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Thursday, July 21, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Shuttle is now focus of space program
By DIANE WOLKOW
Staff Writer
Though the personnel and the budget for the U.S. Space Program have been cut in the past two years, the program is still fairly active, two astronauts said yesterday.
"The space program is alive and well," said Vance D. Bann, who was one of the three American crew members of Apollo 32, the joint U.S.-Soviet test project in 1975.
Brand and another astronaut, Henry W. Hartfield Jr., who has never flown in space, are at the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., for a short course on airplane stability and control conducted by Dr. Brian, professor of aerospace engineering.
BRAND SAID the space program hadn't been in the news lately because it was in the building phase rather than in the flying phase.
Hartsfield said all the program's energies now were going into developing the space shuttle. The shuttle is an innovative program that will reuse hardware and cut the costs of people and goods going into space by about 90 per cent, he said.
Brand described the shuttle as similar to an airplane. It goes up like a rocket, he said, and lands like an airplane. It can be reused within two weeks.
WHEN THE PROGRAM is completed, the shuttle will be able to make emergency landings on any 10,000 ft. concrete runway of an airport that has the proper navigational equipment, Brand said. However, the primary site for landing is Cape Kennedy.
Hartfield said test flights were being done on the shuttle now. The first flight is scheduled for 11am.
Now that the United States has successfully placed men on the moon, Brand said, he was not quite sure whether the U.S. Soviet space race to accomplish this was real or a myth. He said that if there had been a race, the United States had won it by accomplishing its goal. The Russians never succeeded in landing men on the moon.
On Campus
TODAY: A SHORT, SLOW DISTANCE
BICYCLE TOUR, sponsored by the Mt.
Oread Bicycle Club, will start at 5 in
South Park. The ride is for women only.
TONIGHT: THE KU HAILLING CLUB will meet at 7 in the Kansas Union. A STAGE BAND JANE CONCERT will be at 7:30 in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
SATURDAY: A BREAKFAST BIYCLE RIDE, sponsored by the Mt. Oread Bicycle Club, will start at 7:30 a.m. in South Park. A SENIOR HIGH CAMP PIANO AND VOICE RECITAL will be at 10 a.m. in Swarthout Rectal Hall. The SENIOR HIGH CAMP FINAL CONCERT will be at 1 p.m. in the University Theatre.
However, Brand said, "You have to remember it's nothing you ever finally
THE SPACE RACE is continuous, he said, because scientists are always developing new technology and looking for new areas to explore in space.
As far as the overall space program is concerned, Brand said, the United States has gained a certain amount of mastery over the space environment because of it. Scientists have increased their knowledge of the sun, he said, and have shown that man can live and work in space and do useful things.
The space program ultimately will lead scientists to explore the solar system, Brand said, and give them the knowledge to establish power power stations.
He said the space program also had been the "spark plug" to computer industry.
Brand said the Apollo-Soyuz test project, which was hailed as a new beginning for U.S.-Soviet friendship, had been most successful in demonstrating human operation
"It showed Russians and Americans alike that you could take something complicated and work together and accomplish it," he said.
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