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Europeans to join U.S. in space Non-astronauts to travel in space Police Beat United Press International HOUSTON — The upcom ing Spacelab mission will include America’s first pair of non- NASA astronauts and the first European crew member. Astro nauts said Tuesday that the mis sion will bring people of the streets one step closer to space flight. “This will be the first time we have flown non-NASA people off the streets as payload special ists,” said Byron Lichtenberg, one of two career scientists chosen to fly as payload special ists on the nine-day Spacelab mission. “I feel particularly fortunate in being the first of this new breed of space traveler and it shows NASA is really living up to its pledge,” Lichtenberg said. “In the future they’re going to be flying • artists and com municators and all kinds of dif ferent people,” he told reporters during a pre-flight news confer ence at the Johnson Space Center. As Columbia carries the near ly $1 billion European-built Spacelab in its cargo bay, it will orbit farther north than any pre vious manned mission. It will in clude a path over the Soviet Un ion that will enable scientists on board to photograph parts of Europe never seen before from space. One of the experiments in volves the use of a special camera that can photograph 110 Now You Know United Press International Newborns may sleep most of the time, but they’re more percep tive than you’d think. When only 2 days old, they can distinguish between a sad face and a happy one. SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI SKI square miles, but European Space Agency officials said no experiment called for photo graphs of the Soviet Union or Afghanistan. D.J. Shapland, a spokesman for the European Space Agency, said neither NASA nor ESA had formally informed the Soviet Union about the flight path. “Maybe we should. We won’t get shot down then,” Shapland said in an offhand comment during a briefing Monday in re ference to the downing of a Ko rean jetliner by a Soviet military jet. All 269 people aboard KAL 007 w'ere killed. Shapland said the reason pic tures were not being taken was because “we had no requests to photograph Russia.” In addition to photography experiments, scientists aboard Spacelab will conduct experi ments dealing with atmospheric physics, space plasma physics, material sciences, life sciences, astronomy and solar physics. Ten European countries were involved in the construction of Spacelab, a 7-ton barrel-like orbiting laboratory that fits into the payload bay of the shuttle. Lichtenberg, a biomedical engineer, and Ulf Merbold, a West German physicist, join commander John Young, pilot Brewster Shaw, and mission spe cialists Owen Garriott and Robert Allan Ridley Parker as the largest crew to ever fly a shuttle. The six men are scheduled for blastoff aboard Columbia Oct. 28 for a nine-day mission concentrating on more than 100 scientific experiments. “My involvement in the mis sion symbolizes the beginning of a new time for Europe,” Mer bold said. “ESA has demonstrated that the Europeans can also design, develop and manufacture sys tems that are qualified to sup port life in space. “I think my own role is just with MSC TRAVEL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For More Information: Come by Room 216 MSC or Call 845-1515 * * & * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *1* +L* +1+ +1* •A* •'t* - T* the tip of the iceberg,” he said. Spacelab has been heralded as giving scientists who are not astronauts the opportunity to work with experiments in the weightlessness of space. Payload specialists are career scientists selected to go aboard occasional shuttle missions. Although they are not required to know how to pilot the shuttle or operate its systems, both Mer bold and Lichtenberg received five years of space training at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Spacelab will operate around the clock with a crew divided into groups of three and taking turns on 12-hour shifts. Scien tists will work with experiments in the pressurized Spacelab that is linked to the orbiter by a tunnel. In addition to conducting sci entific expeiments, mission spe cialist Garriott planned to talk with fellow ham radio operators from the shuttle. Garriott will use a small hand-held radio to talk directly with ham operators 160 miles below on Earth. Those conversations would be the first time an astronaut would be able to communicate directly with individuals. The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department through Tuesday: THEFTS: •A blue Fuji 10-speed bicycle from the north end of Davis- Gary Hall. •Several items of clothing from a room in Underwood Hall. BURGLARY: •A gold Seiko wristwatch from 340 MSC Hotel. OTHER: •University Police observed a student removing a stop sign from his vehicle narl j student lot west oF n Hail. The scudemtfc he sign in the back ? fnend struck, polices/ •I WO men who said 1 were from maintetiaS knocking on doors in , Hall. A resident of l. e 3 the men were lookJ over and asking q Uesti g J cerning maintenance ! 11 ty Police said. Physical sonnel said no workers' Le g«5 nw w scheduled to work m the time. Cronkite tells radio to fill news gaps United Press International NEW ORLEANS — The radio industry is giving the pub lic titillating headlines at the ex pense of essential information, retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite said Monday. “There is a point beyond which stories cannot be com pressed without distortion, and news people are being asked to put five pounds of news in a one- pound package,” Cronkite told a broadcasters’ convention. “You can’t do that without serious damage. It would almost David Alsobrook from Paducah, Kentucky, was born a P.K. (preacher’s kid) and rebelled against the church’s teaching at an early age. David was born again at the age of 15 and with intense hunger for the Word of God read the Bible through four times in six months. David’s preaching and teaching reflect his astound ing memory and knowledge of the Bible. Although David’s teachings cover a vast amount of subjects, much of the anointing of God has been his call to teach holiness unto God and deliverance from evil spirits. Because of this call David has received much persecution. Through not compromis ing, God has rewarded his faithfulness by signs and miracles following his ministry. David is the author of “The Precious Blood” and many other books. His books, tapes and literature have gone throughout the world and been translated into several languages. His evangelis tic association helps support and build churches in the Philip pines. David will be speaking in Rm 410 Rudder, October 6, at 7 pm. You are invited. be better if we didn’t try t0 the news at all,” he said. Cronkite said despite I technological advances, them he is getting sensational),) lines and less and less esse D information. ■ “It’s as dangerous and a fact as this: the dernocracvc not live with a populatior short of information,” hex Cronkite was in NewOd, Monday to accept the 1983i, den Radio Award from the' tional Radio BroadcastersAi ciation. In his keynote addii he stressed that radio retain* special place among the n because people carry it them. “Radio is a medium initsj right,” said Cronkite,) started his journalism cartel the University of Texas sta KTUT in the early 1930s “It’s radio that peopled with them, driving downi highway, sitting at their d trout-fishing. More than other medium, it is radio pen use to stay in touch. It’sri that is there when disai strikes.” After praising the medi itself, however, Cronkite ched into his rebuke, aeon radio of driving many newsp ers out of business in reti years and failing to fill “We’ve driven newspap out of business, left most cities with a single newspap he said. “We have a responsi ity in radio and television the place of those newspap we have reduced or driven and we’re not doing thatjol -THE DIXIE ROSE COMPANY* We are horticulture students supplying quality roses to Texas Aggies. oses *3.™ per Dozen Limited quantity available, so you must order quickly!! ALE ORDERS MUST BE GIVEN EV ADVANCE BY PHONE! TO ORDER, CALL 696-8917 DIXIE CHICKEN UNIVERSITY DR. LOUPOTS ■ USDA BLDG. Moore Hall You’re order may be picked up on Friday, Oct. 7 beginning at 3 p.m. at Davis- Gaiy Dorm room 304. Special Coupon Offer! 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