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McAuliffe's approach to feminism accentuated the positive. "She never sounded angry," said a fellow teacher. "She wanted women to do more, to learn more." She wanted everyone to learn more, including herself. "What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars," she said after entering the astronaut program. Despite her newfound celebrity, McAuliffe never doubted that following her sojourn in space she would return to Concord, to the family she would have been away from for many months and, above all, to her classroom. She told an audience last August, "I touch the future. I teach...
Once on the air, the anchormen's chief problem was how to fill the time. They played prerecorded videotapes of the ill-fated astronauts, interviewed their own correspondents in Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, trotted out scale models of the shuttle to describe how it func tioned and scrambled to round up "experts" who might be able to explain what had happened. ABC got former Astro naut Gene Cernan to its Houston studios. CBS brought on Leo Krupp, a former test pilot for Rockwell International, and NBC recruited former Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton...
...University of Colorado in Boulder, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then spent eight years as a test pilot and flight engineer with the Air Force. Onizuka taught courses at the elite Air Force test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in California before joining NASA as an astronaut candidate...
...also brought along his college ring. "He wears it whenever he flies," said his wife. Several years ago he visited his family's ancestral gravesite in Japan. The elderly priest of the Buddhist temple where the remains of Onizuka's ancestors are kept remembered saying goodbye to Onizuka. The astronaut, he said, promised to return after completing a shuttle mission...
After last week's tragedy, his 72-year-old mother Matsue Onizuka wistfully recalled her son's dream. "Ellison always had it in his mind to become an astronaut but was too embarrassed to tell anyone," she said. "When he was growing up, there were no Asian astronauts, no black astronauts, just white ones. His dream seemed too big." One dream was to continue traveling in space as long as he could. "There's no age cutoff for astronauts," he used...