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NEWS THIS OAYFOOD SPORTS in Ann Landers C4 Classified E4 Comics E3 Editorials A8 Lotteries B2 Northwest C6 Obituaries B3 neighbors help out in the Highlands Salads old and new fill out summertime menus The Ryan Express about to roll into I Cooperstown mrcm i c- PAGE BIS (PAGE Cl The Bahy News Tomorrow MOSTLY SUNNY LOWS NEAR 55 HIGHS NEAR 80 A2 11 JULY 201899 50 CENTS mr W8CWfrwmUiWjr4iip Shuttle launch delayed Kelso sister flies home disappointed Sex offender charged in Portland murders Richard Green the associated press Suspected hydrogen leak halts countdown with 7 seconds to go CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (AP) A hydrogen leak scare halted the launch countdown for Columbia today delaying Eileen debut as the first female space shuttle commander by at least two days The countdown stopped with just seven seconds less than a half-second before the shuttle engines were to ignite A launch controller detected what appeared to be a dangerous buildup of hydrogen gas in engine compartment and ordered the cutoff The reading from the gas detector turned out to be wrong and it would have been safe to fly launch director Ralph Roe said are convinced this is not a real Roe said we have no serious concern with Roe said the launch team would try again Thursday was a huge disappointment for Collins and her crew as well as for the numerous female notables gathered for the early-morning launch of not only the first woman to lead a US space mission but the most powerful X-ray telescope Battle Ground sister sticks around aborted countdown at Cape THE SUSPECT i Moonnstrack America celebrates Neil 30 years ago today Todd Alan Reed THE VICTIMS PORTLAND A convicted sexual offender who led a quiet life as a produce worker faces charges that he strangled three homeless women and left their bodies in popular Forest Park Todd Alan Reed 32 was arrested at Rinella Produce at 11:30 pm Sunday and charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of Lilia Moler 28 Stephanie Russell 26 and Alexandria Ison 17 police said Monday Reed was convicted in 1993 on charges of burglary and attempted rape and served 2 years of a 12-year sentence A 16-person task force had been working on the case for six weeks The investigation included an undercover police sting targeting men patronizing prostitutes and round-the-clock surveillance One of the investigators remembered Reed from his earlier conviction and helped identify him as a suspect Police Sgt Cheryl Kanzler -said the investigation will continue and police ruling out the possibility of further victims or evidence in Forest Park the sprawling wooded recreation area that is heavily used by joggers bicyclists and hikers just never she said a 5000 acre is Alexandria Ison Lillia Moler Canaveral came as a bittersweet moment to two sisters who traveled from Southwest Washington to watch the shuttle launch One of the siblings 34-year-old Kolene Musgrove of Kelso flew home from Florida today while her 39-year-old sister Kristin Felde of Battle Ground plans to stay for a couple of days so Felde said by phone this morning But she and Musgrove recognize that Mission Control made the right call A hydrogen leak would have been disastrous Felde said and it would have been far worse to have witnessed a tragedy glad that everybody is she said Seeing the orbiter Columbia on the are never Indeed Today the nation remembers the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 1 1 moon landing But space exploration always has been about looking ahead not back With that in mind we asked Daily News readers to comment on the questions that captured (and still hold) the imagination long before Neil Armstrong's famous leap for mankind Here are some of the responses: Would you like to live on the moon? 'We could benefit from living on the moon Stephanie Russell Please see SUSPECT Page A2 launch pad a thrill in Felde added and touring the Kennedy Space Center Musgrove who teaches fifth grade at Barnes Elementary School in Kelso and Felde a fourth-grade teacher at Pleasant Valley Primary School in Battle Ground share a strong interest in science education and space exploration The younger sister felt she needed to get home to her two children son Kole will celebrate his 4th birthday Friday She also has a 2-year-old daughter Loryn Felde said try to stay on until Thursday when the Columbia has been rescheduled to blast off INSIDE Gus ill-fated Mercury capsule is raised from the Atlantic floor today PAGE A6 Even today the Apollo 1 1 mission provides new information about the moon every week PAGE A6 The Chandra project $155 billion gamble sits on the launch pad ready to advance scientific knowledge PAGE El AP FILE PHOTO the steps of the because of its natural Braden Clark Deer Island Ore think movement on the moon could drastically affect the tide movements and Lea Davis Longview Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? We are the only folks in this universe ANONYMOUS think it would be very egotistical of Please see SURVEY Page A2 but NASA wanted to see a spaceman swallow food Klicka said one knew what they could The applesauce all Klicka said was like baby Klicka continued to work on space food during the during the Gemini program when NASA sent two-astronaut capsules into space There were a host of problems to work out such as how to keep crumbs from flying around the capsule and gumming up the controls astronauts tasted the food and Please see SPACE FOOD Page A2 Men of Apollo 11 receive prestigious aviation award Paul Recer ap science writer WASHINGTON On the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the moon the men of Apollo 11 received the prestigious Langley Gold Medal for aviation today met with President Clinton at the White House and were praised for an mission that united the nation Neil Armstrong who commanded Apollo 11 and was the first man to walk on the moon Edwin A Aldrin and Michael Collins a path farther than any we have Vice President A1 Gore said in ceremonies at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Clinton began a Rose Garden press appearance with a rhetorical nod to the three former astronauts who visited the White House this morning and everyone at NASA over the years have made an extraordinary contribution to our nation and to humanity I am very grateful to Clinton said On July 20 1969 Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Apollo lunar module they called Eagle on the Sea of Tranquillity Hours later Armstrong descended a ladder and became the first to walk the lunar surface Collins remained in lunar orbit aboard the command ship Columbia Gore speaking at ceremonies staged beside the Apollo 11 command ship said the astronauts accomplished their mission with what would now be regarded as primitive equipment The Apollo 11 onboard computer he said had less than one thousandth the memory storage of a modem handheld electronic organizer and could hold data equal to only about one-twentieth of a typical floppy disk in modem computers is even more astonishing that their mission was pulled off with the technology that was available said Gore STEPPING LIGHTLY: Armstrong takes a picture of crewmate Buzz Aldrin descending lunar module onto the Sea of Tranquility on that historic day ASSOCIATED press SEARCH AREA: Gay Head the west tip of Vineyard appears in this photo taken from a small plane today Divers scour target areas for wreckage Daily News readers look ahead to regions far beyond Allen Breed the associated press Kelso grad was in charge of coordinating Apollo 11 menu Man first walked on the moon on a Sunday And Daily News publisher John McClelland Jr was spending the weekend at the beach He looked up and saw the crescent shape of the yellow and looked down at a TV and saw what was happening way up there seem to be something that could really happen Vet it McClelland wrote when he got back to work Monday men performing in triumph their scheduled tasks on the rocky surface were actually out there on that shining moon Such days 1969 Her job was to coordinate the effort to develop a nutritious and tasty menu for Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins for the food being in little dices and having to add water every attempt was to make it as familiar as recalled Klicka now 78 and retired in Framingham Mass tried to make everything taste Klicka whose father William Henry Richardson was city engineer in the 1920s graduated from the University of Washington ith a degree in dietetics in 1944 She earned a in business AQUINNAH Mass Divers returned to the ocean off Martha's Vineyard today in the search for John Kennedy plane and the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged it was asked to locate the aircraft less than a half-hour after it vanished from radar The Navy divers had been given a list of 15 submerged sites to examine by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration up from nine sites State police divers returned to water later in the morning divers are systematically examining targets and moving said Greg Hernandez a spokesman for NOAA which had two sonar-equipped ships scanning the ocean floor for signs of the wreckage The FAA said the call for the airplane's location from an airport employee on Vineyard was merely a request for information and had no sense of urgency Any delay in the rescue effort would be moot if Kennedy his wife and sister-in-law died on administration in 1947 from the University of Chicago and had an idea to open a restaurant Instead however she went to work at an Army research laboratory in Chicago in 1951 The laboratory moved in 1963 to Natick Mass and Klicka went with it working in meal development for the Army until she retired in 1986 Klicka started working on space food development in the early Back in 1962 all Mercury astronaut John Glenn had to eat was applesauce from a tube when he orbited Earth flight lasted 4 hours and 55 minutes He could have gone without eating Don Jenkins THE DAILY NEWS Napoleon Bonaparte would have prized Kelso High School graduate Mary role in getting man to the moon 30 yary (jcka years ago today army marches on its the French emperor proclaimed And Klicka class of helped the Apollo 11 astronauts stomach the long march into space Klicka was a dietitian at a US Army research laboratory in Natick Mass in Please see KENNEDY Page A2 1.