Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday September 20 1987- -3 Number of booster tests could be cut NASA says HUNTSVILLE Ala (UPI) — The commander of the second shuttle flight says the astronaut office wants to review any plans NASA may have to cut two of the remaining ground tests of redesigned solid rocket boosters The space agency plans five more test firings of redesigned boosters but the head of the redesign effort said Friday the shuttle Discovery could be cleared for a June flight on the basis of only three successful firings “We would like to see more tests not fewer” astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson said in a new post-Challeng- er telephone interview from his office in Houston “We would want to be involved in any discussion of changes concerning the test schedule” Gibson the astronaut liaison to the booster redesign team is scheduled to command the second shuttle mission in Seper tember 1988 The first firing of the reworked booster conducted Aug 30 at Brigham City full-sca- le Utah was declared a resounding success The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans additional test firings in late November in February and March using the design changes developed after the January 1986 shuttle Challenger explosion Two additional firings of rockets off the production line were added to the schedule after the National Research Council urged additional test firings Those two tests are set for next April and May John Thomas head of the solid rocket booster redesign program at the Marshall Space Flight Center said those extra two firings are not necessary to clear Discovery for flight as long as the three previous firings are successful “If the other tests look good we could drop one or two but it’s still a schedule and we plan to keep them” Thomas said at a news conference “We prefer notto drop any” The head of the National Research Council panel overseeing the redesign said the council would like to see all five test firings performed "We don’t have a position on it yet but we have always argued that the more tests the better" said Myron Uman the booster redesign project director for the council “If they could fire five it would be good six would be even A successful firing of the redesigned booster was held Aug 30 at Morton Thiokol better” Western firefighters have ‘turned the corner’ in battle By United Press International for rain on Monday In California more than 10000 have “turned the firefighters continued to Firefighters corner" in their battle against labor against the biggest rethe largest remaining complex maining mass of fires in the of fires that have Klamath National Forest charred more than 1000 square where 136828 acres have been miles of Western timber and scorched and the brush land the US Forest fire complex in Shasta-Trinit- y National Forest Service said Saturday “There’s still a lot of fire up The optimism of firefighters was buoyed by the lack of new there” said John Garland of fires erupting in Northern the Forest Service at Klamath California and forecasts calling “But I think we’ve turned the corner We’re finally getting to In the meantime a temperature inversion in the fire zones continued to keep smoke trapped below altitudes of 6000 feet The resulting blankets of smoke have caused respiratory problems for firefighters and cut down visibility making air tankers virtually useless Just north of the California-Orego-n border in Siskiyou National Forest smoke hud in by the inversion was particularly heavy About 1100 men were the point where we can see these things wind down” Since Aug 28 fires triggered by lightning have consumed 1100 square miles of forest and range land in seven Western states with the toughest fires in California and Oregon Ray Schaaf of the Forest Service at Redding Calif said winds blowing in from the southwest will bring a chance of showers i on Monday the Silver complex contained Friday night but a fires that have consumed 38800 fire burst out Friday afternoon in Sawtooh National Forest that acres of timber 5300-acre in blaze In Idaho a quickly spread over 7500 acres Nez Perce National Forest was of grass land into Nevada working Prosecutors won’t be prosecuted for ‘joke’ - 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