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...members of the Challenger crew, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was probably most like us, both in her wide-eyed approach to the space program and her own sense of fate. She once told an interviewer that she wasn't concerned about the inherent--until now, only threatened--danger of spacefaring. Instead, she said, she felt a greater risk each time she crossed a particularly notorious intersection in her hometown of Concord, N.H. She joked about it, but clearly couldn't have known the irony of her words. For if she had died in a car accident in Concord, instead...
...MAJORITY OPINION looks backward and dodges important questions about the recent technological tragedy. Rather than gleaning the fact of our mortality from the death of Christa McAuliffe and the other six astronauts, the editorial should have posed questions to NASA. It should take something less than the worst disaster in a quarter century of manned spaceflight to point out to us that people do die. We should be asking: Was the shuttle accident due to damaged fuel tanks or broken turbine blades? How can these mechanical faults, if they in fact were the cause, be avoided in future flights? These...
Brown (54): Kerry Kelley 0-0--0; Marjoric Bonnet 2-0--4; Christa Champion 4-0--8; Krista Butterfield 6-0--12; Michelle Smith 8-0--16; Janice Huwe 0-0--0; Carol Kozar 5-1--11; Denise Liebe 1-1--3. Total...
...media blitz, her death will be fitted into the follow-up campaign, somehow. Stirring exhortations, by President Reagan among others, to continue to build space shuttle technology in the spirit and wake of the Challenger have already begun. Don't be surprised if a new shuttle is christened the "Christa." But, as mass media fitted McAuliffe and crew onto the TV screen and the feature page, the human individuality of those heros was cropped out; they were reduced to the equivalent of television characters...
...should've seen the students," I told them, describing the pall which hung over the campus after the news of the catastrophe had spread, the manner in which an Oriental girl burst out crying when a picture of Christa McAuliffe flashed on the screen, the lounges filled with teachers and students and members of the staff: Attentive. Hypnotized. Heartbroken. Spellbound...