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THE BATTALION Page 17 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1979 VASA cuts two tests a two-i in anotli p seveni ered a Ik i ■ i aker in an as remon /ho indiin it. ted L 0 0 1.08) l 0 01.00 l 0 0 1.08) 0 10.08) 010.08) .0 0 1.000 010.000 0 1 0 00) 010.00 Delays plague shuttle United Press International WASHINGTON — The space [encyhas trimmed its space shut- orbital flight test program from itofour flights to reduce delays in bsequent operational missions. The effort to develop the big- rocket transport has been igued by numerous problems for past few years and is now more in a year behind schedule. The oblems are so serious President liter has asked for a briefing next onth. Getting the space shuttle ready operational satellite launchings soon as possible is particularly portant because the Defense De- rtment is counting on the ship to rry up military payloads in the rlv 1980s. Commercial satellite ilopers also are affected bv de ls fore the 122-foot-long spaceship was to be declared ready to carry out operational satellite launching missions. The original schedule called for the sixth test flight in March 1980, with the first operational mission coming two months later. Four more operational missions had been scheduled for 1980. The most recent timetable, pres ented last week to organizations that will use the ship, eliminates the last two test flights and turns them into operational missions. Space officials point out that additional test missions can be scheduled if the in itial flights encounter difficulties. The latest tentative schedule, de- like this: Space shuttle 1 — to be launched by June 1980. Space shuttle 2 — launched by November 1980. Space shuttle 3 — by February 1981. Space shuttle 4 — by May 1981. Space shuttle 5 (the first opera tional mission) — to launch a track ing and data relay satellite Sept. 1, 1981. Space shuttle 6 — to launch three communications satellites Oct. 21, 1981. Thirteen flights of the Columbia and the second space shuttle, the not-yet-completed Challenger, are tentatively planned for 1982. Sun kills crucial info from Titan United Press International MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The first major disappointment in the 614-year journey of Pioneer 11 occurred when crucial data about possible life on Saturn’s moon. Ti tan, was lost. The Space Agency said huge bursts of radiation from the sun blacked out radio signals from the 565-pound spacecraft for two hours Monday. That crucial time period was Pioneer’s only chance — for just 15 minutes while moving at 25,000 mph — to obtain ultraviolet mea surements of Titan. These measurements would have given the satellite’s temperature, the key to the question of whether Titan’s conditions could foster life. Titan is the last place in the solar system besides Earth where scien tists think life forms could develop. Charles Hall, Pioneer Project manager, said he was deeply disap pointed. But he said a small per centage of the data might be recov ered by intensive reviews of rec ordings made at the tracking station at Madrid. Previously, Pioneer had been un usually lucky during its 2 billion- mile trip. It survived the asteroid belt, and it suffered some circuitry damage when blasted by enormous radiation as it curved close around Jupiter. But that damage had been expected. Titan’s temperature is important because, for life to exist, the surface should be above freezing, the level allowing primitive organisms to move. Titan, larger than either Earth’s moon or the planet Mercury, has the chemicals necessary for or ganisms to form, and it has an atmo sphere. Many scientists theorize that Ti tan’s surface is about 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but this cal culation has not been proved and some scientists disagree with it. 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