2—The Daily Collegian Friday, March 9, 1979 New era of exploration is here Space shuttle revitalizes NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ( AP) The space shuttle and a new era of ex ploration is at hand, and it cant come soon enough for the people here whose job is dispatching men into the cosmos. It's been nearly 10 years since Americans first set foot on the moon and four years since the United States last sent men into space. The launch pads of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and Skylab are silent now, many gone, their girders sold for scrap. The shuttle is a reusable vehicle capable of making 100 or more round trips into space. It will be used to carry satellites into space, repair satellites in orbit and perhaps eventually lead to the first stations where man can live and work in space. The work force at the Kennedy Space Center here was at 27,000 in the Apollo heyday. It is now down to 10,600. Those left have watched with envy as the Russians have regularly launched men into space, breaking all American en durance records. America's last manned space flight was a joint mission with the Soviets in 1975. Since then, 12 Soyez craft, bearing a total of 24 cosmonauts, have rocketed into orbit. While watching the Soviets, the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration has been developing a new manned craft the shuttle. That program reaches a milestone tomorrow when a Boeing 747 jet sets down here. Perched on its back will be Columbia, the first shuttle earmarked for space. It is being ferried cross country from the Rockwell International plant at Palmdale, Calif. Biologicals 120 S. Allen Behind Rite-Aid 1. _ 4 bUlAbitrt Believes in Calvin <len Jeans .1 4- =lll „. , 11 , . Tr, ; =,„t6: d' . „ • , :10% , A t , • , ,?; • • ..•`, • 1.0 ?,141" 1 41.4 , 41. „, 4, • '''." P1,,,13.1.:Tf.',.n4Z.',1071t../A • z • 4 • fiztA * el7;;* 7514;5,44V 214 E. College Ave. Sera Tec Biologicals is in need of donors who have made antibodies to mono nucleosis. We will pay $50.00 , per - donation to anybody who passes the antibody level test. Call 237-5761 • 1:•4 RIM ~ .- .: '::- ; ':',1 ' . . , ' :;::ii:',, , .„ '''..,.°...:,:,::..,'..,::,..1:1),,:i.,.,,„ Thousands of workers and their families are expected to turn out to greet it. "They're excited; you can feel a great increase in the pulse here," center director Lee Scherer said in an in terview. "Their job is putting men in space, and finally, they're going to get another manned vehicle to work on," he said. "They 'can't wait to get their hands on the damn thing." . Months of work lie ahead before the shuttle is ready to fly. The main engines have to be tested, delivered and in stalled. Thermal tiles must be positioned to protect Columbia from searing re entry heat. Booster rockets and fuel tanks must be readied. 'The launch is scheduled Nov. 9. But Scherer conceded NASA is working on a "success-oriented" schedule. He said: "If there's a problem of any magnitude, it could cause a delay. We'll have a better handle on how we're doing after a couple months. We're dealing with a very sophisticated machine that is pushing the . state of the art, and we won't launch until we are ready." How sophisticated? The shuttle is a space plane a hybrid of rocket, spacecraft and air plane. After each flight into space, it will glide back to a landing on a three-mile long runway and be towed to a hanger to be readied for another trip within two weeks or so. ' Each of the - four shuttles approved by Congress will be capable of making 100 or more roundtrips into space. HAVE YOU HAD MONO? (In the last 3 months) MEE ..'.., ~ , •'',';',,, t 'A.',:,.; , . „ , •,',.,„„,',..,. 4.‘ ,4,:,,cji ' , '.x ''•'; ,' . '`y. ' • '' t ' it J'' ' ;' Yl: ' , '' X'• '#l , ^ ', - .,J '',}:j:"‘' t . , ' , 'W • k J . '" j rjf .' ' ''. • . j. 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The astronauts will be John Young, a veteran of four space trips, including a moon walk, and Robert Cripp'en, a rookie spaceman. Five or six test flights are planned before. Columbia is operational, probably in 1981. Then it will be ready to do things never tried before in space. The first 28 flights are sold out to government agencies, industry and others who want to put payloads into orbit. The shuttles will put satellites in space for research, weather forecasting, communications, and military recon naissance. They will carry up a small European Space Agency station called Spacelab. The space planes will have a capacity of hauling up to 65,000 pounds and, once in orbit, also will launch probes bound for other planets. Each shuttle will carry up to seven people, some of them women. Six women currently are in training, Crews will be able to repair an ailing satellite in orbit or bring it back to Earth for main tenance, cutting costs and considerably extending the lives of many payloads. Eventually, the shuttle fleet may ferry people and parts for building solar THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS . . . "ATERIRIIIQUY [Nit ' NINE 141110011N111!" —Vincent Canby, New York Times "Great and glorious "Movie magic! entertainment! The most Definitely not entertaining to be evening of missed!" • , the year!" - 7 -,Aaron Schindler, CBS-TV Farnily-Circle • PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORA i IN .T. 4 . 41" T r WITH NAT COHEN PRESENTS A JOHN BRABOURNE•RICHAROGOOCIWIRPRIXETION - ASATIMI MUM "NORIO ON lit ORIENT rirESS I9 COLOR • PRINTS BY MOVIELAB• ANII EMI] mum A FtR,INT RELEASE [PO 9 . 'sowoma IMO ROAM ON CARTOL RECORDS '..0 r 121 SPARKS Fri/Sat/Sun a ‘n co\ of kcoco SaWaf:o6 0 eict togos PN -`/S..'itC\q-‘l-‘ lt. 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After servicing, the shuttle will go to one of the world's largest buildings to be fitted with two booster rockets and a fuel tank. From there It will be off to one of the extensively modified Apollo launch pads. The Apollo launch control center also will be used, but gains in computer• technology means the facility can be run by 45 persons, one-tenth the 450 needed for Apollo. The final countdown also will be slashed from Apollo's 28 hours to 2 1 / 2 hours. The preparation of shuttle facilities is being done at a cost of about $6OO million, Lyon said. "Because of tight budgets, we had to really watch our costs." he said. "It's not like Apollo, where we had a 'national commitment and if you needed money to do something, it was pull out all the stops." . $1.25 7:30/9:45 $1.25 7:30/9:15/11:00 The magnificent epic of five people who survived the nuclear holocaust . . . More than a movie. 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