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...abuse of technology also sabotaged one of the last vestiges of heaven- bent idealism -- the American space program -- when the space shuttle Challenger turned into a fireball only 73 seconds after takeoff. While millions watched on television, the craft and its seven passengers, including Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, disappeared in a sad trail of smoke. The tragedy only deepened when a presidential commission found that the accident had been caused by bureaucratic mismanagement and neglect...
School teacher Christa McAuliffe and missionspecialists Ronald McNair and Gregory B. Jarvisare not heard on the recording...
...voice. Even though Thiokol had taken the seal problem seriously enough to spend more than $2 million seeking a remedy, its top officers involved in shuttle work now ignored the Florida chill and approved the launch. The NASA managers had won the argument. Six astronauts and Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe lost everything...
...Concord, N.H., Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher whose presence on Challenger was intended to herald a now postponed era of routine space flight, was buried on a hilltop some two miles from the high school where she taught. At Arlington National Cemetery, Navy Commander Mike Smith, Challenger's pilot, was buried with military honors on Saturday. Mission Commander Dick Scobee, a former Air Force officer, will also be interred there. The wife of Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis asked that his remains be cremated so his ashes could be scattered into the Pacific near his home in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A military...
Joining Collins on the second team All-Ivy squad are Ellen DeVoe (Princeton), June Stambaugh (Penn), Christa Champion (Brown), Karen Dwyer (Cornell), and Sue Johnson (Yale...