European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 16, 1991the stars and stripes Page 3dizzy schedule greets 4 astronauts Edwards fab Calif. A four  s seven astronauts will spend a dizzy week spinning in a rotating chair peddling exercise bikes and zooming sideways on a sled now that their shuttle is Back on Earth through the pos flight research scientists Hope to learn More about the effects of Zero Gravity during Long space flights. A if we As a nation decide to continue to put people in space and Send them to planets we need to understand what weightlessness does to them a a said project scientist Mel Buderer. The research required Nasa to kill half the shuttles 29 rats and Many of its 2,478 jellyfish after fridays Landing at this Mojave desert military base said National aeronautics and space administration spokeswoman Jane Hutchison. A they can provide information we can to obtain from humans a a she said. Jellyfish organs that control their movement Are similar to parts of the human inner car that control balance. The astronauts and orbiter appeared in Good condition after a a great Mission a a said space shuttle program director Robert Crippen. A machines done to Fly any but Ter than that a a he said of the shuttle. Although there had been some concern that a broken Seal might prevent the shuttles cargo Bay doors from closely tightly for re entry no problems developed. Failure of the doors to close tightly could have caused the shuttle to Burn up during re entry. Shuttle commander Bryan of Connor Pilot Sid Gutierrez and Mission specialist Tamara Jernigan flew Home to Houston six hours after Columbia ended its nine Day 3.8 million mile journey. A a it a Good to be horned Jernigan told a Small crowd gathered in Houston for the trios return. Astronaut physicians James Bagian f. Andrew Gaffney and m. Rhea Seddon and astronaut cell biologist Millie Hughes fut Ford remained behind for the additional tests. They wont leave until late this week. The four astronauts will undergo blood lung heart and other tests at the Baseline data collection facility a Nasa Lingo for a warehouse divided into Small rooms containing various equipment. Earlier samples of the astronauts blood urine and saliva were in Fine condition despite troubles with refrigerator freezers on the shuttle Crippen said. Besides the rotating chair exercise bicycles and sideways accelerating sled the four astronauts remaining in California will endure a a rail test to see if they can walk on a narrow rail a said Ron White nasal a program scientist for the Mission. Nasal a chamber of nausea inducing rides includes what White called a the rotating  the dome is placed Over an astronauts head and then spins while the Mission specialist Tamara Jernigan Pilot Sid Gutierrez and commander Bryan of Connor wave to Well wishers at Edwards fab. The three flew to Houston on saturday while the other astronauts remained to undergo More testing. Astronaut tries to watch coloured dots inside the device. A it tickles your visual system by making a person feel he or she is spinning White said. A related device will measure How an astronauts neck Muscles tense in resisting the perceived motion he said. As for the rats that travelled into space Hutchison said 15 were killed and preserved a few hours after Columbia landed. Nasa announced their demise with a statement a Post flight procedures on these rats have been completed.�?�. Blood was drawn from the other 14 rodents which were to receive radioactive injections for studies of How their blood and Bones readjust to Gravity Hutchison said. Those rats will be killed nine Days after the Landing she said. T he astronauts killed and preserved some jellyfish in orbit others were killed after Landing. Some will be allowed to live and develop.  being shipped to jellyfish researcher Dorothy Stangenberg s Laboratory at Eastern Virginia medical school. The shuttle itself is to be mounted atop a. Jumbo Jet for a two Day ride to Cape canaveral fla., that begins thursday. Letters sought from Gulf War for new Book Washington a the Post office is looking for a few Good letters. The . Postal service announced Friday that it wants to publish a collection of correspondence from the persian Gulf War and asked americans to submit photocopies of cards and letters. A americans rediscovered the Art of letter writing. We want to capture and share the emotions and feelings of our country at War a said postmaster general Anthony Frank. A the letters of desert storm will include letters Between american forces and their families As Well As a selection of letters from troops in wars Back to the civil Var. Anyone with a letter to share should Send a copy along with his or her name address and phone number to letters of desert storm . Postal service 475 la infant Plaza sw., Washington d.c., 20266-1991. If a letter is selected for publication the person who sent it in will be contacted for permission before the Book is issued. . College May open in Bulgaria Orono Maine apr the University of Maine is planning to open what it says will be the first . College in Eastern Europe this fall in a City in southwestern Bulgaria a University spokesman said. If the final details can be worked out the 200-student Liberal arts College would be funded by the . And bulgarian governments and private foundations. It would be located in the City of Blagoe Grad. A not All of the pieces of this Puzzle Are put together yet a said Kent Price assistant to University of Maine system Chancellor Robert l. Woodbury. A a it son track but its always possible that things can go awry. A we Are told by the . Information Agency that it will be the first . Educational institution in Eastern Europe a Price said Friday. A other institutions have Exchange programs and things like that. But they re not separate free standing  the College will be called the american University in Bulgaria and will be modelled after the american universities in Cairo Egypt and Beirut Lebanon University of Maine officials said. The University of Maine systems Board of trustees is scheduled to consider the plan at its meeting Friday. Price said final details on funding remain to be worked out but plans Call for the College to have a budget of $2 million for the first year. Funds would be provided by the bulgarian government the . Information Agency the . Agency for internat Ort Al development and the open society fund in Sofia the bulgarian capital. The open society fund was founded by a hungarian born . Business executive to encourage projects fostering capitalism and Freedom of inquiry. Bulgarian officials asked the University of Maine to help develop the project last november. The University had ties to the country because it was one of the first . Schools to admit bulgarian students in the late 1980s, said James Sherburne the University a director of International programs. Blagoe Grad a City of 75,000, donated buildings for the College. Officials said they include the former local communist party Headquarters and a three Story Hunting Lodge built for Todor Zsivkov the hard line communist party ruler toppled in 1989. 6,000 new americans take oath in . By the new York times new York a in the largest naturalization ceremony in new York City since 1954, More than 6.000 people from 100 different countries crammed a auditorium Friday and pledged allegiance to the United states. The pipes and Drums of the new York City police department Emerald society band brought roars of approval from the crowd. And when the keynote Singer did not arrive to sing the National Anthem half a dozen immigration lawyers improvised a. Chorus and asked the 6.050 new Ameri can citizens to sing along. The hour Long swearing in ceremony was the largest since 1954 when 9,000 new americans were sworn in at the Polo grounds in upper Manhattan. The crowd Friday was a result of immigration housekeeping. In one fell swoop the immigration and naturalization service cleaned up a backlog caused by the increasing numbers of qualified applicants in the Eastern District of new York which encompasses the new York City boroughs of Brooklyn Queens and Staten Island As Well As the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk. A we figured 9,000 would wipe out our backlog but we  find a place to do 9,000,�?� said Charles t Roy a spokesman for the ins. Officials did not want to risk inclement weather by having the ceremony outside. A the largest auditorium they could find held 6,000 people and was at St. John s University in Hillcrest Queens. Such ceremonies Are not uncommon in other parts of the country. Joe Flanders information officer of the Western regional offices of the ins said a we average ceremonies with 7,000 to 8,000 people two or three times a  ,