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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
Application deadline today
Few reporters apply for space trip
United Press International
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Reporters aren't exactly scrambling to become the first journalist in space, coordinators said yesterday, but they added they expected to be flooded with applications by today's deadline.
Such well-known television newsmen as Walter Cronkite and Geraldo Rivera are among the journalists who applied. Only 4 percent of the 4,000 applications mailed out for consideration as the first reporter launched into space were returned.
Project spokesman Jack Bass said,
"Through Monday, we'd received
149. One hundred came in over the
weekend. We expect to be to be flooded in the next few days."
The Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications, based at the University of South Carolina, is coordinating the selection. The winning candidate will lift off aboard a space shuttle this fall, National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said.
When the space agency last year chose the first teacher to go into space, applications poured in at the last moment, and Bass said coordinators for the journalist project expected many applications to arrive on today's deadline.
A wide variety of journalists have entered the competition —
newspaper and broadcast reporters, editorial writers, magazine writers and a screen writer with a journalism background.
Eight candidates will be selected by each of five regional panels of judges. The 40 preliminary winners will be narrowed to five finalists by a national selection committee of 14 distinguished educators, journalists and former astronaut Terry Hart.
James Beggs, NASA administrator, said before he took a leave of absence last month that the space journalist and a backup would be selected by NASA officials April 15 or 16 and would be announced April 17.
"I can assure you the winning candidate will not only get a round-trip ticket, but a first-class, unforgettable ride." Begus said.
The two winners must pass a NASA medical examination before undergoing flight training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston between May and August. Beggs said the flight was tentatively planned for September, although the specific mission had not yet been determined.
The space journalist not only will be able to "see all and hear all, but will tell all as well." Beggs said. He said the only restrictions on the journalist would be to protect the privacy of crew members if requested.
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