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United Press International
I CAPE CANAVERAL — The con
fident crew of the shuttle Discovery
arrived by jet at the Kennedy Space
tenter Sunday eager for the start of
the new spaceship’s countdown and
Its twice-delayed first launch
Wednesday.
I “Once again, it’s good to be back
here,” shuttle commander Henry
Hartsfield said. “We fully intend to
make it this time. The bird is ready
to go and I can guarantee you one
thing, the crew is still ready and
e’re anxious to get going.”
Hartsfield, co-pilot Michael Coats,
and crew members Judy Resnik, Ste-
|ven Hawley, Richard Mullane and
Charles Walker — the same crew
that rode out Discovery’s aborted
Blastoff June 26 — arrived at the
shuttleport for the start of the count-
Jtown, including 14 hours and 35
- Ininutes of built in “holds.”
j If all goes well, the countdown will
fend at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday with the
paiden blastoff of America’s third
space shuttle on a six-day mission to
launch a record three communica-
ftions satellites.
"We have the privilege of flying
the first flight of the Discovery and if
he Discovery turns out to be as good
sthe Challenger and the Columbia
ave been we’re going to be in great
hape,” said Resnik, the second
merican woman to fly on a shuttle
light.
Discovery’s blastoff abort in June
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forced mission planners to cancel
the shuttle’s second flight, scheduled
for Aug. 29, and to combine the pay-
loads of the first two missions to
lessen the impact of the delay on the
rest of the year’s shuttle schedule.
The first launch attempt June 25
was scrubbed when a backup flight
computer broke down.
Engineers still do not know exac
tly what caused the abort but they
suspect microscopic particles in the
No. 3 main engine’s hydraulic sys
tem interfered with the operation of
the main hydrogen fuel valve,
prompting engine shutdown just
four seconds before liftof f.
The big rocket motor was re
placed and engineers are confident
the problem w ill not be repeated.
Locked inside Discovery’s 60-foot-
long payload bay are two commer
cial communications satellites, a mili
tary relay station and an experimen
tal collapsible solar cell array that
will tower 10 stories above the shut
tle when fully extended.
About 30 minutes after the count
down begins, engineers will power
up Discovery’s electronic systems.
The countdown slips into high gear
Tuesday night with preparations to
begin filling the shuttle’s huge exter
nal fuel tank.
The crew is scheduled to enter
Discovery’s cabin about 6:45 a.m.
Wednesday to await their ground
shaking launch to orbit.
A&M scientist studies
sea basin formations
University News Service
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ch expeditions to the Okinawa
Trou gh in the East China Sea to
learn how the basin developed.
I Dr. Thomas W.C. Hilde, director
lof the Geodynamics Research Pro
gram of the College of Geosciences,
oplewhon aid the basin adjacent to the Ryu-
*ir diets 1 tyuan Island Arc south of Japan
erol com ‘apparently developed rapidly in the
rtoconside ast one-half million years” as the
all, there seafloor spread behind island arcs as
in bloodti a result of plate convergence and
pbduction (moving of one geologi
cal plate under another) of the
c factors,* Earth’s crust.
ire, stnoiii i Hilde and other scientists on the
pie can tit j&ptember and October expeditions
eirchance feel the history of the region is con
e's really tained in an “expanded geological
id. “HertJ record” locked within the sediments
nportantl and rocks of the trough.
“What we learn may help us to un
derstand the general processes of
development for many such seci-
mentary basins,” he said.
During the expeditions, the scien
tists will use seismic reflection data to
determine crust structure, ocean
bottom seismometers to determine
earthquake activity and the nature of
crust movement, heat flow mea
surements to examine geothermal
activity, as well as dredging and cor
ing to determine the age and compo
sition of rocks and sediments in the
trough.
Hilde has suggested that deep-sea
trenches created by converging
plates in the Earth’s crust may be
used to dispose of waste materials,
including junked nuclear subma
rines.
He found that giant depressions,
known as grabens, are formed in the
“downgoing” plates of the Earth’s
crust as the plates bend downward
into the trenches.
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Pole vaulter leaps for ballot
United Press International
ALEM, Ore. — Populist Party
presidential candidate Bob Rich-
lards, a 1950s Olympic pole-vaulting
Davenptfcar, failed to jump onto the Oregon
Populist Party’s state ballot but he’s
not giving up yet.
Richards, who lives on a 6,400
acre ranch in central Texas, grew up
in Champaign, Ill. He was ordained
a Brethren minister at the age of 19
and now gives motivational
speeches.
Richards, 58, became a national
hero when he twice won the Olympic
pole vault gold medal, in 1952 and
1956. His picture appeared on a
popular cereal’s box for 14 years, '
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, r 0 f Gred On Saturday, Richards told about
200 supporters in Salem that he
stands for lower taxes, lower interest
rates and less government.
“Our economic and political life is
all out of balance because of interest
and taxes,” Richards said. “We’ve
got to cut interest rates in half.
We’ve got to cut taxes in half.”
He needed the signatures of 1,000
Oregon voters who attended Satur
day’s state Populist Party conven
tion, but only about 200 people
showed up.
Ed Shaw, public relations director
for Richards, said if the secretary of
state cannot be persuaded to volun
tarily put Richards’ name on the bal
lot, the candidate will go to court
and try to win a spot.
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