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Shuttle astronauts successfully receive Air For^e signals CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After four days of trying, Discovery’s astronauts received laser signals Sunday that were beamed up at them from Florida by the Defense Depart ment. The lime-colored light signals, which con tained navigation data, were sent from an Air Force facility in Palm Bay. “The green laser was clearly visible, visu ally and through the camera,” said shuttle commmander David Walker. “Whatever they’ve done to change the laser on the ground has fixed our problem.” Operators of the Palm Bay station had re placed the laser transmitter before firing Sunday’s test beams. The old transmitter had been operating at just 20 percent of normal power, said Dave Hess, a spokesman for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The next two laser tests failed, however, one because of bad weather and the other for un known reasons. Until Sunday, bad weather at laser stations scattered throughout the United States had thwarted the Army experiment. Fourteen laser tests had been scheduled through Sunday, four of which were scrapped because of clouds, rain or snow and two that were attempted but spoiled by clouds. The Army wanted to see if lasers could relay navigation data from the ground to space. Such information currently is transmitted via radio, which is more susceptible to enemy detection. “The concept has been proved” as a result of Sunday’s success, Hess said. I * w m_•• 1 Patches of life Julia Mikolajcik/DN The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt visited Omaha this weekend. Only about 5 percent of the quilt’s 22,128 panels were displayed in the Omaha Civic Auditorium. An estimated 4,200 people visited the exhibit Saturday and many more were expected for Sunday. Whittier houses band, business, brine shrimp By Ted Taylor Staff Reporter___ One year ago, the Whittier Build ing was the home for three small businesses that needed affordable space to help them get started. The former junior high school, lo cated at 22nd and W streets, still provides space for those businesses — plus a home for brine shrimp, a stage for a local band and a gymna sium for the UNL Fencing Team, among other things. The building was built during the 1920s and was the first facility in the United States that was specifically designed for junior high students. In 1980, the Lincoln Public School Dis trict proclaimed the school obsolete, and it remained vacant until the Uni versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln purchased it in 1983. Henry Baumgartcn, interim asso ciate vice chancellor for research at UNL, said the original goal was to have a place where a small business in Nebraska could gel started. But since UNL bought the build ing, the users have been diverse, he said. The Nebraska Technological De velopment Corporation runs the build ing and, in a joint program with UNL and the University Foundation, rents the building out to anyone in need of space for an activity. Any sort of activity that will not cost us anything and provides a good social purpose will be considered,” Baumgarten said. “We wouldn’t al low anything we thought to be dan gerous or something that would make the university community feel un comfortable.” At one point, the College of Jour nalism considered moving into the building. But Will Norton, dean of the college, said those plans were aban doned because of the building's dis tance from campus and the extensive renovation costs needed to make it suitable for the college’s needs. But for many other university de partments and private businesses, Whittier is ideal. The university’s Agriculture Re search Service has taken out a five year lease and will be pay ing $250,000 in renovations for its entomology lab, which should be finished in Novem ber, Baumgarten said. The university animal care service labs and offices also call Whittier home, as well as the Sirge snow and ice research group, which analyzes - it We want the building to become a true incuba tor facility where busi nesses can start up and eventually stay here in Nebraska. — Baumgarten interim associate vice chancel lor for research at UNL -ft " snow and icc from Greenland. A statewide organization called Epscor, which distributes grants from several agencies to the faculty, has its main office in Whittier. Private businesses also arc filter ing into thcoldclassroomsof Whittier. Aquatic Productions International, a business that produces brine shrimp, which arc fed to tropical fish, has used the Whittier Building for the ptast four, and a half years, said Jim Rosc^wski.a biology professor at UNL. Rosowski is one of five faculty members who started the business. “It’s been an ideal place for us,” Rosowski said. “We had to do some rewiring and insulating, but we would have had to do that to any building,” he said. Baumgarten said businesses rent ing space in the building had to pay for their own renovations. When we bought it, we had a set amount set aside to pay for some basic safely requirements like smoke alarms and a sprinkler system,” Baumgarten said. However, not all of the building is healed. The unhealed portion is used mainly for storage, he said. Other Whiuicr renters include the Lincoln FcncingClub, which uses the gymnasium for its meetings, a local band, which uses the band room, a small accounting firm and a business called Eidos, which makes aircraft equipment that allows people to work on the underside of airplanes. ‘‘We want the building to become a true incubator facility where busi nesses can start up and eventually stay here in Nebraska,” Baumgarten said. But university programs probably will continue to use Whittier as well, because there is no other place for some of them. “It would be ideal for the state to take care of the university functions with a university building, but they don’t have the money right now,” Baumgarten said. 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