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Aloha! Shuttle explosion still mystery Today is Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1986 • Food -Americans Ill shock, sorrow

Combined New, Seroice, on the inside: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Hours after the worst space • The nation's shocked dis­ disaster in history, NASA belief turns to mourning. Pages scientists hadn't the slightest A-2, A-3. idea what had caused the first • McAuliffe's family and fatal in-air accident in 56 U.S. friends watched·disaster unfold manned missions. above them. Page A-3. The space shuttle Challenger Chili,America's "bowl of bless­ exploded 72 seconds after a • Delay in shuttle program edness" spectacular launch yesterday may affect "Star Wars," other Page F-1 morning, disintegrating 10 military programs. Page A-3. Hawaii miles above the Florida coast • Schoolchildren nationwide and killing a crew of seven - watched disaster and some including Christa McAuliffe, City Prosecutor Charles Mars­ may be traumatized. Page A-2. land gives his definitionof por­ America's first teacher in nography and a state judge space, and astronaut Ellison • Lessons from the tragedy: rules that a videotape probably Onizuka from the Big Island of an editorial. Page A-10. is pornographic Hawaii. • NASA - What's ahead. Page A-5 Ships, planes and helicopters Page A-10. rushed to a vast area 50 miles House Judiciary Committee ap­ off the Florida coast where • Prolonged grounding of the proves a "livingwill" bill flaming debris rained down for shuttle· could result in sizable Page A-3 an hour after the mighty explo­ economic losses throughout The Nation sion, but all they found were the military and commercial parts of Challenger's booster space industry. Page C-7. Reagan administration will pro­ rockets. pose catastrophic health insur­ Hours later, heat-resistant ance for all Medicare benefici­ shuttle tiles and other debris Addressing America's school­ aries in return for a higher began washing ashore south of children, Reagan said, "The fu. monthlypremium Cape Canaveral. Passers-by ture doesn't belong to the faint­ Page D-1 were taking them to the south hearted. It belongs to the gate of the Cape, where they brave." The space program will Tip O'Neill accuses Reagan of were . then delivered to the continue, he said, as will the handing lawmakers "a line of policy of sending private citi­ baloney" about unemployment Kennedy Space Center. Page D-1 Early speculation, based on zens aloft. fuzzy television pictures, was The 11:38 a.m. EST launch The World centered on the shuttle's giant looked picture-perfect. A external fuel tank, loaded with' minute later, cable TV viewers In another offer of arms reduc­ 526,000 gallons of highly explo­ and spectators at the Cape tion, Gorbachev may be sug­ sive liquid hydrogen and oxy­ knew otherwise. gesting a willingness to side· gen. Then the voice of Mission step the "Star Wars" dispute Control confirmed. First, the Page A-12 But NASA, normally a fount of information, stqpped talking voice said, "Obviously a major late yesterday, denying re­ malfunction." Then, seconds Entertainment qu~sts for interviews with later, "Vehicle has exploded. Zachary Helm dedicates his space experts and.astronauts. . . . We are checking with first album to his brother, the "We will not speculate as to recovery forces to see wbat can late George Helm, among the specific cause of the explo­ be done." others sion based on that footage," Rescue teams boarded ships, Page B-3 said Jesse Moore, NASA's top helicopters and planes and shuttle administrator. A NASA combed the cold Atlantic ·Focus investigating board will con­ waters 18 miles from the coast, Lane Nemeth founded Discov­ duct a "careful review" of ail searching against hope for ery Toys - safe, educational data "before we can reach any signs of the crew. Paramedics fun for children conclusions," he said. Moore leaped into the water amid a Page B-1 said he did not know how long rain of spacecraft wreckage. the investigation might last. There was no one to be Money Around the nation, flags flew found. Stock market Jumps 18.81 at half staff while Americans "Everybody's sick," said Bob point to 1,556.42 boosted by attempted to · come to grips Osterblom, an engineer who General Motors' stro'ng per­ with their sudden grief. works on the solid rocket formance "We've never had a tragedy boosters at Cape Canaveral. Page C-7 like this," said President Rea­ "It's like a morgue around here. r gan, who postponed for a week There are so many backup sys­ Sports last night's State of the Union tems, NASA is so cautious, so address. In a short televised careful, so safety-minded, that Buddy Ryan, defensive coordi· ;,;. speech, Reagan said, "We it's incredible this happened." nator of the Super Bowl cham­ UPI photo mourn seven heroes ... They, For a moment, America stood pion Chicago Bears, is expect· The drama of the space tragedy is captured by photo of the shuttle Challenger as it lifts off (left) ed to be named coach of the the Challenger seven, were pio­ PhiladelphiaEagles and explodes (top right). The plume was visible across Florida from Miami to Tampa. neers." See Space on Page A· IA Page C-1

Family Circus 'Challeng~y:ou have to take' by Bil Keane. Onizuka prepared family for worst

By Beverly Creamer bring herself to ask if he'd left to fly in space. Yesterday's mis­ Advertiser Staff Writer a letter for her in the folder. "I sion was to be his second shut­ didn't ask. I felt kind of sad." tle flight. "You launch, not knowing After his talk with his wife, Onizuka's January 1985 flight exactly what is going to hap­ Onizuka spoke individually to on Discovery, the 15th shuttle pen," Hawaii astronaut Lt. Col. each of his daughters, Janelle, mission, was the first ft:lly Ellison Onizuka told The Hono­ 16, and Darien, 10. classified American manned lulu Advertiser in a frank and "They became more emotion­ space flight. Although the mis­ lengthy · interview several al than I thought they would sion was shrouded in secrecy, "Want me to scratch some­ weeks ago. be," said their mother. "They the shuttle's payload was thing for you, Grandma?" "And that is the challenge had like confessions with him. thought to be a sophisticated you have to take. Without It surprised me the things they satellite designed to eavesdrop doing that, one would never be said. Our teenager related she on Soviet communications. able to accomplish the work had ups and downs. She apolo­ In that long and frank tele­ The Index you set out to do . . . gized for some things and he phone interview from his Hous­ 10 sections, 80 pages "You can always plan for apologized for not understand­ ton home as he handed out Ann Landers D2 ing some things sometimes. She Asia-Pacific roundup D1 what you expect to see, but the candy last Halloween, Onizuka Bridge D2 unknown is always there." -said she thought it was because talked about his early dreams Capitol Calendar A4 For that very reason, the Ha­ of growing up." in Kona, his hopes for the Classified ads D6-14 waii astronaut had tried to pre­ Onizuka's daughters never space program, and how contin­ Comics D2 pare his family for any eventu­ considered their father's profes­ gency plans for system failures Crossword puzzle D2 ality. Before his first shuttle sion as anything out of the were built into the astronaut Don Chapman AS flight a year ago, he sat down ordinary. "They go to school training regimen. Editorials A10 with his wife, the former with other kids whose parents For instance, he explained, in Entertainment 83.4 Lorna Yoshida of Naalehu, to do the same thing," said their the event of a guidance system Focus 812 Food FHO go over important documents. mother. failure, the astronauts could I •Global Report D1 "Before his last flight I said "My younger one, when I bring themselves home any­ Honolulu Calendar A4 'Come on, we have to talk asked her what Ell does for a way. Horoscope D2 about insurance,' " she recalled living, she was not all that im• "If everything else fails," he Legislative news AS during the same telephone pressed. She said 'Yeah, Daddy said, "we can still use the stars Letters to the editor A11 interview late last year. is an astronaut but Mr. So and to get home. We have about 50 Money C7-10 "But he did that all without So down the street is a real to 80 navigation stars we use National news roundup D1 my knowing. The night before estate agent and owns all these - depending on what software Obituaries D3,D4 he flew, he made me sit down houses."' you're .ising - and if we can People 81 Sports Report C1-6 with him and we went through Onizuka, 39, who grew up in find those stars we can realign Stocks CB the entire folder. Everything is Kealakekua, Kona, helping on the platform on the orbiter. Today on TV 84 step-by-step so I don't have to the family coffee farm and "We need to point the star Tides A4 think . . . A will, people tq_con­ dreaming of being an astronaut, tracker on the shuttle right at Wayne Harada 83 tact ... He has letters to the was one of the seven aboard the star and then realign the Weather A4 children in there and they don't the space shuttle Challenger platform . Then we know how Word game 82 , read them unless he meets with yesterday when it exploded. to come home, bec_ause we can World news roundup D1 a casualty." A year ago he was the first Advertioer sketch by Adam Nakamura But Lorna Onizuka couldn't American of Japane~e ancestry See Onizuka on .., Page A•IA .J 'I i A-IA Wednesday, January 29, 1986 TheHonolulu Advertiser ** Space shuttle explosion still mystery from page one Then, as the world watched, "Dick" Scobee, 46; pilot Michael banner that said, "Go Christa." · Ballard, a _16-year-old_reporter hours, replaying pictures of the the mammoth spacecraft erupt­ J. Smith, 40; Judith Resnik, 36; McAuliffe had received a gift for The Crimson Review, Con- explosion dozens of times. NBC still. Then a nation's anguish ed in a huge fireball and shot Ronald E. McNair, 35; Onizuka, of a $1 million life insurance cord High's school newspaper, anchorman Tom Brokaw as­ began to churn. out of control. 39; and satellite engineer policy from an international said he first thought the fire- · sured viewers that the network Congressmen talked of re­ For more than half an hour Gregory B. Jarvis, 41. satellite and space insurance ball was "just a regular separa- was not replaying the dramatic evaluating the nation's space after the explosion, a serpen­ McAuliffe, who was selected firm shortly before takeoff. tion_ of the booster from the footage out of ghoulish glee, program. Within hours, news­ tine trail of white smoke re­ from 11,146 applicants to be the As the $1.2 billion spacecraft orbiter. I heard ooohs and but rather, he said, because papers published extra editions. mained in the clear Florida first teacher in space, had blew apart in plain view, many aaaahs and then, all of a sud- "Some people might not have AT&T reported a surge in tele­ sky, marking the path of the waited all morning at launch cried. Parents hugged children den, screams. That's when I got seen it." phone calls around the country wreckage as it plummeted to pad 39B through a liftoff delay and quickly cleared them off sick to my stomach." between noon and 1 p.m. Wall the sea 18 miles southeast of caused by computer problems the bleachers and onto buses. Linda Long, who handled In Washington, the House of Street expressed its doubts as the launch pad. The flaming de­ and icicles on the pad. A bitter McAuliffe's parents, Edward McAuliffe's public relations, Representatives int~rrupted its stock prices of four shuttle con­ bris was clearly visible across cold front had moved through and Grace Corrigan of Fram­ said the teacher "anticipated session and the chaplain prayed the spaceport overnight, ingham, Mass., stood together the flight almost the way you for the astronauts. The House tractors dropped. Florida, from Tampa to Miami. then adjourned. Children in classrooms across Unlike the shuttle Columbia producing sub-zero wind-chills arm in arm as the loudspeaker anticipate riding on a roller the country fell silent as their during its first flights, Chal­ at the launch pad. brought the bad news. coaster: While you're in line, The New York and American teachers wept at the loss of a lenger had no ejection seats or The launch had been post­ A NASA official climbed a you're scared and anxious. But stock exchanges planned to ob­ colleague. And everywhere, any other way for the crew to poned ·five times, two fewer couple of rows into the bleach­ she never had any doubt about serve a minute of silence today · Amer icans sat by television get out of the spacecraft. than the record seven delays ers and told them: "The vehicle the safety of the flight." in honor of the crew. sets, watching again and again The Challenger crew included Columbia suffered earlier this has exploded." In fact, McAu1iffe had said The explosion was a devas­ the videotape of the spectacular the first private citizen to fly month. Mrs. Corrigan looked back at she felt safer going into space tating setback for NASA, break-up of the nation's show­ on a shuttle, McAuliffe, 37, a McAuliffe's husband, Steve; him and repeated his words as than she did driving in New which had successfully carried piece of space technology. social studies teacher from Con­ their two children, Scott, 9, and · a question: "The vehicle has York City traffic. out 24 shuttle missions in fewer Challenger rose majestically cord, N.H. She was to have Caroline, 6; and members of exploded?" Although only Cable News than five years. It probably will , off the launch pad. It climbed taught American children four Scott's third-grade class watch­ He nodded silently. The Network showed the launch be months before another shut­ smoothly, trailing a 700-foot televised lessons from space. ed in silence from a viewing Corrigans were quickly led live, the major television net­ tle can be launched, while engi­ geyser of fire as it soared to a The other crew members area three miles from the Cape. away. works later · provided continu­ neers try to determine what speed of 1,977 miles an hour. were commander Francis The children carried a large At Cape Canaveral, Brian ous coverage for more than six went wrong with Mission 51L. After · shuttle disappe<;ired:

'ii1t1.1.j Ky son, ,ny son ., ,ny son' By ThomasKaser Base near the Kennedy Space ed looking at each other." and Walter Wright Center and that Jackie Bolden Arnold Onizuka of Honolulu, Adve,ti,e, Staff Write, - wife of another astronaut, a first cousin of the astronaut, Charles Bolden - would be was in another viewing area - "It was a beautiful blastoff flying to Cape Canaveral today one for family members - and I could picture Ellison in to accompany the family to the about 3112 miles from the the spacecraft. Then suddenly Onizukas' home in Houston. launch pad, and he said that there was an explosion . . . and Mrs. Yoshida said she and her initially he and others thought everybody was yelling . 'He's husband, Susumu intended to the explosion was that of the exploded,' 'Dad!' and 'No, no, watch the launch on television rocket's stages separating, "a~ no.'" but slept through it because of we had all seen before on TV. Norman Sakata of Holualoa, the countdown delays. "You could just feel a creep­ Hawaii, who was one of 64 Ha­ They got up at 5:30 a.m. to ing awareness that something waii friends and relatives of watch the launch but ended up serious had gone wrong. Then Hawaii astronaut Ellison Onizu­ missing it because they fell came an announcement over ka in Florida to watch yester­ asleep during the delays, she the loudspeakers that there had day's launch, broke down said. At 6:45 a.m. - a few been a 'major malfunction,' and several times as he recounted minutes after the explosion - everyone was shocked and the fatal launch. relatives called them to tell stunned. Sakata said he was sitting them what had happened. UH regent Fujimoto said near the family of another of "My husband and I turned on Onizuka had carried a regents '. the seven astronauts, Ronald E. the TV, and we burst into tears medal and UH banner in his McNair, and heard McNair's when we saw what had hap­ personal pouch on yesterday's mother say at the beginning of pened. We just couldn't believe fa ta! flight, just as he had the launch, "Yes, sir, that's my it," she said. carried macadamia nuts and son, my son." The Yoshidas were about the some Kona coffee with him on . Then, after the craft ex­ only relatives and close friends his first space fight a year ago. ploded, he heard her crying of the astronaut who did not go Fujimoto also said there were out, "My son, my son, my son." to Cape Canaveral for Onizu­ reports late yesterday that Vice Sakata said he was also sit­ ka's second launch in the space President George Bush aJ1d for­ ting 'three rows away from shuttle. mer astronaut Sen. John Glenn Onizuka's immediate family, in­ The Onizuka delegation con­ had flown to Cape Canaveral cluding the astronaut's wife, sisted of 64 Hawaii residents , and were meeting with the Lorna, 36, and their two daugh­ about half of them relatives of seven astronauts' immediate ters, Janelle, 16, and Darien, the astronaut. One NASA offi­ families. 10; mother, Mitsue, who runs cial told a member of the Ha­ "You can just tell - from the family store near Kailua­ waii group that it was the larg­ everybody's behavior and from Kona; brother, Claude, of Kea­ est family delegation he had all the flags flying at ha.If mast lakekua; sister, Shirley Matsuo­ seen for a launch. - that there's been a great ka of Kealakekua, and her hus­ Almost all of the friends and tra gedy,'' he added. band George and their two chil­ relatives were staying at a Fujimoto's brother, Fred, who dren; and another sister, Norma Quality Inn International in lives in Kona and is a longtime Sakamoto of Honolulu, with her Orlando and had gotten up family friend of the Onizuka husband John and their two early yesterday to go to the family, organized the trip to children. Kennedy Space Center for the Florida for this launch. He said "They are very strong, but launch of the Challenger space most of the astronaut's close there was a mass of confusion, shuttle. friends and relatives had made and everybody was yelling," "We left the hotel about 5 the trip. Sakata said. a.m. for the two-hour ride to Fred Fujimoto accompanied All of the astronauts' immedi­ the space center, and every­ Onizuka on a speaking tour ate relatives were taken by body was excited and happy,'' around Hawaii last year and re­ NASA officials to a nearby said Mrs. Robert Fujimoto, who called how the astronaut talked auditorium for a briefing. had made the trip with her about his love of math and Mrs. Onizuka was later treat­ husband, a Hilo businessman science courses in school and ed for shock at an Air Force and University of Hawaii re­ his lifelong fascination with hospital, but last night she was gent. space. described by her mother on the "When we got there, we Olan Carpenter, wife of Big Big Island as out of the hospital were told the launch would be Island Mayor Dante Carpenter, and "doing fine, under the cir­ delayed till 9:38 a.m, then 10:30 said she will remember the cumstances." a.m., then 11:38 a.m. Finally it way the astronaut signed auto­ The mother, Anna Yoshida of launched, and it was just very graphs for school children. Naalehu, said she learned the beautiful going up. Them there Above the "El Onizuka" signa­ UPI photo immediate family would spend was a big puff in the sky, fol­ ture, he would write: Christa McAuliffe followed by astronauts Ellison Onizuka and Gregory Jarvis on way to launch. last night at Patrick Air Force lowed by a boom, and we start- "Come fly with me." Onizuka tried to prepare family for the worst

His parents, Mitsue and Masa­ ed him well. car had broken down. laugh. "He doesn't even know Then she became more seri­ from page one . mitsu Onizuka, were both born "I do try to set goals for my­ While the Onizukas grew up what the lawnmower looks like ous. in Hawaii, the children of immi­ self and pursue them," he said. less than 50 miles apart on the anymore. He didn't even know "While he's flying around I tell where we're at." grant sugar workers from "I guess way back when I was Big Island, they didn't meet how to fix it last week. I said mig11t as well do something.'' What he didn't speculate Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan. growing up a lot of people until college in Colorado. They 'Look, I changed the spark­ Like so many other astro­ about was an accident during His father , Masamitsu, died in always said you've got to reach were married in 1969 after he plugs."' nauts, Onizuka had grand vi­ launch. 1968. ' for something a ijttle higher finished graduate school. · Onizuka had been in training sions for America's space fu­ After his successful space Onizuka's childhood was typi­ than you think you can get to.'' The next year he went into for this second mission since ture. He talked excitedly about mission last year, Onizuka cal of the rural existence in a Onizuka began reaching for active duty with the Air Force April and as a result was away building a space station, explor­ made a triumphant visit home small coffee community. He at­ that something early. He said and joined the aircraft flight from home 95 percent of the ing the Moon and Mars. to Hawaii for a hero's welcome. tended an elementary school that he first dreamed of becom­ test program at McClellan Air time. In fact, said his wife, they "There are certainly untap­ The family was also invited with three grades per class­ ing an astronaut when he was Force Base in California. A few joked about how unusual it was ped resources out there that to Nisei Week in California, room, belonged to 4-H, once 13. His grandfather told him years later he transferred to to be together in the days he can rid this society of the prob­ and that's when Darien began considered becoming a farmer, not to waste his time, to study the Test Pilot School at Ed­ was in quarantine before his lems we have," he said. collecting autographs of every­ picked coffee beans and became something useful like medicine wards Air Force Base in Cali­ first flight. accustomed to hard work. "I never had dinner with him He also talked about the one she met on the trip, from or dentistry. fornia. commercial uses of space, for hotel maids to restaurant wai­ He valued those years and is But in those days at Honoko­ It was in those years, said so much,'' she laughed. "They convinced his father bought the the pharmaceutical industry for tresses. She even queued up at ha u Elementary School and Mrs. Onizuka, that she dealt drive you out to crew quarters. example. Because of the lack of the Nisei Week banquet to get small farm "primarily to keep Konawaena High School, space with her fears about his safety. They force you to be together my brother and me walking a gravity, he said, "it would her father's autograph. was still a dream. "I got past the fear part of it hours on end which you would­ allow you to separate a lot of straight line." He chuckled at "At that time if you mention­ eight or nine years ago when n't be normally. I said, 'I don't For Onizuka's two daughters, the thought . know how to act. I never saw the compounds in a more pure ed it, it brought a lot of blank he first started flight-testing form." their father's first mission in "They always told me, 'We're stares, so I kind of just shelved airplanes. That's when I was so much of you in all my life."' space gave them a chance to not going to leave you wealthy it,'' said Onizuka. "People worried about him going off to With her husband away so He saw himself as an integral get · to know Haw!ili relatives but we will give you an educa­ would probably take you off to work and not coming home much of the time, and the chil­ part of this continuing explora­ they'd never met. A large fami­ tion.' (Neither of' his parents the doctor to get your head anymore. As far as the shuttle dren older, Mrs. Onizuka had tion and said he felt "Very ly contingent was on hand in finished high school.) checked if you said you wanted goes I don't have that fear." gone back to school to get a fortunate" to have had an Florida for that one, as well as "The Japanese are very con­ to fly in space or go off to As her husband's life became masters degree in public admin­ opportunity so few others had. for yesterday's. scious of passing education on. another planet." more crowded with the de­ istration. She also worked as a "Being out in space you real­ Even Onizuka's elderly moth­ The traditions, the customs, Even when he applied for the mands of astronaut training, substitute teacher and three ly realize the potential and you er, who attended the first were always there. We were astronaut program he didn't Lorna had to pick up more re­ days a week for a roofing start to understand what this launch, was on hand yesterday always taught to work hard make a big deal of it. His wife sponsibility for the family. company. new frontier is all about. at Kennedy Space Center. She and to finish projects." remembered that the morning "He has the trust,'' she joked 'Tm learning how to drive a "It was an opportunity for me still runs M. Onizuka Store, the Later, when he studied aero­ they found out he'd been ac­ during the interview. "I pro­ forklift," she said, chuckling to do something I had dreamed family general store in Keopu space engineering at the cepted in 1978, she was at the vide the thrust.'' again. "I can only go backward. of doing for a lifetime. And it on the upper road above University of Colorado from dentist and he was on his way "He's lousy about fixing They haven't had time to teach was also an opportunity to Kailua-Kona 1964 to. 1M9, those values serv- to work , on the bus because the things," she added with a me first gear." serve our country." A-2 Wednesday, January 29, 1986 TheHonolulu Advertiser School children • \Vatch Ill horror -as tragedy strikes

By Anne C. Roark lie ... was too stunned to cry. A Los . \ nf!.c/e:; Time .\ SPrcfre few. uncertain what to do, gig­ gled. The children were crammed Walter Westrum. superin­ into cafeterias and librar ies. tendent of the school and Some were giggling and executive director of the . squirming in their chairs. project that brought live pic­ Others sat . hunkered down, tures of the shuttle to schools their eyes glued to widescreen all over the country, rose to TVs. A few cheered as they face his students. watched the takeoff of the "Hush down," he began space shuttle Challenger. uncertainly. "What we're see­ .' Then, suddenly, they fell si­ ing is, apparently, it's hard to •, lent. Some began to cry. believe, but it looks like those This scene was repeated in people have just exploded in classrooms across the United mid-air ." ,'. j States as the realization began A few moments later he -­ to take hold yesterday for more added: "Thi s is not some make­ ~ ~ than 2 1 2 million school chil­ believe world, not 'Miami Vice.' Photo via UPI dren: Not only had the first not entertainment you're look­ A NASA file photo shows the Challenger's crew together. Front, left to right, are Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Ron McNair. spacecraft exploded in mid-air ing at. These people are not Top, from left. are Ellison Onizuka, teacher Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis and Judy Resnick. but the lives of seven Ameri­ coming back. They are wher­ cans - and one of their own, ever they are - and the dream Christa McAuliffe, a teacher - that went with them is tempo­ had been lost in the tragic acci­ rarily gone." dent. Because interest in space The men and women of Challenger School districts in thousands travel has waned in recen t of communities had required years. it was the first serious Los A.n,:.eles Timr~ Ronald Erwin McNalr, 35, a shuttle the shuttle's arm to delicately break their students to watch the flight veteran, received a doctorate in away ice that had formed on the space glimpse of the space program Challenger liftoff and to moni­ for many younger children Brief profiles of the crew members of physics from Massachusetts Institute of shuttle Discovery. Resnik was born and the shuttle Challenger: tor its progress over the next Technology and was an expert on raised in Akron. She was single. week as part of Classroom "Was it a bomb'!" cried one Francis Richard Scobee , 46, a Wash- lasers. Born and raised in Lake City, first-grader at St. Rose of Lima 111gtonstate native, married and father Gregory Jarvis , 41, a former Air Earth, the first educational pro­ S.C., McNair was chosen with the gram designed to provide stu­ School in Denver. of two, commanded the flight on his eighth group of astronauts in 1978 and Force captain who resigned his commis­ second shuttle mission. Scobee flew in sion to join Hughes Aircraft as an engi­ dents with a firsthand look at At the McCall-Donnelly Ele­ made his first space flight in 1984. He America's space program. Vietnam and became an astronaut in was married and the father of two. neer, was aboard the Challenger to con­ mentary School, in McCall. 1979. He once said, "When you find duct experiments on the effects of Hall High School in Spring Idaho, some students were so Ellison Shoji Onizuka, 39, was an Valley, Ill., was the headquar­ somet hing you really like to do, and Air Force lieutenant colonel, a former weightlessness on fluid carried in tanks. upset they had to be sent you're willing to risk the consequences Jarvis was born in Detroit and earned ters for Classroom Earth. home. aerospace engineer and pilot. He taught At the shuttle liftoff yester­ of that, you really probably ought to go at the Air Force's test pilot school at degrees from two northeastern univer­ The identification with do it." sities. He was married. day, 400 students gathered in a Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. He was Hall High cafeteria. Many sat McAuliffe was universal. Michael John Smith, 40, the pilot of on his second shuttle mission. Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe , 37, a high school McAuliffe was more than an social studies teacher from Concord, inside a roped-off area the size Challenger, was on his first space mis­ married and the father of two children, and shape of the Challenger ordinary astronaut. She was sion. Smith, a U.S. Navy commander, served as a crewman on a secret De­ N.H., competed with 11,146 other teach­ spacecraft - an attempt to mother, wife and teacher. was born and raised in Beaufort, N.C. partment of Defense shuttle flight last ers in NASA's citizen-in-space competi­ give students a sense of being "They see a mother , a teach­ He was graduated from the U.S. Naval JanuaTy. He was born in Kona, Hawaii. tion to become the first private citizen inside Challenger. er, all the emblems of security Academy, flew a combat tour in Viet­ Judith Arlene Resnik, 36, classical to fly on the space shuttle. In prepara­ Suddenly, as a fiery image destroyed in front of their very nam, trained as a test pilot and was pianist and research scienti st with a tion for the flight, she underwent 120 filled the screen, there was si­ eyes." said Dr. Donald Cohen. hours of space training at Johnson selected as an astronaut in 1980. He doctorate in electrical engineering, be­ lence. director of the Yale Unive rsit y' was married and the father of three came an astronaut in 1979. During her Space Center. She was married and the Chris Leonatti, a 17-year-old Chi Id Student Center. "The children. first space flight in 1984, she operated mother of two. senior, began to cry. Brian Tie­ child's fanta sy is there will be man , 16, sitting in the "cargo Superman to rescue her ... bay" of the makeshift "shut- and there is no Superman.'' Shock wave may hit children And even adults may feel trauma

Combined ,\'eu;1 &rr.;ice& for instance, may think some­ Experts speculated that many for children, especially girls, to thing bad might happen to people could develop a fear of have a strong urge to be BOSTON Parents and their parents, just as it did to flying, a reluctance to engage adventurous, so adult and teachers can and should do a the astronauts. Adults should in close relationships, anxiety group support are very valu­ number of specific things im­ reassure children that feelings, that the United States has able." mediately to help children cope even angry feelings, do not plummeted from its high-tech­ Gerald Koocher, director · of with the deaths of teacher­ cause accidents like yesterday's nology pedestal and a greater training in psychology at Bos­ astronaut Christa McAuliffe and disaster. sense of caution. ton's Children's Hospital, noted her six crewmat ,es, psychia­ Third, they sa id, children Because one of the dead was that preschool children often do trists and psychologists sai d should be encouraged to com­ a teacher who represents au­ not understand that death is yesterday. memorate the deaths of the thority, children could develop permanent and irreversible. First, they said, adults should astronauts by writing letters or at least short -term feelings of "To the younger ones," he acknowledge to children their sending drawings to the fami­ insecurity and apprehension, said, adults gently but firmly own feelings of shock, sadness lies or holding a ceremony to psycho logists said. need to explain that McAuliffe and loss, even if they cry as honor the astronauts. California psychiatrist Dr. Gil­ "can 't come bac!{" and that they do so. And once children have bert Kliman examine d the reac­ "her body is dead." The worst thin g, they said, is grieved, the specialists said , tions of 800 schoolchildren to Virtually all young children, to hustle children away from adults should encourage them President Kennedy's assassina­ he said, will have three basic television coverage of the disas­ to go on with their lives, in­ tion. questions : How did it happen? ter and to avoid discussion of it. cluding exciting adventures like "The best behavioral out­ Will it happen to me or some­ Adults sho uld also kindly but McAuliff e had planned. Chil­ comes (after Kennedy's death)," one I care about? Who will clea rly use the words "died" dren may feel they need per­ he said, "occurred when teach ­ take care of me? and "dead" and not hide behind mission to be happy again, the ers and principals actively initi­ Good answers to those ques­ confusing euphemisms like "ex­ specialists said. ated discussion with children tions, he said, include telling pired" or "was lost." The psychological impact on immediately." children what is known factual ­ The second step, the special­ the millions of adult Americans Even so, he said in a tele­ ly about the accident, noting ists said, is to encourage chil­ who watched the deaths of the phone interview, "there was a that such accidents are rare UPi pholo dren to discuss not mer ely their shuttle's crew members could ·c hilling of ambition, espec ially and reminding them that the Christa McAuliffe's students watch in stunned silence as the feelings, but also their fantasies also be profound and long-last­ with boys, about being presi ­ astronauts' children do have shuttle explodes. The Concord, N.H., students had gathered in or notions of what they think ing, psychologists said yester­ dent. Now it may be difficult other adults to care for them. the schooi·cafeteria to watch the liftoff on TV. occurred. Preschool children, day. After the fireball, agonized silence Haynes Johnson .the space age thllt transformed into The other , more intimate , scene nied by tragedy. We hoped to push Then he took his seat amid more By showed McAullffe 's mother shed­ W4.1hj.,gto" Po,t ~~ hon-or what Americans have come that day behind us forever. But it silence. Not long after, the Senate to regatd as routinely successful ding tears of joy as the shuttle was not to be." recC$Sed for the day. Senators and WASHINGTON :-- In the Sen­ mmlons tnto the heavens. soared into brilliant blue skies over He paused. and his voice seemed other members of Congress bad ate, that fonun for speech-making. Of all the scenes played repeated­ Florida. Then came her tears of to break. After expressing the hope planned to assemble later at night they were .reduced to silence. ly hour after bour yesterday on immeasu,al;,le sorrow. that in the weeks and mondu to for President Reag11n's sixth State The races were long 11nd the ex­ television after that fireball explo­ Another scene was not shared by come "the good Lord will grant a of the Union address, an occasion pressions solemn as the senators sion over the Atlantic killed the the general public but had an measure of comfort and under . that Reagan uses each year to ex­ filed silently into the chamber. seven Americans aboard the space . unforgettable power of its own. standing to the families and press bis sense of buoyant opti• Their chaplain, the Rev . Richard shuttle Chall enger, two were un ­ This took place in the Senate, friends of the seven courageous mism over the nation's future and Halverson, opened the brief prayer matched for emotional impact. where intrusive television cameras crew members ," he took his seat to pay tribute to its newest heroes. session by saying: "Eternal God, are not yet permitted. and stared intently down. But this, too, was not to be. The In Concord, N.H ., 200 students Not a whisper could be heatd. speech was canceled. For of our hearts are smitten, and we are gathered in the high ,chool audi­ Shortly after 2 p.m ., after the most reduced to silence. Let us pray Si• chaplain opened the brief prayer The silence was as deep as it is the day the president , like most of torium before a televis.lon set. They ever likely to be there. the country, was reported to be lently. '' They did. brought with the1D party horns and session, Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., told fellow senators Broken moments later when the sttuined into silen ce at what he That same sense of being unable hats and confetti In readiness for sec ond senator to have flown in had witnessed in slow motion, to express the saclbellS affected the 8$Cent into space of their social of the common sense of gTief over th e personal loss of lives and the space, Jake Garn, R-Utah, stood. stop-action , on sa,lit screen again Americans everywhere yesterday. studies teacher, 37-y,-,-old Christa He had not Intended saying any­ and again and again over televi• A 'day that was to be a herald of McAuliffe. collective shock at "the wrenching image· of this nation's pride and joy thing, he began, adding "it was too sion. success over the State of the Union The sound of eheers, the blaring difficult to do so." His voice was Finally, at 5 p.m., be employed and. celebr11Uon over American dls:appearlng over the Florida of horns and . the sight of shining coast." breaking, too, a!I be paid tribute to the sable ubiquitous medium of scientific proficiency tunled instead young faces after · the successful the pilot on bis own shuttle flight, communications to address the na· into one of national tragedy shared countdown and rocket . liftoff at Then John Glen n, D-Ohio, one Navy Cmdr . Michael Smith, whom tion. "We've never had a tragedy by .. people from the president on Cape Canaveral swiftly turned to of America's first men in space and he called "my mother hen." Smith like this," he said. down, and au seemed struck by the silence. Those stricken looks of a presidential candidate in the last also piloted the fatal flight yester­ Then he called the roll - two inadequacy of attempting to put stunned students , frozen in mute election, stood quietly before his day. women, five men, of varying back• Into words what everyone felt, terror alter the sudden explosion, small desk. He referred to the "I simply am :Incapable of going grounds and experien~es - who Once again, it was the technology were witnessed by countless mil­ quarter of a century that encom­ beyond that," Garn said, "except to died in a moment that few among of the televis ion age that bound to­ lions waichl.ng in a televised mo­ passed the nation's space program say thank you to my colleagues (or the mlllions who watched will gether the country and, this time, mept replayed continually through­ and said softly: the time they have given here to ever forget. He called them Ameri­ it was the spectacular tec4nology of out the day by the networks. "Some times triumph ls accompa- pay tribute to my friends ." ca's newest herot!S,

.l ••The HonoluluAd vertiser Wednesday, January 29, 1986 A-3 McAuliffe's hometown shocked 1 '0/i God, no, please no / . • :-. ·tf!,_Y._h~si-friend. ' • I ~ t 'The to-wn IS just blo-wn a-way' I CPrnblit,;JIV- Seffiffl ' McAuUife's friends, who sat ,in a grandstand with By Richard March Residents of the close-knit was like too much," he said. "It New Hampshire Roman Cath ­ I . KENNEDY ".• SPACE' the third-grade class of United Pre,s International city of 32,000 adopted the is a personal loss for every­ olic Bishop Odore Gendron said CENTER.Fla, ....: 1n • few McAuJiffe's son, Scott. . cheerful McAuliffe as their body." he was "shocked and saddened horrific moment$, · the Scott, 9, ,.his sister, Caro• CONCORD, N.H. - Home­ emissary and shared her excite­ "These people had tears in by the terrible tragedy that has ecstasy . of , Christa line, 6, and McAullffe's town pride turned to grief yes­ ment in becoming the first ordi­ their eyes. They went to befallen the space shuttle." McA.uUife's .,arents turned terday in the New Hampshire nary citizen picked to orbit the pieces," said Edward Makris, husband, Steven, were at a Said Bob Silva, assistant to shockand sflellce. . separate viewing site. city where Christa McAuliffe Earth. Greg's father. "It was the Grace and Ed Corrigan of taught as shocked residents At the Talk of the Town, a greatest blow to hit Concord, princ ipal at Concord High Fra•lnthamt Mass., hug .. "Oh God, no, please no" watched her space shuttle Main Street bar and restaurant, New Hampshire." School, where McAuliffe taught ged each etther ln j'Qbllatlon said one man, clasping his flight explode on television. about 40 residents gathered to history, economics and law: Rita Ciraso was shopping in "She makes history a living ex­ as the $1.2 bllllon space­ hands in prayer. ''That's "She's dead," said Colleen watch the 11:38 a.m. EST blast­ downtown Concord and said craft launched In near• not supposed to happen. Oh Murray, who stood with tears off and then watched the disas­ perience. That's why she 's a l1ews of the disaster spread perfect choice for the shuttle." Ir~ ~:odlti@ii - then God, my best friend is up streaming down her cheeks and ter unfold on two large-screen rapidly. turned to each other ln there.." watched a newscast from a TV televisions. Friends and colleagues say "You could feel it throughout McAuliffe was a warm and stunned sboek a .few mo-­ ..Another man, breathb1g in a store window. "She fol­ "Everyone came down to the town," she said. "It's like nients later. heavily, . Joined him in lowed her dream and she died. unassuming woman, uncomfort­ watch the launch. It was a your sister dying. It's just like able with an expensive home­ Challen,er bad u.ploded prayer as the two continued It's just unfair." hometown person in space," somebody close to you dying." in air. • staring upward. coming celebration some had the Main Street, where thousands said Greg Makris, one of the "I can't believe it and I can't planned for her. After what many in the A minute later, when cheered McAuliffe in a home­ owners. stand it," said Susan McLane, a crowd of VIP observers Mission Control confirmed "It 's not the Olympics," she coming parade last summer, He said the excitement turn­ state senator and a friend of told a reporter . "It's Concord, thoaght was a separation of the explosion, McAuliffe's was nearly deserted. the McAuliffes. "I feel like I the craft from its l'Ocltets, a best friend. Jo Ann Jordon, ed to shocked disbelief as the New Hampsh ire, and a home­ "The town is just blown shuttle exploded on the screen. felt the day Kennedy was coming should reflect the com­ Mission Control announcer screamed: ''It didn't ex­ shot." said: ''Something has obvl• plode. It didn't explode!" away," said Debra Gagnon, He said many customers walk ~ munity I'm part of." ously gone wrong. The McAuJiffe's parents, sur­ whose 5-year-old daughter ed away from the screens when "As a family, they were an She said once that she .want­ vehicle has exploded. The rounded by friends, stood in closely followed McAuliffe's the cameras showed ideal American portrait. Christa ed to teach about both men and vehicle has exploded.'' silent disbelief. shuttle mission. "She put her McAuliffe's parents watching was very positive, efferves­ women of the common var iety ''Nof No!' 1 cried Then they wept. faith in Christa. She was made the explosion at Cape Canaver­ cent," the Rev. Chester - "good people who lived and a friend to everyone's chil­ al. Mrowka said. "She was an opti­ worked in our history and who dren." "They just walked away. It mistic, forward-looking person." you never hear about."

• .,, . t 'Condolences flow in ' ·~ as world joins in• grief By Daniel J. Silva "This 1s a black hour for Fitzgerald and President Pa t­ Vuited P,es, lnttrnational manned space flight," West rick Hillery sent telegrams to German's Minister of Research President Reagan expressing World leaders expressed and Technology Heinz Riesen­ condolences. So did King Hus­ shock and sorrow over the huber said. Japan said it might sein of Jordan, French Presi­ explosion of the space shuttle postpone its 1988 manned space dent Francois Mitterrand and Challenger yesterday, and vide­ program pending an investiga­ many others. otape of the fiery blast was tion by U.S. space officials. The Canadian Parliament broadcast on television net­ In Moscow, Soviet television rose for a moment of silence. works around the globe. World­ showed the explosion on its In Paris, the state-run televi­ wide, newspapers threw out nightly news and Polish televi­ sion network interrupted na­ domestic news to banner the sion used the disaster to attack tional broadcasts for about 10 disaster. the U.S. "Star Wars" program minutes to show videotape of "Space Horror," the Sydney for a space-based nuclear de­ the explosion. Daily Mirror bannered in a fense. Patrick Baudry, the French black headline spread across There was no reaction from astronaut who traveled to space the page. The Daily Mail in the Kremlin, but the Soviet aboard the shuttle Discovery in Britain headlined: "Spaceship ambas sador to the United Na­ June, said, "I think the sacrifice disaster - teacher dies living tions. Vasily Safronchuk, relay­ of my friends who were on the American dream" over a ed his mission's "deep sorrow" board today will not be for ha! f-page picture of civilian vic­ and "deepest sympathy." noth ing. There have been other tim Christa McAuliffe. Irish Prime Minister Garret accidents before. They have all served some purpose." British, Italian and Por­ tugues<> networks .:uso inl<>rupt ­ Uncertainty cast ed programming to broadcast news of the shuttle tragedy. In Geneva, shocked Swiss citizens came to Western news on military missions bureaus for information on the Challenger explosion. Among Combined New$ &n;ic ei not be 1dentif1ed. them were members of the U.S. Under an agreement between team to the American-Soviet WASHINGTON The NASA and the Air Force, the arms negotiations taking place Pentagon, which depends on Pentagon was committed to in Geneva. the space shuttle to send vital using one-third of the shuttle In Pretoria, South African national security satellites into flights to launch military sur­ President Pieter Botha said, orbit, is faced with an uncertain veillanc e and communications "All South Africans were stun­ launch schedule after yester­ satellites. ned by the tragic news of the day 's mid-air explosion of Chal­ The military had planned to explosion. The free world has lenger. launch about 80 percent of its followed the United States Defense officials have been payloads aboard the shuttle, space program with pride." reluctant to commit their entire with the rest - including criti­ The 21.nation European Par­ space program to the nation's cal and time-sensitive spy satel­ liament held a moment of si­ four shuttles. lites - slated to be placed in lence in Strasbourg, France. Now the schedule for four orbit by conventional rocket Indian Prime Minister Rajiv more military launches this systems like the modified Titan Gandhi telephoned Reagan and year, including one tied to the IIs currently used to carry nu­ expressed "his deepest condo­ ''Star Wars" program, has gone clear warheads. lences and sympathies," the awry - and officials and others The Air Force, in arguing for Press Trust of India news agen­ acknowledged that Challenger's a continued capability to launch cy said. destruction could strengthen satellites atop its own Titans, At the United Nations, Secre­ the Air Force's efforts to use maintains that it must be able tary General Javier Perez de its own rockets to launch mili­ to send orbiters into space at Cuellar expressed his "profound tary satellites. almost a moment's notice if, for sadness" to Reagan. "Some of the launches are so example, one of the many_ satel­ "Truly the entire world will valuable we have to have a lites scattered across the skies grieve this tragic loss of life system that guarantees it," said should suddenly fail and create incurred in the advancement of one Air Force official, speaking a gap in the net that monitors the frontiers of human knowl­ UPI photo on the understanding that he Soviet space launches. edge," Perez de Cuellar said. Spectators in the Kennedy Space Center VIP area react to the explosion of Challenger. Reagan, U.S. mourn 'heroes' of space Combin~d News S.,dce , Lujan Jr. of New Mexico, and shuttle crews and, yes, more had tuned into the launch on a voh!,1teers, more civilians, more A somber President Reagan television set there. paid homage yesterday to the "We were teachers in space. Nothing ends "seven heroes" of Challenger dumbstruck by what we saw," here. Our hopes and our jour­ and vowed that the U.S. space said Jack Murphy, an aide who neys continue." program would go forward de­ had accompan ied Graham. And, in a poignant message spite the tragedy. Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif., to millions of schoolchildren ''The future doesn't belong to said, "The only way to ade­ wh o had been watching the the fainthearted. It belongs to quately honor (the shuttle launch, the president said: "It's the brave," Reagan said in a crew) is to keep their rendez­ hard to understand, but some­ nationally televised speech vous with destiny in space ." times painfu l things like this from the Oval Office. "The And Sen. Alan Cranston, D­ happen." Challenger crew was pulling us Calif., added: "I am sure those Reagan said "I can 't get out into the future, and we'll con­ who died would want America's of my mind" the husband and tinue to follow them." exploration of space to go on children of McAuliffe. He had Americans were horrified undeterred. I am sure it will." planned to mention her in his yesterday as they huddled in "Terrible thing, terrible Stat e of the Union speech last shock around television sets thing," murmured House night, Wh ite House officials and watched over and over the Speaker Thomas O'Neill as he said. The speech was cancelled. fiery explosion of the space walked from the House floor, Reagan's concluding words shuttle. shaking his head. A shaken first lady Nancy i,1cluding some from a poem, UPI photo "High Flight," by John Gilles­ Reagan watched a Jive televi­ In Concord, N.H., students kneel in prayer at a special Catholic church service for Concord A House Budget Committee meeting turned from jovial to pie Magee Jr. sion broadcast of the explosion. teacher Christa McAuliffe. Her first words were, "Oh, my solemn. The chairman, William "The crew of the space shut­ God, no." H. Gray III, D-Pa., called for a tle Challenger honored us by . Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who ness people and shoppers hud­ "I felt a tremendous sense of quarters in Washington, D.C., moment of silence, then said of the manner in which they liyed flew on the shuttle this month, dled in stunned disbelief around sadness and depression," grim-faced employees stood the space program: their lives," Reagan said. "We gave a speech on the House television sets. Graham said. "There had been around the hallways or gather­ "It's become routine and will never forget them nor the , floor, his voice straining, and l<'lorida Gov. Bob Graham, such exhilaration ... and then ed in a small auditorium to we've forgotten how dangerous last time we saw them - this quoted Helen Keller: who said he saw the explosion to learn that in fact what we watch the lates t developments it really is." morning - as they prepared I "Life is either a daring in the air as he approached were seeing was death and on large television screens. "We'll continue · our quest in for their journey and waved : NASA Administrator William goodbye, and slipped the surly adventure or nothing." Jacksonville airport, canceled tragedy." space," Reagan said in his tele­ 1 In downtown Seattle, as in the rest of a three-day, 12-city At the National Aeronautics Graham had been paying a call vised speech. "There . will be bonds of Earth to touch the 1 many cities nationwide, busi- campaign tour . and Space Administration head- on Capitol Hill to Rep. Manuel more shuttle flights and more face of God." A-10 ~ TheHonolulu Advertiser E1tabli1hed July 2, 1856'

Thurston Twigg-Smith Pr•1ident o Publi,her George Chaplin Editor•in•Cloie/ Buck Buchwach E%tcutioe Editor John Griffin Editorial Page Editor Mike Middlesworth Monoging Editor Gerry Keir City Editor

Wednesday, January 29, 1986

Disaster's lessons. • • Even though America's space movies and real life is important program will go on, it's unlikely in' itself. And, as President Rea­ that any of us young or old will gan's heartfelt statement indi­ forget the sight and feeling of cates, there are positive points yesterday's shuttle disaster. to be made for children about Somewhat akin to the 1963 courage, pioneering and neces­ shooting of President Kennedy, sary risk-taking. it was death and national trage­ For, if this was death, it was dy seen or heard by millions on also with a purpose, a lesson television and radio, either first ' older Americans should also ap­ hand or on countless reruns. preciate. So now images of explosions, . twisting white smoke and THERE WILL BE many spectator faces turning from good and necessary questions jubilation to grief have also be­ raised about this accident and come part of our history. the manned space program, as an adjoining article indicates. LIKE MOST true tragedy, Perhaps some embarrassments Shuttle program after tragedy tbis first one for Americans in and -adjustments lie ahead. space flight can be seen several Still, it seems President Rea­ ways: gan, by virtue of launching the For Hawaii there is the added teacher-astronaut program and shock and sadness that astro­ by his statement yesterday, has Delays, re- evaluation nex~ naut Ellison Onizuka was among given himself a special commit­ the seven crewmembers killed. ment to such programs. So in a An editorial below discusses way has the nation. By Lee Dye and Rudy Abramson that aspect. Los At1Aeles Time.s Service ' 'In ,-J<;litionto the human tragedy, Certainly the instant confla­ Beyond that, the good reasons for practical pioneering and The tragic Joss of the space shuttle we've also lost 25 percent of the gration was for many a remind­ Challenger yesterday with seven per­ er of the fleeting joy of life, and scientific exploration continue. nation's launch one Thus yesterday dramatized sons aboard brings the nation's man­ capability in that all of us will die, sometimes ned space program to a standstill dur­ in unexpected ways. It is the the point that tragedy as well as ing what was to have been the busiest stroke/' ·said Dr. Thomas Paine, material for a thousand sermons triumph is part of manned space time in its history. former NASA head, ''And we were on why we are here. programs - indeed, that we While the loss of seven lives far Moreover, it was a dramatic have been fortunate for more overshadowed all other concerns, ex­ already spread pretty thin.'' Peine lesson for countless school chil­ than two decades, even if safety perts on the space program pointed dren who were watching be­ has been stressed. out that it will be months, at best, before another shuttle blasts off from have used its own rockets to fly near to carry out its programs. cause the first astronaut-teacher It was a failure, to be sure, Cape Canaveral. the planet Jupiter, and then use Jupit­ Although shuttle chief Jesse Moore. was aboard. Some of them may and any flaws must be correct­ er's gravitational field to fling itself said yesterday afternoon that it woulcf' be traumatized by what seemed ed. At the same time, we will The National Aeronautics and Space out of the plane of the Earth's orbit be possible for the Rockwell Corp. ._: . a space movie turned to real-life have to go on, realizing that Administration will not launch again and over the sun's poles. which built the orbiter, to assemble a... there will be other accidents in until its own investigation has been The timing was already tight be­ new vehicle, Congressional sources horror. It is not somethjng they completed, the cause of the disaster cause Jupiter will not be in the right said it is virtually unthinkable that il_l.. would have seen were it not for space, but that goals are, on bal­ has been determined, and corrective position to serve as a gravitational the present budgetary atmosphere.., a false national confidence these ance over the long term, worth measures have been taken. slingshot for another 13 months, so lawmakers would approve building ~ flights had become "routine." the inevitable risks, costs and any delay would have jeopardized that another orbiter to replace Challenger . . Yet. the difference between national tears. THE MOST optimistic estimate for mission anyway. Paine said the tragedy will force th,~;11 . that process to run its course is at The shuttle Atlantis had been sched­ nation to take a new look at its man, , least two months, but it will probably uled May 21 to launch the Galileo ned space program. · · take much longer. spacecraft on an ambitious unmanned "The evidence was we could prob-;; In the long run, the accident may mission to Jupiter, but that flight also ably manage to carry out the programv Hawaii's astronaut not dramatically alter the space pro­ depended on Jupiter being in the right but we were counting on a zero acci;., gram, but the tragedy's immediate im­ position, so a delay of even a few days dent rate with four vehicles," he said.~ While all Amerioans mourn he was a whole-hearted promot­ pact will be substantial. could force a one year postponement That, he suggested, was "a little bit the seven Challenger astronauts, of that project. er of the NASA program and NASA had planned 15 shuttle mis­ ambitious." · Hawaii feels a special shock and America's future in space. sions for 1986 - by far the busiest Yesterday's tragic accident means grief at the disaster that befell - Onizuka was also the first schedule in its history, on~ that many some of these goals will not be met. WHILE THERE is no way in t~ the shuttle. We lost a favorite Asian-American .in space. He at­ had said was overly ambitious. '"That will force a re-examination of months ahead to avoid what Paine. son. how we will serve the nation's needs termed "a major dislocation in the na~ tained this distinction, however, There is no chance now that the In common with so many peo- · through personal accomplish­ through the space program," said tion's space program," the long-rang~ shuttle Columbia will be launched in Thomas Paine, who is chairman of a impact may not be too severe. ~ ple here, around the country ment. With an advanced aero­ early March for this nation's most presidential commission that is chart­ and the world, our deep condo­ space engineering degree, he "There's an enormous sense of Iossa important observations of Halley 's ing the future of the nation's space because these people represent all of• lences go to the family and was a decorated Air Force test comet. The Columbia was to have program. friends of Lt. Col. Ellison Shoji us," said Bruce Murray of the Califor-J pilot with 1,600 hours of flight carried a sophisticated observatory, nia Instititue of Technology, who led.1 Onizuka of the Big Island. time in many kinds of aircraft. called Astro, into orbit so that scien­ AND THAT re-examination, he the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pas1 And he was chosen to become tists in the United States could carry suggested, may not be a bad thing. adena, Calif., during some of its busi-, THOSE ACQUAINTED per­ an astronaut from among thou­ out observations during the same time It appeared certain, too, that Con­ est years. "We've lost members of our-f sonally with Onizuka, 39, knew sands of applicants. that five international spacecraft were gress would launch the most intensive own family in a psychological sense. l him as a special individual, "a to encounter the comet. mvestigation of the manned space pro­ super guy," as one said. For the The schedule was already so tight gram since 1967, when both the House "Where do we go from here? We1 AND, OF COURSE, Onizuka that scientists feared NASA would not and Senate probed the Apollo 1 train­ will continue the manned space pro-1~ rest of us, he was a symbol of was a Hawaii native, also the be able to launch Columbia in time to ing fire that killed astronauts Virgil gram in the same direction as before. many things. That is why his first in space. His was a near­ be on station for the encounter, but Grissom. Edward White and Roger There is no possibility we will be de­ death yesterday is so poignant. classic story of "local boy made that issue became moot yesterday. Chaffee. Monday was the 19th anni­ tracted from that," added Murray, wlioi Onizuka was one of a group of good" far from modest begin­ The Columbia was to have launched versary of that tragedy. has championed unmanned missions fn:;t modern-day American heroes nings in a remote rural area. He March 6, but even the preliminary Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., a mem­ space. : ~ who choose to "push back the was a product of Hawaii's public investigations into yesterday's tragedy ber of the Senate space subcommittee, Tragedies such as yesterday's, Jteit envelope" - as the early rocket schools. are not likely to be completed by called for an "immediate" and "inten­ said, come with the teri;'jtory. : ,. pilots said of the dangerous at­ It is a long way - in miles, then. sive" investigation of yesterday's "There is no way to do this (manned:: tempts to break the sound ·barri­ hard work and accomplishment tragedy. exploration of space) without risk. Tli.ej ALSO IN DOUBT are two impor­ "In addition to the human tragedy, only uncertainty was how that risk ·· er - and expand human ad­ - from Kealakekua on the Big tant science missions set for May. we've also Jost 25 percent of the na­ would manifest itself. Unfortunately, 1q vancement and knowledge in Island into space via Cape The Challenger's next mission had tion's launch capability in one stroke," manifested itself in a tragic way. ' ! space. Canaveral and back again, but been scheduled for May 15, when it added Paine, who headed NASA when "But there is a lot of resilience in1 .. Though the space program is Onizuka made that trip last year was to have carried the European Americans first landed on the moon. the program and the people of i a volunteer effort that brings its on the shuttle Discovery and space craft Ulysses into orbit as part "And we were already spread pretty NASA," he said. "This is not going to -! share of fame and glory, it was eager to do it again and of an ambitious effort to study the thin." derail the program. We will continue .. inevitably, despite all possible again. polar regions of the sun. After its re­ The loss means NASA will have in the same general direction we were J precautions, involves high risk. Even the tragic end of his sec­ lease from the shuttle, Ulysses was to three orbiters rather than four to try going." ~ Onizuka said he believed the ond journey into space cannot •. challenge was worth that risk. erase the pride in that achieve­ ! He was in the space program ment or remove Onizuka as a for eight years before he got a model of ambition and achieve­ chance to travel in space. Be­ ment for others, especially here· Space flight: Inarined, unlllanne4 } fore and after his first journey in Hawaii, to foHow. . ,..,. By Murray Dubin the space program for more than 20 said, arguing that it now was more S Knight-Ridder Seroice years, said he did not question the concerned with a means of travel than : motives of those who supported the the goal of technological advances. . ,. PASADENA: Calif. - The loss of manned program. But he suggested Jim Kukowski, a NASA spokesman, l life in the Challenger space shuttle that a number of scientifically signifi­ said he expected that the Challenger : tragedy has highlighted the continuing cant missions were still just dreams tragedy would bring the debate over "' debate over NASA's decision to focus because of the budgetary commitment manned versus unmanned flight into t most of its effort on manned space to the manned shuttle. the public arena once again. : :: missions. "We could have an unmanned probe He added, however, that NASA had f The proponents of manned missions going to the surface of Mars and have not used an expendable rocket on ~ ~ "think it is the best way to capture robot arms collect rocks," he said. major unmanned mission since 1983 : the attention of the public and com­ "We could explore the outer solar sys­ and doubted that the space agencJ !t pete in the arena with the Soviets," tem and the surface of Titan," one of would turn back. : f said Von Eshleman, director of the Saturn's moons. Currently, unmanned scientifid C Center for Radio Astronomy at Stan­ · "We could be looking at the dust probes ride piggyback into space 0~ a ford University. storms on Mars and the sulphuric acid the shuttle. In fact, the shuttle was t~ ~ clouds on Venus," he added, suggest­ serve as a launch pad for unmanned :; ESHLEMAN SAID yesterday he ing that there was a "large potential" missions this year to observe Halley'' i and other scientists have long held for learning more about acid rain on comet, to look at the planet Jupiter i that unmanned probes of space were Earth from a Venus probe. and to orbit the sun's poles. Those :: better suited to the technological ''I'd like to separate the disagree­ missions are now in jepardy, according f study of space than the manned shut­ ment from the emotions of this day," to scientists here. : tles, which are limited by the need to he said, "but one does wish that there Though Eshleman believes that tM :: return their crews to Earth. had been more emphasis on the funda­ Challenger disaster will be a "larg~ Eshleman, at the Jet Propulsion mental goals of the space program." setback" for the space program, h~ ~ Laboratory here for the Voyager 2 en­ does not think that the emphasis oq 1 counter with the planet Uranus, has HE SAID those goals included ex­ manned programs will diminish. J: testified on the benefits of unmanned panding the technological understand­ "I think the space commission will : UPI photo probes before the President's National ing of space. report next year that it favors a man- : Debris trails from a cloud of smoke after the space shuttle Challenger Commission on Space. "The space program should be the ned mission to Mars with the Soviets," : exploded moments after launch yesterday. Eshleman, who has been involved in driver of new technology," Eshleman he said. .-..;:;