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Kevin Ford, right, poses for a photo with his brother, former State Sen. David Ford. David died in 2008 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 59 before he could see Kevin on his first space mission.
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Kevin Ford wears a Ball State shirt while on the International Space Station. His sister, Nancy Richardson, works at Ball State as an administration coordinator for educational leadership.
SPACE NURTURES
SIBLINGS’ BOND
Siblings Kevin Ford and Nancy Richardson pose for a photo in Ford’s home a week after his return on the Soyuz in March 2013. Soyuz was the spacecraft they used to carry astronauts and cosmonauts to and from International Space Station.
FORD’S MISSIONS TO SPACE STS-128 August to September 2009 Mission duration: 13 days, 20 hours, 54 minutes Mission: Deliver logistics and science payloads to the ISS This was Kevin Ford’s first mission into space. Ford piloted Space Shuttle Discovery on its 37th mission into space and the 30th mission dedicated to the assembly of the International Space Station. Discovery carried logistics and science payloads needed to maintain and expand the station. EXPEDITIONS 33 AND 34 October 2012 to March 2013 Destination: International Space Station Launch: October 23, 2012 Docking: October 25, 2012 Landing: March 15, 2013 Mission: Conduct research and maintenance on the ISS
Hoosier astronaut, Ball State faculty talk of orbital journey ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER
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Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series of space-related articles in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the moon landing.
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itting in a tipped over chair, a young boy presses the on switch of a vacuum cleaner. “Houston, we have liftoff.” “I thought it was so cute — you never think he’d actually do it,” Nancy Richardson, Ball State’s administrative coordinator for educational leadership, said decades later about her younger brother, Kevin Ford. “When he was on the Soyuz [a Russian space craft], I can’t imagine what that must have been like.” Nancy and Kevin, two of Clayton and Barbara
Ford’s six children, sat with their family in their rural Indiana home, huddled around the TV to see the first steps on the moon July 20, 1969. The eldest brother, David — an Indiana University and Ball State alumnus who became an Indiana state senator — deciphered what was being said on TV for the family. Kevin, who spent his youth playing pretend, eventually became an astronaut and space shuttle pilot for NASA decades later.
Ford returned for a second trip into space with these expeditions. He traveled up to the station in a Russian Soyuz from Kazakhstan. He spent six months up in space on Expeditions 33 and 34, conducting scientific research and making repairs to the station. For Expedition 33, he was a flight engineer and became commander for Expedition 34. Ford then handed off command to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield for Expedition 35.
See SIBLINGS, page 4
SOURCE: nasa.gov
UPGRADES IN MIDDLE OF PROCESS Attorney to review FIELD Summer renovations to improve university’s fraud underway Ball Diamond project BALL DIAMOND
Former prosecutor to look at protocols after $13M scams DYE NEWS EDITOR | ASHLEY news@bsudailynews.com
A former federal prosecutor will look at Ball State’s fraud cases from 2008 and 2010 that totaled $13 million. The Board of Trustees voted Thursday to allow its chair to hire outside resources without calling a board meeting on these decisions. This gives the chair, currently Rick Hall, the broad power to quickly hire outside help, allowing the board to avoid a cumbersome number of meetings, said Tom Taylor, vice president for enrollment, marketing and communications.
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really awful. Everyone involved — the university and the board — is sick that it happened. » TOM TAYLOR, vice president for enrollment, marketing and communications Hall is using this new power to hire Deborah Daniels to “bring in someone with fresh eyes” to look at the two fraud cases the university was a victim in, Taylor said. Daniels — a former U.S. attorney and U.S. assistant attorney general and former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ sister — is currently at the Indianapolis office of Krieg DeVault.
See FRAUD, page 4
After more than 40 years, the Cardinals’ home field is undergoing renovations that include: • Dugouts • Modernized press boxes • Grandstands • Concession stands
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The Ball State baseball program has used Ball Diamond for more than 40 years, and while it is still a serviceable field, history has taken its toll on the diamond’s condition. But thanks to a $20 million fundraising effort, the university is currently in the midst of renovating the Cardinals’ home field. Baseball head coach Rich Maloney, who began his second stint with Ball State prior to the 2013 season, has led the way for the Ball Diamond renovations, and understands its importance based on the shift in college baseball. “Really, if we want to count baseball as a true sport here in Muncie, Ind., then we’ve got to be able to commit resources,”
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Ball Diamond and the Softball Complex are currently being renovated as a part of Cardinal Commitment. The fields have not been renovated for more than 40 years.
Maloney said. “And that’s exactly what the university has done.” 1. CLOUDY 2. MOSTLY CLOUDY The renovation includes new dugouts, modernized press boxes, grandstands and concession stands. According to Maloney, these 7. PERIODS OF RAIN 6. RAIN upgrades are only the start. “This is only phase one,” Maloney said. “We’ve got a long way to go. ... I was out at the field just now, and I’m 11. SNOW FLURRIES
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amazed [at] how much this crew has been doing.” 5. SUNNY 4. MOSTLY SUNNY While success isn’t the prime reason behind the fundraising project, it can’t hurt. The Cardinals are coming off a 39-18 campaign that included a Mid10. DRIZZLE 9. SCATTERED SHOWERS American Conference title. Maloney said he believes field renovations will help the team regain momentum. “We’ve got people in the com-
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munity getting excited about our program again,” he said. “We’ve got donors wanting to be a part of it.” Other MAC schools, such as Kent State, Miami and Western Michigan have recently updated facilities, along with Midwest competitors Indiana University, Purdue University, Ohio State and the University of Michigan. Maloney coached at Michigan from 2003 to 2012 after his first time coaching at Ball State from 1996 until 2002. “Back when I was here in the ’90s, I had dreams of renovating a field, of building a new field, before all the boom started in college baseball,” Maloney said. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
See FIELD, page 3
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