Shuttle crew details and space mission notes
The flight features astronaut Ride as flight engineer handling liftoff and a Canadian Indonesian satellite deployment while Thagard joins to study space sickness. They plan an early dinner with families before resting in crew quarters. The mission marks a rapid turnaround aiming for 24 flights a year by 1988.
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Ride
Crippen and Hauck
Fabian
Thagard
Palapa
Indonesia
Edwards Air Force Base
California
NASA
Abrahamson
Collins gear guides shuttle flight to launch from Cape Canaveral
Rockwell Collins supplies two horizontal situation indicators and three display driver units for the Challenger mission. The HS IIs provide course bearing heading distance and glide slope data while the DDUs link cockpit computers to primary displays. The original contract valued at 2.6 million dollars.
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Rockwell-Collins
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Collins
Salvador Magana presses El Salvador reforms amid regional tensions
Salvador Magana, alongside President Reagan, warned that a weak commitment jeopardizes peace. He said El Salvador moves toward democracy while countering Marxist guerrillas. In a OAS speech he blamed Soviet bloc intervention via Cuba and Nicaragua for supporting a totalitarian threat.
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Reagan
White House
Magana
United States
el Salvador
Organization of American States
OAS
Cuba
Nicaragua
Weather Report for Region Includes Extremes and Forecast
Weather readings from C R airport show 24 hour highs and lows, precipitation totals for June, and a July forecast. Record highs and lows are noted with locations across western states and Canada. Scattered thunderstorms and heavy rain affected Nebraska Texas and nearby areas with river and street flooding reported.
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C.R
Nebraska
O'Neill
Atkinson
Hyannis
Ulysses
Rising City
Lincoln Creek
Cedar Rapids
Neb
Boone County
Norfolk
Tyler
Texas
Victoria
Editorial page overview and perspectives feature
This passage promotes editorial pages offering commentary and discussion from varied voices in Eastern Iowa. It highlights editorials, Outlooks from local contributors, editorial cartoons, and national commentators, inviting readers to weigh opinions and judge issues independently.
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MCLU
Alsop
Selective Service
Thomas K. Turnage
Education Department
Terrey Bell
Minnesota
Jack Discount Furniture
33Rd Ave
Sheraton Inn
Salvador
Frank Lautenberg
D-N.j
Lautenberg
Mary Rose Oakar
Dohio
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Dakar
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Soviet Union
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Keithsburg
Keokuk
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