European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april countdown begins for challenger shuttle flight Cape a the countdown is under Way for Mon Days launch of space shuttle challenger on a Mission in which seven astronauts will observe monkeys and rats in weightlessness and conduct extensive medical and scientific the countdown began aiming for a liftoff at noon monday for the 17th shuttle six members of the Crew the two physicians and three scientists flew Here Friday from the astronaut training base in Houston and said they were eager to get on with the commmander Robert Overmyer was practising aircraft landings at Edwards on Friday and was to join his Crew mates challenger is to land at Edwards instead of returning to this launch site because of problems experienced by discovery when it touched Down Here last discovery right brakes and one of the right tires ruptured after the commander hit the brakes to bring his ship Back to the runway Center line when it was blown off course by Strong another Factor in the Landing decision is that with the european built space lab in its cargo will weigh 12 tons More than discovery did on touch during a week in discovery Crew will work in the billion Laboratory in two conducting experiments in materials fluid life atmospheric physics and Astron Norman Thagard and William Thornton will perform medical experiments and will observe How two Squirrel monkeys and 24 rats behave in weightless the rats will be dissected hours challengers Crew a photo six members of the Crew of the shuttle challenger arrive at the Kennedy space Center at Cape to prepare for this weeks from left to they Are Norman Lodewijk Van Den Fred William Don Lind and Taylor the seventh member of the Mission commander Robert remained at Edwards fab in Overmyer was practising aircraft landings and was to join his Crew after they return to chemical Engineer and senior scientist physicist with the Jet propulsion Labo astronaut Don a will with of will oratory of will study the conduct astronomy and atmospheric phys try to form three different types of pure behaviour of fluids in the absence of grave is Lodewijk Van Den a crystals in Taylor a million  vacations planned Washington a a travel agent who says space voyages for tourists willing to spend 1 million a ticket will be feasible by the mid1990s is joining the ranks of entrepreneurs hoping to profit from the space venture capitalists already include former astronaut Donald Deke slay who is offering to put a persons Cre mated remains into eternal Earth now comes Theodore presi Dent of a travel company that specializes in expensive trips to exotic on he announced project space which will offer three Day Tours of the heavens for million per Passen the Cost could be lowered to about Swartz despite the Swartz said there is a Market for such a if the technology can be developed for a commercial Pas Senger anyone who can spend on a vacation probably has million to spend on a he there is a groundswell of interest in space right Swartz the ques Tion is no is there going to be space its a question of earlier this celestis a announced plans to put a 300pound cargo into orbit with enough room for capsules of cremated the company said the space funerals would be sold through Fune ral space services a rocket company headed by agreed to charge million to launch the celestial Hearse aboard a solid fuel Hes the Only one that can save his Brothers life Chicago a although doctors say his brother is too ill to undergo a Bone marrow a vietnamese Man who travelled Halfway around the world to be the donor says he is willing to go through with the he knows absolutely that Hes the Only one that can save his Brothers and that Why he came said Judith who accompanied to Huang Van on his 23hour trip from his up Tien was in critical but stable condition saturday in the Intel Siv care unit at Loyola University medical Center in May said nursing supervisor Wendy due suffers from plastic a Dis ease in which the Bone marrow stops Mak ing essential White blood he has been kept alive with blood transfusions of More than two pints a arrived at Ohare International Airport late Friday on a connecting flight from Salt Lake he left to Chi Minh City on Ladinsky said at an air port news doctors who met Van at the Airport said he planned to get some sleep before visiting his whom he had not seen since but Richard head of Hema ology and oncology at said that is too ill to Nave the transplant and that physicians were waiting to see the re sults of alternative Van said through an interpreter that he is not afraid to be a he said he bad not been Able to sleep since leaving his Home in a Small town in the Mekong his parents Are fish traders said Ladinsky is chairwoman of the committee for scientific cooperation with which sponsors scientific sex although the United states and Vietnam have no formal diplomatic rela both governments helped doctors locate test his blood Ana hasten his de parture for we Hope that the ability to cooperate and collaborate on this kind of humanitarian Endeavor will Lead to other such Ven she Kenrad Nelson of the University of who greeted Van at the said he had flown a Sample of vans blood to Chicago last weekend and tested it with his Brothers for it and i was very pleased about said eight other siblings had been ruled out As possible he said due was transferred Friday to Loyola from the University of Illinois despite dues failing Fisher there is still a significant possibility for the Bon marrow but by no Means a Rosalind head of Loyola Bon marrow transplant said it might be a month before anyone can Tell whether a transplant is needed or whether it would be successful in dues a family Hoa who Bor rowed most of the he put up to cover vans travel said Friday i saw him due yesterday and told him not to he seems Happy to know his brother is but Hes so weak and  say Senate vote confirms Brock As Secretary of labor Washington up the Senate Friday confirmed William Brock As Secre tary of labor to succeed Raymond who resigned after learning he would have to stand trial on fraud and larceny a former colleague of members of was approved by voice vote unusual in the Senate when it confirms Cabinet president Reagan named As Secretary of moving him from the Cabine level Post of Trade represent previously he had served As a Congress Man and senator from Tennessee and As Republican National the labor department has been virtually paralysed since Donovan fraud indict ment in new which followed lengthy Federal and Senate investigations of his business dealings before joining the Reagan Cabinet in a graduate of Washington and Lee uni Brock was elected to Congress in 1962 and served four terms before his elec Tion to the Senate in in after his defeat by Democrat James Brock was elected chairman of the Republican National