European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. April 30,1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Atlantis launch delayed indefinitely Cape canaveral. Fla. Noti the launch of the space shuttle Atlan tis was postponed indefinitely sat urday As engineers investigated the mystifying malfunction that prevented Friday s liftoff. After preliminary trouble shooting failed to identify the problem officials of the Kennedy space Center announced thai they did not know How Long it would Lake to find and Correct the Haw and try again for a launch. They had hoped to try again As Early As monday. Monday is out said Dick Young. A space Center spokesman. Be Are not going monday and i cannot give you n Bill or Dale Aphis  ". Officials said 1 hat until technicians could inspect the shuttle s engine com Parent Cut. They would not be Able to determine the nature of the Malf unc Ion which halted the countdown 31 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. The inspection was tit begin saturday  shuttle s computers commanded the shutdown when sensors. Detected Iii electric Power surge at a pump in the Hydrogen fuel line for nne of the Ihre Emain engines. A second problem was detected after the launch was postponed. A an examination of television tapes engineers noticed a vapor Cloud escaping from the shuttle at the Point where super cold liquid Hydrogen fuel flows from the huge external tank into the orbiter. Engineers suspected a pinpoint leak in the 4-Inch-Diamclcr find Tine which was either a manufacturing defect or the result of abnormally High pressure in the system. The National aeronautics and space administration said it was highly Likely that the Hydrogen line from the Cit Ernal tank would have to be re. Placed. This alone would cause n delay beyond monday officials said. Even More discouraging to the investigators was an initial examination of the pump problem. " " if the cause could have been traced to malfunctions at he launch pad. Which was supplying electricity to operate the fuel system before liftoff and not to the shuttle itself then the Solu Tion to the problem would have been relatively simple Clearing the Way Tor a launch Early in the week. Hut an examination of the Power lines at the launch pail revealed no problems the space Agency reported. This increased the likelihood that the flaw was in the pump and an associated fuel line in the rear Compart ment of the Atlantis a problem that officials said could require major work and a delay of As Muth As a week. Lisa Malone a space Agency spokeswoman said engineers Don t. Know if we have id change Lite pump he they Are considering he pos Sibili. By which she called a worst Case situation  the three main engines has a pump about the is of a softball that circulates cold liquid Hydrogen through the. Pipes and the engine be. Fore ignition to keep the system Cool and in proper condition for the full. Flow of Hydrogen for liftoff. All three pumps Are contained in the same unit. Malone said so that it might be easier to replace the entire unit than to repair or extract the one malfunctioning pump. Spare pumps and fuel lines arc Avail Able Malone said and the Atlantis would not have to be removed  the launch pad for this work. The main objective of the shuttle s planned four Day flight is the placing of the Magellan spacecraft on a trajectory to Venus. The Magellan is de signed to Orbil the planet and use radar to penetrate its Pirp Clung Cloud cover to gel photograph like images of its surface because of the changing alignment of Earth and a Caius launch Crews have until May 28 to gel the Atlantis into orbit so thai the Magellan can make in to Venus in August 1990,. Otherwise the Mission might have to be postponed until 1991. Officials said the problems with the Atlantis did not put the Magellan Mission in jeopardy. Storms Wash Oil Back into Prince William sound Valdef ?.,-Alaska a several Days of storms washed Oil off alaskan beaches and Back into Prince William sound hut concentrations Are far lighter than in the first weeks after the a on vau1cz Oil spill an official said Friday. We re seeing i hens that Are almost solely associated with Rcw Ashing said Jem Gall of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration after several storms brought the cleanup to a standstill for three Days. Most of the Oil remained off Eleanor Island in the Center of the sound. Gall said. The concentrations however Are nothing like they Werc two weeks after ii Tanker ran aground. It s heavy Only  relative  he said. Com pared it what we. Were seeing two weeks ago three week Sago.  of a Hill Lamoreaux of the Alaska department of environmental conservation said the bad weather was u disadvantage because it hindered cleanup operations Shoih of us arc refit cling something realistic Sidlar bureaus Dulic coordinator of the spill Effort. Stor my weather can have a favourable effect but ongoing cleanup work remains essential he said. Lamoreaux said the state s Aerial surveys show a number of areas where Oil appears Sull Icie rilly concentrated for effective skimming the storms washed Oil off sonic beaches and Bac Kinto the fish Rich sound whore Gray whales migrating North Slop every summer and where pregnant seals soon will have their pups. The weather kept skimming operations to a mini mum on the Gulf of Alaska. Tarts of the sound had very rough seas including the Waters around Smith Island where the Navy amphibious transport Dock Jii Cau is anchored with 343 cleanup workers. Exxon and the coast guard said workers would t leave the. Ship because rough seas and winds in excess of 30 Irish were reported Friday. In other developments the attorney for Cape. Joseph Hazelwood told the Anchorage daily news that he Exon Valders skip per was t trying to free his ship from the reef As taped conversations Between the ship and the coast guard seem to indicate. Some officials had worried that Hardwood risked breaking the ship on he reef. Attorney Michael chains of new Vork said his Cli ent was trying to keep the vessel on the ledge and thai a cd word was concerned about coming off the ledge and p6ss1bly,cap5umgor.brcaking  Trie tapes seem to , a cleanup worker Rule tin Ull Sahac drum Onlo n liar a lied up o the Nuvy ship Jun com in i Tince William sin ind. According to them Hazelwood told the coast guard an hour after the. Ship ran aground that we re in pretty Good shape now stability Wise and a try ing to extract her off the Shoal Here. Once we gel. Underway i la let you  gov. Steve Cowper accused Exxon of misleading the Public with a Campaign of tall tales aimed at shifting blame for the slow response to the Oil spill to the stale cow per said Kivon chairman Lawrence rail s repeated statements thai the slate refused to approve the Usta of chemical dispersant a soon after the spill were Demon is rally false the statements have been repeated in the National news Media and b Fudi Rul officials including Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan giving them Inu eased credibility Cowpe Saij if an untrue statement continues to be repeated time after Lime after time after tune and you Don t make an Effort to refute that statement then people will believe it like in was gospel. Obviously that s Hap pening now h maid. The fact is Exxon did not have inc capability to carry out any kind of Oil recovery that was very effective Dennis Kelso the stale s chief environmentalist  fired Back at the governor late Friday accusing him in turn of spreading wrong information. In a letter to Cowper raw said Exxon had enough disc rants on hand and in route to contain the spill and significantly mitigate the Impact of the Oil on inc  Bush increases Federal Aid to Black colleges Washington a president hush signed an executive order Friday aimed n giving historically Black colleges arid universities mods Federal assistance. Bush updated an existing order to add a presidential Board of advisers on the subject of Lack colleges and universities to the  std cation department.  voices must and will be heard the president told several Don Black educators gathered in the White i Lovist Rose Garden to witness the signing Cere Mony for Over a Hundred jeers he , the historically Black collects and universities have been a special part of our Heri Uigh. At a time when Many schools barred their doors to blast americans these colleges offered the Best and often the Only Opportunity fora higher education and today thank heavens most of those barriers have been brought Down by the Law Bush said. And yet historically Black colleges and universities Lill represent a vital component of american higher education enriching a great tradition of educational Choice and diversity in this  along with setting up the advisory Board the executive order directs Federal agencies to increase opportunities for such institutions to take part in various Federal programs and directs agencies to increase opportunities for students at such colleges to gel part Lime and sum me jobs. It does t do much Good to educate our Young people if they can t get Good jobs when they gut out he said