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ion andso^ spate shuttle Discovery, with Sen.
heistsdail Jake Gain. R-Utah, in the crew as a
congressional observer, is set to lift
Bf Friday beginning the busiest
month of the shuttle era.
■ W31! l‘ lunt di is to be followed Sal-
Hrday by the arrival here of Atlantis,
the fourth and newest shuttle, car
ried from California atop a Boeing
747 jetliner. Two days later, the
shuttle Challenger will roll to the
launch pad.
Discovery is to fly a live-day mis-
sion and land here on April 17.
Twelve days later, on April 29, Chal
lenger is to bla/e into space for a
. . seven-day journey with a European-
built space laboratory.
"j The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration hopes to
achieve this tight schedule without a
hitch, to move toward its long-
sought goal of launching at least one
shuttle a month.
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hopes to achieve Discov
ery's tight schedule with
out a hitch, to move to
ward its long-sought goal
of launching at least one
shuttle a month.
includes nine more flights this year,
15 in 1986 and 17 in 1987.
The addition of Atlantis to the
licet and Columbia’s return to flight
status this summer after a long over
haul, plus two new shuttle launch
pads, will enable the agency to meet
the accelerated schedule. By early
next year, a second pad will be ready
here and another will be completed
at Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif.
But NASA’s best laid plans often
gel waylaid. Cam’s flight, which has
been postponed live times, is a good
example.
The flight originally was. set-for
Feb. 20 aboard Challenger, hut was
delayed three times by thermal tile
difficulties and other technical prob
lems and then was canceled when
one satellite in the cargo bay devel
oped a serious problem. To save
time, NASA combined features of
that mission with Discovery’s next
mission and assigned the flight to
Discovery.
The revised mission was sched
uled for launch March 28, but had to
be delayed two weeks after a work
E latform fell, breaking a workman’s
■g and gashing one of Discovery’s
cargo bay doors in two places.
Six of the seven members of the
Gain crew, commanded by astro
naut Karol Bobko, were named to
fly the mission.
The other crew members are pilot
Donald Williams and mission spe
cialists Margaret Rhea Seddon, Da
vid Griggs, Charles Walker and Jef
frey Hoffman.
Picking jury begins in retrial
f von Bulow in murder case
Associated Press
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PROVIDENCE, RT. — A smiling
Claus von Bulow waded silently
through a sea of shouting reporters
outside a courtroom Monday and
then was introduced to about 120
potential jurors for his retrial on
■targes of twice trying to kill his
multimillionaire wif e.
Von Bulow, a Danish-born Finan-
derivei consultant, was found guilty in
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“Sunny” von Bulow by injecting her
with insulin in the couple’s Newport
mansion in 1979 and 1980. Mi s. von
Bulow, a 53-year-old heiress to a
Pittsburgh utilities fortune, has been
in an irreversible coma since Decem
ber 1980.
He was sentenced to 30 years in
prison, but remained free on appeal.
Last year the state Supreme Court
overturned the conviction, saying
von Bulow’s constitutional rights
were violated because search war- *
rants were not obtained before test
ing was done on drugs and drug
paraphernalia allegedly found
locked in his closet.
Picking 10 jurors from the pool of
250 is expected to take two weeks.
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Well, to put it simply, we be
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So call 1-800-528-4800 and ask to have
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