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Sunday, March 28. 1982 THE ODESSA AMERICAN 1QA Cockpit control complex maze of instruments I A I 1 i i I I hi. 1 1 I "i i-1 I 1 I i i i f-T" I )f Hall of fame to induct astronauts SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) Officials aren't wasting any time on plans to induct Columbia's latest astronauts into the International Space Hall of Fame. The ceremony will be held right on the runway at Northrup Strip after they land Monday.

New Mexico Gov. Bruce King will preside at the induction for Jack Lousma, flight commander, and C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot, of the shuttle's third mission. The governor also will present them with the International Space Hall of Fame's Pioneer Award. Only previous recipients of this award are Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman, for their October 1978 trans-Atlantic balloon flight.

King's office also has prepared certificates making the two astronauts colonels-aide-decamp to the governor. Lousma and Fullerton will become the 59th and 60th inductees into the Space Hall of Fame, which opened in Alamogordo in 1976 to honor individuals who have expanded knowledge of space through research or exploration. The concept of honoring contributors to space research and exploration in a hall of fame developed as a grassroots effort of Alamogordo citizens space and during landing. The instrument is similar to ones on jets except that it's more complicated because an airplane doesn't roll upside down. It is manufactured by Lear Siegler Instrument Division, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Display Units: There are four computerized video display terminals or cathode ray tubes in the orbiter; one each in front on the pilot and commander's seats; a third located between them they can use as a notebook. APUserpftoto WAVE FROM 5 PACE Columbia pilot C. Gordon Fullerton, background, waves from inside the cabin of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle. This picture was made off of a TV monitor at Johnson Space Center dur- ing Columbia's 53rd orbit of its third mission. "Go Blue" on the bumper sticker above promotes the University of Michigan where Lousma graduated.

Future shuttles on the way CAPE CANAVERAL, i Fla. (AP) There are 2,020 knobs and throttles on the space shuttle's cockpit and mid-deck and the astronauts can reach and find any one of them with their eyes closed. The displays and controls in-clude some of the most sophisticated technology ever developed in the United tates. The vast majority of the astronauts' training time is in a cockpit simulator at Jolinson Space Center in Houston where they memorize every detail, National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Roland Raab said Wednesday. It took 19 different contractors to design and manufacture; the The cockpit, about the fame size as on a commercial jetliner, is divided into left and iright panels.

The left panel, in front of Commander Jack R. Lousma's neat, contains circuit breakers 'and controls for the environmental and life support system, the communications equipment, the heating controls, and the fxim and body flap controls. i The right panel, in front of Pilot C. Gordon Fullerton, contains more circuit breakers and controls for the fuel cells. Here are five of the major controls: Horizontal Situation The instrument is jused primarily oh landing, although the astronauts tried it Wedlnes-day to make sure it was working.

The dial operates on radio signals, and tells the astronauts how many hundreds or thousands of miles they are rom a given radio station. hen they're in orbit, they are about 150 miles from Earth. This control is made by Collins-Rockwell of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 'Attitude Direction Indicator: A round gimballed ball tthat shows the spacecraft's roll, pitch, yaw and angles both in The fourth is the mission specialist's station an auxiliary station which contains the controls necessary for space rendezvous, controlling the manipulator arm and the payload. The astronauts get all their flight computer information from the terminals throughout the mission.

Provisions have been made for adding a fifth unit at the payload specialist station. Each of the display units, which were made by IBM in Owego, N.Y., are independent so they can display different information simultaneously. Altitude Velocity Indicator: The instrument is used on landing and measures the altitude of the craft from sea level or from whatever measure the astronauts choose to use. It is made by Bendix Corp. of Teter-boro, N.J.

Alpha Mach Indicator Also called a speed indicator, it measures speeds below 3,000 mph and is critical while the shuttle is reentering the atmosphere and during landing. It is also made by Bendix. By ROBERT LOCKE A Science Writer PALMDALE, Calif. As Columbia soars high overhead, workers in a nondescript hangar in the Mojave Desert are putting finishing touches on Challenger, the second space freighter in America's shuttle fleet. And pieces of a third space shuttle are being collected from contractors around the country as Discovery begins taking shape.

Atlantis, last of the four-shuttle armada that's planned to take science, industry and the military into space as never before, exists mostly on paper so far. But Bill Green of Rockwell International said recently, "They'll start cutting metal soon for Atlantis." Rockwell is the prime contractor for the or-biters, although components are being built by subcontractors in nearly each of the 50 states. And through it all, the first of the shuttles, Enterprise, sits forlornly at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. Dropped from the back of an airborne jumbo let for landinc testi in 1977 and displayed even lie flat on their backs as they select the appropriately numbered tile, swab on glue, set it in place and tighten it down mechanically. The ship, its big cargo doors closed, "looks like a space shuttle," Green said.

"About the only thing that isn't on it is the body flap." The flap, which looks a bit like an oversized hinge, fits on the back end of the shuttle's underbelly. It protects the engines above it from reentry heat and is shifted up and down to keep the ship on an even keel. Sometime-this summer, the hangar's towering doors will slide open and Challenger will come lumbering out. It is to venture into space early next year. Green said Discovery is due for deliver' to NASA near the end of 1983.

Its major components are coming together at Rockwell's facility at Downey, near Los Angeles. Such things as the crew compartment, the upper and lower parts of the forward fuselage and the shell of the aft fuselage are mostly completed structurally. After assembly, Green said, "Well install as much of the wiring and plumbing as we can before we ship it to Palmdale," where the parts will be assembled. destined never to meet the challenge of space. Originally retired to the huge, metal hangar at Rockwell's construction site here, Enterprise was kicked out last September to make room for Discovery.

Now little more than an empty shell, Enterprise sits alongside the great, dry lakebed where Columbia twice glided to Earth amid the cheers of tens of thousands. This mission, too, would have end 2d at Rogers Dry Lake had California rainstorms not forced a switch to a backup landing strip in New Mexico. The closed construction hangar, identified by a weathered sign as "Building 294," is scarcely 25 miles from the soggy lakebed. Inside it, surrounded by tier upon tier of scaffolding, Challenger looks much larger than Columbia did sitting on the desert landing strip. Green said only about 4,000 heat-resistant tiles remain to be glued to the ship's metal skin.

A total of 30,800 tiles will protect the ship when it returns from space with a fiery trip through the friction of the atmosphere. Each of the tiles must be attached by hand liker pieces of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. Workers in white gloves stand, kneel and to millions all over America, Enterprise is f(A Special Group Cannon Jfe: 1" 3 COORDINATES BY BATH SHEETS VX- Blazers y)Q QQ 7 JXvfe YSgfc 19.99 TOWELS V- LV? Summer weight coordinates in I.U7. fM Ft --r-fcJCrTf White pants, skirts, blazers i. w1 i SL'A 1W kt' A rrr 's-Zrl to mix arni match with Desert Regular 3.00.

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