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Thursday, February 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Discovery's crew begins practicing for shuttle launch
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston - Four of the astronauts who will fly the first space shuttle mission since Challenger exploded began training yesterday as a team, practicing launches and landings in a simulator.
Pilot Richard Covey and mission specialists John M. Lounge and David C. Hilmers entered a computer-driven cockpit simulator at the Johnson Space Center for four hours of practicing the intricate procedures required to launch and land the space shuttle.
Mission commander Frederick H. Hauck and mission specialist George D. Nelson were out of town yesterday, but all five crew members are scheduled to start joint training next week.
The crew is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the space shuttle Discovery on Feb. 18, 1988, although the date is expected to be pushed back. It will be the first shuttle flight since Challenger exploded on Jan. 26, 1988. The shuttle is grounded until engineers correct flaws that caused the Challenger accident.
Discovery's mission is planned as a four-day flight, with the astronauts placing a satellite in orbit and
operating a package of scientific instrument Landing is to be at Edinburgh.
Training coordinator Frank
Hughes, yesterday's exercise
Writing test.
He said Covey sat in the pilot's seat of the simulator, with Himers in the commander's couch on the left side of the cockpit. Lounge was behind Covey for support duties, similar to those of a flight engineer on an aircraft. Only Covey was in the role he would assume on the actual mission.
The simulator is a duplicate of the shuttle flight deck. Computers simulate signals from actual shuttle equipment and make the cockpit instruments respond as if in real flight. Television screens in place of the computer monitor tell to what the crewmen would see during an actual mission.
Hughes said yesterday's training was designed to keep the astronauts tuned up for training problems that are specifically designed for their mission.
"This will be just a routine training session." Hughes said.
The principle payload of the Discovery mission is a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS, that NASA will use to relay signals from the orbiting spacecraft.
Senate bill requires gun purchase delay
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers introduced bills yesterday that would require a seven-day cooling-off period before a handgun purchase.
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Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-D Ohio, the bill's sponsor was joined at a news conference by Sarah Brady, whose husband, presidential press secretary James Brady, was shot in the head and severely wounded in the March, 30, 1981 attack on attempt on President Reagan.
Sarah Brady, vice chairman of Handgun Control Inc., said the
shooting of Reagan, her husband and two law enforcement officers could have been prevented if a cooling-off period had been required.
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