Word: houstons
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Controllers both at the Cape and in Houston intently monitored Challenger's roaring ascent for a different reason. It is the most critical and most dangerous phase of a space mission. "When you have that much power, you have to respect it," said Flight Director Jay Greene in Houston. "If you get complacent about the launch phase, you don't understand what's going on." In the shuttle, the crew was about to be jammed back into their couches by three times the force of gravity. Their immediate fate was out of their hands...
...Houston, we have roll program," declared Commander Scobee. The flight was only 16 seconds...
...reveal new elements--the shuttle catastrophe essentially began and ended in seconds. NASA officials and the victims' relatives cut themselves off from reporters, and there were no further pictures of the accident to be seen. Apart from chronicling the nation's grief (including a moving memorial service in Houston three days later), the networks could add little but speculation to the story on Tuesday...
...magnitude of the tragedy commanded the nation's attention. Even the White House staff and some NASA controllers in Houston admitted later that they watched television throughout the day for whatever news could be gleaned. "We all shared in this experience in an instantaneous way because of television," said ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings. "I can't recall any time or crisis in history when television has had such an impact...
...fated astronauts, interviewed their own correspondents in Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, trotted out scale models of the shuttle to describe how it func tioned and scrambled to round up "experts" who might be able to explain what had happened. ABC got former Astro naut Gene Cernan to its Houston studios. CBS brought on Leo Krupp, a former test pilot for Rockwell International, and NBC recruited former Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton...