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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, June 8, 1986
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Space Services, Inc. growing
Company ready to launch satellites
Tips can help keep
home crime safe
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enough to be placed into a tube
about the size of a lipstick. He
said an orbiting mausoleum
would contain up to 10,330 of the
tubes.
Space Services plans to put the
space tomb into a 2,200-mile or-
bit at a cost of about $15 million,
with each client paying $3,900.
“It would stay up there for
about 63 million years,’’ said
Kuhl, “I don’t know anything on
Earth that would last that long.”
Slayton and Kuhl predicted
there could be up to 10 such laun-
ches a year.
The Space Services rocket,
called Conestoga II, uses solid-
fuel rockets in each of its four
stages. The motors, manufac-
tured by Morton Thiokol, have a
long history of dependability.
Conestoga is, not powerful
enough to orbit the large com-
munications satellites typical of
the Ariane and space shuttle
payloads.
“We were never competitive
with the shuttle,” he said. “What
we are keying on are smaller
things that need some specializ-
ed orbit, the kind of things that
the shuttle doesn’t normally do.”
The basic Conestoga system
would be able to put 2,250 pounds
into a 230-mile orbit, about half
the lift of a Delta rocket, and
about a fourth of the power of an
Ariane.
Services to tap into the oil
business with satellites that
could sweep the Earth with
powerful sensors and detect for-
mations that might hold oil and
gas. Space pictures have been
used successfully by some
geologists.
“There was a time when it
looked like that would be a heck
of a good business,” said
Slayton. “With the right com-
bination of sensors, you could
sell individual oil companies
their own system.”
However, "With the price of
oil being what it is today, there’s
nobody out there spending ex-
ploration money,” said Slayton.
Space Services has a tentative
agreement with Celestis Group
Inc. a Melbourne, Fla., funeral
home chain, to put cremated
human remains into space. Com-
pany President Jim Kuhl said
some services have been sold
but declined to say how many.
He said Celestis would not be
ready for a launch before 1988.
Kuhl said Celestis will use a
process that reduces the re-
mains of a 200-pound man to
about one ounce of ash, small
Houston, successfully sent a
suborbital test rocket aloft in
1982, and has since engineered a
family of rockets designed to
launch small, unmanned
satellites. It has negotiated for
use of six potential launch sites,
including the government’s
space centers, and has manufac-
turers ready to build the rocket
engines and other needed hard-
ware.
But, said Slayton, there are no
customers with firm launch
dates.
“The problem in the whole
space world today is that there
has not yet been a big
breakthrough in anything that is
purely commercial, other than
telecommunications,” he said.
But David Hannah, chairman
and founder of Space Services,
said he is even more optimistic
about launching small satellites
now than when he started the
firm in 1981.
“The larger satellites are
harder to finance now because
the insurance rates have gone up
so higl^” said Hannah. “There’s
lots that can be done with
smaller, less risky satellites."
Slayton once expected Space
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(AP) — Accidents may have
grounded the space fleets of
NASA, the Air Force and the
European Space Agency, but a
private rocket company headed
by former astronaut Donald K.
Slayton is ready to put satellites
into orbit.
“All that we need are
customers who have money,”
said Slayton, one of America’s
original seven astronauts. He
retired from NASA in 1982 to
become president of Space Ser-
vices Inc., the nation’s first
privately financed satellite laun-
ching company.
With all the major space
systems in the West grounded,
Space Services is the only enter-
prise ready to sell commercial
satellite launch services.
NASA’s space shuttle program
was halted after Challenger
blew up Jan. 28. Subsequent
failures of the Titan and Delta
expendable rockets shut down
the entire U.S. government
launch systems. And Friday, a
failure of the French Ariane
rocket forced postponement of
European comlhercial launches.
Space Services, based in
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — On the average, a house is broken
into in the United States every 11 seconds, with the highest in-
cidence occurring in the summer when people are away on
vacation, says Ira Llpman, an expert in the security field.
Lipman, president of Guardsmark Inc., one of the oountry’s
largest security services firms, offers these tips on maintaining
security while at home as well as reducing the chance of a
break-in while residents are away:
—Use a deadbolt lock on the garage door, and keep It locked
at all times — whether you are home or not and whether the car
is inside or not. Locking up will appear “normal,” not an adver-,
tisement of your departure.
—Don’t post your name on the mailbox if your phone number
is listed in the directory. A burglar could call from a nearby
phone booth and If no one answers, It’s likely your house will be
broken into soon after.
—Place strong padlocks, top-quality hasps and hinges on out-
door structures such as tool sheds, storm cellars or green-
houses.
—Don’t let the shrubs around the house grow high enough to
conceal an intruder. Another safe-
ty precaution is to flatten large shipping cartons and boxes
before putting them out with the trash.
—Carelessly leaving bicycles and other expensive toys lying
around the yard is an open invitation to thieves.
—Don’t display valuables In open windows or where they can
be seen easily from the street.
—Ask a friend to stop by and pick up mail and deliveries and
generally make sure everything looks OK while you are away.
If you can’t find someone to do this, have the post office hold
mail, and cancel deliveries until your return.
—A house that’s dark from sundown to sunup looks unoccu-
pied. Connect timers to some of your lights. And turn down the
volume control on house telephones so passersby won’t hear the
continued ringing of an unanswered phone.
—An L-shaped metal strip attached to a door frame can make
it virtually impossible to open an inward-swinging door.
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portray me. I told him I let him
Then Sigel received a calf watch me portray me, and I
BROWNWOOD (AP) — Had should portray me,” he said,
word gqtten out sooner that a
well-known movie and television from officials of Embassy Pro- didn’t get self-conscious,” Sigel
actor was goijig to be in Brown ductions, who said they wanted joked.
County’s 35th District cour- Coleman to watch him in action. Sigel started practicing law in
trftorn^ there wouldn’t have even Wheq, Coletpefn and SigeJ. 1?§9.ifcthfi Justice
been standing room during a re- drove f Wl D a 1 las to Department during the Kennedy
cent pre-trial hearing in a per- Brownwood for the hearing Col- administration. “My boss was
jury trial.
As it was, there were few in they had been schoolmates at
the courtroom who knew that the. the University of Texas,
man sitting on the front row of
the spectator benches was football together, and we also as I entered law school I knew
Dabney Coleman.
Coleman was there studying the same people,” Sigel said. “I choice,”
the mannerisms of Dallas at- have a vague recollection of him
primarily through sports. He did
say too that he had attended law
school at the same time that I at-
tended, but I don’t remember
him at all there.”
They also discussed the Geter
case. “There is nothing in the
law that is going to change the
way in which authorities handle
cases where people are er-
roneously convieted,” Sigel said.
“An erroneously convicted
defendant will still have to rot in
jail for a long time after the
authorities become aware of the
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eman was to observe, they found Bobby Kennedy,” he said.
“At first I thought that I was
going to be an architect. I was in-
“We used to play intramural terested in the arts, but as soon
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torney Edwin Sigel. whom Col-
eman will portray in an upcom-
ing television movie, tentatively
titled “Justice Delayed,” about
one of Sigel’s most famous
clients, Lenell Geter.
Geter, a black engineer from
South Carolina, won freedom
from a life prison sentence in
1984 after it became apparent
that he had been wrongly accus-
ed and convicted in Dallas of an
armed robbery. The story gain-
ed national attention through ef-
forts by Sigel, Geter’s co-
workers at E-Systems in Green- probable errpneous and illegal
ville. the NAACP and others to. conviction.”
Geter spent 16 months in
prison before he was cleared.
Sigel said Coleman wanted to
know a lot of details about his
dress, mannerisms and profes-
sional techniques, and planned
to spend about three weeks
observing him.
“Dabney said that he learned
a great deal from, watching me,”
Sigel said. “He asked such ques-
Sigel said he is pleased with tions as to how long I had worn a
the casting of Coleman. “I have chain around my neck, and
always admired him as an ac- basically he went into detail
tor.” Sigel said. “At first I about the way I wore my
remembered him primarily as a clothing and the kind I wore. He
comedian, but the last thing I asked me about little things —
saw him do was the portrayal of such as why the flap of my coat
the head of CBS in the Edward pocket was always on the inside
R. Murrow Story made-for-TV- of my jacket.
_ ,movie. He did an outstanding job
in a serious part.”
Sigel said the first time he saidjie learned a lot and enjoyed
.heard from Coleman, the actor watching my examination of the
office and left a witnesses and my somewhat
number. “I wasn’t in town when heated discussions with the
he called, and when I tried to call judge. Basically, he even liked
him back, he was out of town,” the judge (Curt Steib of San
Angelo),” Sigel said.
“When we did talk, he in- Some of the scenes in “Justice
dicated to me that he had the Delayed,” will be shot in Sigel’s
script and wanted to visit with Dallas office,
me about,the case in general and “Dabney said he might be self-
hear my thoughts about how he conscious letting me watch him
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Sigel said he knew about plans
for the movie long before Col-
eman was cast in the part. “I
wanted Robert Redford, but they
threatened me with Ernest
Borgnine,” SigeJ quipped. “Ac-
tually, William Shatner was the
first person whose name I heard
semi-officially that might play
me,” he said.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 187, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 8, 1986, newspaper, June 8, 1986; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154465/m1/17/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.