European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 m stars and stripes saturday february 1986 _ commission opens hearings on shuttle Nasa studying photos to pinpoint to Ellis of Washington Junasa told an investigative commission of inlay  enhanced photographs to a spurt of fire that burst from the shuttle s right Booster rocket about 14 seconds before last week s explosion destroyed challenger and killed its  experts believe the errant flame triggered the  presidential commission investigating last week s space shuttle disaster opened deliberations thursday by questioning National aeronautics and space administrate officials about the Impact of freezing temperatures on launch Day and the nigh history of the ship s reusable boosters. Jesse Moore head of Nasa s shuttle program told the panel that none of the Booster components had been used More than iwo or three times. They Are designed to be used As Many As 20 limes he said. As the commission met in Washington Nasa reported at Cape canaveral. Fia., that sonar soundings thursday indicate the second of challenger s two Booster rockets had been located a relatively Short distance from the launch pad. But the or Agency said there could be to Confirma until underwater photographs Are Madi Jone of the boosters  30 Mae offshore theother �  Public affairs of cers said privately that s6nar sound jugs indicated the left Booster had reallocated. But acting under instructions Nat any statement Mustbe cleared Jaff Agency investigators the  not confirm that  8j#6se. It will be Days if not weeks Leitne identification  the Racket casings can be raised by Navy Salvage Crews. Some engineers said privately they fear the casings May be broken into pieces and scattered on the Ocean floor. Eleven members of the 12-person panel it in the opening questioning. Not famed test put Chuck Yeager. Jhb panel the photographs show the firstly Illethe flames on the right rocket boostcrsisl59.8 seconds into the 73-second flight. In the next 12 seconds the. Geared to grow and merge with the wow huge fuel tank jut milliseconds before the tragedy Moore testified. He said the plume moved quite a before the explosion and dest Ruguff challenger s external fuel tank troyed the shuttle eight Miles Abov a Atlantic Ocean. Of Judson a.  manager of the shuttle  at the marshal space flight per in Alabama said the mean  of the solid rocket fuel Isab be Between 40 and 90 degrees i melt. At the time of launch to height it was a mean temperature of 55 Trees he  said the figure was arrived at by a calculation of ambient temperature because we Don t have any measurement that would give an exact Reading. He said there had been no concern about the engines in Advance of the flight and he did not think any of its components bad been replaced from earlier missions. Asked in Mere was anything unusual plated that the plume. A break in r Lions of the Rocke said the i Arnold Aldrich manager of shuttle pro Grams at the Johnson space Center in Houston told the panel there is no Practi-riuu3tull ii inv a i r cat abort Mode for the Crew during the first two minutes of flight while the Cost Woric continues at to Esworth site in . Occurred during the  comments were an it Nasa has formed no firm  the cause of the Accident. _ Moore was asked about the possible Impact of launch Day temperatures. He said there was concern about ice buildup on the launch Tower but not about the Impact of Low temperatures on the rocket boosters. A technical  before the launch and checked in  assessment came Back that the sys tem is of Moore  specifically about the Impact of cold temperatures on the boosters Moore said the Issue was discussed by Nasa experts a Day before the launch. It was no presented to me As a matter of potential concern he told the  whether the cargo Load that Day including a Large communications sat protesters Block Gates of missile Bas Molesworth England a anti nuclear protesters blocked the four main Gates of a is. Cruise missile base under construction in Central England on thursday but the ministry of defense said there was no disruption of work. The nine hour protest was generally peaceful but five people were arrested on charges of causing criminal damage to the Fence around the site about 60 Miles North of London the ministry  demonstration marking the first anniversary of the expulsion of 200 protester from the site a held in Snow hurries and temperatures of about i  said three people suffering from exposure were taken to a.  were conflicting estimates of the Tor Nom. Organizer from Britain s Campaign for nuclear disarmament put the crowd at 5,000. Police at the scene said 3,000 people participated but the ministry estimated that Only 800 people showed up. Last month workmen began constructing the first Maior building at moles Worth once a world War ii Airfield. By1988, the base is scheduled to receive 64 cruise missiles under the North at antics Moses treaty organization s five year plan to de 464 cruise and 108 penning 11 missiles Polypo crus Nin five West european countries to counter a soviet buildup of ss-20 missiles in East Ern Europe. Paul Johns the chairman of the Campaign for nuclear disarmament said the demonstration was a Success because the blockade kept the Gates closed and no traffic moved in or out of the site. School construction budget Cut % especially heavy. Moore old  Dunk so air.", Wiliiam p. Rogers the former menu roof state who Heads the panel appeared to rebuke Moore at me Point when metre referred tos tog air Rel  the matter he referred to involving the effect of the cold on the Fud Udet octet boosters came from a specialist world fora Nasa contractor. Just before the commission broke for Junasa i Neme 3�l Egton s4s the Reagan her announced Gramm Rimm cats tip a construction Bud gels totalling about own the cuts amount to 3.9 permtau.$72million school construction affected projects Are listed in the be Al Register Dodds officials in the Atlan tic and Mediterranean regions saute bad not been notified of the cuts Dodds officials in the get said they had been notified War until we see h in him puffs Stin a Goas far As we re  Bui Taka Saki chief  Dodds Ger Gnu in. La include for Remes $290,000 Cut from a $7.4 million elementary and High school project. German Babenhausen $30,000 Cut. $760,000 elementary school audit Bamberg $133xjmplroii a $3.3 million element in or edition and1,000 cayijppr.4 million Middle and 117,000 Cut from a $3 Mill Luddit Ion. Hanau $262,con Middle school. Heidelberg $67jooq Cut from?.T,million addition to elementary school no. 2. Heilbronn $90,000 Cut from a s2j million elementary and Junior High school addition. Pir Masens $64,000 Cut from $1.6 Mil lion elementary and Junior High school additions. In opening testimony 1 Mina Trator William Cham. Complete and total cooperation to the commission and said his Agency Bob for. Ward to the resumption of space flight the Jan. 28 explosion killed Smi Astro auts and sch i teacher Chruma Mcaulffe worst space Accident Ever. _  have been Gro Mided Dur ing Thellis meation which May last up to be vessel brought the l huge fuel  but bulldozers and other heavy equip ment were seen working inside the Fence within 100 Yards of the main group of pro testers. To say that they closed Down a base i ridiculous a ministry spokesman told re porters. The spokesman speaking on the Condi Tion that be not be named said the weather has probably had More affect on work at the base than they  protesters built bonfires Sang songs an shivered in the cold along the eight mile barbed wire Fence around the site. Among the demonstrators were 16 opposition lawmakers and representatives Nan anti nuclear groups in West Germany Bel Gium and the Netherlands. Meanwhile 8pointed tip of Chail to port  showed a server a world War ii Hwy out of Little Creek. A lifting Thel the fuel tank s Cone from one deck to in liftoff the 154-foot tank conto aed Imore than a half million Gallons of ship of cold liquid Hydrogen anti liquid  it exploded the fuel turned Fato a fireball of White and Orange and tons of shuttle debris fell into the Ocean.1 $154.000 Cut from a $3.9n Junior High school. Sembach a $85,000 Cut from a $2.1million elementary school addition. Vilseck $261,000 Cut from a $6.6 Mil lion elementary school  $210,000 Cut from a $5.3 million elementary and High school Addi Tion. The Netherlands a $175,000 Cut from a y school. Bicester million elementary. Upwood $127,000 Cut from a $3.2million elementary school addition. Woodbridge $41,000 Cut from a $1million elementary school addition. I plate to terrorist a Wellen Paula sen Tenton his i his8-y  Allen i condition of ithe Max 15 Yean.  1 by  lie Tor parole. Iscon Tencey been in jail gains Othu june 1984._ made headline months before rakes a the acknowledged that she d by a neighbor in Caleb Nitshe was 5 years old. Death warrant signed Tallahassee Fla. A got. Bob Graham has ordered serial sex killer Theodore Bundy to ditto the electric chair March 4 for Mut. Dering two Florida state University sorority Sisters. Florida state prison superintendent Richard Dugger scheduled the execution for 7 . March 4. Buddy 39, faces death for rising Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy,20, As they slept in the Chi Omega sorority House at Florida state University on Jan. 15,1978. Bundy became one of the nation Best known most wanted criminal before he was captured in Florida i february 1978. Bundy also had been sentenced Todie for the 1978 murder and rape of Kimberly Diane Leach 12, who was kidnapped in Lake City