European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a Nasa the a it tars and stripes thursday August 23,1990 Contact stateside with Magellan for 2nd time Pasadena Calif. Apr Nasa engineers lost radio Contact with Magellan for the second time in five Days and waited to learn wednesday if the emergency systems aboard the Venus orbiting spacecraft would help re establish communication. The space Agency lost Contact at 7 03 . Tuesday while tracking Magellan with an Antenna dish near Canberra Australia said Jim Doyle a spokesman for the National aeronautics and space administrations Jet propulsion Laboratory. Magellan s computers arc programmed to react to an emergency by making the Craft spin slowly while beaming radio signals across the sky in an attempt to Contact Earth. It was not immediately known if those emergency systems were functioning Doyle said. The latest blow to Magellan a s744 million Mission to map Venus came tuesday night less than eight hours after the space Agency released the crafts first snapshots of Venus. The pictures revealed a remarkably violent landscape shaped by Impact craters quake faults vast lava flows and ridges and valleys like those in the Western United states. The loss of Magellan would be another major blow to Nasa which grounded the space shuttle Fleet temporarily because of fuel leaks and found that the Hubble space Telescope was impaired by a flawed Mirror. The spacecrafts emergency systems allowed engineers to locate the spacecraft on Friday More than 14 hours alter they lost Contact with it the first time. Eight. Hours later they restored steady Contact by sending Magellan a command to Stop spinning and keep one of its antennas pointed toward Earth. Magellan a Mission is to map up to 90 percent of Venus surface using radar to peer through the planets thick Clouds which pre vent the use of optical cameras. The spacecraft went into orbit around Venus on aug. 10 after a roundabout 948 million mile trip. It was launched from the shuttle Atlantis 15 months ago. When Magellan a first Venus pictures were  l r 4a. 1a Fri it t t7 a a a a a. D 1 j6 v i m to x k a Al. A. In a Quot i amp Hsi so \ a a a a a it tuesday Magellan project manager Tony Spear said that As far As engineers could Tell a the healthy a a despite last weeks malfunction. A the spacecraft is spacecraft system Engineer John Slonski said one leading theory to explain last weeks loss of Contact with Magellan was that a cosmic Ray or a High Energy particle from the Sun caused a Blip in its computer memory. Magellan made its first pictures of Venus during a test conducted just before last weeks malfunction. As promised by Nasa Magellan a first pictures arc 10 times More detailed than the Best radar images of Venus made by two soviet probes and a giant radio Telescope in puerto Rico. They show details As Small As map Nasa released these two film strips of. The surface of Venus that were taken by the Magellan spacecraft. The White line in the Center is a fracture or fault zone across volcanic Plains. 400 feet across. The pictures show that a Venus is intensely fractured and faulted a with at least part of its terrain shaped by geological forces a even More violent than i imagined before a Magellan project scientist Steve Saunders said. The pictures cover a Small portion of the planet near Hawaii like volcanic Highlands. The pictures show Plains covered by six to 0-Miie-wide lava flows that solidified and then were cracked by faults. Saunders said the flows resemble those in Hawaii or along the Columbia and Snake Rivers in the Pacific Northwest. Also visible arc a couple of volcanic cinder Cones a 20-mile-wide meteorite Crater and Long parallel sets of two to three mile wide valleys and ridges that look like the basins and ranges of Utah and Nevada Saunders said. Disney world Dolphin Dies after breathing problems i Lake Buena Vista Fla. Apr a 12. Ear old female Dolphin died after developing breathing problems in an exhibition tank at the living seas Pavilion at Walt Disney world a Disney spokesman said tuesday. A necropsy found the Dolphin had a a preexisting lung condition that could have been exacerbated by Normal play in the underwater tank a Disney a John Dreyer said. The Dolphin one of three in the glassed in tank with other Marine mammals began having problems late monday and a veterinarian was called Dreyer said. The 8-foot, 330-Pound Dolphin died Early tuesday. The dolphins have been at the Pavilion at Epcot Center since it opened in 1986. They Arentt trained to perform but live in a tank simulating their natural habitat. Plane carrying 124 lands safely after engine fails Albuquerque . Apr a Southwest airlines passenger Jet made an unscheduled Landing at Albuquerque International Airport after one of its two engines was shut Down in flight officials said. The Boeing 737 with 124 passengers aboard landed without incident about 8 30 . Monday said Ann Genett Schrader Southwest airlines manager of Public relations in Dallas. A there was a compressor problem with the right engine and it was really very minor a she said tuesday. Flight 362 originated in Lubbock Texas and stopped in Albuquerque about 7 20 ., Oft trials said. The air plane took off from Albuquerque at 7 40 . Bound for los Angeles. But when the compressor problem occurred the Pilot shut Down the engine and returned the Craft to Albuquerque Genett Schrader said. The passengers continued on another flight. 1,500 us air workers targeted for layoffs Arlington a. Apr Aboul 1,500 us air employees were to be Given Pink slips this week and next As company officials cancelled a planned expansion. In making the announcement tuesday airline officials said Only probationary employees would be released in response to a weakening Economy and a Lull in the airline business. Gop rancher will Challenge Wyoming governor Cheyenne Wyo apr the rancher governors she said Quot the people in daughter of a ormer governor won the gop Wyoming that in be talked to think its nomination for her fathers old Job and will time for a  my age to 18 and decriminalizing drugs. Square off in november against democratic gov. Mike Sullivan who coasted to Victory against a motorcycle Mechanic. In other primary races tuesday Republican sen Alan Simpson handily won nomination for a third term Willi 96 percent of the vote in rancher Mary Mead received 67 percent of the Vole to 33 percent for 12-year state rep. Nyla Murphy. Referring to 16 years of democratic Mead 55, had stressed her skills As a rancher and businesswoman and attacked the governors economic development efforts. Mead a father. Cliff Hansen served from 1963 to 1967 before moving on to the . Senate. Sullivan easily won nomination for a second term receiving 88 percent of the vote against Mechanic Ron a a suds Gin Man. Clingman had called for lowering the drink Psonis financial resources. A a it a very Gratifying Quot Simpson said of his Victory. A but you work hard and the people watch you and they want to know How bad you want it. I Hope i disclosed to them i am ready to work for  rep Craig Thomas had no opposition in the primary. Elected last year to fill the unexpired term of Dick Cheney who was made defense Secretary Thomas is seeking his first full term in the House. Her Tinh a Quot in a amp also unopposed was his democratic the governor said he would have preferred suffer Competition. During the primary Campaign he largely ignored the race. Simpson the Senate minority whip was nominated with 84 percent of the vote and ran against Little known Democrat Kathy Helling a 32-year-Otd College student. Helling who received 34 percent of the vote in a six Way democratic race said a Strong grass roots Campaign and a feel Good substance linked to alcohol identified West Lafayette ind. Are Purdue University researchers say they have identified the Section of a hormone that makes the body feel Good after drinking a step toward a drug to fight alcoholism. Graduate student Suchitra a. Krishnan studied rats that were placed under stress and then allowed to drink alcohol. Under both conditions they produced Adreno coi Tico trophic hormone or act. We ill Ink a fragment of the hormone is responsible Lor making the rats want to drink alcohol after the stress is relieved even if they were Low or non drinkers before a Krishnan said. A apparently they learn to drink to reproduce the Good  Krishnan presented her findings tuesday at the 21st Congress of the International society of psycho Neu to endocrinology in Buffalo . Krishnan and pharmacology professor Roger p Marckel said that if a drug containing the same amino  in in. .1 a a m a a contai.mn8 a tue same amino ads As the feel Good Section of act were Siven to alcoholics it might satisfy their Des alcohols Many bad Side effects. A sire to drink without in the study Krishnan gauged the rats alcohol consumption by letting them drink from either of two bottles of sweetened water one containing 10 percent alcohol. Then the rats were divided into two group of Low moderate and heavy alcohol Consumers. Krishnan caused stress among one group by closely confining them for various periods or s Ute a during the a on mement the animals each drank Ako Lioi than my had before being stressed. After the stress ended they generally drank two to three times More alcohol than before. A second group of rats was not stressed but Wasja a piece of the act molecule called i j r several Days. Most drank no alcohol during that time but several Days after the injections stopped they began drinking at twice to three times the rate they had before. The acth4-i0 acts like a Reward mechanism to the rats Krishnan said. A for the most part they did no to wan 0 drink alcohol at All during the injections because they were already Gering a substantial dose of the  o air Mai excl now Hope to determine How 1 Lee Good Section of the hormone affects euro la Nucal activity in the brain