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The Tracking and Data Relay Sa tellite was pushed from a tilt-table that was raised out of the shuttle bay, and it waltzed away at about 2.7 mph about six hours after Discovery’s suc cessful liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 11:37 a.m. EDT. first post-Challenger flight’s main mission. Another TDRS is in orbit, but a nearly identical one was de stroyed in the Challenger explosion Jan. 28, 1986. T304 I:. Harvey I’os i Oak Square , f O>ine In & Look Around - You’ll lie Glad You Did' College Sialion 1 Mon-Sat. 10a.ni.-9 p in. Sun. 12-6 p.ni. / 69.V0920 A solid rocket booster will fire the satellite into orbit after the shuttle has moved a safe distance away. After the satellite left the cargo bay, astronauts moved Discovery away and turned the belly of the shuttle towards the TDRS. This move is done to protect the orbiter’s windows from particles flying from the burning propellant of the satel lite’s rocket. Deploying the satellite was the NASA needs to get the TDRS in orbit because it will nearly double the time ground controllers can monitor future shuttle flights. The satellite now in orbit allows control lers to keep track of shuttle about 45 percent of each orbit, but it has had some minor breakdowns and is op erating at about 98 percent capacity, space agency officials said. The satellite is thrust into its final orbit 22,300 miles above Earth by an inertial upper stage rocket. A spring-loaded ejection device pushed the TDRS and the booster from the cargo bay. About an hour after leaving the shuttle, the rocket’s first stage fires. The second stage ignites about 5‘/a hours later and the satellite reaches its final orbit about a half-hour after that. It then undergoes several weeks of checks before it is consid ered operational. elt The TDRS provides more contin uous coverage of manned and un manned spacecraft orbiting the Earth than NASA’s worldwide net work of ground-based communica tions tracking systems. The satellite relays signals and data between a spacecraft and a ground terminal at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., which then routes it to the appropri ate NASA facility. The satellite and booster and its carrying cradle weigh about 45,000 pounds, making it the heaviest pay- load to be carried aboard a shuttle, Johnson Space Center officials said. The satellite itself weighs about 5,000 pounds and it has two 50- pound antennas that look like giant umbrellas. The TDRS’ final stationary orbit will be over the Pacific Ocean near the Gilbert Islands. SPACE CENTER, Houston — Llie widow of Challengtr Michael Smith said she felt and relieved Thursday watched Discovery’s succj ne launch Thursday morning. “I’d like to think, they w it for the crew of Challenger,' Smith said Thursday aftemoo “It was wonderful, fain Smith said. “I’m so proudofl eryone did their job to makei cessful ef fort. (It was) verym relief , very much a relief.'' Smith and Lorna Onizuka, of Challenger mission specialis] son Onizuka, were at NASA’s son Space Center on Thursdi tcm noon fora networkintenie Shuttle missions have grounded for 2 l /2 years sirw Challenger tragedy, andSmitl she* hopes the Discover) would put the manned space program back on therighttrad "I think we were all hopefi ways hopeful,” Smith said asked whether she had dout# liftoff would be a success, At Johnson Space Center, Discovery gets thumbs up Challenger exploded 73 after launch Jan. 28, 198f other astronauts killed in the ter were commander Dick St Ronald McNair, Judith Bruce Jarvis and schoolttt Christa McAuliffe. Smith, who still lives in the ton area, said she felt blessed SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — After 32 months and long, ag onizing minutes Thursday, the sight of the shuttle Discovery reaching for space didn’t bring a cheer from flight controllers at Mission Control. They stared at their screens in tently and held back. No applause when Discovery passed 73 seconds into flight. None until they were sure it was going to be OK. Two minutes and 4 seconds into flight, when Discovery separated from the solid rocket boosters, those at the Space Center controls broke >laL NASA into applause. It was the boosters that caused the Challenger explosion 73 seconds into flight. Throughout the countdown and launch, Mission Control was calm, yet tense. Red and white carnations adorned the desk of the flight direc tor, Gary Coen, a good-luck gift from the security division of the Johnson Space Center. At 10:10 a.m. CDT, Coen polled the room to see if conditions were set to go.The decision to go brought a thumbs-up sign of encouragement from two NASA veterans. Tommy Holloway, manager of mission oper ations, and Eugene Kranz, director of mission operations and the team director during the Apollo 13 crisis. “I felt that as the spacecraft was going into orbit, the mood was stay ing down to business. I don’t think there were too many people that were reflecting or being moody for that first eight minutes and 40 sec onds,” Coen said later during a press briefing Thursday afternoon. “I’m sure that there were a lot of people, me included, that were very- happy post-MECO — after the en gines shutdown — that we were back in the space business,” Coen added. Visitors in a viewing room were seen biting nails and clenching fists as liftoff neared. Jay Green, chief of NASA’s safety program and flight director for Challenger, stood in the back of the room, hands on a bannister, staring down. The room was quiet when Discov ery lifted off, except for cheers from the spectators. After the controllers’ applause for the solid rocket booster separation, Mission Control fell quiet again until the main engines cut off. Then more cheers. Discovery launched at I ED I , and said she was blessings right to the crew; I ler son, Scott, and Ok brother, Claude Onizuka, pili with the families of thefiwDs ery astronauts to view the bin Cape Canaveral, Fla., said Richman, a spokesman font* agency. Both were kept ara reporters and NASA had no ment on their reaction. In August, Smithagreedio disclosed settlement of a la filed against Morton ThioM. ufacturer of the solid rocket blamed for the Challenger sion. Morton Thiokol also mi: redesigned rocket booster m Discovery. She said she plans to keep the four-day mission. She w tend the landing, butshewil the post-landing celebration held at Ellington Field airpoit Johnson Space Center. Good times return to ‘Space City Mission puts community back in business is : NASSAU BAY (AP) —The main road through this suburban Hous ton community is called NASA 1 and there’s no doubt about the big indus try here. This week the motels are full. Res taurants are busy. And signs outside businesses along NASA 1 greet visi tors and wish the Space Shuttle Dis covery crew well. “Welcome National Press. Go Dis covery!” proclaims the sign outside a Shakey’s Pizza Parlor just down the street from the Johnson Space Cen ter. “We just want to welcome every body into Houston,” Craig Senneca, general manager of the restaurant, said Thursday. “Go Discovery! It was great.” When the shuttle Challenger ex ploded and its crew of seven died 2'/2 years ago, the community grieved not only for the nation’s loss, but for the loss of its neighbors, since the astronauts live there. On Thursday, the smiles of suc cess returned as Discovery and its crew of five launched into orbit. “We have a wide screen TV and a lot of people came in early to see it (the launch),” Senneca said. “This is a space-oriented area and we’re all looking forward to getting our business back. I think the whole community is looking forward to NASA taking off and being back in business. Now it looks like we will.” and people would come from their tables to watch.” A sign outside the place wished good luck to the shuttle crew. Landry on Thursday even ran a “Shuttle Special” for lunch and sold out the special meal of shrimp and rice, salad and clam chowder. Joyce Landry, manager of Admi ral Anchor’s Oyster Bar, said, “In the restaurant, you could feel the ex citement in the air. We had a TV “We had a pretty good turnout,” she said. “They all ordered our spe cial.” “We know it’s great,” Claudette Alderman, executive director of the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce, said of the economic shot in the arm the launch provides the Space Cen ter area. “But the main thing for our people is that we’re getting back in space. “Quite frankly, this community has been not been economically de pressed and people still halt employed. But the perception: the nation will be tnatwe’reba the road to recovery. Andih tudes of die local people wDIk they’ll probably feel a little comf ortable about their jote their own futures.” The big hotels adjacent« Space Center were ftill aslmiil of reporters and broadcast J converged to the place whereti* lion’s manned space missions)) reeled. “We had a big screen TVi lobby and when it (Discoveryl 1 o ff, all th e businessmen here) hotel clapped real loud,” said) McClaskey at the NassauBavH where all 242 rooms were to “Tonight we’re going to have)® tie party. T1 te good feeling is® Official says space program critical to competitiveness SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) —U.S. Rep. Jim Chapman, D-Texas, a member of the House Science, Space and Technology committee, says the nation’s space program is worth the cost and should be aggressively pur sued. “The payoff is not always tomor row, but it is enormous and it is crit ical to our competitiveness in the global economy,” Chapman told the Sulphur Springs News-Telegram in a telephone interview from Wash ington on the eve of Thursday’s launch of the space shuttle Discov ery. The facility, known as Space Sta tion Freedom, will be designed, de veloped, operated and used by all of the partners, which include nine Eu ropean allies, Japan and Canada, in addition to the United States. “The space station is the next step of our program,” Chapman said. “It is the next frontier and the shuttle is critical because it is our only access to space.” “It is a very functional, scientific tool that we need desperately to be doing research,” Chapman said. Thursday’s announcement said the current schedule calls for the fa cility to be ready for permanent hab itation in late 1996. Chapman said the nation needs a new focus and commitment to space research, predicting that Soviet ad vances in the field may be setting the nation up for a shock similar to that people felt in 1957 when the Soviet Union was the first to launch a satel lite, Sputnik, into orbit. The United States and 1 1 allied countries signed an agreement Thursday to build the $23 billion permanently manned space station designed to serve as a stepping-stone for human exploration of I system. He noted that the Soviets already have a space station and are prepar ing to launch a shuttle-type vehicle. Chapman said he believes a lot of Soviet space research is military. “We can only assume the Russians are doing that right now,” he said. “That is a tremendous advantage they have now.” the solar He also predicted more space co operation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Pen pal of Astronaut, friends watch launch f BRIDGE CITY (AP) — Like millions of Americans, the eyes of 11-year-old Stacy McFadden and her classmates were riveted to the space shuttle Discovery as the mission blasted off Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center. On board the spacecraft — the first to go into orbit since the Challenger explosion in January 1986 — is the class’s pen pal, as tronaut John Michael Lounge. Stacy met Lounge three years ago and since then has accumu lated enough mementos and let ters for an exhibit in honor of her friend, an exhibit now on display in Audria Byerly’s fifth-grade class. Lounge’s autographed photos, patches from his previous space trip in August 1985 and for the upcoming mission, invitations to the launch and a few Of his letters to Stacy through the years deco rate a table and the blackboard in the front of the classroom. “Hi, Stacy,” one letter from this year begins. “Sounds like you will to be as busy as me this summer Surrounding the exhibitJ more evidence of Stacy's i interest in outer space, hi books to her own blue, veltrt jumpsuit — a small replicat work overalls used by astroiul at NASA. Last week, each of Stacy’sd*’I mates wrote Lounge to wish I* | good luck with the mission. Though it may not seeiti ! _ first glance, that a veteran as!! 1 Ip naut with a master's clegreein*ip trogeophysics would havet^fr’ to say to an 1 1-year-old girl,W1“ and Lounge discovered so® I common ground. I' “It’s a coincidence,” Low! F 1 wrote to Stacy, “that yournio^ I 11 and my wife are old school®® 1 (well, not too old!)." Lounge invited Stacy and - I* family to attend the ChaW |’ launch. The family saved in®* 1 S'‘ to make the trip, but couldi) i;: l ■ because the four postpone®? u* of the lift-off put the date in® 1 " I* school year. a (