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...about five times as many as for the previous shuttle flight, and the number grew to nearly 1,200 in the hours following the explosion. But most reporters were hard pressed to uncover ; scraps of news, as NASA officials at both Cape Canaveral and the Johnson Space Center in Houston refused all comment. "By midafternoon there was a circling of the wagons," said a NASA employee in Houston. "There was a feeling of overwhelming revulsion toward the media vultures...
Onizuka, 41, lived with his wife and their two children in Houston. But wherever he went, he kept memories and 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...
Scobee carried his fascination with flying to his home in suburban Houston, where he lived with his wife June and their two children. He and Astronaut James van Hoften built a two-seat, open-cockpit Starduster plane and flew it cross-country. The craft, made of wood and fabric, had no radio. Reflecting on this convergence of his work and leisure pursuits, Scobee once observed, "You know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn...
Finally, there were the billions of signals sent between the doomed shuttle and NASA computers at Cape Canaveral's Launch Control and in Houston's Mission Control before and during the 73 seconds of its flight. The shuttle contained an extraordinary array of monitoring devices (sensors to detect pressures, temperatures, fuel flow, and so on), which reported their findings thousands of times a second. This flow of information, or telemetry, was so constant and so enormous that a lot of it was not sent either to the shuttle cockpit or to the consoles at Launch and Mission controls. Instead...
Smith lived in a suburb of Houston with his wife and three children, but he was used to pulling up roots and resettling whenever necessary. "He never turned down a challenge and always did whatever the Navy asked him to do," said Florence Noe, an aunt. Nor did he dwell much on the danger of his work. "Everybody looks at flying the shuttle as something dangerous. But it's not," he commented before Challenger's lift-off last week. "It's a good program, and something the country should be proud of." Said his brother Pat: "I hope everybody realizes...