Wednesday, August 31, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. — The
shuttle Challenger rocketed the
First black American spaceman
and four other fliers into a 184-
mile-high orbit early Tuesday,
riding a brilliant spear of fire
that turned night into day in a
spectacle seen 400 miles away.
The launch was flawless and
the astronauts got down to work
quickly with Guion Bluford, one
of four blacks in the space corps,
using a biological processing
machine to purify living cells for
the first time in space.
Four and a half hours after
their raip-delayed blastoff, mis
sion commander Richard Truly,
co-pilot Daniel Brandenstein
and mission specialist Dale
Gardner told mission control
what it was like to take off in the
middle of the night atop two
fiery solid booster rockets.
Dr. William Thornton, the
fifth crewman and at 54 the old
est man in space, rode on the
lower deck of Challenger’s cabin
and apparently missed much of
the show.
To spaceport observers, it was
like an instantaneous sunrise.
The flame gushing from Chal
lenger’s boosters cast an eerie
orange glow that brightened in
seconds to virtual daylight inten
sity over the spaceport.
To the astronauts aboard
Challenger, at one point it
seemed like they were “inside a
bonfire.” That was when the two
boosters were kicked away by ex
plosive charges to parachute
into the Atlantic ocean near two
waiting recovery ships.
“It looked like we were just
totally enveloped in a ball of
flame,” Gardner said. “The
flame appeared to be all around
us, like we were in the center.
“It looked like we were in a
ball of flames for about 15
seconds. In fact, it looked like it
was never going to stop. That
really surprised us. It was quite a
ride.”
Truly said the liftoff was like
driving through a fog bank with
an internal light that “got brigh
ter and brighter.”
Before liftoff, President
Reagan saluted Bluford on his
historical trip.
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road Commission to give up
xdusive regulation of air-
taxi cabs, marking the end
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ise from the commission
the D-FW’s opening in
about 450 Yellow Pages
and support personnel were
“still holding out” in his city.
He said bargaining was to re
sume Tuesday in the strike,
which is “really starting to hurt.”
Bargaining also was being con
ducted in Denver.
“We’re a long way apart right
now,” Vivrett said. “The com
pany is proposing take-back
offers in our wages.”
Elsewhere, almost all other
workers were on the job after a
22-day walkout, and American
Telephone & Telegraph Co.
spokeswoman Edie Herman
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Tom James, the city’s con
sumer services director, said the
commission’s decision “means
that local authorities can reg
ulate local service and by provid
ing a wide range of choices,
should be in the public interest.”
Yellow Cab officials were cri
tical of the commission, saying
the decision would hurt the pub
lic by overloading the airport
with cabs.
Yellow Cab, under the pre
sent license agreement, subcon
tracts with other firms for the
right to pick up passengers,
charging each company $1 per
pickup.
Under the commission’s new
rule, taxi firms licensed through
the airport board will not have to
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