European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stabs and stripes thursday january 30,1986 Germany willing to continue space program by cd reams staff writer of the German space Effort wednesday cipro Ivan not Juliji b a Tel Jittie Uhi seven Amer Ici Iti Astron the Accident of the spaceship challenger has snj"1ken me deeply he Herman minister of science an 4 Icahn Niggy. Or. Hon. Ries Elmber. Said in a Telegram to Nasa. I extend to you my greatest sympathy. The families of the two women and five men As. I extend my deepest regrets. This is u difficult hour for i Ian cd spaceflight element of our Long Ier manii of Tiff astronaut. Or. Ulf Marbold who ans in october 1983. Said in a Tele he interview wednesday it was certainly a great catastrophe for the families and a Shock Tor me. A the same Lime. I Hope the politicians understand that they must press on in spaceflight Experiment-1lion. I have been working with Nasa Foj a Ltd hive in equiv no Faith in Tot emf Linn tin ii " ,. A bar the lust words of we csome sacrifices i think i Sacuk for All the German ast Ronai say that we have no reason to lose Faith in the future of manned space flights Nasa will ultimately decide if there will be any delays or not in i he program til we arc willing to continue and have not lost either Faith nor Trust in Man s Abi tily to overcome the difficulties we might risen Huber announced wednesday that he had postponed in for additional a he thought of Ric Sanhuber s decision. Fer bold surd "1 was in the ministry today and that s just a temporary measure i s not certain that there will be a delay in our next Mission with the . In a spokeswoman for Rieson Huber said the decision get Tinc the advertisements for the d-2 Missioni what went wrong is the Only Rali Onixt " " two German natron Orbr and Rinhard Furrer new on the oct. 30 to nov. 6 shuttle Mission. The scientific aspects of the Mission designated As do were controlled from Hofen Germany challenger from Page 1 and 8 Miles Southeast of the lunch pad the shuttle s nearly 2,000 Mph momentum propelled Ilsc wreckage much farther out Over water. The debris will be examined in a hangar at nearby Patrick fab. The investigation could take months just As it did after America s Only other space program tragedy the launch pad fire that killed three Apollo astronauts 19 years ago this week. The soviets have lost four Cosmo nauts in flight Nasa had planned a record is shuttle flights this year and challenger was on the second. The ship making its 0th flight had been the Workhorse of a four ship Fleet. Killed along with Mcauliffe were com Mander Francis r. Sconce 46 Pilot i Chad j. Smith 40 Judith a Resnik 36 Ronald e. Mcnair 35 Ellison s. Onizuka,39 and Gregory a Jarvis 41, we mourn seven heroes a somber president Reagan told the nation. Nasa s tap shuttle administrator Jesse Moore called it a National Reagan delayed for one week his state of the Union speech which had been scheduled for tuesday night and ordered Ameri can flags to be flown at half staff through monday on Public buildings and military installations at the president s request. Vice president George Bush flew to Cape canaveral to offer condolences to the families of the astronauts who watched in horror As challenger was transformed into a raging fireball. There was no immediate explanation for the Accident. Mission control reported there had been no indication of any problem with the shut lie s three main liquid powered engines its twin solid fuel rocket boosters or any other system. Officials said that the shuttle just suddenly blew apart and that radio data Censed at 74 seconds. The absence of any Concrete radio information could hamper the investigation especially if no Large parts of the destroyed shuttle can be recovered. In the Case of the Apollo fire the spacecraft was on the ground and the Evi Dence was there to examine. Data from All the shuttle instrumentation photograph launch pad systems hardware cargo ground support systems and even notes made by any member of the launch team and flight Ops operations team Are being impounded Moore said. He named an interim investigation team headed by Kennedy space Center director Richard Smith and said Nasa s acting administrator William r. Graham would soon name a formal review Board. The explosion occurred is Scobee was throttling the main engines Back to Maxi mum thrust after dropping them 0 65 per cent to reduce forces of Gravity on the ship. It took place just after the spaceship drove trough an area where wind and other atmospheric forces exert maximum pressure on its outside. Roger go at throttle up reported Smith As the thrust increased. Those were the last words from the spacecraft. The major blast came from the Large external fuel tank which lifted off with526,000 Gallons of volatile liquid Hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant. As the fire Ball spread terrifyingly across a Clear sky the two solid fuel rockets broke Loose and continued flying crazily apparently under full thrust before they crashed into the Ocean John Osborn professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University and a rocket expert for 35 years speculated on what might have happened after he viewed slow motion videotape of the explosion. After the explosion i see a Normal sex program from a the risk. Edward Ney a University of Minnesota professor of physics and astronomy and along time critic of the shuttle program.,says astronauts lives were lost for a project with Little scientific value. Putting men on the Moon the greatest bit of history of Mankind cyst cd Tkavc All kinds of respect for tha bin tenement but not fori idl transporter to haul junk and no arc and Alex Roland a military historian a Duke University in North Carolina said i Haven t seen Btl it compelling argument for manned tupac Elliant. Almost any Mission you can think of we can design a machine to do. The Cost and the safely of uan space flight Are i ratio serves a subcommittee. A lift jeopardize the Sti t the Long run. America s future hat always been with the horizons and space to me has just Bee the next Frontier Lewis said. The More immediate future of the shuttle program Nasa s plans Lor the busiest year Ever in i9b6. With is foundling was at Best severely disrupted with the Christa from Page 1 or Sonny and cruel. T made it More so. At the Ancin Bagci Aal in Knox Volle tenn., teacher Lynen to my Al hed the launch with her u fourth saw it lift off they saw it explode they saw their teacher shaking convulsively. They re dead. They re dead the teacher Laid. The children stared at her in Awe. In Scotts Date ariz., teacher Abrought three television was or fatso All her eighth graders a me pah school would have t Goody Siewt some in their i t ii Nojir Tiit i patches. Suddenly turned to horror ugh registered they ran to their teacher and in confusion and sorrow hugged her and wept with her. I 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 measured by another but ii 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 House rest natives heard the news it tiered a prayer and Thuv time the stale s Gen i the news its chaplain Ign a it " Assembly and bed. A in Concord n.h., Edwan Friend of the Macau lifts and Tolu _ chrism s husband Steven both Are Law yers 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 none will remember More vividly than those who were there. Heard the Roar and Felt the ground in and watched the Little Bird at big rockets Rise up Andi Chirila Mcauli cd 0w8and was there and their to Gap fat Scott. 9, and car and Grace Corrigan parents and a whole gang of m t classmates who waved banners that said co or. And mrs. Corrigan stood watching proudly Arm in Arm. When the explosion lit the to screens and the sky the assembled watchers cheered thinking it was the scheduled Sepa ration of the shuttle from the Booster. Almost immediately 1 became Clear it was not. A voice said so an a or but toe Corr Fani did not Cora two Emnot. A Nash Vaal approached them and said the the vehicle has excl Lrtil mrs. Corri Gan said. The official nodded and Ted i a sorrowing nation wept with them. Haust pattern and an intact solid Booster i see a Central Cloud and two contrails he said. This indicates there s no problem with the solids. They showed this thing in slow motion and 1 see a red flush near the location of one of the bulkheads in the liquid tank. My Only conclusion is that something apparently happened to the liquid oxygen and liquid Hydrogen probably the Liquita Hydrogen be cause it s aft and it will Burn in any proper cautioned that he was Only speculating based on what he could see. Leo Krupp former lest Pilot and Nasa Engineer said on the lbs morning news wednesday that analysis of video tapes indicates the source of ignition appeared to be abnormal flame patterns from he nozzle area of the left solid fuel rocket said the flames can be seen moving upward despite the High Speed of the vehicle suggesting that the flame was a Lith velocity exhaust Gas of some we will not speculate As to the specific cause of the explosion based on that fool age Moore said. The investigators will take a careful review of All data before we can reach any conclusions he said. Temperatures shuttle explosion. The sub Educ it Nike launch in May of during shuttle flights. The satellite set for launch on May is was to gather data for a major scientific study of Jupiter. Another satellite called Galileo was to be launched from the space of Hustle Atlantis on May 21 and become the first Man made abject to orbit the solar poles. 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