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TIMES-PRESS Streator. Monday. March 13. 1989 1U Five astronauts aboard Discovery; perience in a variety of fields. During Discovery's flight, Springer, who considers Ashland, Ohio, to be his hometown, will be responsible for deploying the $100 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

"I want to be somebody who can come back and whole experience," he Selected as an astronaut in 1980, Springer and his wife, Mary, have three children: Chad, 18, KiraJ 17, and Derek, 12. --(-) a Marine Col. James Buchli, 43; astronaut: Buchli, an infantry platoon clom- responsible for operating a large-format IMAX camera that will shoot scenes for a movie titled "The Fragile Earth." Blaha and his wife, Brenda, have three children: James, 23, Steven, 19 and Carolyn, 15. James P. Bagian, 37; physician-astronaut: Bagian, a shuttle rookie, is an engineer, surgeon and jet pilot who somehow found time to become a full-time NASA astronaut.

Born in Philadelphia, Bagian joined NASA in 1980 and moved to the Johnson Space Center Ltrouston where he met his wife, andi, a NASA engineer. During Discovery's flight, he will be responsible for carrying out a series of medical experiments, including one that could help prevent space sickness and another designed by a high school student to study bone healing in weightlessness. Bagian has one child, Krista Rose, 4. Marine Col. Robert Springer, 46; astronaut: Springer, making his first space flight, is an accomplished jet pilot and military officer with wide ex By United Press International Here are thumbnail sketches of the five-man crew of the space shuttle Discovery, which blasted off today on the third post-Challenger mission, the first of seven planned for 1989: Navy Capt.

Michael L. Coats, 43; shuttle commander: Coats, an expert on emergency abort procedures and a passionate space advocate, first flew aboard Discovery in 1984 during the ship's maiden flight. An accomplished jet pilot with 350 Vietnam combat missions to his credit, Coats, a native of Riverside, holds master's degrees in aeronautics and administration. While his two children, Laura, 15, and Paul, 10, looked forward to watching their father's second launch, his wife Diane "is frankly kind of dreading it." Air Force Col. John E.

Blaha, 46; co-pilot: Blaha, making his first shuttle flight, is an ex-Air Force test pilot who once flew a modified F-104 jet to an altitude of 104,400 feet. During Discovery's mission, Blaha, born in San Antonio, Texas, will be manaer during tne Vietnam war, has two 1985 shuttle flights to" his credit, a secret military mission and a German Spacelab flighty His primary role during his third spaceflight is to serve as flight engineer during launch and landing and to operate an experiment designed to test space station radiator technology. An avid ut-doorsman who enjoys scuba 'diving, hunting and fishing, Buchli, Ik 7 Or '1. ...1 who calls Fargo, N.D., hometown, and his wife, Saundra The crw aboard the shuttle Discovery which blasted to right, mission specialist James Bagian, mission off today are, seated, left to right, pilot John Blaha specialist Robert Springer, and mission specialist Jean, have two children: James, 16, and Jennifer, 11. and shuttle commander Michael Coats; standing, left James Buchli.

(UPI Telephoto) ProiAi uuill film miQcinn 0 II IV III WW! for I MAX documentary I I tl (1 I 0 1 10 10 1 0 I I I oi a id i a A 0 I I 110 I 1 i i i i i i i in I I I I II A I A i A Limit Details At Store CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Discovery co-pilot John Blaha will use a high-definition IMAX movie camera to film a high-flying space documentary on Earth and its imperiled environment, NASA said Saturday. "The Fragile Earth," a project of NASA and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, will shed light on environmental threats and "make people more aware of the problem," Blaha said. The large format, high definition IMAX camera uses wide 70 mm film to produce movies that can be shown on screens seven Limit 1 Silver Platter 1 7 to 1 9-lb. Average Sliced Free Into Chops! sty breathtaking views of space walks over the revolving globe.

In December 1985, an IMAX camera mounted in the payload bay of the shuttle Atlantis recorded scenes of spacewalks in which two astronauts demonstrated space construction techniques. During Discovery's flight, the bulky IMAX will be operated primarily from the windows in Discovery's aft flight deck. In addition to studying the planet, Blaha will document the deployment of a mammoth, $100 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, the shuttle's primary payload. But the Discovery crew is dedicated to help filming "The Fragile Earth," and shuttle confr mander Michael Coats and astronaut James Buchli have also been trained to use the sophisticated camera. don't think it will solve anything or dramtically change" any directions," Blaha said of the new documentary.

"But I think seeing a movie like that will give people a better perception, a better understanding of what we're doing to our planet. I think it'll help." The budget for the latest IMAX project is $4.5 million, Duff said, and part of the cost will be shared by the Lockheed which also contributed to "The Dream is Alive." That documentary cost $3.6 million. stones tall. It was developed Dy. the IMAX Systems Corp.

of Toronto, Canada. Brian Duff, in charge of special projects at the museum in Washington, said the' movie will incorporate film from as many as six future shuttle flights and photographs from orbiting satellites. "We hope it'll restore people's understanding of how important 11. XT' 1L me various sysieuia ox miui Pound uie lanu masses, waiei aiiu living things are dependent on each other," Duff said. The 30-minute space spectacular is expected to premiere in 1990.

In 1984. IMAX cameras were used on three shuttle missions to 3 iiiiii i ni; ii vain 10 luirw, 37-minute documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite and featuring. For first time, woman describes countdown WC1 TER Fresh Silver Platter Bonus Buy Special Kneip's Corned Beef Brisket In The Deli Delicious, Creamy Colby Longhom Bonus Buy Special Quarters Blue Bonnet Margarine Assorted Pork Chops "I remember watching the first space shuttle launch. I was in college. They showed a shot of the firing room.

I saw all those people sitting there at their consoles and I thought 'Golly that would be neat! That must be something else!" Malone first went to work for NASA as a student in 1982 and took a fulltime post in 1984 after graduation from the University of Alabama. 111! CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) The first woman in NASA's 30-year history to count down a manned space flight was excited about being the Sally Ride of launch commentators for today's flight of the shuttle Discovery. 4 Lisa Malone27, a native of Mobile, sits "in the firing room at the launch control center. At her console are a variety of audio channels between the astronauts and rocket engineers, a TV monitor and reference manuals.

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