Hoge rOur THE MICHIGAN DAILY -)atufday, August 13, 1977 ace shuttie flies solo By AP and UPI- EDWARI)S A IR F OR C E BASE, Calif. - The fledgling Space Shuttle, belying its un- gainly looks, slipped away from its mother ship yesterday and carried two astronauts on a graceful five and one-half min- ute glide to a perfect touchdown on a desert dry lake. toniht D IChurchIA 95-595 "Thanks for the lift," radioed astronaut Fred Haise shortly af- ter the engineless shuttle leaped up and away from the Boeing 747 transport to begin its maiden solo flight. THE ENTIRE series of ma- neuvers - from liftoff through separation to touchdown - took less than an hour and was seen by about 40,000 spectators and a nationwide television audience. Flying on its own for the first time, the 75-ton shuttle craft Enterprise, named for the ship in the television series "Star Trek," was "a little livelier handling" than expected, said a i t NASA official. "I think history will show this" is probably the second most im- portant flight that has ever been made," said Sen. Barry Gold- water (F-Ariz.), a reserve Air Force Brigadier General. "THE FIRST important flight was the Wright Brothers. This opens up all of space for man's use." Goldwater was one of two thousand VIPs watching the landing from the -hot desert viewing area. The space shuttle is the key to the nation's future in orbit. It is designed to be reuseable to make at least 100 flights to and from space every few weeks. It can carry seven men and wo- men, satellites weighing up to 65,000 pounds and orbiting labo- ratories. THE CAPABILITY to land at at airport instead of parchuting into the ocean as did its pre- decessors gives the shuttle the versatility and economy re- quired to make space operations routine in the next decade. Yesterday's test proved that the shuttle is able to make an airport landing without engines, flying on a battery of five com- puters and the most advanced guidance and control system ever installed in a spacecraft. tlaise, 43-year-old veteran of the abortive Apollo 13 moon CINEMA 11 ANGELL HALL AUD. A Saturday, August 13 IN A LONELY PLACE Director, Nicholas Roy (1950) Bogart defines the word "malevolent," as a war-l time pal turned detective hunting for a murder- er. Gloria Grahame, lending female interest, cannot be sure if the murderer is Bogey or not. Director Ray (Rebel Without A Cause) gives us the ultimate definition of the Bogart myth. 7:30 & 9:30 $1.50 flight, found out quickly how the s t u b b y spaceplane performs once it was on its own for the first time., "SHE'S- FLYING good," he radioed the control center in llouston w h i c h directed the flight as if it were a space mis- sion. Enterprise flew a U-shaped course from separation to land- ing which required two sharp left turns. Haise did most of the piloting, but Fullerton 40-year- old Air Force Lieutenant Co- lonel, who has -yet to fly in orbit, took the single stick con- trul for awhile. Enterprise was traveling a little faster thas desired on its landing approach, so Haise ap- plied the brakes-opening a tail structure like a clambshell to create more drag. The craft sqwed as expected. "IT LOOKS super," reported the Houston controller responsi- blie for monitoring the flying qualities of the Enterprise. The craft was 200 feet above the ground when its conventional airplane landing gear dropped out of the black underside. Enterprise touched down at 11:54 a.m. EDT. The two pilots climbed out of the ship's round- side hatch 16 minutes later, smiling broadly and shaking h a n d s with technicians who stood on airplane-like stairs that had been rolled up to the ship. THE GLEAMING white En- terprise has been termed a 150,000-pound glider. But NASA officials dislike the term be- cause the craft actually has sophisticated landing, steering, navigational and electronic sys- tems that permit a high degree of control. To ensure a faultless flight and landing, a funnel of elec- tronic microwave beams was aimed at the speeding shuttle from NASA flight control in Ilouston. Much like an airliner -making a cloud-shrouded instru- ment landing, the shuttle fol- lowed beams to the touchdown point. U p on completion of three flights here, the Enterprise will be carried atop' its transport plane to Huntsville, Ala., for further testing and attachment to the fuel tank and the rocket booster. THEN THE Enterprise will be returned to its builders, Rock- well International, near Ed- wards for extensive modifica- tions necessary before a space launch. A sister ship that is under construction presently will be the first shuttle actually to fly in space. Development and building of the shuttle is estimated to cost $5.2 biljion through 1979. Daily converts to 'cold type' on September 9 (Continued from Page 1) photographically. The modernization will mean several things to our readers. First, because the reproduc- tiO with cold type is so much better, our photographs will be clearer. The deteriorated state of our hot type equipment last year and this summer meant that many of our photos came ant with black spots or indis- cernable faces. SECOND, WE'LL be able to do color more often. Color re- production on hot type was just too expensive, and we did it only occasionally for things like the Rose Bowl. Third, the front page will look, somewhat d i f f e r e n t. The columns will b wider, and the Today column will be moved from the far left side of the page to another spot. Finally, we will no longer have "the latest deadline in the state" (not for a while, at least). This' means that our coverage of late events, notably baseball games, wit1 be reduced. Late game cov- erage may consist of a score more often than a summary. The transition to cold type was made even more of a necessity b the outdated condition of our Linotypes, our press, and our other hot type machinery. It was hard to get spare parts, and it was also hard to find persons trained in the highly skilled pro- fession of lead typesetting. Most modernized newspapers h a v e equipment like our old equip- ment in their museums. "The switch is going with the flow," remarks Arch Gamm, Daily superintendent, "The ro- mance is going from the pro- fession." But, he adds, "the cold type process, overall, is more versatile." Come fall, it really will be a brand new Daily. A Public Service of this newspaper & The Advertising Council . Courageous people to work for no pay. Frequently the hours and conditions are inconvenient or difficult. Occasionally even dan- gerous. 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