Vol. 35, No. 1

Spaceport NewsJohn F. Kennedy Space Center

Mission update

America's gateway to the universe. Leading the world in preparing and launching missions to planet Earth and beyond.

January 19, 1996

Challenger anniversary events look toward the future(See LAUNCH, Page 6)

(See ANNIVERSARY, Page 6)

STS-72 provides bright start to new yearManagers commend teamfor professionalism despiterecord federal furlough

KSC officials expressed pridein the commitment shown by thework force that resulted in theflawless launch of STS-72 Jan.11.

"The professionalism of theKSC team is highlighted by acontinuing commitment to ex-cellence,” said Center DirectorJay Honeycutt. Despite unre-solved budget issues, “our teamdoes not compromise when itcomes to getting the job done.”

The 4:41 a.m. launch was de-layed 23 minutes due to commu-nications problems; however,the liftoff from Pad 39B waswithout any serious technicalglitches.

Launch Director JimHarrington said he had full con-fidence in the KSC team as thecount toward liftoff progressed.

“With the test team being theprofessionals that they are,there wasn’t any doubt in mymind that we were ready to gointo the count,” he said.

THE SPACE SHUTTLE Endeavour lights up the night as it thunders aloft from LaunchPad 39B at 4:41 a.m. Jan. 11, kicking off the 1996 Shuttle launch schedule. Duringtheir nine-day mission crew members will retrieve the Japanese Space Flyer Unit anddeploy and later retrieve the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology Flyer (OAST-Flyer). At press time landing was scheduled for Jan. 20 at 3:17 a.m. at KSC.

Mission: Delta II-XTE

Launch date, time: 8:48 a.m.,Dec. 30, 1995, from LaunchComplex 17, Pad A, CapeCanaveral Air Station.

Mission synopsis: The XTEspacecraft is outfitted with threescientific instruments that willstudy X-rays, including their originand emission mechanisms, andthe physical conditions andevolution of X-ray sources withinthe Milky Way galaxy and beyond.The Delta II 7920 expendablelaunch vehicle is provided byMcDonnell Douglas.

best honor the memory of theChallenger astronauts andother astronauts who have losttheir lives in advancinghumankind’s quest to usespace,” KSC Center Director JayHoneycutt said. “I don’t thinkthere has ever been a more com-mitted and hard-working groupof people anywhere. The nationcan be proud of them.”

An observance for KennedySpace Center employees will beheld on Monday, Jan. 29, theday following the actual anni-versary date. At 11:30 a.m.

NASA and contractor employeeswill be excused from their workstations to step outside for a mo-ment of silence. At 11:38 a.m.,(the time of the Challengerlaunch), a “missing man” forma-tion of T-38 jets flown by mem-bers of the astronaut corps willfly over the space center fol-lowed by the dropping of awreath at sea by helicopter. AtJohnson Space Center a similarobservance will be held at thesame time.Landing date, time: March 7,

7:38 a.m. at Kennedy SpaceCenter's Shuttle Landing Facility.

Mission: STS-75 onColumbia.

Launch date, time: Feb. 22,3:08 p.m. from Launch Pad39B.

Synopsis: The seven-member international STS-75 crew will conductscientific investigations withboth the Tethered SatelliteSystem-1R (TSS-1R) andUnited States MicrogravityPayload-3 (USMP-3)primary payloads during the75th Space Shuttle mission.

The NASA Kennedy SpaceCenter and community organi-zations associated with thespace program will commemo-rate the 10th anniversary of theChallenger accident on Sunday,Jan. 28 and Monday, Jan. 29.Planned events will emphasizethe future and acknowledge theextraordinary efforts of the con-tractor and civil service teamwhich has safely launched 49shuttle missions since that time.

“It is the day-to-day work andcare by the men and women ofNASA and its contractors who

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I-NET Inc. employee Jerry Davis is presented with the Key Control Custodian ofthe Year Award for 1995 by NASA Installation Security Officer Cal Burch. Davishas served as a key custodian since June of 1991 and is responsible for trackingapproximately 1,105 keys from 40 different series. She also takes care of keyissues and returns for 206 I-NET employees. She is known for exceptionalreliability, accuracy and efficiency in her dealings with the KSC Locksmith ServicesOffice. The Key Control Custodian award was established to provide formalrecognition to deserving key control custodians who stand out among their peers.

Key custodian honored

and repair components for theShuttle orbiters. As a result,costs will be significantly cut.

Leaders of the team receivedthe award during a dinner Dec.10 at the Cocoa Beach HolidayInn.

The Chairman’s Team Awardwas initiated in 1991 to honoroutstanding team achievementsfrom each of Rockwell’s corebusinesses. The presentationmarks the first time Rockwellemployees in Cape Canaveralhave won the award.

“It’s a big honor and we arevery proud,” said Lee Solid, vicepresident and general managerof Rockwell’s Florida Opera-tions.

Rockwell’s Chairman’s TeamAward, the highest recognitionwithin the company for accom-plishments by an employeeteam, has been presented to agroup of Rockwell employees inBrevard County whose continu-ous improvement efforts willsave the Shuttle program anestimated $3.5 million over thenext three years.

The 150-member team imple-mented a series of computerapplications and new businessprocesses called AWCS (Auto-mated Work Control System),which is being used atRockwell’s Space Systems Divi-sion in Cape Canaveral to re-duce the time it takes to process

Shuttle work wins highest Rockwell honor

ROCKWELL EMPLOYEES accepting that company's Chairman's Team Award include,front row from left, Donald Beall, Dennis Connelly, Thomas Blomster, Paul Shashaguayand Ronald Hively. Back row, from left, are Jennifer Arrington, Mark Hahn, MarianneRigolini and John Morefield.

THE KSC CLEANING Facility, operated by the Wiltech Corp., is implementingenvironmentally sound cleaning utilizing aqueous (water-based) methods developedin conjunction with the NASA Material Science Laboratories. The label above will appearon all hardware processed at the KSC Cleaning Facility utilizing aqueous methods. Itdepicts the Earth being cradled by an outstretched human hand, symbolizing the concernthat humans have for the environment. Water, nature's own cleansing medium, issymbolized by the acronym WIN, Water Is Natural, found in the shadowed backgroundof the statement "Environmentally Sound Cleaning." By the end of 1997, more than 80percent of KSC cleaning production is expected to be processed aqueously.

One small step . . .

THE SATURN V launch vehicle currently on display in front of the Vehicle AssemblyBuilding (VAB) is being prepared for its move this spring to the new Apollo/Saturn Vfacility under construction near the Banana Creek viewing site. The first stage of thevehicle was moved back 12 feet last week in order to make room for a temporary tent tobe erected over the other stages. Once the tent is in place, the vehicle will be power-washed in preparation for its final move which is scheduled to take place in April.

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knowledge.CM-3 -- Interpersonal skills: Leader-

ship, employer/employee relationships,motivation, interpersonal relationshipsand group dynamics.

The examination covers 45 specificmanagement competencies including eth-ics, time management, leadership, em-ployee relations, motivation, control de-cision making, and communications.

Although the preparatory course wasscheduled to begin this week, arrange-ments could be made to enable anyonestarting the course late to catch up. Theclass will be held in the Space StationProcessing Facility, Room 2094, and willcost $40 for members of the McDonnellDouglas Management Association and$45 for non-members. For further infor-mation on the preparatory course, call867-5663.

Kennedy Space Center employees cantake advantage of a course designed toprepare candidates for the examinationleading to the certified manager certifi-cation.

The course is being offered by theMcDonnell Douglas Management Asso-ciation and will be taught by CertifiedManagers Wendell Wilkins, CharleySmith, and Denise DeVito.

The certified manager (CM) is a cre-dential for managers based on an exami-nation program, similar to the certifiedpublic accountant (CPA) designation inaccounting or the professional engineer(PE) in engineering. The CM designationsets minimum professional standardsbased on education, experience and com-petency. To qualify to sit for the exam,individuals must have a combination ofmanagement experience and education.

An eligibility worksheet included in the In-stitute of Professional Managers (ICPM) ap-plication package will help potential appli-cants determine whether they meet crite-ria for testing. For those who meet only oneof the two criteria of education and experi-ence and pass the certification examination,there is the associate certified manager des-ignation. When all of the criteria are met,the associate CM designation is upgradedto certified manager.

The six-hour test is divided into threeparts. Applicants can take one, two or allthree parts at a time. Each part covers abasic area in management:

CM-1 -- Personal skills: Professionalism,personal organization, self development andthe managerial personality.

CM-2 -- Administrative skills: Planningobjectives, scheduling, implementing theplan, control process and administrative

Certified manager preparatory classes offered at KSC

DICK BEAGLEY, USBI director of Safety , Reliability andQuality Assurance, and Catherine Clayton, USBI'ssupervisor of Lab Operations and Test, accepted the 1995Stratospheric Protection Award for USBI.

USBI Co., a subsidiary of United Tech-nologies Corporation and part of Pratt &Whitney Propulsion Operations, has beenawarded the 1995 Stratospheric Ozone Pro-tection Award by the United States Envi-ronmental Protection Agency.

USBI was presented with the award forwork performed on replacing the chemical1,1,1-Trichloroethane (methyl chloroform)as a hand-wipe solvent, previously used onmore than 2,000 processes performed byUSBI on the Space Shuttle’s solid rocketboosters (SRBs).

This effort began in 1991 when USBI wasissued a directive to assess the impact ofenvironmental regulations on the materi-als and processes used on the Shuttle’sSRBs.

“Searching and testing for replacementmaterials that met all manned space flightspecifications was not an easy task,” saidRichard Beagley, USBI director of Safety,Reliability and Quality Assurance.

“Initial assessment indicated one of thematerials and processes which would be sig-nificantly impacted by concern for the ozonelayer was hand-wipe cleaning, a manualcontamination removal procedure.”

Hand-wipe cleaning accounted for ap-proximately 27 percent of the total VolatileOrganic Compounds (VOCs) and Hazard-ous Air Pollutants (HAPs) emission atUSBI’s KSC production site.

USBI receives majorozone protection award

Catherine Clayton, supervisor of USBILab Operations and Test, conducted thou-sands of tests involving contaminates andcleaners, finally identifying two aqueousand two low volatile cleaners as substituteswhich do not contain any listed hazardousmaterials or ozone depleters.

“Their use will result in a decrease ofhazardous waste from solvent contaminatedwipes by 3,000 pounds a year,” she said. “Inaddition, these cleaners reduce the poten-tial exposure to employees and lessens thegeneration of air pollutants by 6,000 poundsa year.”

KSC sharing safetymethods with Japan

Kennedy Space Center is helpingshape the Japanese space agency’ssafety program. NASA safety engineersrecently answered questions from theNational Space Development Agency ofJapan (NASDA) regarding the Shuttle’ssolid rocket motors (SRM) and the SRMretrieval methods.

Though the two space agencies havebeen sharing information sinceNASDA’s inception in 1969, NASDA’sdirect application of KSC’s safety pro-cedures is especially flattering, KSCsafety officials said. “We have an ongo-ing relationship with their safety engi-neers — a mutual sharing of informa-tion,” said KSC’s Safety and Reliabil-ity Director Joel Reynolds.

NASDA safety engineers have vis-ited KSC several times beginning in1992 when they observed the first Japa-nese astronaut on the Spacelab-J mis-sion and compared notes on launch andground operations safety. More re-cently, NASDA Senior Safety EngineerYukio Hyodo, Associate Senior Engi-neer Ryuichi Asano, and Nissan’s Gen-eral Manager of Research and Devel-opment programs, Katsuaki Kosakavisited Nov. 8. “The most significantpart of their visit was a three-hourquestion and answer session betweenboth agencies,” said Bruce Jansen,KSC’s deputy director of Safety.

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red reflector and lamp on therear exhibiting a red lightvisible from 600 feet to therear.

* A bicyclist who is nottraveling at the same speed ofother traffic must ride as closeas practicable to the right-handcurb or edge of the roadway.

* A bicyclist operating on aone-way street with two ormore traffic lanes may ride asclose to the left-hand edge ofthe roadway as practicable.

* Non-moving violations,such as failure to use requiredlighting equipment when ridingat night and failure to haveworking brakes can result in afine of $30. Moving violationssuch as running a stop sign orriding against traffic can lead toa fine of $50.

* Nearly 60 percent of alladult fatal bicycle accidents in

* In Florida the bicycle islegally defined as a vehicle.Bicyclists have the samerights to the roadways andmust obey the same trafficlaws as the operators ofother vehicles. These lawsinclude: stopping for stopsigns and red lights; ridingwith the flow of traffic; usinglights at night; and yieldingthe right-of-way whenentering a roadway.

* A bicyclist riding onsidewalks or crosswalksmust yield the right-of-way topedestrians and must givean audible signal beforepassing.

* A bicycle operatedbetween sunset and sunrisemust be equipped with alamp on the front exhibiting awhite light visible from 500feet to the front and both a

Florida occur during twilightand night hours although lessthan 3 percent of bicycle usetakes place during that time.Roadways with motor vehiclespeeds above 40 miles perhour pose extreme risk atnight. And red reflectors onthe rear of a bicycle caneasily be mistaken forreflectors on roadside mailboxes so those who must rideat night are encouraged touse additional lighting orreflectors.

* Nearly 75 percent of allbicycle-related deaths resultfrom head injuries. Bicyclistsare strongly advised to wearhelmets.

* Bicyclists are alsostrongly advised to wear apennant-shaped flag or vestmade of “dayglow” orangematerial.

Facts, figures and laws for bicyclists in Florida

Increased bicycle use on center prompts safety concerns

The Federally EmployedWomen’s 17th annual trainingprogram will be held on Wednes-day, Jan. 24, and Thursday, Jan.25, at the Howard JohnsonPlaza Hotel in Cocoa Beach. Thetheme is titled “Creating NewHorizons,” and the program willbe held on both days with exhib-its from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. inthe Discovery Ballroom.

Registration will be held from7 a.m. to 8 a.m. in the lobby ofthe hotel.

The opening session will be-gin with a welcome by thegroup’s president and seminarchair, followed by a keynotespeaker. The morning sessionwill be held from 9:15 a.m. until11:15 a.m., with selection of firstand second choices. There willbe one afternoon session heldfrom 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Fee for the two-day event is$59. For more information, con-tact Delores Green at 867-2005.

Program plannedfor federal women

BICYCLES provide a convenient way for Brook Smith ofLockheed Martin Space Operations to get around thecenter. He is shown with John Blue, also of LockheedMartin, and Blue's son, Matthew, who was visiting forTake Our Sons to Work Day last summer.

forts to register and tag them all to ensurethat they are fully equipped for safety.

One of the principal concerns during thedark winter hours is ensuring that the bikes

are properly illuminated. Florida state law requires that bicycles

be equipped with red back reflectors, awhite front light which can be seen from500 feet and a red back light which can beseen from 600 feet.

The KSC Protective Services Office hasreceived several reports from motor vehicledrivers of close calls resulting from not see-ing bicyclists.

People using bicycles owned by NASAor EG&G can obtain service for the vehicles,including installation of proper reflectivegear, through the bicycle maintenance con-tract managed by Prince-Osborne.

Anyone who acquires a bicycle for use oncenter should contact Prince-Osborne so thevehicle can be inspected and registered.

Occasionally there are bicycles availablethat have been excessed so it’s also recom-mended that people check with the NASA/BOC maintenance office before purchasinga bike.

Prince-Osborne said she would ulti-mately like to see a loan pool set up so bikescan be shared.

For more information on bicycles on cen-ter or to make an appointment for registra-tion or maintenance, contact Prince-Osborne at 867-3939.

Efforts are now underwayto encourage registration

Budget cutbacks have contributed to newlife for an old form of transportation atKennedy Space Center -- the bicycle. As de-partments have been forced to give up offi-cial cars, increasing numbers of employeesare turning to bicycles for treks across cen-ter.

The responsibility of managing andmaintaining the two-wheeled vehicles forNASA and the Base Operations Contractorfalls to EG&G employee Colleen Prince-Osborne. Lockheed Martin Space Opera-tions Company, USBI and McDonnell Dou-glas Space and Defense Systems also pro-vide bicycle maintenance services for theiremployees.

Prince-Osborne said bicycles have beenused at KSC since the center first opened.

“When the center started we didn’t havemany company cars,” she said.

The use of bicycles escalated in the 1970sduring the energy crisis and continued aspeople became more health conscious in the1980s.

Now there are hundreds of bicycles oncenter and Prince-Osborne is beginning ef-

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STS-74 SPACE FLIGHT AWARENESS honorees enjoy a reception at the CanaveralPort Authority. On the right, Nora Ross of the Shuttle Operations Directorate poseswith astronaut Ken Cockrell. On the left is Ross's daughter, Susan Coumes.

Florida Inc.; Anita H. Rudolph,Sherikon Space Systems Inc.;Craig Downey, I-NET Inc.; andBrian M. Bauerlin, Deborah S.Gast, Kristen M. Goodin andKevin R. Jackson, McDonnellDouglas Space and Defense Sys-tems-KSC.

Also, Carlos G. Alfaro,Rockwell Aerospace, Rocket-dyne; Alix T. Peck and MarionW. Sees, Rockwell Aerospace,Space Systems Division; NancyA. Clesas, Hamilton StandardSpace Systems InternationalInc.; Rolando O. Dadacay, Hi-Temp Insulation Inc.; Scott M.Goodwin, Craftsmen ElectricalServices Inc.; Richard A.Haverlock, Suncoast Heat TreatInc.; Richard G. Miron, WangFederal Inc.; Michael J. Lascha,Boeing Information Systems;Mark A. Tyson, Wiltech Corp.;and Robert S. Church, MaynardT. Ferguson and Delmar C. Fos-ter, United Technologies, USBICo.

Lockheed Martin Space Op-erations employees honoredwere Robert C. Emerson Jr.,Linda J. Ferris, Gerald J.Fitzgerald Jr., Charles H.Fricker, Donald A. Hoppe,Willard M. Lewis, John A.Mullen, Jeffrey T. Noble, DavidL. Owens, Thomas L. Reid,James C. Schick, Rick A.Serfozo, Richard P. Welty and

USBI employee Dan Denaburg ispresented with the prestigious SpaceFlight Awareness Flight Safety Award.

STS-74 from the Banana Creekviewing site the next morning.Honorees included civil serviceemployees Dean C. Orr, NancyG. Huddleston, Karen Iftikhar,Mark E. Terseck, Charles L.Davis, Kelly A. Gorman, RobertE. Saulnier, Thomas L. Cain IIIand Nora S. Ross, NASA; andWayne L. Trimmer, General Ser-vices Administration (GSA).

Contractor employees hon-ored included George A. Thomp-son, The Bionetics Corp.; JohnW. Hedrick, James T. Knudsen,Robert B. Lock, Robin R.Shaeffer, George B. StephensonJr. and Linda C. Warren, EG&G

The Space Flight Awarenessoffice closed out 1995 with a va-riety of activities recognizing theKennedy Space Center team forcontributions to successful mis-sions. Among the activities:

October 5: Astronaut SteveSmith presented the prestigiousSilver Snoopy Award toRockwell employee PhilAinsworth.

November 1: Three mem-bers of the STS-69 crew re-

turned to KSC to visit employ-ees as part of their post-flight ac-tivities. Crew members showedmission film to audiences at theTraining Auditorium and Or-biter Processing Facility Bay 1.The crew also visited with mem-bers of the STS-69 Payload TestTeam.

November 2: NASA Logis-tics Operations Director DickLyon presented a Space FlightAwareness Team Award to the19-member Lockheed MartinSpace Operations Co. Inte-grated Performance BasedTraining Task Team.

November 10-12: KSChosted the STS-74 Space FlightAwareness event. Approxi-mately 250 NASA-wide honor-ees, including 50 from KSC,along with their spouses/guestsparticipated in the activities.Highlights included attending areception at Port CanaveralCruise Terminal #10 along withastronauts and top NASA andindustry officials, viewing theIMAX movie “The Dream isAlive,” and a VIP tour ofKennedy Space Center. Guestswere treated to a social at KARSPark I and viewed the launch of

Space Flight Awareness closes out 1995 with flurry of activityCasey B. Wood.

During the reception, USBIemployee Dan Denaburg waspresented with the prestigiousSFA Flight Safety Award.

November 20: KSC honor-ees and guests watched the STS-74 landing at the Shuttle Land-ing Facility.

December 1: Astronaut JoeTanner presented the followingKSC employees with the SilverSnoopy award:

Scott Myers and LindaD’Amico of McDonnell DouglasSpace and Defense Systems,and George Klein, PeteRicksecker and John Garrett ofLockheed Martin Space Opera-tions Co.

December 4-5: The KSCSTS-74 honorees and theirspouses/guests traveled toHouston as part of the SpaceFlight Awareness activities. Thehonorees were given a two-daytour of the Johnson Space Cen-ter which included Mission Con-trol, the Weightless Environ-ment Training Facility, spacestation and Shuttle mockups,NASA aircraft at EllingtonField, and Space Center Hous-ton. The honorees also touredthe Boeing Flight EquipmentProcessing Contract Facilityand were given a briefing byAstronaut Hoot Gibson on theSTS-71 Mir docking mission.

December 5: The STS-73crew visited KSC. The crewmade a presentation andshowed the mission film in theTraining Auditorium. Crewmembers also visited the STS-74 Payload Test Team and em-ployees in the Orbiter Process-ing Facility Bay 2.

Space Shuttle statusavailable by phone

Kennedy Space Center em-ployees have access to the lat-est information on SpaceShuttle status via two tele-phone lines. Daily KSC statusreports can be obtained bycalling 867-2525. Shuttlescheduling information isavailable at 867-4636.

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Spaceport News The Spaceport News is an official publication of the Kennedy SpaceCenter and is published on alternate Fridays by the Public Affairs Officein the interest of KSC civil service and contractor employees. Contributions are welcome and should be submitted two weeks be-fore publication to the Media Services Branch, PA-MSB.

Managing editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa MaloneEditor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barb ComptonEditorial support provided by Sherikon Space Systems Inc. writers group.

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The launch followed the long-est federal shutdown in thecenter's history. As a result of animpasse over passage of the fed-eral budget, a majority of KSC-NASA employees were senthome Dec. 16 through Jan. 8.Out of 2,195 NASA employeesat KSC, 800 were authorized towork either full time or intermit-tently during that period, saidBeverly Merrilees, NASA per-sonnel officer.

A continuing resolutionpassed on Jan. 5, restored backpay to civil servants and fundeda return to work through Jan.26.

Loren Shriver, Space ShuttleProgram Launch Integrationmanager, said if the budgetary

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issues are not resolved by Jan.26 and NASA does not receiveseparate funding, decisions willhave to be made immediatelyabout which programs will re-ceive priority.

Congressional support for thespace program should result ina funding resolution before thatdate, Brevard CongressmanDave Weldon said after viewingthe launch at KSC.

Weldon said NASA is an "in-nocent victim" in the federalbudget battle and that KSC em-ployees hopefully will be pro-tected from further furloughs.

Weldon said NASA hasstrong backing in the House andSenate and will likely escapefurther wrangling over the bud-get, either through passage of abalanced budget or as part of afreestanding funding bill.

G. Porter Bridwell, directorof the NASA Marshall SpaceFlight Center, Huntsville, AL,has announced plans to retirefrom NASA by Feb. 3.

Bridwell, 60, has been direc-tor of the NASA center sinceJanuary of 1994.

"I've been out here for 38years, 34 of it with NASA," hetold his senior staff, "it's time togo."

"During his long career, Por-ter Bridwell has epitomized allthe best qualities of federal ser-vice," said NASA AdministratorDaniel S. Goldin. "And, asMarshall Director over the lasttwo years, he has paved the way

in restructuring the Center anddefining its new role for the fu-ture."

Bridwell started his careeras an aerospace industry engi-neer in 1958, joining NASA fouryears later.

He served as an engineeringmanager on the Saturn pro-gram, headed the developmentof the Space Shuttle ExternalTank, and managed all theSpace Shuttle main propulsionsystems while at Marshall.

Bridwell has received theNASA Exceptional ServiceMedal, the Outstanding Leader-ship Medal, and the ExceptionalAchievement Medal.

Marshall director Bridwell to retireThe actual anniversary date

of Jan. 28 will be marked by ob-servances planned by the Astro-nauts Memorial Foundation(AMF) and the City of Titusville.A ceremony at the Space Mirrormemorial at the KSC visitorcenter will start at 11:15 a.m.and be open to the general pub-lic and employees as well as in-vited guests. Speakers will in-clude: George R. Faenza, chair-man of the AMF board of direc-tors and general manager ofMcDonnell Douglas Space andDefense Systems at KSC; AlanHelman, founding chairman ofAMF; Bruce Jarvis, father ofChallenger Payload SpecialistGregory B. Jarvis; and AMFboard member Lee D. Solid, vicepresident and general managerof Florida Operations ofRockwell International.

Former astronaut Loren J.Shriver, who is presently launchintegration manager for theSpace Shuttle Program andchairs the NASA Mission Man-agement Team for all Shuttlelaunches, will be the keynotespeaker representing the astro-naut corps and the families ofthe honored astronauts.

The ceremony will concludewith 73 seconds of silence andthe placement of a wreath at thememorial by astronaut familymembers who are present. AMFerected the memorial on KSCproperty through revenues fromFlorida Challenger licenseplates and contributions by in-dividuals and corporations.Since then it has created a liv-ing memorial in the form of a“Center for Space Education” atthe KSC visitor center to houseNASA and AMF programs.

Childrens programs -- OnSaturday, Jan. 27, a program co-sponsored by the Young Astro-naut Program, NASA, AMF, andDelaware North Park Services,which operates the KSC visitorcenter, will reach out to childrenfrom kindergarten through the12th grade. The “Reach for theStars” program will begin at 10a.m. when KSC Deputy Direc-tor Gene Thomas and Apollo 13crew member Fred Haise will

welcome participants at theSpace Mirror memorial.

Among the activities, teamsof several separate age groupswill learn to engineer and buildstructures to protect raw eggswhich will be dropped more than20 feet from the top-level gan-try of the Space Shuttle Ex-plorer Children can registerthrough their school or contactthe EG&G Florida sponsor at867-1341 no later than Jan. 22.

Model rocket launches --Four launches are planned atthe top of the hour, 12 p.m. -3 p.m., representing Mercury,Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle.

Living in space -- On thehalf hour, from 10:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m., presentations will begiven on rocketry, the SpaceShuttle and various aspects ofliving in space in Room 4000(Exploration Station I), at TheCenter for Space Education.

Revisiting Apollo 13 -- FredHaise will show video footageand discuss his Apollo 13 mis-sion in the briefing room of TheCenter for Space Education, atscheduled times.

Displays -- Local students’space art will be on displaythroughout The Center forSpace Education. In the lobby,there will be an interactive dem-onstration of the launch andlanding of the Delta Clipper, thesingle stage-to-orbit launch ve-hicle being developed byMcDonnell Douglas. At thenorth end of the Rocket Garden,an M-113 Crew Rescue Vehicleand a Bearcat All-Terrain Ve-hicle will be on display. Studentgroups will also be involved inconstruction of a 10-foot-tallSpace Shuttle out of Lego pieces.

Titusville commemora-tion -- Each year the City ofTitusville has a ceremony at theAstronaut Memorial Plaza inSand Point Park. The event willbegin at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Jan.28, dedicated to both the 51-Lcrew and the Apollo 1 astro-nauts. Titusville Mayor TomMariani will open the 45-minuteservice, which will also involvelocal high school students plac-ing a carnation at eachastronaut’s plaque and an appleat Christa McCauliffe’s plaque.