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Airlines have been slow to go for radar. The sets are expensive and cut payload. But this week the Peruvian International Airways started the first regularly scheduled passenger service (between New York and Santiago, Chile) completely safeguarded by radar. P.I.A.'s radars (made by General Electric) weigh 150 lbs. in all, but show a clear map of the country below. The pilot knows where he is-and where the obstacles are-in all weathers...
...shuttle's second day aloft, while orbiting 185 miles above the Pacific, the crew set Insat-1B spinning outside the open doors of the shuttle's payload bay. The satellite spun near by in space for 45 minutes, then, reflecting the sun's rays like a giant shiny ice cube, it flawlessly began its week-long climb to an altitude of 22,300 miles, propelled by its own rocket boosters. "The deployment was on time, and the satellite looks good," reported Mission Specialist Guion S. Bluford Jr., an aerospace engineer and veteran Air Force pilot...
...mission specialist aboard ST58 who will launch the satellite from the shuttle's payload bay is Air Force Lieut. Colonel Guion (Guy) S. Bluford Jr., 40, America's first black astronaut, though not the first black in space. That distinction belongs to Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez of Cuba, who was sent aloft with Soviet cosmonauts in 1980. Other members of the crew: Navy Captain Richard Truly, the flight commander, flying his second shuttle mission; Navy Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, the Challenger's pilot; Navy Lieut. Commander Dale Gardner, who will help deploy the Indian satellite; and Physician William...
...mission's fifth day, the cherry-picker-like device will be used to play an intriguing game of extraterrestrial catch that could be crucial to the shuttle's future. The arm will hoist a specially designed payload out of the big cargo bay and toss it overboard; then, after the shuttle swoops around the temporary satellite for some nine hours, Ride and her unique arm will try to grapple it back on board. The experiment is a test of the shuttle's ability to retrieve and repair ailing satellites; at least one of those now in orbit...
...March or early April, two months behind schedule. The delays have already cost more than $3 million. And the tab could climb still higher. At week's end technicians found that a lashing rainstorm had left deposits of fine grit, possibly beach sand or salt crystals, inside the payload bay. This could mean an expensive, time-consuming cleanup...