Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McAuliffe's approach to feminism accentuated the positive. "She never sounded angry," said a fellow teacher. "She wanted women to do more, to learn more." She wanted everyone to learn more, including herself. "What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars," she said after entering the astronaut program. Despite her newfound celebrity, McAuliffe never doubted that following her sojourn in space she would return to Concord, to the family she would have been away from for many months and, above all, to her classroom. She told an audience last August, "I touch the future. I teach...
...Boeing 747 jumbo jet to the Caribou C-7 he flew on combat missions in Viet Nam. Scobee entered astronaut training in 1978 and helped fly the 747 that carried the shuttle spacecraft between ground stations. As pilot of Challenger in 1984, he guided the spacecraft so that fellow crew members could retrieve a broken Solar Max satellite, which was repaired on board and later placed back into orbit. At an in-flight press conference, Scobee and the mission's four other astronauts showed up in T shirts that read ACE SATELLITE REPAIR...
Like a number of other astronauts, Smith had to wait a while for his turn in the launch rotation. As part of his preparation for last week's flight, Smith had brought along a replica of the Beaufort town flag for his fellow crew members to sign. He planned to present it during commencement exercises next June at his old school, now called Carteret High, where he was to be the featured speaker. Said Senator Jake Garn, who trained with Smith for a 1985 shuttle mission: "He was my mother hen. They assigned him to me." One thing...
Ronald Reagan has never been a space buff, the kind of fellow who loves to talk gadgetry and hankers to go weightless. He does not know that much about the byways of the solar system. But his sense of American pride has been almost faultless. He has understood intuitively that people must have a challenge that takes them out of the despair that crowds every day. There must be a new frontier beckoning, promising some new hope. He even sees space as a way, in his words, "to render nuclear weapons obsolete." But his proposal to build and perhaps share...
...University of South Carolina, he recalled feeling discouraged as a college freshman until a guidance counselor urged him to pursue physics "because I think you're good enough." Fortified by those words, McNair went on to earn honors galore. Among them: being named a Presidential Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, and a doctorate in physics from M.I.T., where he helped develop specialized lasers. Along the way he acquired impressive skills as a saxophonist and fifth-degree black-belt karate instructor...