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Not in tha foreseeable Lulu re would is flight rate again envision two dozen flights a year the first Pom challenger Light is scheduled feb. 16,1988, with Lour to follow Laler in the year. The Agency Wai shaken up. A new administrator took Over to replace an acting chief who had the mis Lorline of being at the Helm Al the wrong time. A new shuffle program director an experienced astronaut came aboard. There were wholesale resignations and shitting of duties in the top ranks at the Marshall space flight Center which deals with propulsion systems and at Morton Thi Okot. Inc., which built the boosters. The directors Al the Kennedy arid Marshall centers Alired and the head of the Johnson space Center who had approved the challenger launch look a leave of absence. Tha spouses and children of astronauts Scobee Onizuka. Jarvis and Mcauliffe made financial sell Lemens with the government and Morton Thi Okol that Are reported to be at least $1 million each. The family of Smith having been rejected in a $151 million claim against the government is free of sue if current negotiations breakdown. The Smith and Resnik families Are still talking with the Justice department Mcnair s family is suing Morton Thi Okol. Alter mulling it Over for six months president Reagan agreed to a $2.8 billion replacement Lor challenger. Al the same time he ordered the space Agency out of the business of launching commercial satellites and said private Industry should be encouraged to do so. But Here was almost no private launch Industry left and no prospects at rockets until 1989 so satellite owners turned to foreign firms in Europe and China even the soviet Union was offering deals for us Large rockets. Two billion dollars Worth of scientific programs were put on hold including the $1 billion Hubble space Telescope the most ambitious scientific space project to Dale and the space probes that were to have been sent in 1986 Loward Jup Fler and the Sun. Ten Asl Ronals unwilling to wait for a renewal of Lewer lights resigned from the corps or euro reassigned to other duties. Nasa and its contractors Laid off thousands of worker. Has the nation Learned from All this historian there s got to be a healthy Mistr Byra Lurecer associated press he american astronaut corps a close knit group whose private grief turned to unconcealed anger and suspicion in the aftermath of the challenger disaster has gained influence and authority As Nasa moved to resurrect its railed shuttle program. No one understands the grandeur and dangers of spaceflight better than the flight Crews and no one was More powerfully affected by the destruction Al the shuttle and the deaths of the five men and two women on Board. To the astronauts fell the immediate need to Comfort the families of the dead to lend their unique View to the Accident s cause and to search for ways to restore a Confidence and Trust that were destroyed in a fireball eight Era of above Cape canaveral on that frosty january morning. Theirs was not just a toss of headline heroes but of dose friends and colleagues. The res of the nation Felt a sympathetic bereavement but the astronauts fell the cold breath of mortality. They came to work to find empty desks with colleagues missing forever voids that emphasized that their lives too had been at risk and would be again. At licit there a Al reel gamely hidden from Public View. But in the weeks and months that followed As More was teamed of the causes of the disaster there was anger and resentment and mistrust. Some biased Nasa managers who permitted the use of flawed rocket engines while assuring the Crews that off was Well one astronaut said of his colleagues a lot of people Are saying i Don t Trust Itose bastards any More what they Are really saying is that we had a system hat was supposed to unction and it did  Veteran astronaut Menry Hartsfield said in March he was stunned to Fearn that some Nasa engineers had known about the flawed Rockel engine design and never told he astronaut corps. I was angry about it and stil am said Hartsfield. A lot of people in the astronaut office feel punch in the nose angry Jon a Mcbride said at Hie same time. We feel l guess the world is betrayed or taken advantage of by what we sense happened to  there also was simple disappointment. Challenger s Accident forced the grounding of the Heel and astronauts faced More years of uncertainty. That s one of the toughest things of All said Mcbride who had been scheduled far his first space fight command just a month after challenger. Some senior Aat Panaula realized the Long delay ended their chances to Ever Fly again. Ten astronauts resigned or took reassignment some cited the unc dainties As heir reason for leaving. The size of Iha space corps dropped to 85. The astronaut corps shared with others in Nasa a temporary technical paranoia where everything that had been done in the past was suspect and Ell of the engineering decisions and evaluations were called into question. People worried thai there were hidden undetected problems in All rite hardware despite a string of 24 successful missions. When you have an acc Tell  is Rong said David Leestma an astronaut who worked on the challenger failure analysis learn. Bryan o Connor said at first there was a difficulty in defining whal precisely had to be corrected there s always a problem that you la have so much checking and recheck Long Hal we can t Fly said o Connor. The safest program is one that does t Fly at All. But Hal s not  tha apace Agency undertook massive self examination and the Asl Ronals were Given major rotes in the Effort to fix Nasa. Ironically to Hittl in venary Al Tow challanger d Ufa coma a Day re i 20th we a Rory at it launch pad Fin Tift killed Apollo Huron Auto Virgil Ormom Lef Edwert Wilif and Roger Chattm. Page 14 the stars and stripes wednesday