KU designs Skylab unit When Skylab falls to Earth in the near future, it will be one of those those who investigated by KU researchers. Julian Holtzman, associate professor of electrical engineering, said yesterday that the University of Kansas was given a NASA grant to develop a system of monitoring KU's weathering. KU received the grant about two years before Kyabyls' launching in 1973. Holtzman, chief investigator for the Sensor Performance Evaluation program, which produces data from RADSCAT, said the system was valuable because it could detect soil moistures, agricultural conditions and wind speeds over the ocean. Holtman said professors Richard Moore and Fawwaz Ubay, director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory, developed the design for RADSCAT, a microwave monitoring system that was built by General Electric and mounted on Skylab. Microwave backscatter is the deflection of microwaves off an object, in this case. THE RADSCAT was the first attempt to get information from the Earth by recording microwave backscatter and emissions from a space-borne antenna. Natural emissions are the energies transmitted from different substances. Holtzman said various substances on Earth radiate different energy levels at the same physical temperatures. RADSCAT can record those levels and map the use of these resources for crop planning, forecasting and natural resource development. "RADCAT DOES not have an imager." Holtzman said. "Our ultimate goal is to produce a space born imager using microwave technology. But RADCAT has given us necessary data for the design of a space-born imager." LAS VEGAS ODDSMAKERS have calculated that there is one chance in 150 that someone will be hit by a piece of Skylab, one in 11 that a city will be hit and one in 600 billion that a specific person will be hit. Holtman said previous satellite mapping was done by aerial photography panels fell to Earth in 1975. The panels had been used to protect Skylab during its first mission. Unlike photography and infrared sensing that produce images, Holtzman said, the microwave sensing data produces voltage numbers. He said that this number was an integers and the main and minor beams of microchips. "An antenna is a stupid thing," Holmman said. "It looks at the ground and records temperature." To interpret the reflection or scatter back, Holtman said, KU researchers had to analyze the antenna pattern. Analyzing the pattern is a complex process that has never been done before. The process takes several steps from the ground to synthesize the pattern. HOLTZMAN SAID KU researchers in the university ku pattern when it was mounted on a wall. He likened the system to a car speedometer which, he said, was easy to design but did not always do exactly as it was designed to do once it was in the vehicle. "We have been designated by NASA for excellence in radar remote sensing," he George Dome, researcher for the remote sensing department, said he was involved with SISR to develop a system which used a similar to RADSCAT to detect wind speeds over the ocean. Holtzman said KU's radar remote sensing program was one of the best in the field. DOME SAID SEASAT, whose orbit faltered after 99 days, could not only measure windspeed on the ocean like wind, but could also measure wind direction. Although the chances of damage may be minimal, Waggoner said, the United States would be better off. "We have an operating control room that will be open up until entry. It will largely information from NORAD to state and international offices," he said. Waggoner said NASA was relying heavily on the press to warn the public. However, the Federal Emergency Management Administration has divided the United States into regions and will have emergency organizations where they get word from NORAD about where Skylab will crash. He said the Department of Defense and the Federal Aviation Administration would also be involved in warning procedures. NASA also has a team of lawyers on hand to go anywhere in the world to settle class action suits that might result from the crash, he said. The State and Justice department could be involved in anti-militarization for countries other than the United States. A spokesman from NORAD said, however, that they would not even be able to make an estimate on longitude or latitude for the crash until at least 24 hours before Skylab entered the earth's atmosphere. He said that even after Skylab's entry, the location for its fall would be around 6,000 miles in a possibility of one of 6,000 miles in all directions from where it lands. He said that there were many atmospheric factors that could change the course of the satellite after it entered the atmosphere. MANAGERS' MEETING will be held at 4:30 in Robinson, room 205. More than 500 Kansas girls are on campus this week to elect a government and gain political experience in the 37th annual Girls State. Girls Staters get taste of political action TOMORROW: AN ORIENTATION SESSION FOR INCOMING FRESHMEN AND TRANSFER STUDENTS will be at the Kansas University and Westeese Hall. A 7:00 p.m., 8:30 p.m. FRESS CLUB will move in to the basement of the Sacramento Federal Building, 1025 Iowa St. the participants were selected from Kansas high schools on the basis of grades, class rank and leadership potential, she said this week. They usually composed an essay for the local chapter of the American Legion Auxiliary, the sponsoring organization, that wanted to attend this state and how they hoped to benefit from the experience. According to Girls State Director Opal Naumann, the week-long session, which began Sunday, is intended "to teach the girls about government in action." WHEN THE girls arrived Sunday evening, they were divided into two parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists, which supported the Democratic and Republican parties. Girls State tries to simulate real-life circumstances of girls' group into cities of 32 counties and counties of 480 counties. Each county elected its own county commissioner, clerk, attorney (who was required to pass a bar exam), treasurer, sherriff, license of deeds, district court judges and representatives to a state board of judges and representatives in courts and representatives were also elected. ON THE state level, elections were held for state treasurer, attorney general, secretary of state, governor and lieutenant governor. Jan Fink and Liz Valadez of the Federalist party were elected yesterday to the offices of governor and lieutenant governor. With their government established, the girls got a chance to test their political skills. Ella Alexander, a volunteer senior student who can happen that can in real life can happen at GISU. The young politicians could set up traffic regulations in the hallways of their dorms and fine anyone who crossed the line of masking tape on the floor used to define lanes. If two girls bumped into one another, they might sue in the county courts. Tomorrow, all 500 girls will travel to Topeka to convene their elected state Legislatures in the Kansas House and Senate chambers. The girls also will have learned about Kansas political life from Attorney General Robert T. Stephan, State Treasurer Joan Finney and other state politicians. "WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25 In the latter part of the Sermon on The Mount — Matthew 7:15 — Jesus Christ warned: "Beware of false prophets," and then shortly closes the sermon saying whoover heathens his sainting. It was a rock, and it is in spite of all the storms that beat up it; but those who heard His sayings and failed to take heed and obey were like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, and the storms washed out the sand foundation and the house fell: "AND GREAT WAS THE FALL The witness and testimony of this column is that Genuine Protestantism builds on The Rock of Ages, accepting by faith the revelation in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and strive and aim at perfect obedience. On the contrary, the Gospel demands that we do not measure up to whenever it don't measure up to the scholarship and precepts of men, and the "wisdom of the wise of this world," according to Jesus. "Genuine Protestantism does not consist only of the doctrine of justification by Faith, and the Supreme Authority of Christ is held in the hand of God, as its name indicates, an energetic protest, formulated in the name of these doctrines, against ecclesiastical abuse of Attention is called in the following to a number of Scriptures that give a strong and important basis for formulating the doctrine of the devil and denominations; the devil began his work with man in the Garden of Eden by decriing The apostle Paul wrote the Corinthian Christians, 2nd Cor.11:13. But I bear leary by any other reason. He says, 'The angels whose minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.' As stated above, Chris warms on the Sermon on the Mount (2nd Cor.11:14) and elsewhere of 'firelings' that are not true shepherds of the sheep, 2nd Cor.11:13, etc. warns of 'false apestes, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles'. God's Word calls on his People to 'make their calling and election sure!' it warns that some "believe in vain." All flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof is the power of the field; the grass withereth, the flower laddeth, the earth mown. The earth is grass. The grass withered, the flower laddeth, people are grass. The grass withered, the flower laddeth, the word OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER! The word OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER! still stands. The Rock of Aged Pray for the Modernists, that they may repent, if perhaps God will forgive the thoughts of P. Q. BOX 405 DECATUR, GEORGIA 30031 KANSAN On Campus TODAY: RHYTHMIC AEROBICS TEACHER CERTIFICATION CLINIC will Physical Education Johnson health and TRAMURAL CO-REC VOLLEYBALL FIFTY CENTS How About A Little Bread . . . To Use On Your Next Sandwich!! SMOKEHOUSE 719 Massachusetts SCUMM FOODS OF LAWRENCE MASS ST. DELI Inc. MASS ST. DELI Inc. MASS ST. 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