Pe To T HE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, ,august 12, 1977 Shuttle makes first solo flight today EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. /55 - The com- mander of the Space Shuttle piloted a special jet trainer yesierday in a final rehearsal for today's first solo flight of the craft that is designed to resvolutionize space expeditions. Astronaut Fred liaise who along with pilot Gordon Fuller- ton will handle the controls dur- ing the flight, practiced yester- day hy flying over this desert test center in a small twin-en- gine jet plane modified to be- have much like the larger shut- tle. TIE MICHIGAN DAILY VWhim, - LXxxvI. No. 64-5 Friday. August 1?, 1977 Is edlted and manneed by students at theUtitor etty of Mirhliten.Sees phone 764-052. Second viesspostee paid nt Ann Arbor, Michigan 481t9. Published daily Tuesday through bunday morning during the Univer- Eity year at 420 Maynard Street. Ann Arbor. Mchitan 48108. Subsertption rates: 0$2 Sept. thr Apei (2 senses- ters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session pablishedrTues- day throughs Saturday morning, Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7 .50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. M E A N W H I L E, engi- nea s readied the Space Shut- tle itself, and officials prepared for an influx of thousands of visitors and dignitaries. Donald Slayton, manager of Shuttle flight testing, said, "I knuw of no open issues at this pont" that would delay this morning's flight. Today, Haise and Fullerton are to pilot the 75-ton, delta- winged craft in a steep, fast glide to a landing on a desert runway after it is released at 25.00 feet from atop a jumbo jet carrier plane. IT IS TO make two turns and extend landing wheels just be- fore touchdown. The descent will take about 4 and one-half minutes. The Space Shuttle is the fore- runner of a fleet of short-haul, reusable space buses that will ca-ry men, satellites and scien- tific cargo into orbit around the eath during the 1980s. It will eliminate the compli- cated ocean splashdowns of the past, in which astronauts were plucked from the sea by a fleet of ships. Instead, the new gen- eration of spacecraft will land on a runway and the crew will simply climb out. SHE REHEARSALS yesterday involved a small, twin - engine jet, "dirtied up" in aerospace parlance, with de- vices to make it fly like the unpowered shuttle - which is a rather inefficient glider. Although it is designed event- uaily to be blasted into space by a mighty rocket engine and a pair of disposable take off rockets, the shuttle has no en- gines for the return flight. It will return by falling through the atmosphere in a long glide to earth. Today's flight will be the first test of how well the 122-foot- long craft can glide and maneu- ver, and how responsive it is to its computer-assisted control system. EIGHT PREVIOUS flights with the shuttle clamped atop the Boeing 747 showed that the piggyback arrangement was airworthy. During those tests the two astronauts and a second crew - Joe Engle and Richard Tru- ly - rehearsed procedures :hat witi be used to separate the shuttle from the 747. The ma- neuver will be tried for the first time today. The separation is pernaps the most risky part of the flight, since it has yet to be proven that the bulky shuttle will cleanly "pop up" and over the talt vertical fin of the 747.. EXPLOSIVE BOLTS will break the connection be- tween-the craft, and air rush- ing under the shuttle's black- painted belly and wing under- surfaces is supposed to lift it free of the carrier plane. Officials of the air base here were preparing for a flood of sightseers. A spokesperson for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said as many as 70,000 people might swarm into special public viewing areas. Some 5,000 em- ployes of Rockwell Internation- al, the main shuttle contractor, have been told they can skip work today to view the flight if they report to work Saturday. A second shuttle orbiter is be- ing built at a Rockwell plant in nearby Palmdale. It is the one that will be fired into orbit in early 1979. First operational shuttle flights are to begin in 1988, with about 570 missions expected to occur between then and 1981. Queen Elizabeth II asks Catholics and Protestants to 'forgive and forget' HAVEA CHECKUP ITCAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. BELFAST, Northern Ireland lP) - Queen Elizabeth defied a terrorist bomb threat yester- day and appealed to warring Protestants and Roman Cath- olics to "forgive and forget" and end eight years of blood- shed. "There is no place here for old fears and attitudes born of history, no place for blame for what is passed," the 51-year- Our place is COOL and so are the games BILLIARDS AT THE Union- STUDENT ACCOUNTS: Your attention is called to the following rules passed by the R e g e n t s at their meeting on February 28, 1936: "Students shall pay all accounts due the Uni- versity not later than the last day of classes of each semester or summer ses- sion. Student loans which are not paid or renewed are subject to this regula- tion; however, student loans not yet due are ex- empt. Any unpaid accounts at the close of business on the last day of classes will be reported to the Cashier ofthe University and "(a) All academic credits will be withheld, the grades for the semester or sum- mer session just completed will not be released, and no transcript of credits will be issued. "(b) All s t u d e n t s owing such accounts will not be allowed to register in any subsequent se m e s t e r or summer session until pay- ment has been made." old monarch declared in a speech at Northern Ireland's New University near Coleraine, in the northern tip of the war- torn province. EARLIER, THE mainly Cath- olic Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed in a statement that its guerrillas had "breached the tight security" at the sprawl- ing campus to plant a bomb. "This is an immediate warn- ing to the British queen . . . this is no hoax," the statement said. Troops combed the 300-acre university complex but found no bomb, and no terrorist at- tack was reported during the queen's eight-hour visit to the university. THE IRA had planted two bombs on the campus in the last two weeks. The first was found in a toilet and defused. The second exploded Tuesday, the day before the Queen ar- rived in Northern Ireland for her controversial visit. Yesterday's incident under- lined the IRA's failure to un- leash the much-heralded "blitz to remember" it had Vowed to carry out to disrupt the royal visit to this rebellious province. Police headquarters reported one bomb explosion yesterday, wrecking a Belfast gas station. Shooting and rioting occurred Wesnesday, the first day of the royal visit. IN WEST Belfast, gangs of yotith roamed the streets late yesterday hijacking cars and settidg others on fire, police said. Most of the hijackings oc- curred in the militant Falls Road district. The Provisionals' failure to back up its propaganda was partly attributed to a massive security clamp - down, code- named "Operation Monarch," that was launched Monday to protect the queen and contain the threatenedviolence. But it also appeared to sup- port security chiefs' claims in recent weeks that the outlawed IRA, fighting to end British rule and Protestant domination of Ulster, is being beaten in its secessionist campaign. "THE COMPLETE lack of terrorist activity shows that they are not the force. they claim to be any longer," a sen- ior military source commented. The queen, who was accom- panied by her husband Prince Philip and younger sons Prince Andrew, 17,and Prince Ed- ward, 14, spent much of her visit aboard the royal yacht Britannia for security reasons. JohnnyBend i During one of my checkups, the doctors found a spot on my lungs. I thought it might be cancer. So did they. Luckily, it wasn't. Most peopleaare lucky. Most people never have cancer. But those who find they do have cancer are far better off if their cancer is discovered early. Because we know how to cure many cancers when we discover them early. That's why I want you to have a checkup. And keep having checkups. The rest of your life, It'll be a lot longer if you do. American Cancer Society 'VAcO lSU 6it,.P s i as n e &'saSe VsIC o