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Columbia's
sister ship
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waits for June
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) -- When the
chips were down, Columbia's half-built
sister ship, Challenger, sacrifaced a
key data instrument so that Columbia
might fly. Challenger could afford it;
*ts time for space won't come until
June.
The next member of the shuttle fleet
is due to come lumbering out of its
hangar a virtual carbon copy of its
sister.
Workers at the Rockwell Inter-
national facility here are toiling daily
over tier upon tier of scaffolding
surrounding Challenger - second of a
lanned four-ship fleet of reusable
spacecraft.
ON WEDNESDAY, after a problem
in Columbia's data relay system
jeopardized its launch, Rockwell
workers scavenged two 36-pound units,
each the size of a breadbox, from
Challenger and flew the cross-county to
Kennedy Space Center. They arrived
at 9:05 p.m. EST, were installed by
10:30 p.m. and tested by midnight.
NASA quickly announced that liftoff
was on track, a little delayed.
Last month, NASA borrowed 8
*hernial blankets from Challenger' to
serve as extra insulation should
Columbia require it.
Challengers construction hangar, a
huge, nondescript building with great
sliding doors, is identified by a weather-
battered sign as "Building 294." It is on
the edge of this desert town 25 miles
from the dry Rogers lakebed where
Columbia ended its historic first flight
On April.
DICK BARTON, a spokesman for
Rockwell, the prime shuttle contractor,
said nearly 700 men and women are
working on final assembly of
Challenger, and "tens of thousands
from nearly every state in the Union
have worked on parts of it."
There are "no major design
changes" betweeen Challenger and
Columbia. "There's some fine tuning
and of course you upgrade your
systems as you go along," Barton said,
explaining the only real difference is
that systems on the Challenger are
designed and verified to last 100
missions, while some Columbia
systems were not verified. Columbia
will be pulled briefly from service and its
systems upgraded once Challenger is
on the job, he said.
Pieces were made around the country
then shipped here, where "everything
is put together, with the exception of the
engines," which are installed at Cape
Canaveral, Barton said. The wings
were made on the East Coast, transpor-
ted by ship through the Panama Canal
to the Port of Long Beach, then moun-
ted upright on the back of a truck and
taken through Los Angeles to Palmdale
at 3 a.m.
CHALLENGER must be completed
by next summer because it is to fly in
1983. The third and fourth shuttles -
Discovery and Atlantis - are at early
stages of assembly and will follow at
roughly one-year intervals, Barton
said.
For now, Challenger's six windows
are covered with green plastic, as is its
open nose. The cargo bay doors are not
attached, and workers move about on
ladders and catwalks, installing cables,
conduits and tubing.
Much of the work involves applying
the 30,800-heat-resistant tiles - about 50
more than protect Columbia from the
heat of re-entry.
"At this time I know of no other musical ensemble that
combines, as these superlative musicians do, the deep concern,
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Daily Photo by JACKIE BELL
NATIONAL DIRECTOR of the Americans for Democratic Action Leon Shull
criticized Reagan administration policies and offered governmental
solutions in his speech, "A Liberal Response to Reagan," at the Michigan
Union last night.
ADA. leader declares
Reagan ineffective'
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The shuttle is aloft
*. . for a little while
about energy. We should put a lot more
into alternative energy sources and
should certainly push conservation."
Shull described the ADA, which was
formed in 1947, as a political movement
that 'reacts to the public agenda rather
than sets it.
"WE BELIEVE that the gover-
nment's purpose is to intervene on
behalf of the people. Life is unfair ..-
and government is the major available
instrument to address that unfairness,"
he said.
"We have an administration that
lacks understanding of this modern
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Though he-predicts a discouraging in-
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Shull says he is not pessimistic about
the future.
"In 1982, there will be a fairly sharp
turn and the Democrats and the liberals
will win some seats back,"' he said.
"The American people will see that the
economic policies and the entire
program is not working and they'll
begin to turn against Reagan.''
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet Fred Sherry, cello
Theodore Arm, violin and viola Ik-Hwan Bae, violin and viola
-4 Ida Kavafian, violin and viola
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Program
Mozart: Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat major, K. 563
Husa: Evocation de Slovaquie
Weber: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in E-flat major, Op. 34
Supday, November.15,t4:00
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and record lightning over South
America and the southern tip of Africa.
NASA said such movies, never made
before (rom space, will provide spec-
trographs to determine the tem-
perature, pressure, molecular species,
electron density and ionization in the
lightning's path.
McLEAISH SAID there remained a
chance the mission would be extended
to a third day, or a fourth, "bitt the
present plan is for a minimal 54-hour
mission." The flight, had been
scheduled for 124 hours.
A 54-hour flight, duplicating Colum-
bia's 36-orbit inaugural last April,
provides the proper number 'of
revolutions to bring Columbia home at
the right time and the right spot.
Columbia could travel its full five-day
r tour on its two working fuel cells, ac-
coridng to United Technologies, which
manufactured the cells.
McLEAISH referred to the two active
fuel cells as "alive and well," and he
explained: "If the two fuel cells stay
healthy, and no other problems
develop, consideration could be given to
extending that time frame. However,
the 54-plan gives the opportunity for
moving the highest priority items
ahead in the flight plan."
The flight plan calls for testing of
Columbia's robot arm, the device that
will deploy and retrieve satellites once
the shuttle passes its test flights and
goes operational - expected next year.
Truly, in remarks before launch, said
"We are still in the front end of a very
complicated flight test program. Our
mission rules are very consedrvative.
If we had a failure and our rules tell us
we have to come home early, we will do
__ that."
The problem was not a life-
threatening one for Engle and Truly - or
one requiring an immediate return.
Still, it was enough to invoke a
requirement that "when a fuel cell is
permanently off the line, it brings about
a mission rule that calls'for a minimal
mission."
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