European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q sex officer claims proof of american pos. Page 7 g today s Dollar buys 2,37 Marks. Page 23 stripes Magazine the stars an stripes kiss vol. 44, no. 286 thursday january 30, 1986 to d 8693 a ships retrieve challenger debris investigators seeking clues to National tragedy Cape canaveral Fla. A the sea yielded bits and pieces of challenger wednesday to ships combing 5,500 Square Miles far clues to the fireball thai killed five men and two women and hailed All . Space flights in the foreseeable future. Speculation focused on an ominous Bright lash thai was visible ill the base of inc fuel tank before the explosion. Bui shuttle director Jesse Moore who called the shuttle explosion and deaths a National  said he wanted to discourage i hat. You Are asking me to Lay out  he said i m not prepared to do  none of the bodies has been recovered. In the Cape canaveral area plans were Farmed to name a school after Chrisia Mcauliffe of Concord ., who was aboard the shuttle As the first common citizen to Fly in space. She had planned to Leach two lessons from space to schoolchildren All across the country. Killed along with Mcauliffe were commander Francis r. Scobee 46 Pilot Michael j. Smith 40 Judith a. Res set a culled Sioris and photos on be 3. A 5. �. 9. And 24. Tik 36 Ronald e. Mcnair is Ellison s. Onu Ulia 39 and Gregory b. Jarvis 41. An investigation learn held its first meeting to Start the Long inquiry into Why the si.2 billion shuttle appearing to be on a perfect course suddenly plod cd 74 seconds Afler liftoff tuesday raining fiery debris into the Atlantic Ocean. The space Agency impounded every Scruff Piper film and Ulutu connected with the launch Mil pleaded Wilh people to turn in anything they find on the beaches in this Central Florida area. We need every piece of that because we Don t know where the clue might  said Richard Smith the director of the Kennedy space Center the largest re Annani was a chunk of Metal 12 feet by 4 feel and Moure said it was unlikely bodies of inc see challenger on Page 24 mourning nation focuses on Christa Kun Irmyn Hok left and a urinal Dalcino students of Christa Mcauliffe wrap for her in Concord , by Jules u h Asp reial  until now i was always somebody else a presi Dent n senator a civil rights Leader a Soldier. Now suddenly. In the Long procession of Shock and tragedy viable in our living it coins it a one of is we knew lick by name. Chrisia because she was one of us As Ordinary As a schoolteacher. When Chrisia Mcauliffe and the six Crew members died in Thill flaming hell it was no wonder that across the land americans reacted first Wilh disbelief Ihen tears As if learning of u death in Lite family because in a sense that is just what in was. To was this generation s equivalent of. Where were you when president Kennedy was killed " said a High school teacher in Schaumburg Iii. They will always remember hearing this awful  when inc application of Sharon Christa Mcauliffe. 37, wife Mother social studies teacher at con Cord  High Schoot was chosen from 11,us other applications she told her students thai she hoped her flight would show children thai if they dared to dream their dreams could conic Irue. I want students to understand inc special perspective of space and relate in to  she had written in her application. Nothing grand. A teacher proposing to do a teacher s Job. She aimed 10 keep it diary and do a Lilc Sheik a teaching from space. A Concord neighbor Alison Curling was one of the first to hear that Chrisia had been chosen. U was last Luly. And the town was having a sidewalk Sale Curling ran Down main so real spreading the news. She said she my like Paul Revere soon the whole Street was cheering and so in also win All of America. So Christu Mcauliffe became America s leather carrying ill her everyone s own  dreams and that made her death and the death of Lier colleague see Christa on Page 24 most expect shuttle program to continue Johnson space Center Houston a the destruction of the shuttle i. Slenger could Lead to a shutdown in space Friehl comparable to the 22-Montft hiatus that followed the 1967 Apollo fire some Paulha Rivies said while others stud it called into question the whole future of the manned flight program. While experts predicted a possibly Long disruption of the shuttle program most said they expected the National aeronautics and space administration eventually to lift the moratorium. I liken this whole thing id the Apollo fire Bruce Murry a vice president of the planetary society in Pasadena calif., said tuesday that was a terrible blow. We picked ourselves up and went on to do the greatest achievement Ever in space humans going in the Moon in 1969. I think the same thing will happen  a Flash fire killed i rec astronauts aboard the Apollo i spacecraft on Jan. 2i, 967 9 years and one Day before Chal Lenger exploded. It was 22 months before the not flight. The challenger tragedy prompted the space Agency to halt its missions temporarily until the explosion is explained but Jesse Moore director of the Johnson space Center declined to speculate tuesday How Long the investigation might Lake. We re obviously not going to pick any flight activity until we fully understand what the circumstances were Moore said. It will be done just As quickly but As prudently As we possibly can. And As thoroughly As we possibly can he said. The movement toward space and re search supersedes a crisis such As this one said Andrew j. Rudrick executive vice president of the economic development coun cil some will question the program but the feeling will be make sure we do it right rather than Don t do it at All " but some said the dangers of manned flights such As the Shustic s arc not Worth see program on Page 24