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PAGE fcOBLESVILLE DAILY LEDGES. Wednesday. Jwty 14. Mtl Columbia's Next Mission Moved Ahead 1 4 I -3 1S WASHINGTON (IPli -The fiBal test flight erf the space shuttle Columbia ent so well the space agency has advanced the date for the ship first satellite-launching mtsskon by two weeks to Oct 29 National Aeronautics aad Space Administration officials made the decision Monday after making sure the no commercial eornmumcations satellites to be launched would be ready for the earlier date The Columbia will be manned'ty a crew of four for the first time, and the first spacewalk from the shuttle is tentatively planned for the five-day mission. In a change from early planning, the Columbia will land at Edwards Air Force Base in California again.

The plan originally was to have the Columbia land at the Kennedy Space Center launch site at Cape Canaveral. on this mission Officials opted for a California landing because the ship has not yet demonstrated it can land in a cross wind a common condition at the Cape and the Columbia will be returned to its Palmdale, Calif assembly plant for modifications after the landing The Columbia is suit At. from its Juljr 4 landing It is scheduled to be flown to the Cape Friday on the back of NASA's special 747 jumbojet. Already at the Kennedy Space Center is the second shuttle. the Challenger, scheduled to in January- Vance Brand, a veteran of the Apoilo-Soyuz spaceflight in 1973.

will command the Columbia's upcoming mission. Robert K. Overmyer will be the co-piiot. Two mission specialists being earned for the first time are Joseph Allen and William Lenoir. The takeoff had been targotod for Nov.

but project officials said after the July 4 landing that tfeey would like to advance the date if possible. The last flight was the fourth and final test mission for the, reusable spaceship, and NASA officials said the flight was the shuttle's best yet. Astronauts Thomas "Ken" Mattingly and Henry W. Hartsfield circled the Earth UI times in seven days. Mission No.

will be the first time the shuttle flies ith a paying cargo. The shuttle will launch satellites for Telesat Canada Ltd. and Satellite Business Systems on the second and third days yf the mission. Each company is paying NASA million for the launc service. Springs will gently kick the 3.000-pound satellites and attached booster rockets out of the Columbia's cargo bay at an altitude of 184 miles.

The shuttle will back off 20 miles, 'and rocket motors called Payload Assist Modules will then fire to propel the satellites toward their final. stationary orbits. mm iv 1 1 lsaw i ia 1 i OR S-. miry NASA To Launch New Earth Monitor Unlike its predecessors, the new satellite is designed to be retrieved in orbit by space shuttle astronauts to be returned to Earth for overhaul or to be repaired in orbit. Shuttles are to start flying in orbits that could reach the mospheric Administration for operational use.

It will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Calif by a Delta rocket into a north-south polar orbit that ill carry its sensors over the entire globe every 16 days. many others around the world a better view of Earth's resources. The satellite is the fourth in a series of Landsat spacecraft and the first to be turned over, like weather satellites, to the National Oceanic and At ByALROSSITER JR. UPI Science Editor WASHINGTON L'PI The space agency plans to launch a new unmanned satellite Friday to give farmers, oil and mineral explorers, urban planners and AXJ i NASA Robot To Dive For Shuttle Boosters Landsat by late 1965.

Landsat to be called Landsat 4 in orbit differs from the three earlier Land-sats in that the new satellite is equipped with a second electronic scanner that detects visible and invisible infrared light reflected from Earth in narrower bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and in greater detail. The first Landsat, then known as an Earth Resources Observation Satellite, was launched in 1972. It demonstrated such a spacecraft could produce pictures of the land and seas that could be used for such things as farm crop inventories, forest surveys, surface water and snow cover monitoring, oil and mineral exploration and urban planning. Center aboard a booster recovery ship Thursday or Friday, NASA spokesman Mark Hess said Tuesdays Scarab, an acronym for Submersible Craft Assisting Repair and Burial, weighs 5.000 pounds. It will be controlled by spaceport workers aboard the UTC Freedom, one of NASA's booster recovery Armed with claw-like pincers, underwater television cameras, sonar and a tool that slices metal, the remote-control robot will try to retrieve tape recordings located inside the boosters.

The tape recorders are tike crash-proof "black boxes" used on commercial airlines, and may show why the boosters hit the water at 340 mph. instead of the usual 60 mph. the spaceship two minutes after blastoff on June 27. The $36 million casings, which propel the orbiter into space, are supposed to float. They worked properly on Columbia's first three test missions; but plungetflnto the ocean and sank in 3.500 feet of water on the fourth flight.

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