Monday, Feb. 3 1986
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that join the base of the 149-foot rocket to the external tank. The rocket normally is severed from the tank by explosive bolts when the rocket burns out two minutes after launch.
Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch, and tracking pictures
released by NASA Saturday night showed what was described as an unusual plume 58.32 seconds after launch. The first clear indication of flame from the wall of the booster came 1.5 seconds later.
NASA sources said there was evidence, however, of something ab
normal occurring even earlier in the flight.
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Art
"It's one link in the chain," said Gil Moore, spokesman for the Morton-Thiolok Wasatch Division which built the booster in Brigham City, Utah. "But we don't know whether it's the beginning link of the chain.
work had increased by at least half since 1954.
"It would assume that a $10,000 painting would be worth roughly $15,000 now, and it could be higher," he said.
If the values have increased by half, the total value of paintings
alone has increased to $297,000, in-
creasing the total amount in stock
— paintings, rugs and the chandelier
— to $321,000.
Jay Gates, director of the Spencer Museum of Art, said there were many nice paintings in storage, but none were of museum quality.
Most of the items the Pearson estate donated to the University have been put on display in the Pearson residence and scholarship halls.
Last semester, the department of student housing began the process of taking paintings out of storage and putting them on display.
Booster
Early shuttle flights had many more sensors to verify booster performance, but officials said those development instruments were removed to save weight after several flights demonstrated the boosters performed as expected.
"These very heavy steel casings that constitute the structure of the
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Parking
solid rocket boosters are some of the sturdiest parts of the entire shuttle system," said acting NASA chief William Graham.
Spokesman John Lawrence at the Houston space center said the booster systems officer in mission control, Jerry L. Borer, saw nothing unusual in the chamber pressure data displayed on his console.
A vital supplement to the shuttle's three main liquid-fuel engines, the boosters were designed to generate 3.3 million pounds of thrust and provide 71 percent of the lifting power at
After 24 successful shuttle flights, he said, the boosters were considered primary structure not susceptible to failure and there was no reason to instrument them against incredible failure modes.
launch. Two minutes into the flight, they are supposed to break away and parachute back into the ocean for refurbishment and reuse.
Each booster has a steel outer skin packed with fuel that resembles hard rubber and is made of ammonium perchlorate, aluminum and iron oxide bound together.
The boosters are such a fundamental part of the shuttle, Graham said in televised interviews on NBC, ABC and CBS, that the failure of Challenger's booster Tuesday was like the wing falling off an airplane.
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cern," Epstein said. "But if parking services won't address it there's not much that can be done."
James Holt, Topeka second-year law student and member of the traffic board, said he thought the parking issue on game nights had not been addressed by parking services because most students just grumbled about the parking problem. He said there had not been a comprehensive and cohesive complaint to the right sources.
Traffic board is a court comprised of law students who will hear parking
ticket complaints.
Holt said most people didn't think ahead and were suddenly surprised to find all parking spots taken because there was a basketball game they didn't know was scheduled. The students then often complain to the KU police officers or to the people working in the parking fines office in Hoch Auditorium.
Students who have a legitimate parking complaint should get together, Holt said, and appeal to parking services. Then if parking services does not address the problem they can appeal to the parking board.
Holt said the best way of getting anything done was probably for the students to go to their schools with their complaints. The schools, Holt said, can apply for special passes for their students.
Holt said it wasn't just the basketball games which caused parking probems. Concerts and plays in Murphy Hall also cluttered parking lots on certain evenings.
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