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Settling were the families of Mission Commander Francis Scobee, High School Teacher Christa McAuliffe, Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka and Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis. The families, who initiated the talks in August, are expected to receive at least $750,000 each, paid out over several years. In exchange, they have waived their rights to future claims against NASA and its personnel and contractors, including Morton Thiokol, the company that built Challenger's solid-fuel rocket boosters. Last year a Government commission concluded that a failure in one of the boosters caused the orbiter to explode...
...astronauts had to exit the shuttle on the launch pad through noxious fumes, had been manually activated. One was identified as Smith's. Since the Challenger pilot, locked into his safety harness, could not have reached the control, it must have been turned on by either Ellison Onizuka or Judith Resnik, who sat behind him on the spacecraft's top deck...
Astronauts Judy Resnick and Ellison Onizukawere riding just behind Smith and Scobee, and theymay have assisted Smith, he said...
...Ellison is replacing Lecturer on English John L. Klause, who is accepting a position as Associate Professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead...
...Ellison, originally from Winchester, received a B.S. from the University of Vermont in Zoology and an M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Massachusetts. After a year of research at Harvard Medical School, he joined the Harvard faculty as assistant professor...