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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 SOUTH TEXAS AVE-SUITE 101D COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS 77840^ 1 block South of Texas & University Dr. Lassi rush rush rush tues. 4feb. afternoon 4—6 at Zephyr’s thur. 6feb. luau flOl sat. 8feb. way out west * * I ^invitation ’ i»j(; J§/ parties at the sigma chi house 696-9904 - 1 -7007 RED A ■ NASA estimates $1.4 billion lost in shuttle blast Associated Press The cost of seven human lives lost in the Challenger tragedy can never be measured, but the explosion also wiped out a $1.4 billion investment and reduced the nation’s manned spaceflight capability by a fourth. Accountants can’t add up the cost in affection, companionship and pa rental guidance that was snuffed out when Challenger exploded last Tuesday. Challenger’s crew left be hind 11 children, six spouses and large extended families. The accident also removed from our society some of the brightest, best-educated minds and most highly specialized skills that can be developed. Among them, the seven held 1 / college degrees, 39 years of astronaut training, 500 hours of spaceflight experience and, for Christa McAuliffe, 15 years of teach ing experience. But NASA can put a cost on the training of an astronaut — about $500,000 each. There were five full time astronauts on board for a total training cost of about $2.5 million. Challenger had a value in the po tential it represented for exploration and utilization of space. Without it, the nation’s accomplishments in or bit will be diminished and goals will be pushed back. For instance, Challenger and At lantis were the only two shuttles ca pable of carrying into orbit two deep space probes, the Ulysses and the Galileo spacecraft. Both were sched uled to be launched toward Jupiter in June. With Challenger gone, a JPL scientist said only one of the sci ence craft could be launched this year. According to NASA, replacing Challenger would cost about $1.2 billion and it would take at least two years. In addition, Challenger was carry ing into orbit one of the most sophis ticated communucations satellites ever built, the Tracking arid Data Relay Satellite. The TDRS was to be used to relay information to Earth from orbiting spacecraft, including the shuttle. Teamed with a TDRS al ready in orbit, the satellite would have provided immediate commu nication for 85 percent of every or bit. This would have enhanced sig nificantly the scientific return of each spaceflight. Replacing the TDRS satellite will cost NASA about $100 million. Challenger also carried on board a satellite called Spartan-Halley. It was a satellite bearing sophisticated instruments that would gather un precedented views of Halley’s Comet. Replacing Spartan-Halley will cost $10 to $13 million, according to NASA. There also were hundreds of other pieces of reusable hardware lost in the explosion. These include relatively small items, such as tele vision cameras and special tools, and some large items, such as two of NA SA’s 25 complete spacesuits, which cost $2.3 million each. A total for these smaller hardware losses has yet to be calculated. Additionally, there are the non- recoverable costs of the mission it self. Each mission costs NASA about $100 million. Much of this cost is al ready spent by the time a shuttle leaves the ground. At least one item can be specif ically valued. Among the things car ried on Challenger were two sets of freshly-minted U.S. Liberty coins which have been produced to honor the centennial of the Statue of Lib erty. First man in space remembers dead, looks toward future Associated Press As friends and families in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Ohio remembered the dead from the space shuttle Monday, America’s first man in orbit challenged the liv ing to “fix it and get on with it.” Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, recalled the last words from shuttle com mander Dick Scobee — “Roger, go at throttle up” — before the Chal lenger exploded last Tuesday. “These are far more than just their courageous epitaph,” Glenn said at a memorial service at Fire stone High School in Akron, Ohio, where Judith A. Resnik was valedic torian in 1966. “They are America’s history, and they are America’s destiny, and they will turn tragedy into triumph once again,” said Glenn, who put the U.S. manned space program in orbit in his Friendship 7 capsule in 1962. “Judy would be the very first per son to say, ‘Let’s fix it and get on with it,’ ” he said. Monday’s other tributes included a private Mass in Concord, N-H., for the family and friends of teacher-in- space Christa McAuliffe and a public memorial service in the tiny farm town of Lake City, S.C., for mission specialist Ronald McNair. “There’s nothing much I can say except thank you for your caring and sympathizing in our loss,” Dr. Marvin Resnik told the crowd of stu dents, astronauts, politicians and Akron residents. Black balloons and black ribbons along McNair Boulevard symbolized the community’s grief for a native son. The street had been named for McNair after his first shuttle flight in 1984 — a flight distinguished by his saxophone solo from orbit. On Sun day, a crowd of more than 1,000 overflowed the Wesley United Meth odist Church for a religious memo rial service. Vance Brand, commander of Mc Nair’s shuttle flight two years ago, told 2,000 people gathered for Mon day’s observances that the crew loved McNair as a brother. “Somewhere in heaven, Ron will be having new accomplishments and will want us to continue his journey toward the stars,” Brand said. Schools were closed in Lake City for the day, and school district offi cials announced they would be closed every Feb. 3 in McNair’s honor. The priest who officiated at Christa McAuliffe’s wedding in 1970 celebrated a private funeral Mass for her Monday, with husband Steven McAuliffe and the couple’s two chil dren, Scott, 9, and Caroline, 6, in at tendance. Steven McAuliffe had requested that his wife’s cousin, the Rev. James Leary of St. Joseph’s Church in Bris tol, Conn., officiate at the Mass. L- eary was not be reached until this weekend. Bishop Odore Gendron, leader of New Hampshire Catholics, and Cardinal Bernard Law of Bos ton were prepared to conduct the service if Leary had not been reached. Barbara Morgan, the alternate teacher-in-space astronaut from McCall, Idaho, who trained with Christa, and Christa’s parents, Ed and Grace Corrigan of Framing ham, Mass., also attended. In Advance Events for the "able-bodied" By SUE A. KRENEK Reporter Texas A&M Student Council for Exceptional Children has planned a weeklong series of events aimed at those the hand icapped call “the able-bodied.” Wheelchair basketball, a par ents’ panel and a free movie showing are a few of the activities planned for the week. Organizers say the week promotes awareness at A&M and in the surrounding community of the needs, abilities and potential of exceptional chil dren and adults. Judy Foster, co-chairman of the planning committee, says the council hopes to get a message across to the community. “Exceptional people are just as regular — and just as special — as so-called regular people and they deserve the same kind of consid eration as everyone else,” Foster says. Jodie Peters, co-chairman of the planning committee, agrees, saying that while A&M has done a good job of making facilities ac cessible to the handicapped, many people still have miscon ceptions about the handicapped. Peters says activities planned for the week deal primarily with physical handicaps, but she says the group hopes to promote awareness of all the exceptional people it deals with, including the mentally retarded, and the gifted and talented. Today the council will have a panel discussion about all excep tional children at 8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder. Panel members will include parents of exceptional children and professionals who work with the children. Dr. Jean Kueker, a visiting assistant professor of edu cational psychology at A&M and the mother of a special-needs child, will be the panel’s modera tor. Peters says the discussion will will focus on the experiences of parents of exceptional children and the rewards involved in working with the children. “I think there’s so many more blessings than burdens when it comes to working with excep tional children, and we really want to get that across,” Peters says. Council members will be at the Memorial Student Center Wednesday and Thursday to al low students to check out wheel chairs for 30 minutes. Peters says this will allow students to discover firsthand the frustrations of be ing in a wheelchair and, she hopes, develop a new respect for those who must deal with hand icaps everyday. A wheelchair basketball game will be held Wednesday af ternoon at a time and place to be announced later, Foster says. She says the game will involve mem bers of the Student Council for Exceptional Children, able-bod ied students and paraplegic stu dents. Anyone interested in play ing can call her at 693-9442. Thursday night the council ends the week’s events with a free showing of the movie “The Other Side of the Mountain” at 8:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. Rumours having grand opening By KIM ROY Reporter It’s no rumor that the new Ru mours Snack Bar, located behind the Memorial Student Center post office, is open. Rumours, which was open for a short time at the end of the fall semester, is celebrating its official grand opening today. The grand opening celebration will feature free ice cream and yo gurt samples, free beverages and a drawing for a 10-speed bicycle at 2 p.m. Debbie Robison, manager of Rumours, says the snack bar’s menu includes baked potatoes, chef salads and grilled hamburg ers. Robison, who has worked as a manager in the Food Services De partment for almost seven years, is Rumours’ first full-time paid manager. Rumours was previously run by the MSC but now is operated by food services. Jay Maynard, A&M’s assistant director for auxiliary dining, says food services took over the opera tion of Rumours and decided the first step would be a new look. The snack bar, which sports new green carpet and oak trim, is open from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Because food services is self- supporting, Rumours is expected to return a profit within three years, Maynard says. Maynard says Rumours will of fer night entertainment and can be reserved for private parties. Robison says she is confident that Rumours will be a success de spite its out-of-the-way location. “I think we have already over come the location,” she says. “I al ready have steady customers.” Seminar to aid working couples By LINDA K. SIPPOLA Reporter Trying to balance two careers and maintain an intimate relationship creates new prob lems that today’s adults often aren’t prepared to handle. Beginning Tuesday, the prob lems unique to this type of relationship will be the topic of a five-week workshop sponsored by the Student Counseling Service. A dual-career relationship in volves two career people who have a commitment to each other too, says Sue Lucas, counseling psychology intern at Texas A&M. The couple involved isn’t nec essarily married but must have a strong commitment to each other, Lucas says. The workshop sessions will in clude sex role expectations, par enting and career issues, commu nication skills and decision making. Dr. Michael Myszka, counsel ing psychologist, says conflicts in relationships aren’t restricted to any age group, and everyone benefits from the experiences that are shared. The workshop will help older couples dispel some of the stereo types they have about younger couples and vice versa, Myszka says. Both members of the relationship don’t have to attend the workshops, but one of the two must be an A&M student. Myszka says each partner in a dual career relationship has dif ferent problems, and commu nication and decision-making skills are areas that require spe cial attention. Also, deciding where to live and how to spend leisure time must be planned more carefully, he says. Also, parenting and career is sues cause particular problems, she says. Myszka says parenting responsibilities must be decided with both careers and people in mind. Today, many men want to be more active in raising their chil dren, he says. Career decisions should be made with consideration for their partner’s career too, Myszka says. Separation problems are more likely in the university setting, he says, because many couples don’t graduate at the same time but wish to continue their relationship. Randy Stonehill Satirist and Songster In Concert Monday, February 24, 1986 7:30p.m. at Rudder Auditorium Tickets $5 in advance Tickets available at Rudder Box Office $6 at the Door f 701- information call John 260-1033 Buy Early! Sponsored by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship