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'age 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1979 MANOR EAST III Moonraker 2:35-4:55-7:30-9:55 Rocky II 2:30-4:55-7:20-9:45 Meatballs SKYWAY TWIN EAST Dawn of The Dead plus Fright WEST A Force of One plus Thunderkick CAMPUS The Great Train Robbery iPlllP Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 Barcelona APARTMENTS NEWLY REMODELED ! ALL UTILITIES PAID and... Individual Heating and Air, Cable T.V., 3 Laundry Rooms, Swimming Pool, Security Guard, Party Room, and Close to Campus. 693-0261 700 Dominik, College Station Texas Ave. ■•'•Whatatiurp.nr A&M Dol t' Course book iscAft/r the state Teen-age spaceflight controller Woman to aid in first shuttle flight United Press International HOUSTON — Jackie Parker takes a lot of kidding about her age, but success as a math whiz who graduated early from college and became a teen-age spaceflight con troller has kept her good-natured about it. She’s training at Johnson Space Center to be part of the ground team managing NASA’s space shut tle during its first orbital flights next year. “It’s all in fun,” Miss Parker, 19, said of the jokes. “Besides, if it wasn’t my age, they’d find some thing else to kid me about. I think I’m just one of those people who encourages kidding.” She has been the youngest in her crowd since she was 12 years old. Solar power is solution: expert United Press International HOUSTON — One answer to the energy shortage currently being ignored is massive development of solar power satellites, the director of Johnson Space Center said. “Inevitably, the Earth has to come to some form of the use of solar energy,“ Dr. Christoper C. Kraft said in an interview in the July issue of Government Executive. Kraft said an orbiting platform containing solar panels could con vert the sun’s rays into electricity and microwave transmitters could beam that power back to Earth. Cost estimates run into the billions for one satellite that could supply enough power for a city of 1.5 million persons, but experts say improvements in technology, particularly solar cell technoogy, could reduce that cost. “I really believe they are (feasible),” Kraft said. “The route to demonstrating the feasibility is exactly the same road the space pro gram needs to follow even if it never sends a kilowatt back from space.” He said the elements required for solar power development of solar power satellites are the capacity to build and assemble parts into large structures in space. Solar platforms would be miles wide. Kraft said the same skills would be required to expand observation, communication, military and exploration capability in space. -■azain TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE’S LARGEST BOOK SALE THIS YEAR!!!! 50% to 90% OFF LIST PRICE OF OVER 10,000 titles — All Subjects MEDICINE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGLISH LITERATURE LANGUAGES DO IT YOURSELF NATURE RELIGIOUS TRAVEL AUTO REPAIR CHILDRENS BOOKS AND MANY MORE HURRY — COME IN NOW FOR THE BEST SELECTION SALE WILL END PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF THE FALL SEMESTER THANK YOU TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE LOCATED IN THE MSC when she decided to finish high school in two years. She started col lege at 14, graduated at 17 and went to work for NASA at 18. Miss Parker, who keeps the exact numerical value of her “genius-level IQ” to herself, also has earned a pilot’s license and intends to be come an astronaut. “I just want to live in space for a period of time, ” she said. “I’d like to construct something up there. Just to be free in a simple umbilical cord and a spacesuit must be neat.” Her father, Dr. William Dale Parker, is a retired former NASA employee who worked at JSC years ago. She credits him for rescuing her from junior high school unhap piness she blamed in part on the family’s repeated moves. “My father knew what was going on,” she said. “He said there’s a way out. You can go to college early.” She went to summer school and crammed credits to complete high school early and then applied to small colleges, finally choosing what has become the University of Cen tral Florida. “When I got to college, it was so much easier,” she said. “People are more willing to meet you. There aren’t many cliques. It worked out real good for me.” She took an overload 41 hours in her last two quarters to graduate early in computer science and joined NASA as a summer intern. She currently works as a $17,000-a- year flight controller. “Flight control seems to center around a lot of information that I have to know as an astronaut,” she said. “Anything I know is going to help me as an astronaut.” She plans to return to school for other degrees, perhaps in biomedi cal or mechanical engineering, which could enhance her chances of becoming an astronaut. Parker credits her early success to hard work and good fortune and wants others to consider her smart but normal. Occasional giggles sup port her claim. She points to her “forgetfulness” and the fact that cramming extra work into a short period of time kept her grades lower than they othei wise would have been; a2.7outofa possible 4.0 gradepoint average. She plays what she called a mediocre but enthusiastic game of softball, is on a volleyball team, sails on Clear Lake, likes all kinds ol music and dates men “of varied ages” just like a lot of other womeo her age. “When people see a high IQ, tie first thing they think is ‘my God,1 couldn’t talk to that girl,’ sle laughed. "I don’t want them to thill that. I just want them to think! could do that or my daughter could do that.’” era tra Unite falmoi peiss Mon Instate vacations OK, says Bullock United Press International AUSTIN — State Comptroller Bob Bullock Monday said Texas still has the lowest gasoline tax rate and encouraged Texans to vacation in the state this summer. Bullock said Texans can save fuel and money by taking instate trips since the state only places a 5 cent tax on each gallon of gasoline. Washington has the highest gasoline tax rate — 12cents] Ion. i home ii The comptroler said gasoline lai Lble. 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