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The images, of the explosion, of the aggrieved families, of the memorial services and the schoolchildren and the headlines, will be replayed on television and in our minds for a while yet. And the inquiry, and the experts, and the what-ifs will make us remember. As they should. But...
Of all the members of the Challenger crew, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was probably most like us, both in her wide-eyed approach to the space program and her own sense of fate. She once told an interviewer that she wasn't concerned about the inherent--until now, only threatened--danger...
THE MAJORITY OPINION looks backward and dodges important questions about the recent technological tragedy. Rather than gleaning the fact of our mortality from the death of Christa McAuliffe and the other six astronauts, the editorial should have posed questions to NASA. It should take something less than the worst disaster...
But he added, "This is a fundamentally sound system. It's gone through 24 successful flights. There was obviously an accident. There is a problem there. But the overall configuraion and design, we believe to be fundamentally sound and we believe it won't take a very long time to...
While experts are hesitant to revive the debate so soon after Tuesday's tragedy in which the seven crew members were killed, concerns are surfacing over the impact the Challenger accident will have on unmanned projects.