European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pagej4 stars and stripes thursday. January 30, 1986 Germany willing to continue space program by de Reavis staff writer officials of the German space Effort wednesday to licit sorrow Over the loss of the seven Amer ican astronauts aboard inc shuttle challenger the Accident of the spaceship has sea Ken me he German minister of science and technology. Or. Kinz Riesenhuber said in ii Oclis Gram la Nasa. I extend 10 you my greatest sympathy. To the families of the two women and five men astronauts i i Renil my deepest re Grels. Liis ii a difficult hour for inc manned space flight Csc Mcnol of our Long and tested Germany s first astronaut. Or. Ulf Marbold who flew with americans in october 198j, said in a de phone interview wednesday it was certainly a great catastrophe for the families and a Shack for me. At the same time i Hope the politicians understand that they must press on in spine night experimentation. I Hai been working with Nasa for eight years and have unequivocal Faith in their ability and their fanatical sense for Security. "1 think if s Good to remember the last words of another flight Pioneer. Otto Lilienthal. He said we must a acc we sacrifices i think i speak for All the German astronauts when 1 say that we Hove no reason to lose Faith in the future of manned space flights. Nasa will ultimately decide if Here will be any delays or not in the program but we Are willing to continue and have not Fost either Faith nor Trust in Man s ability to overcome he difficulties might Riesenhuber announced wednesday that he had postponed an advertising Campaign for additional Ger Man astronauts. A ked what he thought of s decision Mcrrow said i was in the ministry today and that s just a temporary measure. It s not certain thai there will be a delay in our next Mission with the . M 1988." a spokeswoman for Ric Sanhuber said the decision to postpone he advertisements for inc d-2 Mission until Nasa determines what went wrong is the Only rational reaction to the two German astronauts Ernst Mei Schmid and Rinhard Furrer flew on the oct. 30 to nov. 6 shuttle Mission. The scientific aspects of the Mission designated As it were controlled from Hofen Germany. Challenger from Page 1. Crew members would be found. I would always like to hold out Hope he however we be seen a lot of Smalt the Crew apparently had no warning. We have no indication that the com Mander had any sense of anything wrong said William Graham Nasa s acting administrator. The spacecraft was travelling at More than twice the Speed of sound at 47,000 feet which is a the Boundary of the stratosphere where there Are physical changes As optical and visual phenom Ena and Shock Waves Graham said the ship s two solid fuel rocket boosters which could be seen head ing away from the fireball and forming a huge a shaped Trail in the sky were deliberately destroyed by the Range safely offi cer. There was an indication one of tie solids was heading for a populated area and he look the Correct action Graham said. After a Normal launch the boosters drop off the shuttle fuel Lank Parachute into the Ocean and Are recovered by Wail ing ships. Their condition had they been intact might have helped solve the incredible Jig saw Puzzle confronting the space Agency. The officials reiterated thai there will be no More shuttle flights until investigating teams have made their report and corrective actions Are taken. "1 want to assure you As others Nave including the president of the United states that this loss Wilt not Stop us As americans from exploring the Frontier of science and the frontiers of space said Graham. The space shuttle is our principal space transportation system he said. It will re main our principal space transportation sys tem for the foreseeable future. Moore said an interim investigating Board is meeting almost continually and forming teams to investigate different aspects of the Accident. A forma Board including representatives of the space Indus try the air Force and other experts will be convened later. Our Job is to make sure we Don t miss any evidence and to preserve it in As Pris Tine a shape As possible he said. He added that once the problem ii corrected be intend to move ahead with the spate pro eight ships including four coast guard cutters and nine air planes searched the 50 by-100-mile rectangle where challenger s wreckage fell. It. Cmdr. Jim Simpson of the coast guard said most of the debris is in Small pieces hat it was loaded on a single 82-foot Cutter. He did not know Whit part of the ship the 12-foot Section came from. The search area is Between 50 and 130 Miles Southeast of Cape canaveral and the water is Between to and 200 feet deep. Al though the explosion occurred 10 Miles High and 8 Miles Southeast of the launch pad the shuttle s nearly 1,300-Mph momentum propelled the wreckage much fur ther out Over water. The debris will be examined in a hangar at nearby Patrick fab. John Osborn. Professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University and a rocket expert for 35 years speculated on whal might have happened after he viewed slow motion videotape of the fiery blast. After the explosion i a norms exhaust pattern and an intact solid Booster i see a Central Cloud and two he said. This indicates there s no problem with the solids they showed this thing in slow motion and see n red hash near the location of one of the bulkheads in the liquid Lank. My Only conclusion is that something apparently happened to the liquid oxygen and liquid Hydrogen probably the liquid Hydrogen be Causa it s aft and it will Burn in any proper he cautioned he was Only speculating based on what he could see. The investigation could Lake months Juil Hiil did a Frei America s Only other space program tragedy the launch pad fire thai killed three Apollo astronauts 19 years ago this week. The Apollo fire which came Dur ing a test grounded astronauts for 22 months. Scobee Rysnik America s second woman in space Mcnair the nation s Ond Black astronaut and Ort Iroka. B Japa Nese America were making their second shuttle flights Jarvis an employee of Hughes aircraft was on the trip to conduct fluid dynamics tests developed by his com Pany. Program from Page 1 the risk. Edward Ney a University of Minnesota professor of physics and astronomy and a Fong time critic of the shuttle program says astronauts lives were lost for a project with Little scientific value. Putting men on the Moon was probably the greatest bit of exploration in the history of Mankind Ney said. I have All Lumb of respect for that achievement but not for putting up a transporter to haul junk and people who Are and Alex Roland a military historian at Dake University in North Carolina said "1 Haven t seen yet a compelling argument for manned spaceflight. Almost any Mission you can think of we can design a machine to do. The Cost and the safety of unmanned space flight Are rep. Jerry Lewi. R-calif., who serves on the House appropriations subcommittee overseeing Nasa s budget said the disaster should t jeopardize the shuttle program in the Long run. America s future has always been with the horizons and space to me has just been the next Frontier Lewis Laid. The More immediate future of the shuttle program Nasa s plans for the busiest year Ever in 1986, with is launching was at Best severely disrupted with the shuttle explosion. The schedule included the Hunch in May of two science probes during shuttle nights. The Ulysses satellite set for Bunch on May 15, was to gather data for a major scientific study of Jupiter. Anol Faer satellite called Galileo was to be launched front the space shuttle Atlantis on May 2 and become the finl Man made object to orbit the solar poles. Also wrecked Are Nasa s plans to study s Comet. A special camera and satellite aboard challenger were to gather data on the Comet As its scared the Sun. Another major loss will be the Likely delay in the planned oct. 27 launch of a Telescope that is the most powerful astronomy instrument Ever built for use in orbit. Christa from Para 1 More personal and cruel. Seeing it happen made in More so. At the Alice Bell school in Knox Vilic tenn., teacher Lynelle Young watched the launch with her 23 fourth grader. They Law it lift off they saw it explode. Then they saw their teacher shaking convulsively. They re dead. They re dead a teacher said. The children stared at her in Awe. In Scottsdale Ariz teacher Janet Ryan brought three television sets to class so All her eighth graders at Cocopah school would my a Good View. Some in their Tager Nesi. Wore Nasa patches. Suddenly their excitement turned to horror the truth registered they ran to their teacher and in confusion and sorrow hugged her and wept with m glad it was t you mrs. Ryan they said. Six others died. All of course left loved ones and no one s grief can be manured by another but it was the presence of an Ordi nary person with the right stuff that made this manned space Mission different from any of the other 55. In Washington when the Home of representatives heard the news its chaplain delivered a prayer and the House adjourned. In Columbia s.c., when the stale s Gen eral Assembly Beard the news its chaplain delivered a prayer and lie Aikin Bly adjourned. In Concord n.h., Edward Shumaker a Friend of the Maul Iffus and colleague of Christa s husband Steven both Are Law yen was trying a Case in Federal court when he heard the news he broke Down and court adjourned. Yes All will remember what they were doing the Day the space shuttle challenger exploded but perhaps Fione will remember More vividly than those who were there heard the Roar and Felt the ground tremble and watched the Little Bird attached to the big rockets Rise up and die. Christa Mcauliffe s husband was Iacre and their two children Scott 9, and Caro line 6, and de and Grace Corrigan Christa s parents and a whole gang of Scon s classmates who waved banners that said go or. And mrs. Corrigan stood watching proudly Arm in Arm. When the explosion lit the to screens and be by Ibe assembled watchers cheered thinking it wot the scheduled separation of the shuttle from the boosters. Almost immediately it became Clear it was not. A voice said so on a Loudspeaker but the Corrigan did not aim or diced this or would not a Nasa official approached them and said the vehicle has exploded the vehicle Pas exploded mrs Corri Gan said. The official nodded and led them away. A sorrowing nation wept with them. 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