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DePAUW'S MAN IN SPACE: Astronaut Joe Allen ties onto Palpa satellite

Tools of the trade

Discovery mission creates blue-collar astronauts

By WILLIAM J. BROAD c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Discovery on a salvage mission in space, one stands out as a vision of the future: astronauts manipulating wrenches as they worked methodically in the cold void. They plucked satellites from orbit, wrestled them into the payload bay and bolted them into place. It was a mission that demonstrated the skills and daring needed for an impending era in which construction crews in spacesuits may be called on to erect platforms or stations or even whole vehicles while floating in space. This mission also highlighted a new physics of danger never faced by workers on earth. The physical laws of space, momentum and mass unimpeded by such influences as friction, are unforgiving and ready to punish a false step by injuring the astronauts or damaging the shuttle. Yet this mission’s very success excited those who have long envisioned girders in space. “This will give people a lot more confidence to construct a space station,” said Saunders B. Kramer, who in the early 1960 s as a researcher at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. received the world’s first patent for a manned space station. “Chugging around, bolting things, grabbing objects it's a small demonstration that, yes, we can go out there and retrieve things and put them together.” A hardhat perched atop a half-built skyscraper deals with a very different set of forces and risks. Gravity is the main foe, ever ready to send him plummeting to his death. But no hardhat has ever faced the risks and forces involved in working in space, even though many of the concepts involve primer physics. Objects in space are weightless, but they still have mass that can allow them to crash forcefully into one another. The laws of physics dictate that a wrench, satellite or man. once set in motion, tends to stay that way. In space there is no friction or gravity to slow things down. “There are potential dangers,” said Rocky Raab, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “If you get something moving and get an astronaut caught between two things you can have a problem. But on this mission I think the astronauts demonstrated very nicely that it’s easy to overcome those barriers and learn to handle large structures.” What makes a moving satellite or girder a potentially menacing object in space is expressed by one of the simplest laws of physics: mass times acceleration equals force. Thus even a small acceleration imparted to a large object can be

Hoosier teachers can apply for space trip

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosier teachers looking for a break in the classroom routine may apply starting Dec. 1 to become the first private citizen to fly on the space shuttle. “We’ve already had three inquiries from teachers in West Lafayette, Granger and Fort Wayne who were interested in the idea,” said Joseph DiLaura, spokesman for state School Superintendent Harold H. Negley. As part of a National Aeronautics

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transformed into a large force. This was demonstrated last week aboard the space shuttle Discovery as Dr. Joseph P. Allen, at 130 pounds the smallest man in the astronaut corps, held the weightless Palapa B-2 satellite over his head. On earth the satellite would have been almost 10 times his weight, but in space mass, not weight, is the critical factor. The least little pressure he applied to the satellite started it moving, and inertia made it hard to stop. Comdr. Dale A. Gardner at one point had to jump in quickly to keep the satellite from bumping into the shuttle’s side. “You have to be careful not to yank a satellite,” Kramer explained. “You have to make sure it doesn’t pick up speed and keep going. That’s a big hunk of hardware. If the shuttle’s payload bay door got damaged, it might burn up as you re-entered. It’s a precarious situation.” Two days after Palapa was brought aboard, as the astronauts worked on the Westar 6 satellite, they sounded like two moving men maneuvering a piano down a stairwell, trading instructions back and forth. The operation was delicate because part of the payload bay was now occupied by Palapa B-2 and there was less room to jockey W’ester about. “Move it very gently,” Gardner said at one point. “Believe me, brother, there’s no other way to move it,” Allen responded. In the future, girders in space will be able to float free and twist and turn in a remarkable variety of directions, rotating on several axes at once. According to Raab, the astronauts cannot prepare for such challenges by using water tanks on earth because these do not mimic all the forces of space, especially the momentum imparted to an object. The main way the astronauts learn about mass and momentum in space, he said, is dealing with their own bodies amid the weightlessness of the cabin. Other challenges of space-based construction, a realm in which the Russians have accrued more experience than Americans, include the unexpected problems of weightlessness. At one point last week the big torque wrench used to bolt the docking adaptor ring to Westar 6 floated away from Gardner when a safety tether came unhitched. According to Carolyn Meinel, a space systems analyst and co-founder of the L-5 Society, a lobbying group that advocates space development, the astronauts on the Skylab found that it was much easier to lose tools and parts than expected. They also found that if they waited long enough, parts would often show up on the intake grates of the air circulation system, drawn there by the small but insistent force of moving air currents.

and Space Administration project, the Indiana Department of Education will nominate two teachers from this state to be considered for the space shuttle mission. Information about NASA’s “Teacher in Space Project” is being distributed to Indiana school officials. Applications must be made between Dec. 1 and Feb. 1. The program is open to teachers in all public and private elementary and

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secondary schools. To be eligible, the teacher must: —Be a U.S. citizen. —Have been a full-time classroom teacher the last five years and currently is one. —Meet NASA medical requirements, which include being able to hear a whispered voice three feet away. —Not be a spouse of a current or former NASA employee.

Shultz sees some progress

Chernenko statements 'positive'

WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz says Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko has made “a positive statement” in declaring that arms control should be the top priority for U.S.-Soviet relations. Shultz brushed aside another statement by Chernenko that he doesn’t think “conditions now are ripe” for a summit meeting with President Reagan for at least the next six months. The Soviet leader said he thought both sides wanted to be sure ahead of time that a summit would accomplish something. Shultz may go to Moscow sometime in January for a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, officials said Friday, speaking on condition that they not be identified. Preliminary contacts have already been

Domestic program cuts to slice deficit SSO billion

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Reagan administration officials have set an objective of driving the annual federal deficit below $l5O billion by 1988, high level officials said Friday. To reach that goal, the officials said, the administration budget would have to propose deep cuts in such domestic programs as Medicare, civil service retirement, student loans and farm subsidies. Specific options for spending cuts to reach the target by the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1988, will be presented to President Reagan after his Thanksgiving vacation in California. The projected deficits for this fiscal year and next are running at about S2OO billion. Reagan has ruled out two possible ways to reduce them, raising taxes or cutting Social Security, and has expressed opposition to any slowing of military spending. Congress is expected to resist any proposal to slash domestic spending. The spending reductions needed to reach the goal could exceed SSO billion a year, or more than 15 percent of government spending other than for the military, Social Security or interest on the national debt. Administration officials acknowledge that the goal of budget cutting is no longer to balance the budget, as Ronald Reagan promised in 1980. The goal now is to reach an “acceptable” decline in budget deficits over several years. “It is the view here that we have to get rid of programs if the deficit is really going to be reduced with domestic spending cuts,” one official said today. “We have to decimate spending.” The official said that once this was clear to Reagan and his top advisers, it was unsure that such spending reductions would be part of the budget that Reagan is to

Major quake reported in Sumatra

TOKYO (AP) A major earthquake occurred near Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Saturday, Japan’s Central Meteorological Agency said. The agency said the quake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, was recorded at 3:49p.m. (1:49a.m. EST). Indonesia’s Search Rescue Operation Center in the capital Jakarta said it had no report of an earthquake, and Indonesia's meteorology agency was closed Saturday In Golden, Colo., the U.S. Geological Survey recorded the quake as measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, according to Pat Jorgenson, a spokeswoman for the USGS’s

Baby Fae's doctor to try heart transplant again

LOMA LINDA, Calif. (AP) - Baby Fae pioneered a “quest to enrich our quality of life” and her death after three weeks of borrowed time with a baboon heart won’t deter further attempts at cross-species transplants, her surgeon said. “There’s no doubt there’s been a tremendous victory accompanying this loss,” Dr. Leonard L. Bailey said at a Loma Linda University Medical Center news conference Friday, 13 hours after the struggle to save the infant ended. “I plan to attempt it again, by and by,” he said, his voice quavering. “... In all fairness to the next baby, we should take the time to carefully review what we’ve learned from this baby we all loved so much.” The death of the infant born three weeks premature with a fatal underdevelopment called hypopolastic left heart syndrome was deeply felt at the Seventh-Day Adventist teaching hospital. A memorial service was scheduled this evening at the university’s church. “We should not today dissect Baby Fae, but rather grieve passionately and, ironically, cheer just as passionately,”

established between Moscow and Washington about such a meeting, although it hasn’t yet been definitely arranged, they said. Such a meeting would be seen as a return visit for Gromyko’s visit to Washington in late September and his talks with Shultz and Reagan. U.S. proposals for improved relations and resuming arms control negotiations were discussed during Gromyko’s visit. In remarks to NBC News, Chernenko said “no delay is admissible” in averting the threat of a nuclear war by limiting weapons. He voiced skepticism about Reagan’s proposals for wide-ranging talks with Moscow aimed at addressing a broad spectrum of global problems and interests. “It is this the limitation and reduction

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send to Congress at the end of January. The deficit is now about 5 percent of the annual output of goods and services, and the goal is to cut that figure to 2 to 3 percent. Some administration officials say that achieving such a level, which translates to SIOO billion to $l5O billion a year by 1988 under current administration economic projections, would show the deficit is being brought under control. One official said the goals were “target targets,” which, he said, meant that the targets could be changed if the options presented to the president were not all approved. Another official said that getting nearer the SIOO billion level would require some reductions in the projected growth of military spending, which at this point is not an option Reagan will entertain. Several officials said there was little prospect of negotiations with leaders of Congress in advance of the president’s submission of the 1986 budget because of the expected emphasis on domestic spending cuts. Such negotiations had been suggested by some administration officials and Congressional leaders as a way to avoid a budget stalemate next year. One adviser to the president said the message of Reagan’s election victory was no tax increases; no reductions in Social

National Earthquake Information Center. The center said the quake occurred near the coast of the island, about 300 miles southwest of Singapore, or about 650 miles northwest of Jakarta. “We have no immediate reports of damages or injuries. However, a quake of this magnitude would be expected to cause considerable damage,” she said. Sumatra is the second-largest island of Indonesia. Its population in 1971 was 21 million. The last major earthquake in the area measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. It occurred on Feb. 4, 1971, causing damage in

Bailey said. Baby Fae, who had received the walnutsized baboon heart Oct. 26, died Thursday night, several hours after her condition began to worsen as her kidneys and then her new heart began to fail. The parents were with their 1-month-old daughter when she died. “The last thing the mom said to me was to carry this on to not let this experience be wasted. ... The Baby Faes and their parents are the real pioneers in this quest to enrich our quality of life,” Bailey said. Loma Linda doctors had said Bailey wanted to show baboon organs could save the lives of infants who otherwise would die because human infant heart donors are rare. The infant, called Baby Fae to protect her identity, outlived by more than two weeks any of the three previous people who had animal heart transplants and a fourth who was kept alive briefly with blood pumped by an animal heart that wasn’t transplanted into the body. But the transplant raised ethical medical questions likely to continue

of arms, and above all nuclear arms, prevention of the spread of the arms race into areas which have been free of that race so far that the USSR and the U.S. should reach agreement on in the first place,” he said. “For our part we are prepared to work and to work vigorously toward that end,” he said. Chernenko provided written answers to questions submitted by Marvin Kalb of NBC News. The written answers were returned to Kalb on Friday and aired on the network’s evening news program. Chernenko didn’t repeat some of the preconditions for arms control talks the Soviets have set previously, although it wasn’t apparent whether the omission was significant.

Security; cuts in other spending, and simplification of the tax code. He indicated that the administration’s best course now was to offer a budget putting this message into practice.

Security; cuts in other spending, and simplification of the tax code. He indicated that the administration’s best course now was to offer a budget putting this message into practice. Without new spending reductions or tax increases by Congress, the Reagan administration projects that the deficit for the fiscal year 1985, which began Oct. 1, will be $2lO billion, followed by a deficit of about S2OO billion in 1986. The projections for 1987 and 1988 are for only slightly lower deficits. These projections are much higher than those made in August in the administration’s budget review. Then the 1985 projection was $172.4 billion, followed by $174.2 billion in 1986 and similar figures in 1987 and 1988. The deficit in 1984 was $175.3 billion, down from $195.4 billion in the fiscal year 1983. In preparing the budget for the coming fiscal year, the administration plots a fiveyear budget path, which for the 1986 budget would carry projections through 1990. But officials said this week that they were focusing on what the deficit would look like by 1988 because Congress only looks ahead three years in setting its budget priorities.

northern Sumatra, the earthquake center in Colorado said. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.A reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.4. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A 7 reading is a “major” earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a “great" quake.

VIRGINIA DILL McCARTY To try again in 'BB

McCarty sets another bid for governor in 'BB INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former U.S. Attorney Virginia Dill McCarty says she’s definitely in the running for the 1988 Democratic nomination for governor. As soon as the Nov. 6 election was history, the Indianapolis lawyer started making appearances around the state to drum up support for her second bid to become Indiana’s first female chief executive. “Right now, I’m running,” Mrs. McCarty said in an interview Friday. “I suppose I could change my mind later. But I don’t usually change my mind about something like that.” Mrs. McCarty waged an unsuccessful battle this spring for the Democratic nomination for governor, losing to Sen. Wayne Townsend by just over 128,000 votes. Townsend went on to lose to GOP Gov. Robert D. Orr in the general election. Her primary campaign was highlighted by her attention to detail. She issued exhaustive position papers on subjects ranging from utility regulation to hazardous wastes. Mrs. McCarty said the main thing she is going to do differently in this campaign is “I’H starting much earlier. I will obviously have to do better at raising money.”