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...most boys what they are going to be when they grow up, and they might answer that they want to be a policeman, an astronaut or whatever Daddy is. But when someone asked Jonathan Sheer, 12, that question, he answered without hesitation: "I want my mother...
...contest is a group with a vaguely mysterious name, the Trilogy Foundation. Trilogy, which has the blessing of the White House and the National Security Council, was the brainchild of a group that included David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and former U.S. Senator and Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. According to Washington P.R. Man Burt Hoffman, who is helping the group organize, Trilogy intends to inform the public about the technical merits of SDI. "The object is to stay in the middle, not to be like High Frontier, which has been labeled as zealots, or the Union of Concerned...
NASA experts now believe that the Challenger crew members were aware for at least a moment of what was happening. "They went fast, thank God, but they knew they were in trouble," one astronaut told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. From interviews with NASA officials and members of the presidential commission investigating the disaster, Hannifin was able tentatively to reconstruct the astronauts' final moments. His report...
...NASA might have been a victim of some managers' can-do spirit. To justify congressional support, NASA officials felt compelled to prove that the shuttle program could be made self-supporting by launching as often as every two weeks. But in internal NASA memos that have leaked out, Chief Astronaut John Young charges that safety was sacrificed to "launch-schedule pressure." Young, 55, a highly respected veteran of shuttle or bits and Apollo moon flights, warned of an "awesome" list of safety problems, including a runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center that is too short, too rough and subject...
Despite the disclosures of flawed judgment and mismanagement, the families of the dead astronauts have tried to keep faith. Said Astronaut Mike Smith's brother Tony: "I still think NASA knows what it's doing." But the growing evidence that Challenger should not have been sent aloft can be rendered only more painful by the recovery of the astronauts' remains. "It just brings it all back again," says Dr. Marvin Resnik, father of Judith Resnik. The Resniks want no funeral service; they have asked NASA to cremate their daughter's remains and scatter them over the ocean, where Challenger...