European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 15,1991 getting ready for Mars Harris m. A a buds Schurmeier sex Assoc Forte director of nasal a Jet propulsion lab photographs a soviet Mars Rover during testing of the prototype in Siberia. . Scientists met with their soviet counterparts to study the robot. A similar one will be tested in californians Mojave desert next Spring. Soviet engineers say they have enough Money to proceed with plans to Send the Battery powered Rover to Mars in 1996. Astronauts prepare release of environmental satellite Cape canaveral Fla. Apr discovery a astronauts worked until Dawn saturday getting ready for the missions big event the late night release of the largest environmental research satellite Ever carried into space. No spacewalk was planned but James Buchli and Charles a a same Gemar prepared their spacesuits and space walking tools just in Case they had to go out into the cargo Bay to make any repairs to the satellite. A slight leak was detected in Gemara a oxygen tank but was within allowable limits Nasa said. Mark Brown planned to grapple the 14,500-Pound satellite with discovery a mechanical  saturday evening. Release was scheduled for just before Midnight Edt on the shuttles 34th orbit. Discovery is scheduled to return to Kennedy space Center at 2 09 . Edt wednesday. The Landing time like liftoff is dictated by the precisely timed release of the satellite and requires the astronauts to drastically shift their waking hours. Discovery blasted off thursday evening with the upper atmosphere research satellite a $740 million project to study Earth a deteriorating Ozone layer and other stratospheric features. The five astronauts spent most of Friday night and saturday morning preparing for the Observatory release and went to sleep a Little earlier than usual. A a it a been a Long Day. Everybody a pretty tired a commander John Creighton told Mission control As the Sun Rose Over Florida a coast. A Well be looking Forward to later and doing what we came up Here to  Creighton steered discovery into a 354-mile-High orbit Friday three Miles higher than planned and one of the highest orbits Ever flown by a shuttle. Those extra three Miles will add at least eight months to the lifetime of the Observatory Mission Nasa flight director a1 Pennington said. That a because on Board thrusters will need less fuel to shove the satellite to its ultimate destination 372 Miles above Earth. The Mission is to last at least iv2 years. Nasa left As much equipment As possible off discovery including a spare spacesuit to lighten the Load for the climb to the High orbit. A granted it would be better to have one extra spacesuit but its More important to the scientific Community to get to an adequately High orbit Gemar said in a pre flight interview. A a it a risk versus risk. That a what this whole program is about a Gemar said. Project scientists want a High Altitude and inclination a the Angle of the orbit to the Equator a so the Observatory can Fly Over virtually the entire Globe. Satellite sensors will be Able to peer to within 700 Miles of the South pole where Ozone density has been reduced by half. . To borrow european satellite by the Washington Post Washington a with the Lone . Weather satellite growing old and the next generation of weather satellites so bungled they will be not be launched for years the United states has announced it will borrow at least one and possibly several european satellites. The european Meteosat-3 will be moved 48 degrees to the West from its present position to provide crucial coverage of the United states. Meteosat-4 also could be moved if Meteosat-3 fails before the United states launches its own. The agreement announced Friday was made Between the National oceanic and atmospheric administration and its european counterparts the european space Agency and european meteorological satellite consortium. A loss of satellite coverage which is a distinct possibility As the aging goes-7 satellite now aloft reaches the end of its scheduled lifetime Early next year is considered by weather experts to be a National emergency. The United states will build a $10 million facility at Wallops Island va., to track and communicate in me-Teosat-3�?Ts language. In the mid-1980s, the United states Lent a satellite to the europeans when one of theirs was in trouble. Noaa officials who oversee the National weather service have been negotiating with the europeans since they Learned in june that the next generation of weather satellites known As goes next were built with faulty wiring and flawed detectors. The first goes next satellite was to be launched in 1989, but Noaa officials said Friday that it probably will not be aloft until late 1993 or Early 1994.dead sea Birds Wash up near Aleutian islands port from wire reports Anchorage Alaska a thousands of dead sea Birds washed ashore near an Aleutian islands port after Birds flopped wildly on the water and slammed into fishing boats officials said. The cause of the deaths Wasny to known. Some of the dead Birds were sent to a Federal Laboratory for analysis. Bright lights on crab boats May have disoriented huge flocks of Birds and caused them to hurl themselves against boats a state biologist said Friday. A a it a a pretty common occurrence for Birds to Fly into the crab lights at nighttime but this is the largest Quantity in be Ever heard of a Ken Griffin  kills self at court Washington a a Man died near a rear door to the . Supreme court Early Friday after apparently setting himself on fire with gasoline officials said. The Many a identity was not immediately released. Inside a Backpack was identification for a 22-year-old Man from Albuquerque ., a list of relatives and a note indicating that the Man was taking his own life because he was unhappy with world affairs said Toni House spokeswoman for the supreme court. She said there was nothing in the Backpack to suggest Why the Man went to the supreme court  sentenced to life Racine wis. A a Man convicted of killing and dismembering a Young environmentalist who knocked on his door soliciting donations was sentenced Friday to life in prison. Racine county circuit judge Gerald Ptacek ruled Joachim dressier 43, would never be eligible for parole for the murder of James Madden 24. Madden disappeared in june 1990 while soliciting donations for citizens for a better environment in Dressler a neighbourhood. Madden a dismembered body was found in plastic garbage bags along Rural roads Over As period of two weeks in july 1990.baby found in dumpster Denver a a Man searching in a trash dumpster for aluminium cans found a Newborn baby wrapped in plastic bags police said. The baby girl was taken to a Hospital and was reported in Good condition Friday a nursing supervisor said. Police said they arrested a 22-year-old woman for investigation of child abuse. Detective John Wyckoff said the baby girl was found thursday afternoon inside two plastic bags which were inside a grocery store paper sack. Wyckoff said an envelope was found in the sack which led officers to an apartment where Gabriella Garcia Chavez was found. Doctors said she had recently Given  contract plague Santa be  A a husband and wife Are infected with bubonic plague bringing to three the number of reported cases in new Mexico this year the state health department said Friday. The couple live in san Miguel county in northeastern new Mexico where a 5-year-old girl was confirmed earlier in the week As the states first bubonic plague victim in two years said state epidemiologist or. C. Mack Sewell. The disease is ordinarily transmitted by fleas found on mice Prairie dogs and squirrels. The couple admitted to a Hospital Are in their 50s and live near a Campground. The woman was in fair condition Friday and her husband was in poor but stable condition. The girl is recovering officials said. Nationwide at least three other cases have been confirmed this year. The disease is treatable with antibiotics. Epidemics of the plague have occurred throughout history with the Best known being the Black death that swept Europe in the 14th Century killing millions