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Controllers both at the Cape and in Houston intently monitored Challenger's roaring ascent for a different reason. It is the most critical and most dangerous phase of a space mission. "When you have that much power, you have to respect it," said Flight Director Jay Greene in Houston. "If you get complacent about the launch phase, you don't understand what's going on." In the shuttle, the crew was about to be jammed back into their couches by three times the force of gravity. Their immediate fate was out of their hands...
Both at the Florida launch site and in Houston where the ascent to space is directed, engineers studied computer tapes that recorded performance of the shuttle's systems every one one-thousandth of a second...
...There were no signs of abnormalities on the screens" as flight controllers monitored Challenger's liftoff and ascent, a source said. The source,at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said theblast occurred "unexpectedly and with absolutelyno warning...
...natural causes earlier this month. Dellacroce apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have been grooming Belotti for the No. 2 job. Though the intemperate Gotti is unlikely to rise to the top of the Mafia's largest family, the killings nevertheless may signal the ascent of a hungrier younger generation of mob leaders. The head may be dead, but the body lives...
...screen, Nelligan positively glows with the radiance of the blessed. In one scene, she has to lug a huge trunk full of rare American goodies up the hill next to her house, drawing a clear analogy between the soon-to-be betrayed Eleni and the martyred Christ making his ascent up Calgary Hill. As she reaches the top, she announces to Nicholas, God and anyone else within hearing, "Nicolai Gatzuiannus, your father is alive!" with all the verbal presence of someone who expects to be quoted by the Lord Jehovah...