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Show Sunday, December Shuttle - .SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) The ninth shuttle mission aboard the veteran Columbia established a number of firsts for the U.S. space program. Here are the highlights: est and most ambitions shuttle mission to date. Columbia flew 4.3 million miles. The crew collected 2 trillion bits of data on nearly 72 scientific experiments. Columbia carried America's largest space crew of six: commander John Young, pilot Brewster Shaw, Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Li chtenberg. The $1 billion European-buil- t Spacelab research module, stowed in Columbia's cargo bay, flew in space for the first time --The Hight was the long 10-da- y Set Records M ission tist is trained to fly the spacecraft. Young became the first person to fly in space six times. Garriott was the first astronaut to speak directly to people on Earth from the spacecraft via Merbold, a West German physicist, became the first European to fly on the shuttle. a Merbold and Li chtenberg, biomedical engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were the first two astronauts to fly on the shuttle as payload specialists assigned to carry out scientific experiments. Neither career scien non-NAS- 11, 1983 THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. - Pace 35 SHUTTLE COMPUTER FAILURE Computer Output Display Screens ham radio. Columbia flew the highest inclination orbit ever flown by an American spacecraft. Primary Thrusters Computer Control Panel The malfunction of 2 of the 5 computers appeared to be linked to the firing of the primary thrusters. UPI on-bo-ard JVC Sfi 6-HO- UR VIDEO TAPE JT'JI Si stocKuponT-12- t"NQO 0 JVC frXl J fQ MS 1 319 14-DA- Y Now oxporranco itarao. Raeoiva 6 Swr" a,itt ,,h f""thai ' ,nC,Ufeea18r2r18hand fv". 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"There's clearly a problem and I don't want to minimize it, but we were not on the edge of some huge problem," Abrahamson said. He said the investigation could last weeks. 21-- , Choooo from a larga aaiacHon ot quoMty 4 Taofentea apaakara. 26-je- replacing a bad electronics box aboard the satellite. Two spacewalks are planned and during the second one, McCandless will conduct a unique orbital refueling test in Challenger's open payload bay. Lunney said he was confident all the equipment would work for the January flight, but he acknowledged in an interview that the mission was more risky than most. "There's an added degree of risk but I would not characterize it as a great big step in that way because even if the manned maneuvering unit had a problem, the orbiter can be flown over, and under and around the crewman who might be on such a unit and brought back into the cargo bay," Lunney said. The mission will be commanded by shuttle veteran Vance D. will be Robert Brand. His L. Gibson. Also aboard will be mission specialist Ronald E. co-pil- Mc-Na- ir. The crew is scheduled to spend eight days in orbit. Besides the spacewalks, the astronauts will launch two commercial communications satellites and deploy and later retrieve a German instrument platform. Shuttle Shatters Peace COMPACT STEREO SYSTEM II n 11 11 If 11 , and AUPM Starao Waoalvac. JM TECHNICS STEREO SPEAKERS . . tuning and ""L A TECHNICS STEREO RECEIVER WKO RIO IALL CONTROLLER ktotnimanri S94ACoinpuaw.H3-- 9 $99 Pair L AMIGA POWER STICK CONTROLLERS dramatic and bold missions in many years. Two astronauts will use backpacks to fly up to 300 feet away from the orbiting spaceship in a rehearsal of an attempt to rescue a crippled satellite in April. Astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart may venture out without a safety line. "It's a pretty dramatic demonstration of the abilities that we have," said Glynn Lunney, shuttle program manager at the Johnson Space Center. The jetpacks, called manned maneuvering units, are the key to the April flight in which an astronaut will fly to a spinning sun observatory called the Solar Maximum Mission and stabilize it so the shuttle's mechanical arm can grab it and bring it into the cargo bay for repairs. McCandless and Stewart on the upcoming mission will test the t maneuvering units for the first time and rehearse rendezvous maneuvers required for the April ed SEGA FOR ATARI COMPUTERS S K3 I $89" iC rebate. re-ent- flight. They also will practice Jr. SPACE CENTER, Houston The space agency plans (UPI) to follow up the highly successful TECHNICS SEMIAUTOMATIC TURNTABLE CASSETTE DECK Dolby NR DBX wttti 0 Slim ttyllng. 29" POPEYE OR t M commander John Young said he thought the rocket firings and the computer failures were related. But mission controllers said their analysis of the data radioed back from Columbia did not show any connection. UPI Science Editor 400 A WO ayttama. Fast fun action for the Atari 400 or 800 computer. si Your Chotea from Archon L E, for Atari 9 Chooaa down. Mission By AL ROSSITER 99 SOQW cleared for launch Jan. 30. But he said Thursday night: "I believe we have a high probability of maintaining the flight sched- Abrahamson said it was just too early to say if there is a connection. "We do not know enough about it to say that's the case," he said Thursday night after Columbia landed' at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. "You can be sure we'll look at it very carefully." Young joked that when the first computer failed, "my knees starting shaking. When the next computer failed I turned to jelly." Flight controllers delayed the shuttle's landing by eight hours to make sure there was not a problem that would occur again during the critical maneuvers. The shuttle has five of the general purpose computers and only one was required to carry out the guidance and control functions needed to get the shuttle back to Jet Pack Test Set for Shuttle 3 I fyiftHdgl COLECO-VISIO- the shuttle Challenger can be One computer failed Thursday morning when one of the shuttle Columbia's big nose jets fired, jolting the spacecraft. Then a second computer failed following another firing. That second computer was revived for the landing operation only to fail at touch- - LLJF--i s By OLIVE TALLEY SPACE CENTER, Houston It may be weeks before (UPI) engineers know the cause of the computer problems that delayed Thursday's shuttle landing, but NASA says it is unlikely the failure will postpone the next flight in late January. Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, associate NASA administrator in charge of space flight, said the mystery must be resolved before ule." - SUPERFOX RADAR DCTECTOR 1 l I ,r' 4P.vr -- . 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(UPI) naling Columbia's return to Earth rattled windows and shook up residents in some parts of California Thursday, Because of the delayed landing, the space shuttle flew in from the northwest, crossing areas of the state never before overflown by a spaceship. i Beth Combs, dispatcher with the Fresno Police Department, said police were inundated with phone calls after the shuttle fired two sonic booms that shook the community. "Windows rattled and shook. We assumed it was the shuttle, but one woman called and thought there was an explosion of something," Ms. Combs said. |