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Away we dashed. I fairly holding my breath and railing at the end of my seat. But the sensation of swift motion and aloftness, the keen air of the October morning's dawn, the unusualness and unexpectedness of that phase of my journey--it was intoxicating...
...Japanese televiewers, the landing occurred in the early hours before dawn, local time. But in a country that both admires and competes with American technology, some 2 million households tuned in for the event. In his message of congratulations to the U.S., Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki said of the shuttle: "It is the crystallization of your nation's highly developed technologies and scientific achievements and symbolizes the beginning of an 'American renewal...
...morning sun glinted off the towering white trident-shaped stack. Out of the top of the great main fuel tank seeped puffs of steamy vapors, supercold droplets of liquid oxygen. Suddenly, just after dawn on Sunday, the ship's three main engines roared to life. Throttling quickly to 90% of their full 1.1 million lbs. of thrust, the engines caused the spacecraft and fuel tanks to tilt ever so slightly. Seconds later, they snapped back to vertical, and two solid-fuel rockets-fiery space-age Roman candles never before used on a manned flight-ignited, adding their full fury...
...experts in Houston eliminated the hitch by going around it. On Saturday, the experts switched the computers on early, almost a day before the second launch attempt. This time the machines worked in full harmony, and controllers knew they had those electronic gremlins licked. And so, an hour after dawn on Sunday, the signal was given, the engines thundered and, as the grassy meadows and sandy beaches of Florida's coast trembled, Columbia was finally on its way. -ByFrederic Golden...
...photo graphed and fingerprint ed by the FBI. At 11:52 p.m. the heavily guarded Hinckley was whisked into a U.S. district courtroom to be charged formally with the attempted assassination of the President, a crime carrying a maximum life sentence upon conviction, and assaulting a federal officer. Before dawn, he was moved into a small prison cell at the Marine Correctional Facility in Quantico, Va. Just two weeks...