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CHIPPEWA HERALD TELEGRAM Thursday, May 14, 1992 Astronauts rescue stranded satellite 8A Third attempt proves fruitful i ft- I 120,000 telephone circuits up and running in time for the Olympics in July. "I think we have seen some incredible work by some awfully brave men at NASA," said Irving Goldstein, Intelsat chief executive. "This means that we arc out of the woods." A swircd rocket had left the satellite in the wrong orbit. Wednesday's spacewalk the first by three people was the last chance for Endeavour to retrieve the satellite. The shuttle did not have enough fuel for a fourth try.

The astronauts risked puncturing their spaccsuils, which could be fatal in the vacuum of space. And if they had caused the 12-by-17-foot, 4'4-ton satellite to wobble, it could have smashed into the shuttle. They finally caught the craft by waiting, arms raised, on cargo bay platforms until it was within reach. Three pairs of gloved hands, 225 miles above the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, gripped Intelsat at its base. "Got it!" shouted Pierre Thuot.

At Mission Control in Houston, flight controllers applauded. "Houston, I think we got a satellite," said commander Dan Brandenstein, whose precision steering put Endeavour only a few feet below the Intelsat as it whizzed around Earth at 17,500 mph. After they grabbed it, the astronauts held the drum-shaped satellite steady for 90 minutes, one full orbit of Earth. Then, with Akers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Endeavour's astronauts released a communications satellite early today after a historic thrcc-man spacewalk that rescued both the $157 million craft and NASA's can-do reputation.

The astronauts grabbed the satellite by hand in unison Wednesday, held it in place for VA hours and spent several hours more attaching a rocket designed to lift it out of the uselessly low orbit in which it was stuck for two years. The rocket was to be fired this afternoon when the shuttle was thousands of miles away. The lntelsat-6 satellite was to be sent to a working orbit 22,300 miles high. NASA today said Endeavour would remain in space until Saturday for a total of nine days to give the crew an extra day of rest. The mission had already been extended one day to accommodate the rescue effort after two failed earlier attempts, in which a single astronaut tried to snare the satellite with a 15-foot bar instead of his gloved hands.

Astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Tom Akcrs prepared for a fourth spacewalk today, a shuttle record, to test construction techniques for a space station. Intelsat, the international communications consortium, said it expected to have the satellite's Ar Laserpnoio Three astronauts finally managed to rescue a stranded tele- the earth. Two previous attempts to capture the $157, million communications satellite Wednesday afternoon high above craft had failed, and this was to be the final attempt. keeping both hands on, Hieb and nation, but Intelsat ultimately when many members of Congress Scientists have said NASA's. Thuot attached a bar that allowed floated away slowly over the want to whittle away money for the satellite to be grappled by the Pacific.

manned space flight and the Bush exploration could be done jbetter shuttle crane, ine crane lowered it You ve made tne agency administration has replaced ana cneaper oy rooois, dui in a a a. to the rocket and it was bolted on. proud today," Mission Control NASA's leadership, viewing it as argues that thinking, creative astro-Later, it took several tries to told the astronauts. too wedded to shuttles and big, nauts have a role in space that release the satellite-rocket combi- The success came at a time expensive projects. cannot be fulfilled by robots.

Thornton to be second U.S. woman to spacewalk 1 4 People Oprah raises funds for AIDs foundation LOS ANGELES Oprah Winfrey helped raise more than $400,000 for Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS foundation. "Oprah is the most wonderful and generous woman any organization could ever hope to have," Miss Taylor said Wednesday in a Each of the three men and Thornton, the only woman among the seven-member crew, had trained for months to walk in space. Each has a spacesuit aboard. NASA flight director Al Pennington, at a news conference today, defended the selection of Akers.

Pennington said Akers was "the best choice" because of his height. Akers is 6 feet tall, Hieb 6-feet-3 and Thuot 5-feet-9. "The discrimination is size-wise," said Thornioni who is 5-feet-4 and weighs 115 pounds-. "There are some things that are difficult for me to do because of CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) After being excluded from the satellite "manhandling" squad, astronaut Kathryn Thornton was offered a chance to shine today as the second American woman to walk in space.

She's honored, but nervous. "To some extent, if I mess up really bad, I will hurt opportunities for other women," she said in a preflight interview. "They will say, 'There's proof they can't do So to some extent I have a responsibility to other people." Thornton and astronaut Thomas Akers are to practice methods for building space station Freedom. The commander of space shuttle Endeavour, Daniel Brandenstein, passed over Thornton in favor of Akers when he needed a third astronaut to catch a wayward satellite on Wednesday. Akers joined astronauts Richard Hieb and Pierre ThuoL Brandenstein told Mission Control that "since we're going to be manhandling the satellite we'll go with Tom, Rick and Pierre." 'v.

my reach. I work harder at it, I think, because I have to position my body a little bit more carefully because I have less work area, less things that I can reach. But it's doable, it is." Thornton, a 39-vear-old ohvsicist said that when she became an astronaut in 1985, the word at work was that most women ere too small and too weak Evans Dale Evans suffers a heart attack APPLE VALLEY, Calif. Actress Dale Evans, wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, suffered a heart attack and was in fair condition today, a nursing supervisor said. Evans, 79, suffered the heart attack at her home Sunday morning and was steadily improving at St Mary Desert Valley Hospital in this desert town about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, nursing supervisor Terri Snyder said.

Snyder said the family requested that further details not be released. Evans starred with her husband in several Westerns on the big screen. On television, the couple appeared in NBC-TV's "The Roy Rogers Show" from 1951 to 1957 and ABC's "The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show" in 1962. Evans, who is also a singer, was author of their popular theme song, "Happy Trails." Zahn Paula Zahn finds practice a necessity NEW YORK Paula Zahn got to Carnegie Hall like everybody else: practice, practice, practice. But being co-host of "CBS This Morning" couldn't have hurt.

Zahn, who has played the cello since she was a child, will perform with the New York Pops at the orchestra's ninth birthday celebration May 18. She has been training with a music teacher three times a week for the past month. Man who invented 'margarita' dies SAN DIEGO (AP) Carlos Herrera, known in San Diego as the man who topped a tequila concoction with salt and called it a margarita, died Monday of natural causes at age 90. Herrera's relatives say he invented the drink at Rancho La Gloria, a restaurant he opened in 1935 at his home south of Tijuana, Mexico. statement.

In March, the host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" asked viewers to donate SI to $100 to the foundation. They came through to the tune of about $400,000. Pinkins, Fitzgerald promising performers NEW YORK Tonya Pinkins of "Jelly's Last Jam" and Patrick Fitzgerald of "Grandchild of Kings" have been honored as promising new performers on the New York stage. The Clarence Derwent Awards were announced Wednesday by Actors' Equity Foundation. Pinkins plays Jelly Roll Morton's lover in the Broadway musical about the legendary jazz pioneer.

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