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...mission carried a $100 million NASA satellite, the second in a series designed to fill the communications gaps that now exist between orbiting spacecraft and ground stations. Among the experiments the crew was scheduled to conduct was the deployment of instruments that would measure the ultraviolet spectrum of Halley's comet. Another was to sample radiation within the spacecraft at various orbit points. There was even a student project in which the effect of weightlessness on the development of twelve White Leghorn chicken embryos would be studied...
...member of either group to fly in space. Ellison Onizuka was a mission specialist on last year's classified military flight of Discovery, but he was perhaps most appreciated among colleagues for his gentle, unassuming manner. Describing one of the tasks he was to perform on Challenger, to film Halley's comet with a hand-held camera, he remarked with typical understatement, "I'll be looking at Halley's comet. They tell me I'll have one of the best views around...
...icons of his past. Before his first space flight, he presented the Mission Control staff with coffee beans and macadamia nuts from Hawaii. For last week's flight, he persuaded the staff to let him affix a University of Colorado emblem on a satellite that was to track Halley's comet. Onizuka also brought along his college ring. "He wears it whenever he flies," said his wife. Several years ago he visited his family's ancestral gravesite in Japan. The elderly priest of the Buddhist temple where the remains of Onizuka's ancestors are kept remembered saying goodbye to Onizuka...
...mission specialist on last week's flight, Resnik was supposed to help take photographs of Halley's comet, among other tasks. She was also carrying a signet ring for a nephew and a heart-shaped locket for a niece. "I think something is only dangerous if you are not prepared for it," she once said of space travel, "or if you don't have control over it or if you can't think through how to get yourself out of a problem." For Resnik, danger was simply another unknown to be mastered...
...purpose of the mission was to release andretrieve one satellite to study Halley's comet andlaunch another to become part of the space-basedshuttle communications network...