Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA's space-flight director, Jesse Moore, told the panel that the errant flame was first visible at 59.8 seconds into the flight. Graham explained on TV that the flame "appears to grow and grow . . . until it finally goes to the explosion point." Thus the controllers and astronauts had only...
Among Republicans with an eye on the top of the 1988 presidential ticket, the only prominent absentee was former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who declined to appear because he had expected to be out of the country. Some, including North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and TV Evangelist Pat Robertson...
In the communities where the crew members were raised or lived, friends and family members gathered to try to draw meaning from the tragedy. Seven black ( balloons were released at Framingham State College in Massachusetts, where McAuliffe had earned her bachelor of arts degree. A memorial service in the college...
Although attention at week's end was focusing on a possible burn-through of the casing on one of the shuttle's two solid-fuel booster rockets, Space Flight Director Jesse Moore warned against premature speculation, saying "it will take all the data and a careful review of those data...
Jesse Jackson, a classmate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University at Greensboro, said McNair saw participation in the space program as "the highest way he could contribute to the system that gave him so much." But McNair did not win an honored place in that system without a...