Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fiauu Dick Makr 2000 endeavour docks with station solar wings next on Agenda Cape space shuttle endeavour with Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau aboard docked with the International space station setting the stage for the attachment and dramatic spread ing of the worlds largest solar the carried into orbit by will be installed on space station Alpha today with the help of Garneau who will manoeuvre them out of the shuttles cargo Bay using the Cana Darm and two space walking endeavour hooked up with Alpha As the spacecraft zoomed More than 370 Kilometres above Central ending a today shuttle commander Brent Jett steered his ship in from with Practised station commander Bill Shepherd and his two russian on Board the space station for a eagerly watched endeavours slow and cautious making his third space along with Jett and three other astronauts aboard the Are their first the two Crews talked to one another via but they wont meet for almost another because of the difference in air pressure Between the two the hatches leading into alphas living compartment must remain sealed until the shuttle Astro nauts Complete three spacewalks out Side the space endeavour pulled into a Docking port that was added by the last shuttle in the shuttle station com plex exceeds 200 tonnes and stretches some 67 accordion the space station will be consider ably wider once the new electricity producing solar wings Are installed and one by the us wings were folded like an accordion for the wings will Span 73 metres from tip to longer than the wingspan of a Boeing 777 and they will be metres Mak ing them the largest Structure Ever deployed in they also will be the most powerful solar wings Ever the which collect sunlight for will be capable of generating 65 kilo Watts at Peak on third of that Power will go for space station use the rest will be reserved for the batteries and other electronics associated with the at is generating Only a modest amount of Power with two sets of Russia built solar theres so Little electricity that Only two of the stations three rooms can be heated the unheated chamber has been of limits to the the new solar panels will allow Nasa to launch its Power hungry lab in they will provide enough in to keep the space station going and growing for the next few associated press referendum still on Bouchard Premier brushes off drop in bloc votes by Pierre april Quebec results of last weeks Feder Al election will not Stop the parti quebecois from possibly holding another referendum during its current Premier Lucien Bouchard said despite the lacklustre showing of the bloc the next referendum could come before a provincial election expected within two Bouchard we must prepare Quebe cers for a general mobilization with sights on an election and a and not necessarily in that he told supporters at a party conference in que Bec 38 seats the Federal election gave the liberals their Best showing in Quebec since the Trudeau while the blocs seat count dropped to it was the first time the bloc took fewer than 44 of Quebec 75 Ridings since Bouchard founded the party a decade the election results resolve Noth ing because Quebe cers will not accept the Crip pling effects of Bouchard Canadian federalism forces Quebec to per form with one Arm tied behind its imag Ine what we can accomplish with both he said Only sovereignty will help Quebe cers control their decide How their tax Dol Lars Are spent and ensure the survival of their culture and the French the Premier has often mentioned the need to promote sovereignty but has kept a tight lid on his timetable for another he says he will wait for the right winning Clement Allard Canadian press Bouchard Speaks at parti quebecois National Council meeting in Quebec conditions because he does not want Quebe cers to reject sovereignty like they did in 1980 and by a razor thin margin in Bouchard said last weeks election does not 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