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While most students use computers to play "dungeons" or to finish Nat Sci 110 projects, Winthrop House's Mike A. Halem '81 used them to help launch the space shuttle Columbia...
...Columbia, scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral this morning, uses five launch support systems that Halem helped Pan American World Airways, the Kennedy Space Center's contractor, develop...
...Halem said four of his systems that will play an integral role in Columbia's first 17 minutes of flight. One is a computer color graphic display inside the T-38 chase planes, vehicles used to photograph the lift-off and aid the shuttle's pilots in chase of emergency. The display will inform the chase pilots of the shuttle's location and transmit vector information to them in a situation that would require their intervention...
...Halem's color graphic terminals "is designed to play information from the shuttle in a format that is easiest for the ground controller to read," he said. If either the shuttle or the fuel tanks go astray and threaten to land in populated areas, "my display will light up and warn the controllers" who may then elect to destroy them, he added...
...Halem said a few of his systems will not be used because "some of them are only for emergencies." He added that the United States will "be careful about a mission of such national prestige...