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...HR-Allard 2 (6), 2B-Allard
...Wark, Litano, B. Bennett, Kraham; 3b: Martelli; HR: Allard SB: Chicarello, Weller, Martelli (2); Double Plays: Umass (1); E: Martelli, Doyle Marshall, Lovellette, Kraham; HARVARD 330 010 120-10 13 3 UMASS...
...HR--Allard...
...simple and flawless, almost as if it had been performed countless times before. Yet the picture-perfect landing on California's Mojave Desert last week all but obscured the historic nature of those last, breathtaking moments of Columbia's 54½-hr. odyssey. Gone were the great parachutes and swinging capsules of earlier space missions, splashing into the sea, never to travel into space again. For the first time, a man-made machine had returned from the heavens like an ordinary airplane-in fact, far more smoothly than many a commercial jet. So long delayed so widely criticized...
...delta-shaped spacecraft-part rocket ship, part airplane-raced around the earth at an altitude of 150 miles, its nearly perfect performance seemed a glorious vindication of more than a decade of effort and expense. Columbia's flight plan called for a 54½-hr., 36-orbit mission, ending with a nerve-racking, gliding descent into California's Mojave Desert. There was every expectation that it would achieve that goal. Three and a half hours into the flight, as the spacecraft began its third orbit, Mission Control sent word that Columbia was "go" for the full flight...