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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1982
Page
2
Mission Control reported the shuttle is a sound machine as it begins a lifting exercise. The ship’s third flight aims to end after 116 orbits next Monday in New Mexico. Flight 3 has seen only minor trouble and each orbit extends the endurance record set Wednesday afternoon at 54 hours 21 minutes on its 37th orbit.
Describes bite sized fruit, meat, bread and dessert cubes coated with gelatin to reduce crumbling, plus rehydrated dried foods in clear pouches. After adding water, astronauts knead a puree and squeeze it through a tube into the mouth during Apollo lunar missions.
Lousma and Fullerton, aboard Columbia, face engine firings to assess effects of 215 degree below zero temperatures after 80 hours nose toward the sun. NASA trimmed workloads to recover from motion sickness, with a camera fix delaying the plasma diagnostic package test.
The plan would exchange each Continental share for four tenths of a Texas Air share, plus a new Texas Air preferred issue with a $4 liquidation value and 60 cent annual dividend. Investment bankers from both sides recommended approval as Continental, carrying about $200 million in debt, faced merger speculation.
Continental auditors earlier questioned certification of 1981 results. Texas Air and Continental plan to file joint merger proxy materials with the SEC in April and seek stockholder votes in June. Approval hinges on Texas Air and Continental majorities plus boards and lenders. Texas Air controls Texas International and majority of Continental, plus large stake in Airlines Inc.
The Pentagon says delaying or defeating a plan to reserve wartime beds could lead to unnecessary deaths. Hospitals were asked to set aside 50,000 beds for major overseas war use, with each facility to reserve at least 50 beds. Washington reports Reagan aides rehired three air traffic controllers who had struck, including Joan Plummer from the Fort Worth center, confirming reinstatement to a tower job.
Secretary of State Haig dispatched an envoy to Havana this month to urge Fidel Castro to halt Cuban support for guerrillas in El Salvador, according to U S government sources.
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A strong cold front moved south across Texas bringing high winds and low temperatures from the Panhandle to South Texas. Ranges include Amarillo 28 with 73 mph gusts, Lubbock 45 with 45 mph, and Midland through Brownsville seeing 50s to 70s. Forecasts show clearing tonight, warmer Friday, with scattered fog and possible light drizzle in parts.
Rose Creek senior Todd Nelson, 18, watched two astronauts operate a box of 24 velvetbean moths and 12 pupae plus 14 honeybees and 24 moth pupae aboard the Columbia. The experiment aimed to compare insect flight in weightlessness to ground conditions, with NASA astronauts Lousma and Fullerton guiding the box for about 30 minutes. Nelson noted moths flying more in space and promised further study back at the lab.
At White Sands Missile Range New Mexico spectators will watch the space shuttle Columbia land from a remote austere site five miles from the path. A single 32 mile road will admit 19000 vehicles 40000 people from 6 am to 11 am Monday.
Space Center Houston reports as Spacelab crew prepares for Columbia missions in 1983. European Space Agency built at billion cost with 10 Western nations. Spacelab will carry four times as many experiments and pioneer non astronaut scientists aboard the shuttle. The first flight will occur in September 1983, marking Western Europe’s spaceflight era and a shift toward routine space travel.
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