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Morton Thiokol stopped its scheduled shipment of aft booster segments to Cape Canaveral, Fla., where an astronaut crew had hoped to resume flights on June 2. NASA estimated that the longest probable delay from the nozzle failure would be three months. But some of the agency's veterans speculated that the Administration will not want to risk a launch until after the November elections...
...Detroit, Flight 255 had been rerouted to another runway to avoid a gust of wind from a distant thunderstorm. Still another hypothesis concerned the baggage loading: investigators examined the possibility that too much cargo may have been placed toward the rear of the aircraft, tipping the center of gravity aft and causing the plane to go out of control...
...betrays, sometimes in spite of himself, his capacity for growth. Prolonged exposure to the "whole imaginable world" of his ship rattles his aristocratic preconceptions. The white line painted across the deck at the mainmast, segregating the common seamen and emigrants fore from the officers and better class of people aft, comes to seem ridiculous as the peril shared by everyone aboard increases. First Lieut. Summers reassures him, "This voyage will be the making of you, Mr. Talbot. At moments I even detect a strong streak of humanity in you as if you was a common fellow like the rest...
They reached Dakar at the end of a rope after their engine had failed. A berth was offered them aft of an American destroyer. Michel said, "It's your country, Janis. Go talk to them." Whatever Janis did, it succeeded. "For the next week we had five sailors working on our engine. They filled our icebox with steak and ice cream. And all around us was this harbor of poverty. It was horrible, and it was heaven. I'll never forget...
Inside the steamboat's Aft Cabin Lounge, an American peace cruiser spoke to Grechko in a loud voice, enunciating with that exaggerated care that is used to breach the language gap. "I couldn't go on the Volga Peace Cruises because I'm afraid to fly," she said slowly, referring to the seven such voyages down the U.S.S.R.'s Volga River, which first began in 1982. "So I took a train to get to this one." Smiling, Grechko paused for a moment to look away from the woman, as though he did not understand her. "I know," he said finally...