NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 6, 1993
Flawed Hubble solar panel junked
Spacewalk second longest for NASA
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston—NASA officials decided yesterday to jettison the bent solar panel on the Hubble Space Telescope after trying, and failing, to roll it up for stowage on the trip home.
After two spacewalkers remove the panel overnight, astronaut Kathryn Thornton will hold it overhead and simply allow it to drift away.
The panel will join some 7,000 pieces of space junk until it eventually is drawn into the atmosphere and burns up.
The decision came hours after two astronauts made the first repairs on the telescope overnight, replacing failed parts and latching a misaligned access door.
9 Jeffrey Hoffman and Story Musgrave accomplished all their tasks—installing two pairs of gyroscopes, two gyroscope electronic units and eight fuses. Everything they put in worked.
But they were stymied by the doors to the compartment containing the gyroscopes. At one point, there was a one-inch gap between the two halves of one latch.
After more than two hours of work, Hoffman and Musgrave closed all four latches.
The spacewalk lasted 7 hours and 45 minutes — one hour and 54 minutes more than planned — and was NASA's second-longest spacewalk. The longest one, conducted during a satellite capture last year, was eight hours and 29 minutes.
"We're real pleased with the way things went," said shuttle commander Richard Covey. "It looks like anytime you can declare victory on (space-walk) day 1, then you're doing pretty well."
Yesterday's spacewalk was the first of five outings to restore Hubble to full vision and fix other problems. Today, Tom Akers and Thornton will replace Hubble's shaky solar panels, one of which was bent.
In the five days of cargo bay activities, the spacewalkers have 11 parts to install on the $1.6 billion telescope, including the two pairs of gyroscopes. Yesterday's efforts restored three of the telescope's six gyroscopes, which had failed.
Hubble's biggest problem is its primary mirror. A manufacturing error caused the telescope to be launched in April 1990 with an improperly ground mirror; NASA did not discover the problem until two months later.
Hoffman worked on the 43-foot-long Hubble from the end of Endeavour's robot arm.
Musgrave acted as a free floater to help in the tasks.
THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
Murphy Brown speech raised important family issues, Clinton states
President Clinton says Dan Quayle wasn't all wrong -when he raised questions about too many children being born out of wedlock in his memorable speech attacking television character Murphy Brown.
In two interviews this week, Clinton said the former vice president had "a lot of good things" to say in the speech during the 1992 campaign in which he attacked the fictional Murphy Brown for becoming a single mother.
"I read the whole (Quayle) speech," said Clinton in an interview with Tom Brokaw shown Friday night on NBC. "I... I thought there were a lot of very good things in that speech."
Although Clinton said he thought Quagle "got too cute" by attacking a popular television character, "it is certainly true that this country would be much better off if our babies were born into two-parent families."
2. In a separate interview with Newsweek, Clinton expressed similar thoughts.
Again recalling the Quayle speech, which was widely criticized at the time, Clinton said, "There were a lot of very good things in that speech. ... Wouldn't we be a better-off
The interview will appear in *Newsweek*'s Dec. 13 issue, which goes on newsstands today.
society if the babies in this country were born to married couples? You bet we would."
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Rains may delay winter flights
KANSAS CITY. Mo.
Heavy summer rains delayed construction of one runway at Kansas City International Airport and forced the closure of another, and American Airlines is worried that will mean longer delays this winter.
Local and federal aviation officials said air traffic won't be affected by the runway delay.
But a spokesman for American, which has 17 daily departures from the airport, disagrees.
"If you get a heavy snowfall, then you are going to look at much longer delays, possibly a half-hour," said John Hotard. American representative in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Soggy soil delayed construction of a new north-south runway, which crosses the east-west runway. The construction forced the closure of the east-west runway in May, leaving only one existing runway fully operational.
A section of the new runway is now operational only in good weather and favorable visibility conditions, an airport official said.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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