European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August soviets sent cosmonaut team to revive dead space station Moscow a two cosmonauts who have been aboard the salyut7 space station for nearly two months were sent there on a risky repair a soviet newspaper revealed the orbiting space lab had been left Drifting and out of touch with Earth be cause of an electrical the communist party daily newspaper pravda when cosmonauts Vladimir Doha Nibeko and Viktor saving Khz they found that every system aboard had stopped the paper the newspaper said the air of the space station was filled with toxic food and water supplies were solar batteries were chemical Bat teries were completely and electrical and mechanical systems were endangered by below freezing salyut7s rocket engines we rent functioning and ground control  trans Mit the newspaper on june the two cosmonauts docked their soyuz t13 Rescue spacecraft manually in an untested by june 16 the Crew members had traced the breakdown to an electrical and they were Able to restore the space platform to working pravda it was the second known emergency involving which suffered a fuel leak in december pravda lengthy written by cosmonaut Konstantin provided unusually detailed information about the soviet space it also explained earlier oddities about the including the unusual length of time the Docking required and Why earlier press reports about the Mission did not in clude the usual phrase that salyut7 was operating the official Media normally report Only general information about space and arc silent on accidents or even in this there was no word of any problem on salyut7 until nearly two months after the Rescue ship was launched and More than a month and a half after the Crew repaired the pravda said Early this a radio system which relays commands from ground control to salyut7 stopped work and the station would not respond to commands from it became Clear to restore Normal work on the it would be necessary to have a Crew on Feoktistov because the automatic Docking sys tems were not functioning and the station could not be realigned from scientists had to outfit a soyuz capsule with new flight controls for a manual after three months of Doha Nibeko and saving Khz were launched june 6 and spent two Days on the approach and Docking which normally take about 24 the cosmonauts discovered that salyut 7s entire electrical system was dead and the air Feoktistov after the Crew assessed the extensive ground control had to decide whether to abort the the Crew had Only enough water for two and exhausting the electric Power aboard soyuz t13 could have stranded them in after getting a Doha Nibeko and saving Khz began checking the chemical batteries and found the cause of the break Down a malfunctioning gauge had allowed the stations chemical Power Supply to slowly Drain the Crew found that six of the eight chemical batteries were rechargeable and restored them to one by pravda by june the Crew reinstalled the com Mand radio line to Earth and the Energy system was fully enabling the cosmonauts to turn on lights and heat and Start melting the ice in the water Supply a few Days they Felt the mechanical systems aboard salyut7 had thawed enough to risk testing the stations which turned out to be said the soviet cargo spacecraft progress24 docked with salyut7 on june bringing the Crew two new chemical along with fresh supplies of food and jetliner May have already hit ground when it received abort Landing order Texas a Delta air lines flight 191 was Only 50 to 100 feet above the ground by the time an air traffic controller saw the plane emerge from Clouds and frantically ordered the Pilot to abort his officials said related Story on Page Federal investigators trying to reconstruct the final moments 01 the flight said the jumbo Jet May already have hit the ground by the time the controller in the Tower was Able to Issue the tape recordings made in the Tower show just before the crash which killed 133 people an air traffic control Ler watched As the plane emerged from a thundershowers 50 to 100 feet above the authorities go around the controller or but National transportation safety Board Board member Patrick Bursley said monday it was unclear whether the Pilot the controller saw the left Wing the nose go he saw he saw the plane go the plane came into Contact with the ground North of the and the controller apparently saw it after it had struck the Bursley he said he did not know whether the Pilot heard the order or tried to but that the Delta l1011s digital flight recorder indicated a surge in engine Power just before the Power is an answer in overcoming prob lems in flight Bursley but he said investigators who listened to the voice recorder detected no alarm by the cockpit controllers at the Dallas fort Worth International Airport had told the Pilot to reduce Speed because he was begin Ning to overtake a Lear Jet that was having trouble Landing because of the Bur Sley the Pilot of the smaller plane told Nosb investigators he had a rough time coming Bursley the wide bodied Delta Jet bounced once before hitting a car on Busy Texas Highway 114 killing the Driver and then bounced several More times before hitting a water sliding across the Tarmac into a Muddy Field and thirty one peo 6 czechs leave tour group in ask for Asylum Germany a six czechoslovak nationals ditched their tour group in Bavaria and applied for political authorities a Bavaria state police spokesman in this town close to the czechoslovak about 125 Miles Northeast of said increasing numbers of czechoslovak Citi Zens Are joining tour groups to the West in order to make off from their police did not identify the six defectors or give any other details of the pie some suffering Only minor cuts and Rudy head of the a tabs investigative said his Agency probably would be at the crash site for at least a Bursley said officials Are investigating the role of wind Shear an abrupt change of wind direction and Speed m the instruments at the Airport showed Low level wind Shear in the area minutes after the but might have missed wind Shear farther he since wind Shear was registered 10 min utes after the Bursley said it was reasonable it could have occurred during the Clint a Delta assistant vice president in said saturday that he was almost certain wind Shear had caused the wind Shear has been blamed in 16 Airliner accidents in the past 20 most recently the crash of pan am flight 759 on july that killed 154 people in by monday 53 of the 121 Bod ies recovered from the plane following the crash had been said Charles Dallas county medical More than 160 relatives went to Dallas on bringing dental charts and other but Petty said some remains May never be Twenty eight passengers and three flight among 152 passengers and 11 Crew most of them were seated in the Back of the Vogel Weh tax office robbed of by Dick Hodgson Kaiserslautern Bureau Germany an unknown Man robbed the Vogel Weh vat tax office of More than about 4 Community officials said police officials described the who made off with in personal checks and As an armed but said he never actually Dis played a he reportedly kept his hand on an object in the right pocket of his pants during the the robber was described As a 2 Inch Black weighing about 225 he was wearing Blu a Light Gray sleeveless sweatshirt and White Tennis officials a Community spokesman said monday that none of the stolen Money has been recovered and no arrests have been made in connection with the officials ask that anyone having information concerning the incident Call the forces police station in Kaiserslautern at Vogel Weh military 6060 or or civilian air Force Roundup officials confirm Orr plans to leave 30 Washington Secretary of the air Force Verne Orr has told Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger he wants to step Down 30 and return to air Force officials have has been in the office since shortly after president Reagan was inaugurated in 1981 and when he leaves will have been the longest serving air Force Secre tary by about a Orr is the first of the service secretaries to say he wants to step neither Navy Secretary John Lehman nor army Secre tary John Marsh has Given any indication of an intention to the longest serving air Force Secretary has been Eugene who served from january 1961 to september airman awarded medal for rescuing child Turkey staff Kim Flis of Del 2006th comm received the airman s medal july 16 for risking his life to save a 2yearold Samuel european information systems div presented the medal to Flis for rescuing Bradley Hess from his burning Home last while stationed at Ellsworth Flis was awakened by his wife who said a neighbors House was on Flis jumped into his grabbed his boots and ran Barefoot into the Snow and As he approached the burning he saw a Large picture window he stopped to put on his then continued he heard a woman my baby in there Flis broke a window and entered the Burn ing staying close to the he crawled around in search of the he Felt a then the baby i probably carried him upside in not Flis after handing the baby Flis col lapsed and was pulled out of the House by a Security the base fire chief later said the child probably would not have survived a moment longer inside the Charles to assume 4th Nataf position Belgium Force William Charles will assume duties As chief of staff of 4th Allied Tacti Cal air Force in in a shape spokesman Charles will succeed Harold who will become commandant of the air War College at Maxwell Charles previous assignments include executive officer to the strategic air come commander and commander of the 320th bombardment Wing at Mather Charles now serves As commander of Shep Pard technical training Center in Ball for Frankfurt Uso scheduled for 17 Uso Germany is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Frankfurt Uso by sponsoring a Ball at the Mosel dance 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