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Page 4 The Battalion Friday, October 12,1S| Ulysses begins new era for NASA EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Shuttle Discovery sailed out of or bit and landed Wednesday after a four- day flight that boosted NASA’s confidence and sent the Ulysses spacecraft on a five- year mission to explore the sun’s poles. “If you criticize our mistakes, then you must also acknowledge our successes,” space shuttle director and former astro naut Robert Crippen said after completion of the first shuttle flight in nearly six months. “I’m elated,” he added. “It’s been a long hot summer, I’ll tell you that. It’s nice to be back flying again. It is a high day for us.” About 5,500 spectators cheered as Dis covery touched down at 8:57 a.m. CDT, just seconds before the sun rose over hills to the east. It was the third smallest crowd for any shuttle landing open to public viewing. “Congratulations on a picture-perfect mission,” Mission Control’s Brian Duffy told the five astronauts. The astronauts stepped out of the shut tle into sunshine an hour after the landing. About four hours later, shuttle com mander Dick Richards was given a small gold model of Ulysses. Then Richards, pi lot Robert Cabana and mission specialists Bill Shepherd, Bruce Melnick and Tom Akers boarded two jets to take them home to Houston. About 350 people gathered at Hous ton’s Ellington Field to cheer their return home late Wednesday afternoon. The crowd included about 20 U.S. Coast Guard members who were there to honor Mel nick, the first Coast Guard officer to be come an astronaut. “It’s great to have America back in space where we belong,” Cabana said. Discovery’s 1.7 million-mile flight was the first since April — the longest gap be tween shuttle missions since they resumed after the 1986 explosion that destroyed Challenger and killed seven crew mem bers. The latest flight helped bolster morale at the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration, which has been plagued by hydrogen fuel leaks in the shuttles Colum bia and Atlantis and by a flawed mirror that severely impaired the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. “Like any great team, occasionally there’s losing streaks,” Richards said be fore flying to Houston. “Today is a day we can say this losing streak is over and we’re going on to great things in the future.” The mission wasn’t completely free of glitches. Discovery was launched with incorrect instructions for how it should operate some of its computer programs, a NASA official said Wednesday. But the mistake never posed a threat to the shuttle or its five-man crew, said Milt Heflin, lead flight director for the mission. guards would have prevented problem even if the crew hadn’t spotted it, he said But the mistake is considered serioit oMUcti Heflin said, because “if we erred in soj, t procedures on the ground, why did wen, ~~\f catch it?” ^ Six hours after they lifted offfromCap Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, Discover astronauts deployed the Ulysses spacecr? on its 1.86-billion-mile mission tostudyili sun’s high latitudes and poles. The crew noticed the error on a com puter display screen about an hour after Discovery was launched Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and quickly cor rected it, Heflin said. Automatic safe Ulysses “seems to be working perfect; well,” said Roger Bonnet, director ofsdcc tific programs for the F.uropean Spu Agency, which operates the $250 mi!; JA;® solar explorer in a joint mission tiB NASA. Bonnet praised the $750 million r as “a symbol of future cooperation If. tween Fturope and the United States." About an hour before touchdown covery’s twin braking rockets fired, a ing the shuttle to plunge out of orbitmj dash through Earth’s atmosphere Voo a HUGE SAVINGS AT CAVENDER'S RECORD DAYS SALE ENTIRE INVENTORY m ► CLOTHING, BOOTS... EVERYTHING MARKED DOWN! Where Texans Get Their Boots! 3 DAYS ONLY! FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY 4 ® i ■ Justin Lizards $188.88 Justin Ropers $78.88 Justin Lace-Rs $88.88 Nocona Bullhide $98.88 Nocona Snake $148.88 Wranqler BRAND Wrangler Cowboy Cut Jeans 13MWZ $16.88 38" & Longer Lengths Slightly Higher LADIES WEAR SPECIAL GROUP 75% OFF! FELT HATS ENTIRE STOCK 20% STETSON • RESISTOL +MORE BELTS & BUCKLES ENTIRE STOCK 20% OFF! CRUMRINE • MONTANA SILVERSMITH Laredo Ropers $38.88 Laredo Shark $88.88 CBC Shirts Short Sleeve 2 For $10! 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They said the resolution won temper criticism of Palestinians! volved in the confrontation I; Monday. In return, the PLO and its alia on the council gave up their den* that the Security Council sendtb members to Jerusalem to investp Instead, Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar will send hiscii saries. “Our hope is that we will to take such a proposal, ora sal like it, to a vote very soonf'U Ambassador Thomas R. Pickeriu said. U.N. officials said an openm» ing and the vote were expected follow a 9:30 p.m. CDTWedm formal pi ivate meeting set by tfe council. The PLO earlier had beem manding that a Security Cound vestigative mission go tojerusak a resolution America would veto. “That’s not a resolution we a support in there, you all knowthtt Pickering had said. A U.S. veto of the resolution inf) vor of its ally Israel would driven a wedge between the Unit States and Arabs who have together to isolate Iraq for its Aut invasion and occupation of Kuwait Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Arab states say Israel’s occupation Gaza and the West Bank isjustasoi rida pat ub Net m ■m TM n txi fensive as Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait Bush agrees to increase tax on rich WASHINGTON (AP) - ft White House said today Preside Bush would accept higher taxes* the wealthiest Americans inatrf for a deep cut in capital gains rates Bush’s decision was disclosedafet two days of confusion over his p nan j, e tion on taxes and came as CoifS struggled to cement a $500 bife deficit reduction package of tax> creases and spending cuts. Rep. William Archer, R-Tesi said that under the plan thetopi 1 come tax rate would be raised! about 500,000 of the nation’s wealt iest taxpayers. The rate would' lowered for about 4.5 million earn slightly less, he said. The tax® capital gains would be cut for all'd' make profits on the sale of stod 1 real estate and other investments Bush’s new tax policy faced an® certain reception in Congress,wit® many Republicans philosophic oppose any increase in tax rates,X some Democrats are reluctant to® 1 the capital gains tax. There was no immediate re# from Democratic leaders But within an hour of Bush’sdf® sion being made public, the # House sought to lower expectadf for such a deal — and suggest d- the Democrats would never along. Richard Darman, White Hi budget director, said Republic* had proposed a hike in tax rates the wealthy during budget nejfc tions last month but said it was jected by the Democrats. Under the proposal, the the®* ginal tax rate on the wealth* Americans would be raised fro® percent to 31 percent, but onl ( Congress lowers the capital rate to 15 percent. Capital gains — profits front sale of stocks, real estate and ov assets — are currently taxed at 1 same rate as other income. 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