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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fated launch of the space shuttle Challenger were two veteran TIME space watchers: Correspondent Jerry Hannifin and Photographer Ralph Morse. Between them they have logged nearly six decades covering the U.S. space program. As Morse peered through his telephoto lens at the swiftly rising Challenger, he remarked that the lift-off appeared sluggish. "Don't kid yourself," said Morse. "They're in trouble up there...
...Saturday the sad sound of bugles blowing taps rolled across the site from which the astronauts had climbed so joyfully, but so briefly, into the air. Employees of the Kennedy Space Center held a memorial service near the stands where the schoolchildren had watched the lift-off. A helicopter then carried a wreath of white chrysanthemums and seven red carnations two miles out to sea and dropped them into the gray water...
...Schaeffer of Belmont High School in Los Angeles, personal gestures caught the national mood. Schaeffer had been one of the teacher semifinalists in the competition to lift off on Challenger, and despite the disaster, he still yearns for a flight. "I would go today, right now. I wouldn't even go home to change," he said. But he appreciated the students who gently touched his shoulder on Tuesday. "It was an affirmation of life." For students, he explained, "a teacher in space becomes their teacher. Do you know an astronaut? Everyone knows a teacher...
Barakett's 13 goals and 15 assists this year have helped lift the Crimson (10-4-1 overall) into first place in the ECAC with a 10-2 mark. He is third behind Harvard Captain Scott Fusco and Bourbeau in league scoring and ranks among the top 20 scorers in the nation with an average of almost two points a game...
Draper stopped 37 Crimson shots--including a handful of power-play flurries at the beginning of the third period--to lift the Cats (12-3 overall) into first place in the ECAC with a 7-1 league ledger...