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...three-flight shuttle veteran, gently juggled Challenger to within 200 ft. of Solar Max. George ("Pinky") Nelson, 33, an astronomer and high school athlete who was once offered a contract by the Minnesota Twins, then donned the $ 10 million manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the Buck Rogers-style jet backpack tested on last February's mission, to retrieve the crippled Max. His untethered ride seemed agonizingly slow. It took him 10 min. to traverse the 200 ft. from the open cargo bay across the reach of black vacuum. The short journey was historic: an unleashed spaceman going to work...
Wallet Lifted: A victim told police that her gold leather wallet containing $25 was taken from her backpack unattended on a shelf in a Byerly Hall room between 4:15 and 4:54 p.m. last Friday...
...wallet was reported taken from a backpack left near the coatroom in the Union at dinnertime last Friday. The victim told police the wallet contained $15 each, credit cards...
...addition, a victim told police her wallet was taken from a backpack in the coatroom area of Quincy House at dinnertime Friday. The wallet contained a Baybank card, I.D.'s and personal papers valued at $80, the victim told police...
...space walks, photographed by a handful of color TV cameras, including one perched on the MMU, began on the fifth day of Challenger's flight. Appropriately it was Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, 46, a Navy captain, who got first crack at the $15 million backpack. While waiting 18 years to make his first flight, he has been working closely with the MMU's designers to perfect the complex machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel...