European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August 1985 challenger Mission extended extra Day Cape a shuttle managers decided saturday to extend challengers Mission in orbit by a until to give the astronauts More time to continue their voyage of scientific the new Landing time was set for tues Day at get at Edwards air Force the Extension was requested by ground who have expressed Delight Over data being gathered by their instruments on the galaxies and earths Atmo Nasa officials made the decision after determining that challenger had enough fuel for the extra plus enough for two contingency Days beyond fore casters said weather also should be Good tuesday at challenger was slightly Low on liquid Hydrogen and liquid which Are used to generate but the seven Astro nauts have been conserving these consumables in Case the flight was said flight director Al the astronauts spent much of saturday conducting but they did take a few minutes to transmit to the control Center television views of a cloudless Section of Earth Over which they clearly visible were the Sahara the North coast of the med Terra the Boot of the Black sea and the Caspian sea in the Southern part of the soviet Mission scientists said they would like the extra Day primarily to gather data from three telescopes mounted on a million pointing system that was inoperative until when the astronauts repaired it with a new computer program worked out on the during the three Days the instrument was unable to the astronauts used Fine aiming devices on the individual each Man Euver required extensive testing and calibration and Cost valuable data gathering astronauts Karl an and Loren a solar were operating the telescopes when the pointing mechanism was and they were Over it was Acton wow exclaimed ill offer an other hallelujah and Hope it keeps on this the operating around the clock in two began an almost non Stop Survey of the studying Sun spots and other Phenomena that might help scientists better understand How the Sun influences our solar including its effect on communications and weather on cosmonauts test semirigid7 space suits Moscow a two soviet Cosmo nauts who have been in space for nearly two months left the salyut7 Orbital station Fri Day for a five hour spacewalk in new sem rigid suits designed for easier movement in open the soviet Media Mission commander Vladimir do Hanible Kov and flight Engineer Viktor saving Khz used their time outside the space lab to fit additional solar panels onto the crafts elec tric Power Supply according to the official news Agency Tass and the evening National news program Eremya full pressure suits of a Semi rigid Type of an improved modified with due re Gard for the experience of the work of the previous Crews of the salyut stations in open were tested during the Tass the television news report included Brief film clips of the spacewalk and an explanation by cosmonaut Svetlana the first woman to walk in of the improvements in the new space interviewed beside a Model of the new suit at the soviet cosm drome in Central said the More flexible mate rial used in the sleeves and Waist make movement and two new lights on the helmet help illuminate work areas outside the Orbital space Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space on july when she and Doha Nibeko spent 3te hours outside the salyut7 during the 13day Mission of the solar panels were brought to the a lyut7 by the progress24 transport space launched from the Central asian cos mod Rome on june the cargo Craft automatically docked with the space lab two Days and were propelled into space june 6 aboard the soyuz which was manually docked with the space lab 48 hours in keeping with the secrecy surrounding soviet space no announcement has been made publicly As to How Long the aloft for 58 Days As of will remain in three other soviet cosmonauts set the record for the longest stay in space with a 237day Mission last year that ended on continues poisoning of wild bees lost a state agents zapped the hives of wild bees Friday with Poison Spray in the third Day of an intense Campaign to curb the nations first intrusion of african killer workers had destroyed a total of nearly three dozen hives of wild bees by Early Fri said Wayne a spokesman for the state agriculture the Africani Zed which were discovered near Here june 25 after coming from South America on Oil Are no More venomous than Domestic when they often attack in Large numbers and without native wild bees Are being destroyed in a 50mile radius around lost Hills because scientists believe they Are most Likely to Breed with the immigrant killer authorities have also placed a 400 Square mile quarantine around lost barring the movement of commercial hives or Honey out of the a move that has angered some local about 20 dressed in protective Are killing wild Bee Baggett but that number will go Way up monday when we gear up for the full project he also said investigators will begin extracting Sample bees from commercial hives and sending them to an extensive Mobile Laboratory in Bakersfield for the aggressive bees Are the descendants of 26 swarms that escaped from a brazilian experimental facility in the bees have migrated steadily northward for the past 30 and were expected to arrive in the United states by biologist links virus to Forest blight Hamburg up a West Ger Man biologist has found evidence that a Plant virus rather than manmade air pollution May be responsible for the alarming blight killing off the country a newspaper said in an Advance transcript of an inter View to appear in Welt am Stuttgart professor Burkhard Frenzel said he found traces of virus in several Hundred Spruce and fir samples taken from 24 West German forests that were thought to have been blighted by the scientist said he found no such virus in samples from healthy forests on the Central plateau of although Frenzel regards his research As being still in the initial he said the evidence Points to a virus playing pos Sibly the decisive role in the country or dying phenom if this is and it is not Primar ily pollutants that Are responsible for the condition of the then human beings can hardly help the Frenzel was quoted As he said he feared that current efforts to reduce air pollution to help save the Woods would not have the desired West Germany recent moves to phase out leaded gasoline and require exhaust catalysts in new cars has been justified by government politicians As a measure needed to save the Henize and Acton alternated with Astro physicist Johndavid Bartoe and geophysicist Tony the astronaut scientists also kept watch Over a Battery of instruments measuring cosmic rays and infrared radiation from stars and galaxies and the gases and charged particles that form plasma in earths Only one of 13 instruments was not that was a fourth Telescope mounted on the pointing device and de signed to study magnetic Fields in the suns Story a continued medical including the periodic drawing of blood from the other Crew members for study Back on the flying challenger Are commander Gor Don Fullerton and Pilot Roy news update broker Kidnap term Pittsburgh a a disgruntled investor who dressed As Santa Claus and kidnapped his stockbroker during a Christmas party has been sentenced to 3 to 10 years in Grover also was placed on 10 years probation for criminal he pleaded guilty to that charge and to Kidnap Ping on april 16 in Allegheny county common pleas Robert said he was injected with an unidentified drug and shocked with an instrument resembling a cattle prod during his 15day confinement at a farm near in an interview in february Phillippi said he abducted Haye to draw attention to the Pitfalls of in vesting in he said he invested nearly Mil lion in Gold and Silver futures con and there was Only about left when he closed his a House extends Law Washington a the House has Given voice vote approval to a three year renewal of the endangered species a 12yearold Law that is a worldwide Model for wildlife the measure authorizes the Interi or department and Commerce department to share million to protect plants and animals in fiscal the same amount provided in the budget year that ends the similar to one still await ing committee action in the would increase funding to million in fiscal 1987 and to million the following the act requires the government to prevent further degradation of species that Are nearing extinction or approaching that he w ill a sold 111 i ice Ocllo Lias Zucco lust Licu Hundred Spruce and fir samples by government politicians As a measure approaching that taken from 24 West German forests that if this is and it is not Primar needed to save the i Carrier puffy officer Furns Over part smuggling data san Diego a a Navy Petty Jackson worked in the Supply Section ring that authorities say stole f14 and parts at Navy Supply depots to deter ii officer has supplied Federal officials with aboard the Kitty Hawk and last month a Phoenix missile parts for Sale to any were stolen or the Aud san Diego a a Navy Petty officer has supplied Federal officials with documents that he claims link illegal activities on the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk to the smuggling of military parts to an attorney Petty officer Robert Jackson fitted the information to the attorneys the Fri and the naval investigative said attorney Randy Jackson worked in the Supply Section aboard the Kitty Hawk and last month accused Crew members of stealing millions of dollars in and of manipulating the ships financial records to conceal the Whaley said he and Jackson believe the information submitted to authorities will show there was a connection Between Kitty Hawk activities and an alleged smuggling ring that authorities say stole f14 and Phoenix missile parts for Sale to seven people were indicted last month on charges of stealing at least million Worth of the parts and smuggling them to among them were an aviation storekeeper on the Kitty Hawk and a former Kitty Hawk the Navy said thursday it is auditing classified f14 and Phoenix missile parts at Navy Supply depots to determine if any were stolen or the audit is also being conducted on 12 aircraft said de the Navy Supply sys tems Deputy commander for financial management in when this Navy audit is All i con tend you will not find that there Are any classified items that have gotten into the hands of a smuggling Straw