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...first big glitch occurred on July 12, when a computer detected contamination in Challenger's hydrogen fuel and aborted the launch 3 sec. before takeoff. The 112-ton spacecraft blasted off 17 days later, but 5 min. 15 sec. into the flight, a monitoring device reported that one of the three main engines seemed to be heating up to a dangerous 1,950 °F. That sensor alerted the onboard computer, and for the first time in the 24-year history of the U.S. manned space, an engine was shut down in flight. But as the craft hobbled bravely heavenward...
...some reason, the oil companies set their headquarters in Midland, giving the town a white-collar image, while the field hands clung to Odessa, lending it a blue-collar air. When high school football came along (to continue our ton of history in a thimble), it meant that every Thanks-giving the bosses' sons played the sons of the laborers. Through the years things changed--both towns now sport enough alabaster shirts to have a lot of ring around the collar in the summertime--but the deep and abiding rivalry over high school football remained white...
...phobes? It may be. Rather than emphasize the shipboard experience, Hadji-Ioannou says he wants to make the glamorous ports of the French and Italian Riviera the main attraction. Beginning May 6 and at $57 a night per person, cruisers will be allowed to hop off the 4,007-ton easyCruiseOne (there is no Two at this point) at any harbor, have an afternoon of fun ashore and then party the night away before setting sail for the next destination. The catch? Passengers must book at least two nights, and there's no housekeeping service unless you're willing...
...thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7½-ton cylinder built by Hughes Aircraft's Space & Communications Group flipped out of Discovery's cargo bay exactly as planned. But the satellite's rocket failed to ignite, leaving the huge canister stuck in a 200-mile-high earth orbit, well below the 22,300- mile-high geosynchronous path...
...ton yacht Oneida sailed up New York City's East River in early July 1893, almost no one in the country was aware that on board, President Grover Cleveland lay unconscious under general anesthetic. Cleveland's life and possibly, the future of the nation rested that day in the hands of a few surgeons. Even his pretty young wife Frances had not been informed of the President's illness...