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Show _TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursday, December 3 1998 Al7 Shuttle Aims to Put Space-Station Component Into Orbit NewEvidence May Shed Light On Fate of Amelia Earhart Weather maydelay launch, but NASAofficials don’t mindafter a year ofbeingput on the back burner KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSSERVICE will look back at and say we learned howto operate, live, buiid and assemble in space. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Weather per- mitting, the long and tedious process of assem- Forecasters, however, predict the start of into commercial agreements that could keep that new era could be delayed. Because of the threat of low clouds and showers, the chances of favorable conditions during the brief 10- bl ig a giant laboratoryin space is about to egin. Shuttle Endeavour was scheduled to lift off the Mir station in orbit beyond mid-1999, whenthey had originally planned to abandon minute launch window areonly40 percentto- it. NASA managersare con ing Mir beyondthen could delay that operatshipment of shouldn't makea big difference to a mission the service module and other international already postponed for a year. ‘The long-awaited assemblyflight was kept in limbo for months by Russian financial woes that have delayed completion of the station’s critical third component. The Russian service moéule, a living quarters and propulsion module, now is expected to be launched in July. The Russiansalso are continuing to negotiate with NASAfor one moreshuttle flight to Russian funding. from KennedySpaceCenterat 3:56 a.m. today and climb towardorbit carrying the interna- day and Friday. Whatever the weather, a few more days tional spacestation’s first U.S.-built component, a 13-ton, six-sided connecting hub called Unity. Oncein orbit, Endeavour's crew of six astronauts plans to attach Unityto a Russian power and propulsion module launched on Nov. 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia. Future U.S. pieces will be mated to Unity tQ form the American part of the station during the nextfive years. the aging Mir space station. The mission “We're enteringa newerain the space busi- ness,” said Tommy Holloway, NASA's shuttle program manager. [It's] an era that history Earth. Some of it might be reusedontheinternational station. Space officials in Russia also are looking would salvage valuable science equipment from the outpostand return the equipmentto station parts because Mir competesfor limited On Tuesday, NASA officials unveiled the USS.laboratory module, a 28-foot-long aluminum cylinder that will serve as the primary American workstation, and dubbed it Destiny. Characterized as the centerpiece of the station, Destiny is scheduled to be launched aboard Endeavour in February 2000 “Even though it represents a small percentage of the massof the international space sta- tion, it does represent the heart and soul Brinkley said Medical Imaging Helps Read Messages Sealed in Clay Envelopes CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHICAGO Like Superman using X-ray vision, two Israeli scientists are using medical imaging equipmentto read 4,000-year-old cuneiform messages on tablets still sealed tightly inside ancient clay envelopes. The imaging equipment, computed® tomography (CT scans), is normally used by doctors as a noninvasive, nonsurgical way of locking inside patients’ bones and interrfal organs. Archaeologists also have used CT scansto analyze But’ the Israeli scientists, who in Chicago, are the first to use the technique to analyze archaeological objects madeofclay, a univer- employed for unknown 125 quarts of best quality in Jerusalem. The brothers conducted their barley flour. Wages for the work gangsat rest. From Lu.bi.mu.” The brothers and Israeli radiologist, Jacob Bar-Ziv, have worked first CT experiment on ancient sealed Mesopotamian contracts in can bestudied without having to break them open. 1994, putting them into hospital CT machinesthat were not in use on weekends. Tens of thousands of the contracts have been and continue to Mesopotamian businessmen and traders 4,000 years ago in what is now Iraq wrote their con- tracts by sticking wedge-shaped be recovered from ancient city sites in the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys. In the past, archaeologists used to break them open to read contents, but thatpractice is now frowned upon. sticks into soft clay tablets, their words formed by humans’ first al- phabet. Once written, the tablet was sealed inside a clayenvelope ly a breakthrough, particularly in reported their findings Tuesday logical Society of North America sealed in.” His brother is an ar- chaeologist at HebrewUniversity “Using CTto imageclay is real- the condition and medical history of mummified human remains. at the 84th meeting of the Radio- sal manufacturing material in the ancient world. Brothers Nachum and Yaakov Applhaum say the insides of the ancient clay and ceramic objects analyzing ancient financial contracts,” said Yaakov Applbaum, a clay coffins found near the Gaza Strip, 8,000-year-old Israeli fertility figurines and 2,000-year-old rattles that may have beentoys or musical instruments. CTscansbuild up three-dimensional images of the interiors of objects they probe suggesting tha tor Amelia Ea maroroIslan Republic of Kiri med U.S. avia. t died on NikuPolynesian British soldiers found bones on the island, then called Gardner Is- land, in 1940, and suspecting they might be those of Earhart, sent themto British headquarters on the island of Tarawain the North Pacific. A physician there concluded that we may soon know what hap pened to Amelia Earhart,” Gilles pie said Tuesday in telephone interview ‘Thenewresul! be present ed Friday at a American Ani the country navigator, Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), a nonprofit groupthat has beensearching for evidence of Earhart’s demise for 10 years, stumbledacross some of the records in Tarawa. This prompted TIGHAR Director Richard Gillespie to locate the original archival material in England. Precise dimensions of the bones taken from the paperwork, discoveredonly two weeksago, indi- cate that the skeleton represented the remains of a white female of northern European extraction. about 5 feet 7 inches tall, accord- since she and her Fred Noonan, side the clay envelope yielded a were able to identify the message from an unknown em- texts without breaking the clay a subcontractor what wages lem’s Hadassah University. “We nd, But they did not d and reported in dio messages that they were almost out of fuel Some experts claim that Ear- hart and Noonan were captured by the Japanese because they were allegedly spying on Japa: nesenaval operations Most authorities, however, be lieve her LockheedA-10EElectra simplyran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean Gillespie, a formercharterpilot and aircraft accident investigator, was drawn to the case when some associates noted t based on her compass headings, Earhart could have been flying over Niku maroro when sheran out of gas Reports that she sent radio mes sages for three daysafter failing ing to two forensic anthropologists. to reach ee suggested she survived the er dramatic archival andscientific at the time but saw no trace of wreckage. “We have probably the most evidence in 61 years to indicate US Seevies over the island ployer to a subcontractor,telling envelope the contracts were would be appropriate for a work veyZ rene VABeet eeeticd AT&T has always had the largest oewireless network in North imerica. 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