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A-12 The Orlando Sentinel, Friday, August 8, 1997 mm Shuttle crew wastes no time getting experiments started By Seth Borenstein ASSOCIATED PRESS I 1 I 4i, I COMPAQ. pentlum includes monitor Presario 2200 Multimedia Computer With 180MHz Processor With MediaGX Technology And Presario V410 Color Monitor IBM' Aptiva' S35 Multimedia Computer With 233MHz Pentium Processor With MMX Technology With IBM MMSO Color Monitor 48MB SDRAM Digital Controls 6.4GB Hard Drive 12-81658 14" Screen With 1J.2" Viewable 1.6GB Hard Drive Screen Image 12-80214 24X Maximum CD-ROM Drive 15" Multimedia Monitor Kith 16MB Toul EDO RAM 8X Maximum CD-ROM Drive Presario V410 Color Monitor Is Designed To Compliment The Presario 2000 PC Series 13 7" Viewable Screen Size Flat Srrwn f.n tt'ilh AS LOW AS 23 28mm rlni Monitor Included rom PH MONTH' Monitor Included RED HUBEfVTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL 4-Year Platinum Service Plan $200 4-Year Platinum Service Plan $95 Launch day. On way to launch pad are (front row) Jan Davis (left), Curt Brown. In 2nd row are Kent Rominger (left), Robert Cur-beam. Stephen Robinson (left), Bjarni Tryggvason are in 3rd row.

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However, rocket exhaust accounts for less than 1 percent of the harmful chemicals that are spewed into the air each year, according to Air Force officials studying the issue. NASA officials said the best way to study ozone unfortunately involves adding a bit more ozone-eating chemicals into the atmosphere. "It's a small price to pay," said Michael Mann, deputy associate administrator for environmental and Earth studies. If the satellite works, he said, scientists can better predict ozone depletion, and environmental regulators can make better rules to govern the use of ozone-depleting chemicals. Discovery's instruments also will begin a study today of cloud formation.

At the same time, astronauts Jan Davis and Stephen Robinson will take turns operating a $100 million, six-jointed, robotic arm. This is a test of a Japanese device proposed for the planned international space station. Davis and Robinson will use the 5-foot-long aluminum arm, which is more flexible than the shuttle's robot arm, to lock and unlock boxes and move parts around. "It works like your own arm, pentlumJ pentlum' Hewlen-Packard Pavilion 8175 Multimedia IBM Aptiva S3C Multimedia Computer Computer With 233MHz Pentium II Processor 48MB EDO MM IMUex Lvu Moaei luowiiioau 6GB Hard Drive Up To Fax) With 23JMH7. Pentium' Processor witn MMX Technology And Color Monitor 32MB RAM 15" Multimedia Monitor With 13.7' 4.2GB Hard Drive Viewable Screen Size 16X Maximum CD-ROM Drive Flat Screen Crt With dpi 5I2K Second-Level Cache 121 1003 24X Maximum 2699" Speed CD-ROM AS low AS 60 336Kbps DSVD Modem 1 2-8 1 650 AS LOW AS 52 Monitor Sold Separately Subwoofer $AAAfi92 Pti MONTH' 4-Year Platinum Service Plan $240 CAPE CANAVERAL Several tiny leaks have sprung up in the rocket that is supposed to launch NASA's controversial plu-tonium-carrying Cassini space probe in October.

The discovery could delay the Cape Canaveral launch until 1999. In a test Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force discovered several leaks when the rocket's upper-stage booster was loaded with fuel. Engineers will spend the next several days trying to find and seal the leaks, Air Force spokesman Lt. Col.

John Martin said Thursday. He said the rocket still may be ready for its Oct. 6 launch date. NASA would like to launch the Titan rocket carrying Cassini by Nov. 5.

But the $1.2 billion-dollar probe, which will head to Saturn, could be launched on a longer and slower route to Saturn between Dec. 1 and next Jan. 4. The next opportunity to launch toward Saturn isn't until March 1999, said NASA spokeswoman Mary Beth Murrill. Pti Month 4-Year Platinum JSkmSr 1 HP 15" Monitor With 13T Vlnnble Soten Size 32-1 2007 $399 92 1 Service Plan $200 limited Quantities.

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The automatic docking system that was supposed to connect the Soyuz capsule carrying relief crew members Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov with Mir was not aligned correctly. Solovyov, a five-' time cosmonaut, had to back off and manually pilot the capsule into Mir. "It's happened before," said Chris Faranetta, deputy director of Ener-gia Limited, the American arm of the main Russian space company. A different docking problem six weeks earlier crippled Mir. In June, a robot supply ship was be-; ing manually controlled during a docking test and crashed into Mir, puncturing one lab and causing the station to lose half its power.

I The main oxygen system, another 71-10805 Barney Actimates 63-14062 $29 S2 SS66 V1 MAIt-M la MM 99 49 awim inc rurcnase ui American Greetings Creatacard Gold -m 12-Count CD 400-Count InkJet Paper STTTHn Multimedia Storage Box 40-10959 12-Capacity Zip Tray 40-11501 (300 DD crucial problem on the station, has been broken for a week. Cosmonauts couldn't fix it Thursday. Russian space officials told reporters in Moscow the breakdown-prone oxygen-generating system can't be fixed until a new part arrives. "In Moscow they were quite explicit: they need a new part," said Jim Oberg, a Houston engineer and consultant on the Russian space program. "That part's on the ground." However, NASA spokesmen in Houston and Washington said Russia is looking at using another, older oxygen generator that is in a powerless module in Mir.

A space version of an electrical extension cord would be hooked up to that generator, NASA officials said. "We have not been asked to carry anything up" on Atlantis, NASA spokesman Rob Navias said. Russian officials also told reporters that Foale will walk outside of Mir in September as part of an effort to find the leaks in Mir's dented Spektr lab. But Navias said no decision has been made on Foale. Both space agencies agree that on Aug.

14 Mir crew members Vasily Tsibliev and Alexander Lazut-kin will leave Mir after six harrowing months. Then, Solovyov, Vinogradov and Foale will get in another Soyuz capsule, circle Mir and dock on the other side of the station on Aug. 15. On Aug. 20, Solovyov and Vinogradov will perform a risky interior spacewalk in Spektr to try to restore Mir's power supply.

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