| Show Star Gazers r And Rocket Buffs Join t Preston Hunters Hunter's Class And Rocket In Into to Space i iby v by Paul Gilbert Long before NASA and the US U.S. Air Force had tragedies with their space spacecrafts spacecrafts spacecrafts crafts Preston Hunter Hooter instructor was losing rockets When he was ten years old a rocket we went t off in the basement of his parents parents' home and kept bouncing off the walls all he could d do was duck Although his father encouraged him to develop his interests they had to put a bridle on his in house research A rocket once exploded and shrapnel sprayed him and his sister getting some in her eye Despite these setbacks one of his experiments was displayed on the nationally televised show Mr Wizard In s pre engineering department his emphasis is in computer science but his love seems to be with his astronomy class The course is Physics Basic Astronomy which he claims is a r. r fun five credits something like v sir f f getting up at a am a.m. m. m on a cold I winter night to attempt a glimpse of the elusive Halley's Comet and not x w just outside your backdoor You may f y have to travel thirty miles for the assignments 4 There are approximately 40 people t registered for the general education 4 class They have go gone e to see such J p visual displays as Ramses II in Provo to gain an understanding of the J J ancient water wafer clock Hunter says f 1 f the main objective of the course is isto 1 to teach about astronomy and the v main vehicle by which science has 1 evolved 1 r In industry Hunter was a nuclear 4 t engineer traveling all over the world f solving problems When Apollo III O- O erupted in flames killing astronauts i if Grissom White and Chaffee Hunter J f was consulted consulted to determine the f j Most he able to cause recently was as predict the cause of the shuttle explosion even before the media was V 4 allowed detailed I l photos by 5 observing slow motion on his home A VCR When the story unfolded his f. f class applauded his intuitive 4 1 reasoning The glamour and excitement excite- excite Jf if u ment of his lifes life's work is now on an easier pace He finds it more satisfying satisfying satisfy satisfy- 7 ing to teach on a to one-to-one basis with i. i his students His family encouraged ged 3 him in his budding youth now Hunter encourages his students to discover themselves and the world about them J |
