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Show October 27, HILL TOP TIMES 1978 Page 27 MUM r if r(Di niroinn vex By Capt. Ron Sandhop hcxmrp7 THE LOUDSPEAKER cracked, "5. 3, 3... 2... AMONG THEM were National Aeronautics 4. ..Fire!" Cracking sounds and billowing smoke THE BOOSTER SHELL, a cloud of smoke and a scorched hillside remained as spectators departed for home. THE THREE ASTRONAUTS arrived at Hill AFB the day before the launch in two aircraft, distinctively painted OlhiQJ u file OTTO parachuted into the Atlantic Ocean. The same boosters then will be recovered and refurbished at Thiokol in Utah. The DM-under test is a solid rocket booster with a burning time of 120 seconds into flight. During the actual space shuttle missions, boosters will be released and ASTRONAUTS selected for assignment to space shuttle missions bring experience to the job. helicopter from Hill's Det. 4. r?o rrnrnro v ft mm mm mm mm M M M Office in January 1973. The office provides operational and engineering support for the Space Shuttle Program. Commander Crippen became a NASA astronaut in September 1969, and was a crew member on the highly successful Skylab Medical Experiments Altitude Test, a simulation of the Skylab mission. He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Skylab 2, 3, and 4 missions. He served in this Test capacity also for the Apollo-Soyu- z Project mission completed successfully in 56-d- Captain Young previously commanded the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, completing a scientific survey of the lunar highlands. He was pilot, under command pilot Gus Grissom, on the first manned Gemini flight in March 1965. He was command pilot on Gemini 10. He also was command pilot for Apollo 10. He served as backup pilot for Gemini 6, backup command module pilot for Apollo 7 and backup spacecraft commander for Apollo missions 13 and 17. 3 white with black trim. They stayed overnight at Hill in government quarters and were flown to the test site the day of the firing in a. ft THE continued for 120 seconds. The nozzle was articulated and the test was rated a success. attended. first-han- . . yellow flame as long as the motor was ignited. A cloud of gray r.moke began to form. Then the sound wave fron. 2.9 million pounds of thrust hit the crowd of about 1,500 people. p A 1. A and Space Administration officials and staff including Capt. John Young, USN (Ret.), who will be commander of the first space shuttle mission, and Cmdr. Robert Crippen, USN, pilot for the first mission. Mr. Vance Brand, a member of the back-ucrew for the second scheduled flight, also T-3- 8 0 guests took place at 11 a.m. and, at 1:45 p.m., people gathered a mile from the test site. The third test firing of a U.S. Space Shuttle at Thiokol development motor, the DM-drew last visitors like a Thursday Corp., magnet. NASA rrm HE WAS ASSIGNED responsibility for the Space Shuttle Branch of NASA's Astronaut ay July 1975. MR. BRAND, a former naval aviator with the U.S. Marine Corps, was employed as a civilian by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., serving successively as a flight test engineer and experimental test pilot. He was selected by NASA for astronaut assignment in April 1966. inspection of the hardware by d (From page 10) but directs that, other than the Palace Chase Program, the Programs be brought down to levels comparable to the other services starting in FY-8FY-7- 9 0. Permits continuation of the Air Force Program that the issue will be adUp-Or-O- ut for officers with the understanding dressed in conjunction with DOPMA. Allows commissioning of physician assistants, but requires DoD to report on the issue not later than Dec.l, 1978. Authorizes continued appropriated fund support for commissaries. The Senate had recommended that the commissary subsidy ($339 million) be phased out over a three-yea- r period. The President also signed the Civil Service Reform Act on Oct. 13, 1978 (PL Three provisions of the act are of 95-45- Vfa Buying lias Qponod in l&yfon rM? Dig Saving for Hill Piold Pooplo - Prop in Todayl 4). special interest. The act: Limits future military retirees to a combined civil service salary and military retirement annuity that does not exceed executive-leve- l V ceiling, currently $47,500.In addition, regular officers would still be required to forfeit 50 per cent of all retired pay in excess of $4,532 (adjusted semiannually by per cent equal to increase in CPI). . Eliminates veterans preference rights for field grade officers, effective Oct. 1, 1980. Establishes an executive branch civilian employment ceiling which limits FYs 79 and 80 employment levels to the Sept 30, 1977 lev el. FY-7- 9 end strength impacts will be provided when known. 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