Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Frknk press sunday i i i Mai r 3, 2000_ Canada world As endeavour docks with station solar wings next on Agenda Cape canaveral Fla. Space shuttle endeavour with Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau aboard docked with the International space station yesterday setting the stage for the attachment and dramatic spreading of the worlds largest solar wings. The wings carried into orbit by endeavour will be installed on space station Alpha today with the help of Garneau a who will manoeuvre them out of the shuttles cargo Bay using the Cana Darm a and two space walking astronauts. Endeavour hooked up with Alpha As the spacecraft zoomed More than 370 Kilometres above Central Asia ending a two Day Chase. Shuttle commander Brent Jettjr. Steered his ship in from below with Practised precision. Station commander Bill Shepherd and his two russian Crew mates on Board the space station for a month eagerly watched endeavours slow and cautious approach. Garneau making his third space flight along with Jett and three other astronauts aboard the endeavour Are their first visitors. The two Crews talked to one another via radio. But they wont meet for almost another week. Because of the difference in air pressure Between the two Craft the hatches leading into alphas living compartment must remain sealed until the shuttle astronauts Complete three spacewalks outside the space station. Endeavour pulled into a Docking port that was added by the last shuttle Crew in october. The shuttle station Complex exceeds 200 tonnes and stretches some 67 metres. Accordion the space station will be considerably wider once the new electricity producing solar wings Are installed and unfurled one by one. The $600-million us wings were folded like an accordion for launch. Opened the wings will Span 73 metres from tip to tip longer than the wingspan of a Boeing 111 jetliner. And they will be 11.5 metres across making them the largest Structure Ever deployed in space. They also will be the most powerful solar wings Ever flown. The panels which collect sunlight for electricity will be capable of generating 65 kilowatts at Peak Power. One third of that Power will go for space station use the rest will be reserved for the batteries and other electronics associated with the panels. Alpha at present is generating Only a modest amount of Power with two sets of Small russian built solar wings. There a so Little electricity that Only two of the stations three rooms can be heated the unheated chamber has been off limits to the Crew. The new solar panels will allow Nasa to launch its Power hungry lab module destiny in january. They will provide enough electricity in fact to keep the space station going a and growing a for the next few years. 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It was the first time the bloc took fewer than 44 of Quebec a 75 Ridings since Bouchard founded the party a decade ago. However the election results resolve nothing because Quebe cers will not accept the crippling effects of federalism Bouchard said. A Canadian federalism forces Quebec to perform with one Arm tied behind its Back. Imagine what we can accomplish with both he said Only sovereignty will help Quebe cers control their Economy decide How their tax dollars Are spent and ensure the survival of their culture and the French language. The Premier has often mentioned the need to promote sovereignty but has kept a tight lid on his timetable for another referendum. He says he will wait for the right a winning Clement Allard i Canadian press Bouchard Speaks at parti quebecois National Council meeting in Quebec City. Conditions because he does not want Quebe cers to reject sovereignty like they did in 1980 and by a razor thin margin in 1995. Bouchard said last weeks election does not indicate a decline in Sovereign list Fervour. Separatists have pointed out that the bloc actually increased its popular vote to about 40 per cent compared with 44.9 per cent for the liberals. Some blamed a collapse in tory support for tipping the Scales in favour of the liberals. Bouchard said his former party was also Hurt because Sovereign lists were less inclined to vote in a Federal election. He said he believes Sovereign lists accounted for two thirds of the 37 per cent of Quebe cers who did not vote last monday. A Canadian press ;