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SIGMA and Telephoto Lens! ji SAVE On ZOOMS And Wide-Angles A.SMILLVMIMTF 119 S. Santa Fe PHOTO CO, Downtown Saline Shuttle readies for return today The Salina Journal Thursday, December 8, 1983 Page 9 EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) The shuttle astronauts finished their experiments and packed up Spacelab on Wednesday night for their gliding return to Earth today with the priceless product of 10 days and 4 million miles in orbit. Scientists on the ground eagerly awaited the thousands of photographs, super crystal samples, unique alloys, frozen blood samples and other experiment results returning in the orbiting laboratory anchored in the shuttle Columbia's cargo bay. "The excitement has just begun," said mission scientist Charles Chappell in Houston.

"You have to feel overwhelmed about the enormity of accomplishment this mission represents." Pilots John Young and Brewster Shaw and scientist-astronauts Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Mer- bold and Byron Lichtenberg were tired but exuberant from America's longest manned space flight since Skylab flew in 1974. Landing was scheduled for 9:59 a.m. CST and the weather forecast had improved significantly over earlier predictions. The latest word from Air Force weather forecasters called for mostly fair skies with variable high cloudiness. The four scientists must spend a week at Edwards undergoing a va- riety of tests to monitor their re- adaptation to gravity.

Young and Shaw planned to fly back to their homes in Houston later today. The Spacelab gave Columbia a record landing weight of 220,425 pounds 5 tons heavier than the previous record. The extra weight required a shallow gliding approach to the broad landing strip. The astronauts started receiving congratulations from ground controllers when their ship swept into the start of its 10th day in orbit an extra day added to the mission because of a surplus of oxygen and hydrogen for its fuel cell generators. BRING THE MUSIC HOME Christmas Is a great time tor gltt giving, especially so when a new Roland Piano Plus Is so affordable.

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245 S. Santa Fe Salina, Kansas OPEN SUNDAY 1 to 5 LAWRENCE (UPI) A University of Kansas scientist and two assistants who spent months preparing for experiments that went awry aboard the space shuttle Columbia will seek permission to try again, a KU official said Wednesday. Fawwaz Ulaby, director of the KU Remote Sensing Laboratory, said the school's research team was "extremely disappointed" that high-frequency radar in Columbia's Spacelab failed to work throughout the shuttle's flight. "Although it was a disappointment, the shuttle will go back up," said Ulaby. "The question is how soon we can get back on the shuttle flight to try the experiments again." Craig Dobson, project manager at the Remote Sensing Laboratory, David Brunfeldt, a graduate student, and Dennis Anderson, a senior research technician, left for West Germany Nov.

26 to meet other scientists and gear up for the experiments, which were expected to peak late last week. The scientists were to measure the effectiveness of the high-frequency radar, which in the past has been used successfully only from airplanes. In addition, they were to collect radar readings of agricultural fields in the area. Dobson said if the high-frequency readings were successful, they could be invaluable in mapping the Earth's renewable resources. Ulaby said the $120,000 experiment, one of 45 on the space shuttle that did not work, was a total loss.

However, the equipment aboard the shuttle will be returned to Earth and plans are being made to ask permission to try again on future shuttle flights, he said. "We will have a meeting at KU with people from West Germany to draw up plans and submit them jointly to NASA and the European Space Agency to try to get that experiment on a shuttle flight within the next two or three flights," he said. Ulaby said the high-frequency radar equipment routinely has been difficult to work with because of the advanced technology required to make it perform, and has failed on satellites before. Scientists had hoped the shuttle mission would be more successful because of the $1 billion Spacelab. Dobson and his colleagues still are in West Germany carrying out a number of experiments using airborne radar instead of the shuttle, Ulaby said.

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