European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 space duty not so farfetched by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau chief first there is a Luminous Crest girding the earths while the rest of the planet is still plunged in then Brilliant Blue and red bands next comes a Brief Golden and the universe explodes with and this happens every 45 that what its like to experience a Sunrise in according to army Robert he should he is one of three army astronauts currently assigned to he participated in a shuttle Mission in february and is scheduled to go up again in Stewart recently spoke to More than 400 army aviators at the annual army aviation association conference in Gar Misch about the United states space pro Gram and his own experiences in he said that being an astronaut might not be As farfetched As some people any army aviator has a shot at he i was selected in 1978 out of people competing for 35 open i didst have As much educational background As some of the other Candi dates with multiple doctoral but what i had going for me was a lot of operational Nasa is looking for Stewart certainly has plenty of he started out As a Pilot of an armed helicopter in he has been an instructor Pilot at the army primary helicopter school and an experimental test Pilot at the army aviation Engineer flight he has experience in 38 different kinds of aircraft and More than hours of flight and even with All that Stewart still Speaks with a Trace of Awe in his voice when he talks about the space the shuttle is in a league All its the first shuttle test flight was the most hazardous aircraft test flight Ever bar he flight testing of an air Craft is done when the by bomber was it flew Only about 20 Miles and they didst even retract the what i had going for me was a lot of operational Landing it flew just above stalling when it they we made that Well go 10 Miles per hour faster next but the shuttle is an entirely differ ent kind of Nasa thought about doing a suborbital test flight but decided that would be More scary than just sending it into space and doing we had done every bit of engineering we but we really didst know if wed get our Guys obviously we and the manned space flight pro Gram in the United states was underway while a certain amount of the right stuff is still an ingredient for astronauts on the who Are on the cutting Edge of a new Era in space Stewart said the situation is different than that of the original Mercury pilots immortalized in Tom wolfes those original Guys were All fighter Pilot used to flying Solo or with one other Stewart they were probably a bit More individualistic than today who have to be More that evolved in the Apollo where there were Threeman and is still evolving in the shuttle where we have seven and eight Man Stewart has the distinction of being one of the first astronauts to experience space untethered to the Mother ship using a super sophisticated Jet Backpack known As a manned mane vering unit mum he did for several hours on his shuttle that was a tremendous Honor for an old test Pilot like and i think it has to be the Peak of my he to be out All travelling Miles per hour a million feet up was an indescribable the Beauty of the looking Down on an entire was absolutely i cant begin to Tell you How it really he that Why were eventually going to Send up poets and philos and maybe  be Able to do the experience Justice in terms of de scribing theres nothing that com pares to getting outside the shuttle and having nothing Between you and the uni verse except the fabric of your space Stewart said the space shuttle is going to be the prime feature of the space program for Many years to Well be putting up a space but the shuttle will do he the shuttle will bring the pieces up there to be As then we can look at Lon duration now were limited to Only seven or eight Days because that the flight duration of the we dont really know yet what Well be Able to do once we have the capability to stay in space and work for extended but it will be Stewart said participation by the Mili tary services in the space program is Likely to increase in the next few dec the president has directed that a unified space command be made up of air Force Navy Al he Maxwell Thurman army vice chief of staff is chairing the army space which is determining what the army future in space will this is not a Star wars Type Ven we wont be putting a battalion of infantry in the shuttle and flying them someplace like but we can use space to fight the intelligence gathering and communications aspects of space Are enough to blow your socks although Hes occasionally described As a Stewart seems a bit uncomfortable with that Ive got a great Job and pm thrilled that people like to hear about but were getting to the Point where space is no longer an exotic he i dont think in a 1 wanted to get into the space program because it was a Way for me to Fly higher and in just a very fortunate army explorer i rocket came from army Arsenal air Force  get All the Stewart says by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau chief ask someone which military service put the United states into space and the answer will probably be the air but to hear Robert Stewart Tell the space program might have Floun dered had it not been for the one of three army astronauts assigned to Nasa and a Crew member aboard a shuttle flight last said he is often asked Why the army is in space at As if there is no possible reason for its being the question should what is the army doing Back in space the army put this country into space in the first he when the soviets launched sputnik the first the United states rushed to match the Stewart but the Vanguard rocket selected for the task blew up before it Ever got into the so a Call was placed to the army Redstone Arsenal in which provided the rocket that would become explorer that rocket had actually been devel oped several years but nobody would let the army launch Stewart that was the first True not just a radio Beeper like the first explorer i was a scientific package that discovered the Van Allen radiation one of the most important discoveries of the Early Days of the space when the soviets put a Man into sub the United states once again had to do the by that the army had kind of been shoved under the Rug As far As the space program was and the air Force had taken Stewart but the prototype rocket selected for the first manned flight didst it did better than the but it blew Stewart since they  find any test pilots who haunt heard about the army was called some old tactical missiles were brought from Redstone Arsenal to Cape canaveral and Stewart we put Alan Shepard on the first one and sent him up on a suborbital and Gus Grissom went up on the second so the army was really responsible for putting the first two american Astro nauts up about that Nasa got tired of dragging army rockets from Alabama to Cape scraping army off the Side and painting Nasa Over so they took the entire Redstone Arsenal group that had been helping out in the space embraced and told them they were now part of Stewart so we in the army have a heritage of space we put this country there and i think its High time we were Back in the space Stewart and 1 was tremendously honoured to be the first army representative on an Orbi Tal space shuttle specialist foresees classroom mix of technology by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau bad Germany school administrators and parents who favor a computer takeover of classrooms should sit and listen to what William Fisher sees As education in the year related vice president of marketing for the nonprofit world Institute for com Pute assisted based in described the school of the future to Dodd Germany school administrators at their workshop last he said future education will be an effective mix of teacher and its a mix that today schools Are still trying to come to grips he he can Best be used to teach children the details of their educational foundation the he can Best be used to teach How to Deal with the moral and ethical complications of and How the details relate to human one of the keys to learning will be what he Calls the learner such a profile will Tell teachers How a particular student some of us Are visual he others Are auditory they learn by with teaching techniques Tai lored to learner students will be educated More Fisher Doest see teachers and computers in opposite Corners of a fight he sees the situation in a cooperative Light and said computers in the classroom will actually free teachers so they can devote More time to individual with each child working at his own Pace at a computer the whole class will be and the teacher can move about to smooth the bumps along each Childs Peculiar Road to he he compared today classroom to the Pony you could clip the horses mane or lighten its horseshoes to make it go a Little but youd still get Only one horsepower out of it was just no match for the and the result was unemployed Pony express the same Fate awaits today faculty members who refuse to face the fact that society is now on a similar Edge of Chang ing he what is the right teacher technology mix Fisher is involved in a Provo project called the Waterford a Laboratory where computerization and traditional teaching methods Are mixed and studied under the educational the Experiment is still in but its results Are expected to give educators a clearer picture of what their classrooms will look like in the year 2000 when the Telegraph overtakes the