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...would go today, right now. I wouldn't even go home to change," he said. But he appreciated the students who gently touched his shoulder on Tuesday. "It was an affirmation of life." For students, he explained, "a teacher in space becomes their teacher. Do you know an astronaut? Everyone knows a teacher...
...that they keep them on Wednesday night as memorials to the fallen heroes. Many other communities paid comparable tributes. The floodlights that normally bathe New York City's Empire State Building in bright colors were darkened. Residents of Harlem petitioned Mayor Ed Koch to name a street after black Astronaut Ronald McNair, whose father once operated an auto shop on East 96th Street. All along the Florida coast, from Jacksonville to Miami, some 20,000 people pointed flashlights skyward on Friday night...
...Astronaut Dan Brandenstein reported that a nozzle on a motor came within a fifth of an inch of burning through. Had it burned through, he said, the result would have been "catastrophic," with the craft going into a pinwheeling motion. He believed the five astronauts on board would have been killed...
...fleet of fuel- guzzling planes. By the time Eastern stepped up purchases of new fuel- efficient aircraft in 1972, it was facing steep replacement costs of up to $35 million for each 293-seat L-1011, and was short on cash. Says company Chairman Frank Borman, a former Apollo astronaut: "We had a substantial job of rebuilding to do. Our debt would not have gone up had we been profitable...
NASA officials did not know what kind of bone it was, and there nothing was to link it to an astronaut...