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Compared with earlier spaceflights, the shuttle's journey will be a luxury cruise. Columbia's interior is pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young...
...defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy a 45,000-man army, a 4,000-man navy and a 17,000-man air force...
...thrust reversers and side-force generators, to practice tricky touchdowns. They pilot a jet trainer adjusted to drop with a sudden lurch. The two pilots have also flown mission after mission in a simulator so realistic that three-dimensional views of space and the earth are flashed in the cockpit windows. While testing the pilots, the planners make sure what ever can go wrong does go wrong...
...Airlines and asked officials if one of their big birds could wing the little fellow south. The airline, which advertises itself as "ready when you are," readied a small shipping box for the robin. The boxed bird caught a flight from Portland to Fort Myers, Fla., riding in the cockpit with the pilot. Once in Florida, the robin was greeted by members of the Fort Myers Nature Center, who made sure that it was healthy enough to be set free. "We've done this before," shrugs Delta Spokesman Bill Berry. "Once it was a pelican with a sore neck...
Angered by the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of a two-person crew for one new craft, the 155-passenger DC-9 Super 80, A.L.P.A. pilots last week picketed the White House to show their frustration with the agency and its handling of the cockpit-manning question. Left to its own devices, the FAA would almost certainly give the green light to two-member crews for the forthcoming Boeing 767 and 757 airliners, which will each seat about 200 passengers. But for now, longer-range jumbo jets like the 747 or the DC-10, which accommodate...