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Show l y MU, t NEWS, Thursday, Oeto- b- 23, 1969 DESERET 3A t&mm m&k&m T ff I if! By AL ROSSITER JR. CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -aerospace plane now evolving into an earth orbital shuttle ship may put the Air Force back into the manned spaceflight business. An The National Aeronautics Administration and Space (NASA) is heading development of the shuttle, but the ship is expected to support military space missions as well during the last half of the Jl wings, moveable wings cr with aerodynamic forms that lift themselves. generate Each stage would have rocket engines for propulsion above the atmosphere and jet engines for flying in the atmosphere. The talkeoff section, Day 4 F Shu said, probably would have n - pound eight to 10 thrust rocket engines, and the orbiter probably would have two. Each would be high performance power plants burning hydrogen and oxygen. Dr. George E. Mueller, associate NASA administrator, half-millio- said recently he hoped the first shuttle ship could be ready for suborbital flight tests from Cape Kennedy in 1974. The shuttle has a key role in manned spaceflight programs outlined to President Nixon last month by his space task force. The groups report said the shuttle was needed to ferry men and supplies to the space station and that it also was a necessary part of advanced lunar and planetary exploration programs. Day said NASA and the Air Force were studying shuttle on a working level partnership. NASA is expected to seek at least $100 million in its fiscal 1971 budget to finance preliminary design condesigns tracts. Lockheed Aircraft and the last Boeing Co. announced week they will team up to seek one of several study contracts to be issued. Other companies working on preiin-inar- y are North designs American Rockwell, General end McDonell Dynamics Douglas. Scund-Alike- s Cause N.Y. Stir NEW YORK (UPI) New York police early today rean auto accident ported involving Mr. and Mrs. Aristotle Onassis at 52nd St. and Madisoji Avenue. They later said it was a the accident inmistake volved a csb uii & C . riven by some other guy with a Greek name that sounded like Onassis. 1970s. The shuttle is planned to put space operations on a practical, economically sound basis by replacing the expensive which rockets present-damust be discarded after each launch. y ROCKET, JETLINER It is designed to take off vertically like a rocket and fclide back Intact to earth like a jetliner. The shuttles will be able to fly again in a week or two. Each craft should be able to make at least 100 trips to and from space. That should cut costs for each roundtrip down to $3 million to $4 million, said Leroy E. Day, head of a NASA task group studying the shuttle system. Day said in a Washington interview that present planning anticipates NASA and the Department of Defense each will require a minimum of 35 shuttle flights a year in the last half of the next decade. LAUNCH FACILITY NASAs missions and some of the military flights would start from Cape Kennedy, but Day said the Air Force is expected to build a duplicate launch and landing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The shuttle will service a NASA space station proposed for launch in 1976. It also will be able to carry unmanned satellites into a wide variety of earth orbits ranging up to 800 miles high. Many of the Defense De-- , n partments secret automated now orbited by rockets from expendable Vandenberg could be carried into space at less expense by the shuttle ship. AIR FORCE FLIGHTS spacecraft The Air Forces last manned spaceflight program, the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, was canceled earlier this year. The service does not now have a program as such, but Air Force pilots presumably would be at the controls of shuttles flying military missions from Vandenberg. Day said all of the shuttle designs now under consideration call for two reusable sections a booster and an orbi-te- r and two pilots would be needed for each stage. man-in-spa- All designs would be capable of flying in earth's atmowith swept back sphere Deduction Cut Asked By Romney WASHINGTON (UPI) ousing Secretary -H- George suggested today a cutback of income tax deductions allowed home buyers for mortgage interest payments. He said the dded revenue the government would derive from this could be earmarked for rebuilding the nations Romney slums. Romney said the step might ; be necessary to impress middle and upper income home buyers with the need slum i h housing prob- lems which he said are responsible for much of the nations racial tension. 'Maybe we ought to repeal part of the right to deduct the interest rate from the income tax returns to bring home to middle income and affluent families that fact that they are getting a housing subsidy and it is not just the poor that we are concerned about, R nney said. Maybe that (money) ought to be earmarked to meet the problems of the slums. Romney said the Federal Housing Administration loan guarantees, coupled with income tax laws permitting deduction of interest payments, had provided a 191 GLP U Work Ox.fordt. Choos. or trap lol.i. subsidy to home owners and resulted in concentrating the poor in deteriorating city cores. , Most Americans are well housed. They live in pleasant c 1 r c umstances, Romney said. But a minority of peothat includes the racial ple live in deploraminorities ble conditions." AtA-1- jfth E. of 3600 So.; 3500 S. 4000 W. V S L A |