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...device refused to work. "O.K., the jaws didn't fire that time," Nelson radioed after his first attempt. Twice more, with increasing force, he banged against Max without results (TPAD has no manual trigger for an astronaut to operate). Nelson's efforts turned the gentle wobble of Solar Max, whose inoperable attitude controls had been shut down as a precaution by its ground controllers, into a precarious, crazy cartwheel. Radioed a frustrated Crippen: "Is there any way that you think you can do it with your hands...
...recent months, the nation has taken a few steps on the inland march. Some of them were merely tokens of motion, but considered together, they amount at least to an interesting procession of symbols. The first black American astronaut went into space. For the first time a black was crowned Miss America. Blacks now are the mayors of four of the largest American cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit. Congress proclaimed a national holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., and a conservative Republican President endorsed the idea...
...that point, Challenger will edge to within 30 ft. of the satellite. Then the shuttle's 50-ft.-long, remote-controlled mechanical arm, operated from inside the cockpit by Electrical Engineer Terry Hart, 37, will lock onto a grappling device on Solar Max. (Challenger's fifth astronaut is Dick Scobee, 44, a onetime airplane mechanic who will be Crippen's copilot.) With helpful nudges from Nelson and Van Hoften, Solar Max will be eased into a special cradle in the cargo bay for the repair. The astronauts' task in the bay will be to remove...
...formidable standing in public opinion polls into a commensurate number of primary and caucus votes, gave up his campaign on Friday. In debt $2 million and unable to win anywhere, even in the South, where he had staked his last hopes on appealing to a "sensible center," the former astronaut had no choice. He declined to endorse anyone, and said, "I don't aspire to be Vice President"-but added, "If I thought it was really important to the party and the country, I'd have to consider it." His withdrawal creates new opportunities for both Hart...
Glenn made fun of Hart's J.F.K. evocations but then rhetorically fumbled. "I'm not trying to imitate anyone," he said, "but John Glenn." In a sense he is doing a self-impersonation: after down-playing his astronaut background through much of the campaign, he used "the right stuff' as a tag line in his Southern television ads and played up his military past. In Pine Bluff, Ark., he piloted an antique Stearman training biplane ("That was fun!" he said) and at Ozark, Ala., drove an M-60 tank in figure eights ("That...