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...Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and in Houston and Cape Kennedy, scientists and engineers held round-the-clock meetings and nation-spanning conference calls to discuss possible repair techniques. One proposal was to have an astronaut poke a giant umbrella-like device out of a hatch and open it above the bald spot...
...will maneuver their Apollo command ship within a few feet of the crippled space lab, circle it to inspect the damage, and transmit TV pictures down to earth. Then, after a respite, the astronauts will don their pressure suits and Kerwin will emerge part way from the command-module hatch. Using a pole with cutting shears at its far end (hastily being designed and built at Huntsville), he will try to trim away any debris around the root of the ripped-off solar wing or elsewhere. He will also attempt to swing out the intact wing...
Against the UMass stickmen today at 3 p.m., coach Bruce Munro is hoping that the spring heat wave that has incubated eight-man crew shells, red sox, and marathoners will somehow hatch his embryonic Harvard offense, which has averaged only four goals a game through six losses...
...manned space effort after an interruption of nearly two years. During the last manned mission, in June 1971, three cosmonauts lived in Salyut 1 for almost 24 days-longer than anyone had previously spent in space. But the three crewmen were killed on their way back to earth; the hatch of their Soyuz spacecraft leaked-perhaps jolted by the retrorocket firing prior to re-entry-resulting in a fatal loss of oxygen. Since then Soviet engineers have redesigned the hatch to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. As an added precaution, the cosmonauts will also wear their pressure suits...
...consultations eventually are supposed to hatch three main deals: 1) the fertilizer transaction; 2) development by the Soviets, with the help of U.S. technology and capital, of natural gas fields around Yakutsk in Siberia; and 3) construction by Americans of a hotel and trade center in Moscow. All three projects face high hurdles. The hotel-trade center deal is rather vague, but Hammer hopes to put together a U.S. consortium that would arrange all design, construction and financing and turn over completed buildings to the Soviets. The fertilizer transaction, by his estimate, would require an investment of $100 million...