Word: nasa
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...Slayton and his NASA coileagues answered the pointed questions, calmly assuring an Australian journalist that Columbia's external fuel tank would not crash and burn outside of Perth, like Skylab two years ago, and responding to a New York journalist by saying. "We are very confident in the crew's training and in the overwhelming likelihood for success...
This last news conference before the launch was all smiles, all optimism and all NASA. In other press conferences, journalists in the audience ask questions that sometimes get answered, but at Cape Canaveral moderator Hugh Harris says. "I think we've had enough questions from here now. Let's go to the Johnson Space Center in Houston." A question from Houston...
...have any questions from Washington?" Not a one. And none from DFRC--Dryden Flight Research Center in California--either, but NASA gave them a chance. Harris turns back to the assembled multitude in the grandstand...
...William Numeroff, who has painted portraits of 140 astronauts, NASA technicians and administrative leaders since the flight of Alan Shephard in 1959, the blast-off of Columbia "signals a new era of space travel...
Having photographed every NASA lift-off since 1959 and shot more than 90 per cent of the Time-Life photos, Morse says, "I've seen America's space program go from pea shooters to cannons, and now taxicabs and pick-up trucks, and every step has been a big one. I feel so close to the launches--it's impossible to judge which has been bigger than the next...