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...debut last July at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the first-stage motor malfunctioned, and after 17 seconds the missile exploded. The motor was redesigned, and a new version installed. At the second test, at White Sands on Nov. 4, the signal to turn on the missile's on-board batteries failed, promptly shutting down the Pershing and keeping it earthbound. Strike 3 came on Nov. 13 at White Sands, when an electrical connection blew out, and the test was postponed while spares were tested and inserted...
...submitting to some supersonic pampering. He dons pajamas before climbing into a bunk on his specially equipped Boeing 707. He works in the leather easy chair of a private cabin, and afterward relaxes with friends on his staff. In one department, Haig fares worse than commercial travelers: meals on-board are reportedly very poor, but Haig, a food-is-merely-fuel type, does not seem to care. A team of State Department physicians stands by to accompany the Secretary and his party...
Despite a malfunction that cut its mission in half, scientists at NASA and Harvard say last week's flight of the space shuttle Columbia--the first spacecraft to be re-used--was a success, and that data from on-board experiments will reveal valuable information about the earth's natural resources...
...external fuel tank and in one of three oxygen tanks carried aboard the orbiter. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson at Mission Control in Houston stopped the countdown and consulted other technicians. The problem did not seem serious. Pressure in the tanks could be adjusted by warming the oxygen with on-board heaters. Ground computers guiding the launch were instructed to ignore the pressure drop, and the countdown continued...
Next, a loss of pressure was recorded in a second on-board tank. Again, the computers were told to proceed. But when the third tank registered the same problem, only 40 seconds remained before lift off. Before the computers could be redirected, they had shut down the launch at T-minus-31 seconds...