Word: onizuka
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...astronauts had to exit the shuttle on the launch pad through noxious fumes, had been manually activated. One was identified as Smith's. Since the Challenger pilot, locked into his safety harness, could not have reached the control, it must have been turned on by either Ellison Onizuka or Judith Resnik, who sat behind him on the spacecraft's top deck...
...there. The wife of Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis asked that his remains be cremated so his ashes could be scattered into the Pacific near his home in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A military service will be held at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii for Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka. Mission Specialist Ronald McNair will be interred in his hometown of Lake City, S.C.. The family of Mission Specialist Judith Resnik has not announced its plans. The final ceremony for Challenger's crew will be at Arlington, where the body parts that could not be identified will be placed...
...others were commander Richard Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis...
After last week's tragedy, his 72-year-old mother Matsue Onizuka wistfully recalled her son's dream. "Ellison always had it in his mind to become an astronaut but was too embarrassed to tell anyone," she said. "When he was growing up, there were no Asian astronauts, no black astronauts, just white ones. His dream seemed too big." One dream was to continue traveling in space as long as he could. "There's no age cutoff for astronauts," he used...
...Onizuka often returned to visit his mother on the slopes of Hawaii island's Mount Hualalai, where she runs a general store near the village of Holualoa. Last week she showed reporters the wooden frame he had built to hold the mailboxes across the road. "His daughter Janelle, who was then about six, was afraid her father would be hit by a car," she recalled. "So they made a sign that said DANGER. MAN AT WORK. She stood out there holding the sign, and I chuckle every time I think about it." Mrs. Onizuka added, "He did a good...