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...summer is still too young to know whether the renovations slated for completion this fall will have happy endings fans stomping the solid stands without fear after a Crimson touchdown, and Lowell and Winthrop residents unloading trunks and pounding in nails in their assigned rooms. For now, the abundance of construction workers signifies more than added inconvenience, noise and curious sights. The work shows a major and slightly daring venture aimed at preserving Harvard without interrupting...
Word went out to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for a possible touchdown there. But NASA was uneasy about landing on the single, three-mile-long K.S.C. runway. Though Kennedy will eventually be used regularly by the shuttle, NASA has not yet tested the bird's landing characteristics in the crosswinds that might be encountered there. An even less desirable option: putting Columbia down on a concrete strip at California's Edwards Air Force Base, near the muddy, rain-soaked desert lake bed where Columbia touched down on its two earlier missions. Laconically acknowledging...
...brakes in the shuttle's rudder to retreat automatically. Finally, only 143 ft. off the ground, Lousma took over the stick. Columbia came in so "high and hot"-pilot's lingo for fast and steep-that Fullerton released the main landing gears a scant seven seconds before touchdown. (Had they jammed, he could have freed them in an instant by firing an explosive charge...
About one thing there was no doubt: at touchdown, Columbia was moving at 250 m.p.h., about 30 m.p.h. faster than in either previous landing. The ship required nearly three miles of desert before coming to a stop, almost a mile more than before. Even before Lousma and Fullerton exited, inspectors had begun looking over the ship for damage. Though about 50 heat-shield tiles were chipped or missing, the underlying aluminum was only superficially scorched...
When Howard Cosell recapped the contest the following night on Monday Night Football, the Browns and their title were all but forgotten. All he could talk about was McInally. He talked about the illegal hit, and he talked about the tying touchdown. And then in his best Cosellian tones he waxed philosophical: "Don't tell me they don't make 'em tough up at Harvard...