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...years later, a girl came running into Mr. Covino's fifth grade class, heralding through mask of shock and sweat that the Challenger had exploded just moments after liftoff. A mood of solemnity hung over Grafflin Elementary School that afternoon and it lingered for several days. Parents and teachers related how they had learned of the Kennedy assassination in a similar fashion. Sometime later that year, a current events-minded teacher took a poll, and my classmates voted the Challenger incident to be the most important news story...
...Tuesday on a mission to modernize what has already been one of the projects of which NASA is most proud. "With a little luck and a couple weeks, the best telescope in the universe will be even better than it is now," commander Kenneth Bowersox said just before liftoff. Since its 1993 repair, the Hubble Space Telescope has consistently delivered breathtaking views of the universe as it existed almost at the beginning of time, along with snapshots of billowing clouds of hydrogen gas and dust, 1 million-mph galaxy collisions, and stunning red and blue close-ups of Mars...
...gear. The space agency says the six astronauts on board are not in danger, but the shuttle's planned five-day docking with Russian space station Mir may have to be shortened. The problem developed when one of the three auxiliary power units began leaking hydraulic fluid immediately after liftoff. NASA rules stipulate that after achieving its objectives, a shuttle must return to earth as soon as possible if a leak can not be isolated. It is too early to say if that will be the case on this mission. "As NASA is often forced to admit, the Shuttle...
...Harvard sophomore is spending the month at Cape Canaveral, Fla., making last-minute adjustments to a protein crystal growth experiment to be launched on the space shuttle Endeavor, scheduled for liftoff perhaps as early as the end of August...
...Internet. Since its record 16-day mission began last Thursday, several hundred thousand E-mailed questions have poured into NASA's "Astro-2" site on the World Wide Web, but only three have made it past the space agency's sorters so far. "Why did they schedule the liftoff for 2 a.m.?" asked Thomas Maier, Jr. of Decatur, Ga. "I like to watch and it is past my bedtime. I am 9 years old you see." Crew member Tammy Jernigan, up at 5 a.m. EST, replied that astronomy studies indicated that an early liftoff would speed their search for intergalactic...