THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1981
Page 9
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Young, Crippen pass
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£1 I HOUSTON — Space shuttle
>st pilot John Young said Thurs-
ay America’s new space truck op-
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riot behin(|i|expected on its first orbital
Iht test and said the mission was
d Zbrane! more than nominal — it was su-
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At their first news conference
moment ol-jnce the mission, Young and his
they haveviSjlot, Robert Crippen, who
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public reiejext flight crew — Joe Engle and
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ry prior tr She is a beauty. It was smooth,
ting jurors lie vehicle is very easy to control,
cidingtliei:I handled superbly.
; custody: “My personal opinion is it is
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led on ner fevr felt comfortable flying it
lid it wouldfanually) all the way down,
n for Dani- “I expect it won’t be too much
er childrenRerwhen the shuttle gets oper-
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leastlOmf® up there that never dreamed
the dcdsipoing it. I think it’d help if you
havetode lad a lot of money. ”
Young and Crippen said they
^less of a “kick in the pants”
i they expected from the rock-
during liftoff. They also said
mtry went more smoothly than
cipated, with temperatures on
cool side of the heat-shielding
i about 100 degrees lower than
dieted. They expected tem-
atures of about 300 degrees
irenheit but the highest was
. The hot side of the tiles on the
underfcdti 0 m endured 2,300 degrees
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had been preparing for all these
disasters and we really didn’t have
anything to do but sit back and
enjoy it.”
The astronauts said the shuttle’s
big windows — unlike the tiny
portals on previous spacecraft —
gave them a startlingly clear view
of what was happening around
them, including the spread of a
pink glow up the nose and around
the windows from the friction heat
of re-entry.
“I think you can call it (the mis
sion) phenomenal,” Young said.
“It was more than nominal — it
was superb. We enjoyed every
minute we were up there.
“We have an anomaly (problem)
list that, when I looked at it, was
about 50 items long. And mostly
it’s nothing to worry about. We
had 130 flight objectives. As I read
it, except for the loss of some data
due to the (balky) recorder, I think
we got them all.”
Problems previously disclosed
included the balky data recorder,
which refused to operate auto
matically; the cabin heating sys
tem, and the loss of 16 pieces of
heat-shielding tiles from the orbit
al maneuvering rocket pods.
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no other tiles were missing from
the wings and tail, although they
could not see the underside.
“Both John and I thought there
was the potential of losing a few
tiles, but it really didn’t bother
us,” Crippen said.
Young said tests had been run
indicating a mission could be
saved even if a tile were lost on a
critical part of the underside. He
said his inspection of the under
side immediately after landing
disclosed no missing tiles.
“Everybody said it was impossi
ble that some of those critical tiles
on the bottom would not fall off, ”
Young said. “None of those tiles
fell off. NASA was wrong again. I
can’t tell you what a tribute that is
to the American working man.”
Crippen added with a laugh :“T-
he American working woman does
a good job, too.”
Young, a Navy captain, said he
was not concerned the military
would take too much of a role in
the development and use of the
space shuttle. He said only 25 per
cent of scheduled payloads are
from the Defense Department.
“I don’t see any extra defense
payloads going up in the 1980s be
cause of the shuttle, but I wish
there were,” he said.
Crippen revealed a previously
undisclosed problem with the
toilet on board the shuttle. He
said the vacuum pump that eli
minates waste gradually deterio
rated and finally failed four hours
before landing.
“It would be nice if they would
fix that,” Crippen said. “We
actually had very little to recom
mend with respect to improve
ments.”
Crippen, 43, who was making
his first space flight, experienced a
heart rate of 130 beats per minute
on liftoff, while Young, 50, making
his fifth space flight, had a heart
rate of less than 80. Crippen
blamed the thrill of it all.
“You betch’em, I was excited,”
he said. “I was surprised it (heart
rate) wasn’t higher than that.
“What you don’t understand.
Young said, “is that I was excited
too. I just can’t make it go any
faster. ”
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