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Monday • June 84
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Mechanical engineering professor
to receive Nathan M. Newmark Medal
Prolific Texas A&M University mechanical engineer Dr. J. N. Reddy will
receive the 1998 Nathan M. Newmark Medal from the American Society
of Civil Engineers for his work in computational mechanics.
Reddy, who holds the first Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechani
cal Engineering, is an ASCE Fellow. Founded in 1852, ASCE represents
about 120,000 engineers.
Associate provost for undergraduate
programs and services named
Mark FI. Weichold has been named associate provost for undergradu
ate programs and academic services at Texas A&M University, effective
July 1.
Weichold, professor of electrical engineering, succeeds Sallie V. Shep
pard who will retire next month.
Weichold, a member of the A&M faculty since 1978, has received top
-awards for teaching and advising from a variety of campus, professional
•and corporate entities.
Chemical engineering student
awarded Astronaut Scholarship
Scott Moffatt, a graduate student in Texas A&M University’s Department
of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a scholarship from the Astro
naut Scholarship Foundation for the 1998-99 academic year.
Moffatt’s selection for the prestigious award was based in part on his
work on a project he initiated while participating in Texas A&M’s Universi
ty Undergraduate Research Fellows Program sponsored by Dr. Charles
Glover. That project focused on improving the low temperature physical
properties of asphalt-rubber binders. Moffatt was the first person to do
extensive work using a test-model Instron Direct Tensile Testing System.
Moffatt also won an ASF scholarship last year.
Stretching it out
Mike Clark, head strength-training coach for the Texas A&M athletic department, leads high school football players attending theRC
Slocum Football Minicamp in a workout at Kyle Field Saturday. The high school football camp runs through Wednesday of this week
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(AP) — Astronauts and cosmo
nauts aboard the orbiting Dis
covery-Mi r complex crammed as
much as they could Sunday into
the departing shuttle, the last
moving van to visit the Russian
space station before it comes
crashing down next year.
Discovery is scheduled to un
dock Monday after four days of
joint flight, bringing home the
last American to live on Mir, An
drew Thomas, as well as several
thousand pounds of Russian
gear and a pile of sentimental
mementos. The shuttle is due
back on Earth on Friday.
Shuttle commander Charles
Precourt said he wishes he could
bring back one of Mir's modules
"for all of the world to share and see
in a museum somewhere."
"It would be a very, very com
plex task to undertake," he said.
Instead of a bus-sized mod
ule, Precourt and his crew pock
eted small pieces of Mir, some of
which will be sent to the interna
tional space station, scheduled to
soar by year's end.
He refused to say what the
pieces were.
"This will remain a surprise,"
agreed Mir commander Talgat
Musabayev.
Among the identified "sym
bolic" treasures returning aboard
Discovery: posters and certifi
cates signed by all of the crews
that flew on the nine docking
missions, flags unfurled aboard
the linked spacecraft, even a gui
tar delivered by astronauts 21/2
years ago as a gift.
"Seeing the history of this pro
gram close is somewhat sad,"
said Precourt, who flew to Mir
on the first docking mission in
1995 and returned in 1997.
"That, 1 am sure, will be going
through our minds as we close
the hatch, knowing that we're
not going to be coming back."
Russian space officials plan to
send Mir on a fiery dive through
the atmosphere by the end of
1999 so they can devote all their
scarce resources to the interna
tional space station.
With no more shuttles on the
way, Mir will have to rely sole
ly on unmanned supply
and tiny manned capsullj
deliveries.
The supply shipso/i'lfl
anything, though, andM
capsules barely havei
two or three cosmonaut; Fellc
alone cargo.
Americans — in parti
Thomas, who spent morf
four months on Mir—
missed, Musabayev said.
"1 must say that note'I
thing went well and smooti
the beginning becausenf
differences of cultural nat
with Thomas, Musabayev;
"We had d i fferences in our 1
nical approaches to things
"But regardless of that'
the course of several »’
found a common language .
have become very used to |
ing him around."
Precourt was moved i j
thanked flight controllers|
both sides of the Atlantic.
"We're not saying goodl
he said.
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