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...citizens and have five or more years of full-time professional experience reporting contemporary events in print or on television or radio. There is no age limit, and aspirants who reach the final selection process will be screened by a new, less stringent medical standard established by NASA for such civilian projects: free of disease, injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training; eyesight correctible to at least 20/40 in the better eye; able to hear a whispered voice from 3 ft. away (hearing aids are permissible); and a blood pressure reading of less than...
...discovery of the bodies was a wrenching twist for the families of the Challenger astronauts. It came as the finger pointing and recriminations inside NASA spilled into public view with harsh accusations by veteran astronauts that the space agency had repeatedly placed expediency over safety. Reeling, NASA administrators were forced to concede in congressional testimony that the shuttle program has been seriously set back, so much so that the entire space effort may require a thorough reorganization...
...NASA's woes were further accentuated by a Soviet coup. Just as U.S. television cameras were showing the Navy recovery ship, the U.S.S. Preserver, bringing to Port Canaveral its dolorous cargo in a flag-draped container last week, Soviet television was beaming to the world images of a triumph: the successful launch of a Soyuz spacecraft that carried a pair of cosmonauts to the Soviets' newest space station. Normally, the Soviets announce space shots only after they have been safely launched. Though last week's "live" telecast appeared to be risky--what if something had gone wrong?--the Soviets actually...
...NASA and the Navy have tried to keep a tight lid on the recovery of the astronauts' bodies, but some details inevitably came to light. Discovered resting on the ocean floor by the 15-ship search fleet that has been scouring the waters off Canaveral since the Jan. 28 disaster, the Challenger's crew compartment, 16.5 ft. by 17.5 ft. by 16.3 ft., was ruptured but not completely destroyed. The lower mid-deck, where Astronauts Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis and New Hampshire Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe had been seated, apparently absorbed the full force of the blast from the shuttle...
...NASA experts now believe that the Challenger crew members were aware for at least a moment of what was happening. "They went fast, thank God, but they knew they were in trouble," one astronaut told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. From interviews with NASA officials and members of the presidential commission investigating the disaster, Hannifin was able tentatively to reconstruct the astronauts' final moments. His report...