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Two, one, liftoff; shuttle success
Endeavour mission set to repair Hubble
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour roared through the predawn darkness into orbit yesterday after the mission to restore the Hubble Space Telescope's vision and vitality was delayed.
The 4.5 million-pound shuttle, carrying seven astronauts, blasted off at 3:27 a.m. CDT, lighting up the sky for miles around.
The critical, long-awaited repair job, to begin over the weekend, features more spacewalks than any American mission to date — five, maybe more. Endeavour is carrying 11 new parts for Hubble to be installed by the astronauts.
It's "a very great relief to have this mission on orbit," said Loren Shriver, a shuttle manager who commanded the mission to deploy Hubble 3 1/2 years ago. "It will be nice to have humans be able to go and visit it again
and do the necessary corrections to get it back up to full speed."
NASA needed two tries to launch Endeavour. The first attempt Wednesday was thwarted by high wind.
NASA puts the cost of this mission at $629 million; $251 million for Hubble parts and related activities and $378 million for the shuttle flight.
Many believe NASA's reputation rests on this mission. The space agency has suffered numerous blows over the past several years, including perpetual shuttle trouble, a maligned space station project and a vanished Mars Observer, not to mention the Hubble mirror fiasco.
To help ensure the success of the Hubble repairs, NASA has conducted an unprecedented number of mission reviews and the new telescope parts have been tested repeatedly. The spacewalkers also have undergone unparalleled training.
NASA chose only experienced space travelers for the flight. Endeavour's seven crew members have 16 previous shuttle flights among them.
When Hubble is brought in for repairs
A space shuttle crew will grapple the Hubble Space Telescope into the shuttle bay for repairs during a mission in December. If necessary, another shuttle will return in 1994 to finish the job.
Urgent: needed to prevent total failure of Hubble
Repairs to correct flawed main mirror
Computer repair
New processor
for computer that
has been having
unexplained
memory lapses.
Other repairs
New gyroscopes Essential for pointing telescope. Three have failed. One more failure, and Hubble will be useless.
New magnetometers
Sense Earth's magnetic field, used for pointing telescope. Originals failing unpredictably.
- New wide-angle camera
Used for observing planets. New one can compensate for flawed main mirror.
SOURCE: NASA, Boston Globe,
Dallas Morning News, news reports
COSTAR: Telephone-booth sized instrument. Its mirrors will correct images going to Hubble's cameras and spectrographs.
Knight-Ridder Tribune/ KANSAN
BOGOTA, Columbia
Manhunt ends when police, soliders kill drug lord Escobar
Security forces killed drug lord Pablo Escobar in Medellin yesterday, ending an exhaustive and sometimes bloody 16-month hunt for one of the world's most wanted men.
THE NEWS in brief
At one time, Escobar's drug trafficking gang was the world's biggest cocaine exporter. But after his escape, his empire was splintered by bloody internal rivalries and by vigilantes and security forces.
GENEVA Talks fail to bring about peace
Police and soldiers shot Escobar dead at a shopping mall in the heart of the city that served as the base for his cocaine empire, according to local radio reports. Colombia's prosecutor general, Gustavo de Greiff, confirmed the death.
Bosnian peace talks broke up yesterday with no agreement on how to divide the country, and the Muslim-led government blamed Serbs for refusing to give up some of their battlefield gains.
Escobar was killed by members of a 3,000-man police and army force that hunted for him since he escaped from prison in July 1992. The United States and Colombia offered $8.7 million for his capture.
Leaders of the three warring factions said they were willing to return to the bargaining table.
TOPEKA
Wednesday, the government for the first time agreed to discuss giving up parts of Sarajevo but demanded that Serbs return chunks of land in eastern Bosnia.
U. N. mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg confirmed there was no agreement on any issue so far but said bilateral talks would continue in coming days.
Former counsel plans campaign
Bob Eye, former general counsel of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, yesterday announced his candidacy for governor as an Independent.
He said four key issues of his campaign would be the abolishment of the property tax, restoration of public safety, adoption of a health care plan that emphasized prevention and the development of a renewable energy economy.
Eye, 42, has been an anti-nuclear activist in the past.
He also said he was opposed to the death penalty and supported a woman's right to an abortion.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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