European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 26 the stars and stripes thursday january 30,1986 All aboard challenger killed in explosion from Page 1 Johnson space Center in Houston. Said the Blasl occurred unexpectedly and with absolutely no  we have a report from he Light dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded. Flight director confirms that said Nasa s Sieve Newbill just after liftoff Nasa said its computers showed that a communications with the shuttle broke off74 seconds after launch marking hat As he moment a the explosion. Mission control reported that there had been no indication of any problem with thei rec shuttle engines its twin solid boosters or any other system and that the shuttle just suddenly blew apart 10 Miles High and High Miles downrange of Cape  minutes after he Accident control lers were still at their consoles solemnly examining flight data. Rags 3t Cape canaveral were lowered to half stuff. The countdown clock that Marks the Progress of the Mission continued for hours. Reagan in an Oval office address after he postponed his stale of the Union Mes Sage because of the tragedy reaffirmed  to the Sli Ullie program and said. The future does t belong to the fainthearted it belongs to the Brave. We will continue our quest in apace. There will be More shuttle flights and More shuttle Crews and yes More volunteers More civilians More teachers in  slops  Nasa delayed its announcement that there appeared to be no survivors until it Hud conducted search and Rescue  before Moore s statement it seemed impossible that anyone could survive such a cataclysmic explosion. The Crew included Mcaulitte and six Nasa astronauts commander Francis , 46, Pilot Michael j. Smith 40 Judith Reitik 16 Ronald a Mcnair 35 Ellison s. Of Niroku 39, and Gregory b. Jams 41. I regret that i have to report that based on very preliminary searches or the Ocean where the challenger impacted this morning these searches have not revealed any evidence that the Crew of challenger survived said Moore Nasa s associate administrator at a Midas to croon news conference. Col. John a lulls director of defense department contingency operations at Cape canaveral said a search Armada of helicopters ships and planes had spotted several pieces of debris floating in the Atlantic we have seen several pieces what looted 10 be about five or 10 feet Long and a couple feet wide he said. The debris will be recovered and taken ton hangar at near by Patrick fab. Nasa said most of the debris found consists of the Thermal tiles that coat the out Side of the orbiter to protect it from the heat of re eni Cring the atmosphere. Shults said the debris from the shattered shuttle Tell into the Ocean in an area be tween 50 and 130 Miles Southeast of the launch site. He said the water there was 70 to zoo feet deep. The president watched video replays in stunned silence and sent vice president George Bush to the Cape to convey his sympathies to the families of the Crew. It s a terrible thing Reagan told re porters. I just can t get out of my mind Mcauliffe s husband her children As Well As the families of the others on  of my cod no exclaimed first lady Nancy Reagan who was watching the launch on television in the White House family quarters. New Hampshire schoolchildren drawn to this Bunch because of inc presence of Mvauliffe the first common citizen chosen to make a space flight screamed and fought Back tears. Americans every where watched in disbelief As television net works replayed the shuttle explosion. Addressing schoolchildren who watched this flight More closely i attn others because a teacher was aboard and Many special projects were planned far them Reagan said i know in s hard to understand hut some times painful things like this happen. It s ail part of the process of exploration and Dis covery. It s All part of taking a Chance and expanding Man a  earlier he had said you have to be out there on the Frontier taking risks. Make it Plain to them that life must go  i guess we always knew there would be a Day like this said Glenn. A congressional investigation was immediately announced but Many lawmakers were Quick to express support for the nation s manned space Effort. Today our chock turns to sadness said House speaker Thomas p. O Neill jr., d mass. We Salute those who risked and gave their lives to serve our country at the last great frontiers. We Salute those who died performing exploits that the people of my age grew up Reading about in comic books or in  lost along with the is .2 billion spacecraft were a $100 million satellite that was to have become an important part of Nasa s space based shuttle communications network and a smaller $10 million payload that was to have studied Hallcy s Cornel. Ii was the second disaster to strike Nasa s pioneering space program. In Jan uary 1967 astronauts Virgil Ous gris som Edward White and Roger chaff burned to death while preparing for an Apollo flight when a fire destroyed their capsule during a training Drill. Four soviet cosmonauts have died in space accidents one in 1967 and three in 1971. Said Bush after his arrival at Kennedy space Center today s tragedy reminds us that danger awaits All who push Back the Frontier of space. It reminds us that the great adventure of space travel requires men and women of spirit and bravery launches had became so routine that the major to networks did not show this one live and had id break into regular program Ming once the dimension of the tragedy was Clear. Cable news network and Many pub Lic television stations did broadcast live and viewers saw the routine turn into disaster. The final seconds went like this go at throttle up flight directors told challenger s Crew noting that the ship had achieved full engine Power. Roger go at throttle up replied Smith the Pilot. Seconds later an explosion followed by the devastating space age fireball. At Mission control there was silence. Not a word was heard from the five Menand two women aboard the ship. Debris Cut White swatches through the sky and fell into the Atlantic Ocean one of the Booster rockets was seen floating Dowson its Parachute. Spectators including the parents of Mvauliffe and family members of the six astronauts watched in helpless horror inthe frosty Fields at Kennedy space Center. Obviously a major malfunction was the first word from Nasa following seconds of agonized silence. As the challenger fell in pieces debris was so heavy that for several minutes Nasa directed Rescue Craft to stay out of the area. The launch scheduled for 9 33 . His can t be happening students in con Ord . A a was of party Horn Send cheers turned quickly to silence and Stirl fed disbelief As 1,200 con Cord High Sidoo stud sets watched the space shuttle chalet few Rise into the sky and explode into pieces it s awful just too a Tyen to con template principal Charles n u said As he fought Back tears. I Hope gown feel be Good. I Hope hell be Good to All of us. Television monitors carried the awaited launch of Christa Mvauliffe to classrooms throughout the school where Mvauliffe taught social studies and Law and planned to return to Leach in the fall. About 200 students and teachers watch ing a television set in the school auditorium participated in the final 10-second count Down and cheered wildly As the shuttle s engines blasted it toward space. Believing the launch to be r students continued to cheer and blow their harm until someone in the Balcony seconds later yelled Damn it there s a major malfunction. Shut up so we can  Only the sound of the television Andrasa reports filled the room As the Stu dents and teachers sat stunned reporters and news television camera filming thai Shock. The silence was broken by Jsn t rent is it this students whispered Freach other and ves Willlis Miuji sg.824.4s1. Neucom will release iheffl%l9gj figure later this week est had been delayed two hours while officials Analysed the possibility that foot Long Bunch pad icicles might cause prob lems. But after liftoff at 11 38 ., Shenasa commentator no still reported sys tems were Normal three engines running normally to noted three Good fuel cells. Three Good apus auxiliary Power units. Velocity 2,057 feet per second 1400 Miles per Hou Altitude 4.3 nautical Miles 4.9 stat Ute Miles downrange distance 3 nautical Miles 3.4 statute mile engines throttling up three engines now 104 percent Normal then the final Exchange with Pilot Smith. Then the explosion. Nasa cameras were trained on the spaceship. While slow Speed replays did not pinpoint the source of the explosion from one Angle it seemed it might Hove come in one of the boosters the two rockets thai provide the ship if initial boost to space before peeling away to Earth stressing that he was Only speculating Glenn of what thought i saw was the first flame coming out of the solid Rocke Booster after thai initial blast the slow motion showed an explosion of the huge external fuel tank which carried half a million Gal Lons of super cold Supero Lalic liquid oxygen and Hydrogen. Challenger dwarfed by the fuel Lank burst into pieces which rained into the Atlantic for 45 minutes. The Nasa administrator. William , was briefing members of Congress on the Agency budget and watched the trag Edy on television. Two members who had flown recent missions Serr. Jake Garn r Utah and rep. William Nelson ,.expressed Shock. 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