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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. november 29,1983 vol. 63 issue 47 new/bowling green state university Columbia blasts off nine days of experiments SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - 53-year-old veteran making his a re- the lights and quickly set to work ble of capturing views with a resolu- determine the practicality of orbiting for the Spacelab mission, with the Columbia blasted into orbit yesterday cord sixth flight, sounded like a rookie activating the experiments. Young tion of 32 feet, will take pictures not factories that could produce products laboratory installed in the cargo bay carrying six astronauts who quickly as Columbia orbited 155 miles above also paid a brief visit before returning before possible, while a radar sensor not possible in the gravity of Earth. and equipment to accommodate the put the fl billion Spacelab to work, the Earth. to the cabin. will penetrate clouds to probe the Spacelab was designed and built by large crew installed in the cabin. beginning one of the most ambitious "It is so neat up here." he said. "It "Welcome to Spacelab," capsule surface. the European S^ace Agency at a cost scientific expeditions ever under- is really something." Earlier he communicator Franklin Chang told Sixteen experiments will study how of about $1 billion. It is a 2Woot by 14- SPACELAB 1 is a cooperative mis- taken - nine days of non-stop experi- noted: "Things don't change any." them. life forms from Earth, including man foot chamber housed in Columbia's sion by the United States and the 10 ments that will study the heavens, the Young and Shaw will fly Columbia, himself, react to the weightless envi- cargo bay that the astronauts enter nations that make up the European Earth and man himself. "IT'S A beautiful flying machine," performing some 192 manuevers, ronment of space. Included are inves- from the space cabin by moving Space Agency. ESA gave the Space- radioed pilot Brewster Shaw Jr., 38, while Garriott, 53, Lichtenberg, 35, tigations into the space sickness through a 19-foot tunnel. lab to NASA and is sponsoring half the Astronauts Owen Garriott and By- who was making his first flight. "It's Merbold, 42, and Robert Parker, 46, phenomena that has affected nearly experiments. Other experiments are ron Lichtenberg started turning on really some ride. It's the smoothest operate more than 70 experiments half of the 26 shuttle astronauts. The Merbold and Lichto-iberg are the from scientists in Canada, Japan and equipment in the 23-foot-long Space- way to go you ever saw." designed by scientists from 14 coun- tests include the response of human first of a new breed of astronauts - the the United States. lab, in the cargo bay of Columbia, just The crew had a bit of trouble open- tries. blood cells and of the immune system mission specialists. They are not ca- three hours after they and four crew- ing the hatch that covers the tunnel to zero gravity. The astronauts will reer astronauts, but are scientists The mission will fly over parts of mates were launched from the Ken- from Columbia's cabin to Spacelab. POWERFUL TELESCOPES and take and analyze blood samples who were trained to operate the sci- the Earth not seen from previous nedy Space Center. NASA beamed down TV pictures that sensors will probe the life and death of throughout the mission. ence instruments on this mission. shuttle flights. The launch carried The launch was precisely on time, showed the astronauts tugging and distant stars and gauge the energy There also will be studies on the Merbold, who fled his native village in Columbia north, parallel to the U.S. 11 ajn. EST, despite a looming yanking to no avail for several min- exploding from the Earth's own star, growth in space of sunflower seed- East Germany to become a scientist East Coast, and then over Northern weather front that threatened a two- utes, until finally they freed a recalci- the sun. lings, a fungus and four types of in West Germany, was selected for Europe. Its orbital path will cover day delay. Columbia carried into trant latch and the hatch swung free. Other sensors and cameras will microbes. the mission by the ESA. Lichtenberg points farther north and south than space the largest crew ever - six Then Garriott, Lichtenberg and focus on the Earth, mapping the land is a researcher from the Massachu- previous missions, giving the astro- astronauts - and was the first U.S. Merbold floated through the 19-foot surface and electronically sniffing the EXOTIC METAL mixes will be setts Institute of Technology. nauts views of all of South America, launch to include a non-American, tunnel and made a joint entry into planet's atmosphere and gauging its melted and crystals will be grown in Africa, Australia, all of the United West German Ulf Merbold. Spacelab, smiling broadly and shak- magnetic fields. three Spacelab furnaces. These are The mission is the first for Colum- States except Alaska, and most of Mission commander John Young, ing hands all around. They turned on A Keen-eyed German camera, capa- experiments that scientists hope will bia in a year. The craft was renovated Europe, Asia and the Soviet Union. 'Main Street' for sale by Mike Mclntyre munications major and manager at he had no way of knowing who or how reporter Main Street, said. many. Steve Fuller, senior broadcast jour- Beers said, "I'm selling strictly Thursday night in Bowling Green nalism major and disc jockey at Main because of business reasons. I love can usually be associated with dime Street, said there have been rumors the students and business is going beers at Main Street, but soon that about the sale of the bar since early well, but if you can buy something for tradition may come to an end. October. a dollar and sell it for a dollar and a According to Bob Beers, owner of Fuller said, "I wish the bar half then you better do it." Main Street, there is a good chance wouldn't close, I love working at Main Some students expressed their the bar will be sold by Christmas Street. It seems as though I'll lose my views on the closing of Main Street. break. job if it closes, but I did hear rumors Chrissy Posewitz, freshman educa- Though the bar remains open now, that there may be a bar upstairs when tion major, said, "I wish Main Street Beers said, "I've been speaking with the restaurant moves in,'' he said. wouldn't close because it is one of the the buyers for eight or nine weeks Beers said the prospective buyers best bars in Bowling Green. I'm now. As of now we have not yet come plan to turn Main Street into a restau- really going to miss dime beers." to terms. I have not signed anything rant. Dave Giacomin, freshman con- yet" struction technology major, said, BEERS SATO his employees would "We don't need a new restaurant. "I have always liked Main Street, I receive at least a week's notice before Main Street is a good place to meet wish it wouldn t close because I am the sale is made. He said the restau- people and you can't beat the price on . going to have to find another lob," rant may use some of the employees Thursdays. I wish it would stay ;e Smith, senior education/com- presently working at Main Street, but open." Parties criticize Celeste Paperwork. bg news staff/James Youll COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Assistant House Minority Leader He said Shoemaker would be enti- Richard Celeste is being criticized by Waldo Bennett Rose, R-Lima, as- tled to receive three more annual Peggy Staiger. junior human resource management major, digs through a pile of applications for admission to the Republicans publicly and Democrats sailed Celeste and his staff for putting payments in that amount whether or University in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. privately for channeling $15,000 in Shoemaker in such a position. not he continued in his dual role as political contributions to Lt. Gov. lieutenant governor/natural re- Myrl Shoemaker. ROSE SAID he was "angry at the sources director. The governor's campaign denies governor and the governor's staff" "If he quits tomorrow as natural that the payments were intended as a over the matter. resources director he would still get salary supplement to Shoemaker, "There is just absolutely no excuse this money for the balance of the who serves as both lieutenant gover- for them to ill-use a man of Myri's term," Teaford said. nor and director of natural resources. (quality)," Rose said. "There is not a Letters free prisoners Some Democrats, who did not want dishonest bone in Myrl Shoemaker's "NO, ITS not a supplement to his to be identified, viewed the devel- body. He's worth every dime and a salary.