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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A catastrophic explosion blew apart the space shuttle Challenger 74 seconds after liftoff yesterday, sending schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe and six NASA astronauts to a fiery death in the sky eight miles out from Kennedy Space Center...
Harvard researchers eagerly await next week's liftoff of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia, which will carry their unprecedented experiment on the effects of weightlessness on human blood...
...launch date approached, the sense of exhilaration quickened. "It was put together in a hell of a hurry," said Pilot Walker with apparent delight. On the appointed day, turbulent winds of up to 80 m.p.h. at high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into...
...curtain for the 106½ -orbit flight went up with a glitch-free liftoff. For the first tune, Challenger hurtled directly into orbit instead of making the conventional three-part ascent. The lineal climb was designed to save the craft's maneuvering rocket fuel for the tricky rendezvous with...
...color negatives, which cannot be read by eye. To shoot space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral, for which equipment has to be set up days in advance, and left in place, the lab's specialists adapted delicate seismographic probes used for oil exploration; activated by timers just before liftoff, the probes' circuits sense the rocket's vibrations and trigger the motor-driven cameras. "We do everything that a commercial lab does," notes Orth. "We have to be able to do anything and everything the company needs." Indeed, says TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin, "the Photo Lab really...