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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g Dukakis vows farm help Bush attacks furloughs Page 3 d House oks defense budget measure Page 4 d snacking on yuck Honey coated  14,15 d Pentagon sees no change in commissary prices Page 18 the St Ampf Helpes authorized uhf Fiche. Publication for the . 1hmeo forces vol.47. No. 314 sunday october 2, 19sb or Good Mol go d 8693 a space Crew having a Ball Cape canaveral Fla Al l discovery s astronauts having consigned the world s most sophisticated communication satellite to its 22.3f 0-mitc-High output had communications troubles of their own Friday As they whirled around Earth in their stockinged feet the or Ahlum to a stuck Anu non Hinl would have interfered with inc closing of the cargo Bay doors for re entry and the Masl drastic solution would have  a spacewalk a risk Nasa does t want to Lake on this first Post challenger flight. Bui it ended Well when Mission specialist David c. Hilmers. Following com pie instructions from the ground flipped Llic switches and turned inc dials that parked the Antenna inside the Bay. Houston it s stowed said i imers. Mission control replied that it was breathing a sigh of Relief and joked we can Slop Pur Eva  the response. From space Pinky s got his suit  George d. Nelson a Mission special is known As Pinky was designated before the flight As the astronaut who would perform any spacewalk. A spacewalk extravehicular activity in space Lingo would have been taken Only As a last resort Nasa had the option of commanding a Small Guillo Linc to sever the Antenna and allow it to become another piece of space junk. The orbiter is great the systems on Board the Orbil or arc doing Quile Well Saint j. Milton Heflin a flight director in Houston. We be talked about two or three problems today but my goodness out of All the hard Ware aboard is operating just super and i can act eco that in the voices of the Crew. They Are Havinga  Back at Cape canaveral the redesigned Boosler rockets that powered discovery toward orbit thursday were Lowed Minlu pull and Dies Folio Inifi Deil to Tim said they appeared in perfect condition. Set related Story Page 5 the five astronauts were a quiet Businesslike Crew As they looked Down from their 184-mile Perch at Ocean currents and soil erosion in Mexico caused by see space on Back Page Grimy co Steps Down in a or soviet shift Moscow a president Andrei a. Gromyko retired from the ruling i o Lilburn Friday in a major Power shift on the first Day of a hastily called meet ing of inc policy making Central committee. Of Romko s  
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