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Ski & Beach Trips on sale now! www.sunchase.com or call 1-800-SUN- CHASE today! WANTED Bookstore wont buy it back? I will. old_editions@yahoo.com Easy Cash. The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 845-05*9 WORLD THE BATTALION 7 Wednesday, October, 29 2003 Soyuz space capsule lands By Mara D. Bellaby THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ASTANA, Kazakhstan — A Russian space capsule delivered an American, a Russian and Spaniard home Tuesday from the International Space Station, depositing them safely in Kazakhstan and earning a place in the history books as the first Russian spacecraft to both launch and land an American astronaut. The bell-shaped Soyuz thumped down beneath a para chute at 5:40 a.m. Moscow time near Arkalyk in north-central Kazakhstan. Its passengers, American Ed Lu, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and Spaniard Pedro Duque, emerged smiling after their 3 1/2-hour descent to Earth. “It is great to be back home,” said Lu, after Russian workers lifted him from the capsule. Lu had planned to ride to the space station onboard the U.S. shuttle Atlantis until the disinte gration of the space shuttle Columbia in February put the American manned spaceflight program on hold. Since then the smaller, non-reusable Soyuz crafts have become the linchpin of the space station program. Lu and Malenchenko blasted off in the same Soyuz capsule last April for a nearly six-month stay in space, while Duque arrived eight days ago along with a U.S.-Russian crew. In May, the first time American astronauts returned on the Soyuz, a computer malfunc tion sent the crew on a dive so steep the astronauts’ tongues rolled back in their mouths. This time, everything went mostly as planned. “We were very fortunate. It was as smooth a landing as could have been hoped for,” said Gen. Vladimir Popov, who heads the team responsible for Russia’s space search and rescue operations. The operation was marred when one of the space capsule occupant pushed a button during the. upfilocking, which caused the space station to rotate 25 degrees, and required a large amount of fuel to correct the alignment, Russian media reported. SPACE STATION Soyuz returns home A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American, a Russian and a Spaniard, returned home from the International Space Station on Tuesday. The crew landed smoothly and on target in Kazakhstan. Time remaining until touchdown Three hours, 20 minutes. Hooks on the station are opened and the Soyuz separates from the station ” * °AstanaV 0 200 mi KAZAKHSTAN 0 200 km Three hours, 17 minutes. A short separation burn pushes the Soyuz about 66 feet from the station. Two hours, 57 minutes The module carrying the men separates from the unoccupied orbital module, which bums up upon re-entry into the atmosphere. Two hours, 29 minutes When the Soyuz is about 12 miles away from the station, the engines fire for a deorbit bum. 23 minutes Soyuz reaches the entry interface. 13 minutes Two pilot parachutes are deployed and the drogue chute slows the spacecraft’s descent from 514 mph to 179 mph. Another parachute is then released, slowing the Soyuz to a descent rate of 16 mph and giving it the proper angle to descend and expel extra heat. Two seconds Engines fire to slow the spacecraft’s descent rate from 16 mph to 3 mph at touchdown. Touchdown The Soyuz landed near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. SOURCE: NASA Russian engineers had said there was only a slim chance that this crew would suffer from the same computer malfunction that affected the previous flight, but officials took no chances and altered the usual search opera tion to cover more ground. NASA, still getting used to its astronauts landing on foreign ground, also requested a med ically equipped U.S. Air Force C-17 to stand by in Astana. Additionally, this Soyuz was equipped with satellite phones and a global positioning satellite sys tem — courtesy of NASA — so if the crew had landed off-course AP and communications systems were damaged as happened in May, they would still have been able to phone in their location. The three-man crew arrived late Tuesday in Moscow, where Malenchenko’s new bride, Texas resident Ekaterina Dmitriev, Lu’s fiance and Duque’s family awaited them. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, hold ing a wedding by proxy. Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report from Mission Control outside Moscow. Sony’s £ big bang’ overhaul starts with job cuts By Yuri Kageyama THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Sony Corp., its consumer electron ics sheen dulled by cheaper competition, is strug gling to bounce back with a corporate retooling that will slash 20,000 jobs, or about 13 percent of its global work force. Sony said the job cuts would occur over the next three years and include 7,000 workers in Japan. It gave no further regional breakdowns or other details. Sony employs some 161,100 people worldwide. The company’s plan is to trim costs while trying to exploit Sony’s traditional strengths in entertain ment, electronics and video games — particularly with new networked and wireless consumer devices. “It may appear as though Sony is being sucked into a black hole,” Sony executive deputy presi dent Ken Kutaragi said. “But we hope to create a ’Big Bang’ that will lead to new business.” As part of the job cuts, Sony said it would inte grate overlapping administrative and corporate jobs, such as by relocating mainly to the West Coast electronics and marketing operations currently divided between both U.S. coasts. The company has about 22,000 employees in the United States. Rick Clancy, a spokesman for U.S.-based Sony Electronics Inc., said moving most of Sony’s East Coast operations to the West Coast may result in a “few hundred” layoffs but that the actual number of cuts remain unclear. Credit Lyonnais Securities analyst Kun Soo Lee said the job cuts were bigger than expected and signal that Japanese workers, traditionally accustomed to lifetime employment, weren’t going to be protected. “Sony made it clear that it will trim unneces sary parts of its operations to survive,” Lee said. One element of the new strategy focuses on hardware, including the computer chips, for a net worked home where electronics, video games, music and video merge in products including flat- panel TVs, DVD recorders and home servers. Another highlight of Tuesday’s announcement was an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea to set up a $2 billion joint venture to develop next-generation liquid crystal display panels for flat TVs. Apply Now! MEDALS Where: Pick up your application at MSC 137 When: Conference Jan. 30 th -31 st Retreat Nov. 20 th 8:00p.m. Koldus 110 Why: Encourage high school students to pursue a higher education! Who: All Aggies are encouraged to volunteer! 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Winter Break Study Abroad Program December 27, 2003 - lanuary 12, 2004 4 Hours of 400 or 600 level course credit in agriculture Experience Vietnamese history and culture Explore environment and natural resource sites Learn about tropical agricultural production systems For more information contact: The international Office of The Agriculture Program Jack K Williams Administration Building, Room 12 (979) 845-3763 r-dagostino@tamu.edu or gm-mcwhorter@tamu.edu /budenb di/counb/ great student fares! * London $403 Paris $461 Rio de Janeiro....$611 Los Angeles $284 New York $299 Fare is round trip from College Station. Subject to change and availability. Tax not included. Restrictions and blackouts apply. 721 Texas Ave. S I OTIfc College SCadion | ^ (979) 696.5077 we've been there. exciting things are happening @ www.statravel.com The Tap Piano Bar $ 1 Bar prinks and Pints 8-U p.m. Halloween House Party Drink Specials CASH PRIZES!! 696-5570 for details Party Safe and Designate a Driver.