U.S. rejoins space race
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— The United States has
rejoined the space race.
The last time Americans were
in space, it was a joint mission
with the Soviet Union. Since
then, 43 cosmonauts have been
launched into orbit. Two have
been afloat in space since last
March.
Now, the Soviets are not
alone.
Columbia’s successful
launch ends a six-year drought
in the U.S. man-in-space pro
gram and signals this nation’s
intention to regain eminence in
a domain it once dominated with
the man-on-the-moon missions.
Since the dawn of the space
age, the world’s two super
powers have used that arena as
a symbol of national power. The
renewed race will focus heavily
on military superiority.
With American astronauts on
the sidelines since 1975, the
Soviets have wrested away
every endurance record once
held by the Americans. The la
test pair has been aloft in a small
station for a month and they
may stay up more than half a
year.
The flight of John Young and
Robert Crippen, slated for just
—making the news—
From Associated Prow Reports
PORTLAND — U.S. Forest Service officials said this
week average yearly fees will double for people who own
vacation homes on national forest lands.
The increase is the result of a routine reassessment of
land values, said Fred Isabel, recreation specialist for the
regional Forest Service office in Portland.
Isabel said fees for some home owners will quadruple in
places where development has increased land values.
He said most vacation home owners probably will appeal
the increase which will take effect in January. Homeowners
have 30 days to file the appeals.
Fee increases will affect people who have 20-year
permits to use national forest sites for vacation homes.
Those who have such permits are charged five percent of
the appraised value of their lots.
MOSCOW, Idaho — A Moscow doctor believes strong
winds and year-old volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens are to
blame for an increase in eye, nose and throat irritation
complaints.
Dr. Robert Strobel, who specializes in afflictions of the
eye, nose and throat, said the number of patients seeking
relief at his office has increased noticeably over the past eight
weeks.
“I’ve been telling people that I think it’s due to the ash,”
he said late last week.
Last May 18, Mount St. Helens unleashed tons of vol
canic ash over major portions of Washington, Idaho and
Montana. Other eruptions during the summer sent out smaller
amounts of ash.
Ash from a small eruption Friday dusted only a small area
near the mountain in southwestern Washington.
Strong winds throughout Eastern Washington and north
ern Idaho in the past month have kicked up the year-old dust,
closing highways at times because of poor visibility.
Alaskan landslide mistaken for blast
ANCHORAGE (AP) - A mas
sive landslide on Mount Sanford
was mistaken for a volcanic
eruption by nearby residents
and airline pilots passing over
head, a University of Alaska
glaciologist said.
After flying over the
16,237-foot peak Saturday, a
member of the university’s
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over two days, seems slight in
comparison. The big edge for
the U S. is Columbia.
Columbia, says Young, is light
years ahead of the Soviet
spaceships.
George Page, the launch di
rector who sent the astronauts
on their way, put it this way as he
waved an American flag: “I think
they (the Russians) would be
real happy to have something
like we have launched today.”
Columbia is the first space
ship designed to land back on
Earth like an airplane, to be
refurbished for repeated round
trips into orbit. A fleet of at least
four of these revolutionary ships
will form the backbone of the
U S. space program for the next
two decades.
The shuttles will carry up sat
ellites and space laboratories
for military, scientific and com
mercial projects, with heavy
emphasis on defense flights as
the Pentagon moves to counter
what it considers a growing
Russian threat from space. The
craft is the size of a jetliner and
can ferry up as many as seven
persons and 32 tons of cargo in
its 60-foot-long bay.
While the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration
has been developing the shuttle
— two years behind schedule
because the craft incorporates
so much advanced technology
— the Soviets have been oper
ating for years with essentially
the same Soyuz and Salyut
space vehicles.
U S. observers say the Rus
sians are developing a shuttle
vehicle but they believe it is
much smaller than Columbia
and perhaps 10 years behind.
Columbia initiated the third
decade of manned space flight
— roaring into orbit on the 20th
anniversary of the historic orbit
al flight of Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961.
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