European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 21, 1988 the stars and stripes it Page 9 University student s Silver lining he s not your average Sun Bulher but robot Bobby familiar figure on the streets of Hamburg for the put three years catches More rays than most Northern Grimins. Bobby a University student finance by studies and Bis apartment with tin Small change fee earns torn the Public through is mechanical Nan performance and Emu Toni for having Bis picture Uken. The it East weather that has been enjoyed in Germany recently Tan be says Sis Poio by Tref Btu helped boost is comings on the it rect hut he won t sax Neth a he realty gets it lit through big coating of Silver paint. Astronauts criticize space station design new York not astronauts have raised Strong objections in an internal memorandum to the design of the planned a billion space station complaining it would be Loo Complex to be assembled in orbit Fay space walking Crews ticked emergency escape systems and had inadequate giving quarters. The memorandum obtained by he Magazine aviation week and space technology said program morale is poor and people do nol believe in this  spate Agency officials confirmed that astronauts bad prepared a memorandum about their complaint for presentation june 20 to the project manager at the Johnson space denier in Houston. The memorandum was written by c. Gordon Fumerton an experienced shuttle astronaut but it reflected the views i other astronauts As we As Middle level managers at the National aeronautics and space administration. The space station As conceived by Nasa would be a duster of modules in which a Crew of eight people would live and work for periods of up to nine months in an Orbil about 300 Miles above the Earth. It would be a base for astronomical observations surveys of Earth resources and the production of drugs Natal Alloy s and other materials that can be made Only in the weightlessness of space. The Magazine reported the astronauts complaints As Well As growing concerns Over the availability of shuttles to deploy and service the space station were forcing Nasa Back to the drawing boards to redesign smaller and simpler orbiting facility. The Agency also was reported to be considering die use of More unmanned rockets in constructing the station instead of relying solely on shuttles. The astronauts also said in the memorandum that twas morally wrong for the Agency to move ahead with the current station design with the intent to change it later. The memorandum said Nasa has been criticized severely recently for letting program objectives override Good judgment is it happening again Mark hew a spokesman at Nasa Headquarters in Washington said i was entirely appropriate to have this kind of dialogue at this stage of the  april 1985, Nasa engineers and managers have been defining the nature and uses of a Large orbiting space station and prep ing preliminary designs. A More detailed design would not Fae initiated until next Spring. The current plan is to have the station operating by 1994 or 995. But Hess said it was premature to conclude thai Nasa would undertake a major redesign of the Sta Tion. The Magazine reported the design might be simplified so it would require Only about is shuttle flight to assemble the station instead of As Many As 20tsipjrts envisioned in current plans. New safety restrictions stemming from the challenger disaster Are  10 reduce the frequency of shuttle lights and the site of to a cargoes. In the new planning most of the station would be launched in Large modules by unmanned rockets that arc to be developed. Queen dismayed by Thatcher policies paper says London a the sunday times reported thai sides of Queen Elizabeth ii have said the Monarch is dismayed by Many policies of prime minister Marga ret Thatcher Buckingham Palace deed the report. The newspaper said the political views of the 60-year-old Queen were made known in several briefings by the Queen s advisers who were aware that the information would be published. Under Britain s Constitution Ibe Monarch must be non political and Suca it revelation of the Queen s feelings would break with the confidentiality she has maintained throughout a 34-Yeajx old reign and the governments of eight prime blinds tors. The sunday times indicated that the reason for such unprecedented in formation from the Palace was the Queen s concern for the survival of the common we shh which is in conflict Over the refusal by Thatcher s conservative party government to impose severe sanctions on South Africa White led government. Britain s Monarch is titular head of the Commonwealth Lite 49-nation association of Britain and its former Colo Nies. It was made Clear that the flite in is not campaigning for economic sanctions against South Africa the Independent sunday times said. But she. Believes that a Compromise must be reached Between Thatcher and the other Commonwealth  the newspaper also said that the Queen considers the prime minis lec i approach to Domestic policy often Suncar Jig Confron Elionai and divisive. It did not identify the advisers it attributed the reports to but said they specifically mentioned the Queen s misgivings about Al lowing . Bombers to use British air bases for their raid on Libya in april. According to the newspaper the aides also said the Queen feared that Long term damage was done to Britain s social fab Ric during the yearlong Miner s strike in i9�3 and 1984, and tote Monarch Felt the government lacked compassion toward wheless privileged Thatcher s 10 Downing Street office did not comment