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We Mourn 7 Heroes' t . * PA«rA4/THe STANDARD, r - S • ^^p** • •* - w ***ktu* jF*>Wi'^ > , *. - ...> .,*„••" H . v^ * i WE MOURN 7 HEROES' • , of tion Turns into of _ News Service Reports New York and American stock ex- off. "A real shock wave of grief has co- high school English teacher and one of two have it - IB basic, "fundamental research/' Jubilation turned to horror across the changes 5planne; d a minute of silenc4 e at 11 vered the entire city," said City Manager finalists from Tennessee. ''Before, I said I he said. "It's not to put the butcher, the natiop as Americans cheering for the coun- 'a.m- _v* . T^j'toda*"'y *i n 'remembranc *&* tf^ e ottb*"ki/"e crewM '" *. James C. Smith. would go in a minute...without a thought* baker and candlestick-maker up there." try's first civilian astronaut watched the In Washington, National Education At McCormick Junior High School in Nobody would say that now." Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck shuttle Challenger explode on live televi- President Mary Hatwood Futrell ex- Cheyenne, Wyo.» science teacher Michael Veterans of the space program rallied to Yeager, whose breaking of the sound bar- sion Tuesday in the world's worst space pressed shock and sorrow at the disaster Pearson said he was in "total shock." defend the space program and said it rier was portrayed in the book and movie catastrophe. that killed ssvea astronauts, including "It's like getting a message your whole should continue. "The Right Stuff," said: "When you have an At the White House, President Reagan teacher Christa McAiiliffe.* But she also family was killed/' said Pearson, one of the Sen. John Glenn, D-Qhio, the first Ameri- accident like this, it doesn't mean the end wordlessly viewed video replays of the voiced the hope that the National Aeronau- more than 100 teacher semifinalists who can to orbit the earth, said he felt "a pro- of everything. You've got to fall back and Challenger ttplosloo. Watching the launch tics and Space A(JminlstratI6n will send competed against McAuliffe to be the first found, personal sense of loss" over the take a look. The main thing is to analyze in family quarters, first lady Nancy Rea- another teacher into spape soon. , ordinary citizen to fly into space. death of the Challenger's seven crew mem- the data and go oij from there." gan exclaimed, "Ob my God, no!" "I would hope that the lessons that But he added, "I still think I'd take the bers in a fiery explosion over the Atlantic. Yeager, of Grass Valley, Calif., said he In Houston, Mission Control workers Christa planned to teach will be taught..., I very next one up." Asked by reporters whether the NASA expects NASA to return for a time to its clutched each other in tears* think that's what Christa would want," she However, another teacher had second should continue to give civilians seats oh past policy of limiting space travel to Several states flew flags at half-staff said. -'""'' .'."" '' thoughts about being an astronaut. the shuttle, Glenn said, "Oh, I don't know. I trained government astronauts, but even- and legislatures drafted statements honor- In Concord, N.H., McAuliffe's home* "I realize now that I have a lot to lose/' wasn't a big proponent of that. tually to open up crews to others "because ing the seven astronauts who perished* town,* thousands'•*_... watche. d-7 th* eI televise- • - d lift- said Bonnie Fakes of Lebanon, Tenn., a "The space program — the reason we the shuttle is 1 public program." , Families and News Service Reports and Space Administration official then and hometown friends of the as- walked up to them and said, 'The vehicle tronauts aboard the space shuttle Chal- has exploded." lenger grieved Tuesday over the "tragedy A stunned Grace Corrigan said, "the ve- of Hall" but found solace in the knowledge hicle has exploder V, . that the seven-member crew died while The official nodded his head, and the reaching for the stars. Corrigans were quickly led away. For some, there were no words to ac- Froi Fujin#t0ra friend of Qnizuka's, company the tears. Others spoke at length was on the reviewing stand with the astro- of the ambitions and abilities that qualified naut's mother and brothers and* sisters. the astronauts for a trip to space. "The shuttle went up, and all of a sudden Killed in the Challenger crash were New we saw a big explosion," he, said. "There : Hampshire social studies teacher Christa was a lot of smoke. It was hard to see what McAuliffe, Michael Smith, Francis Scobee/ happened. There was just one big explo- Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Arnold McNair and Gregory Jarvis, , Also at the launch site was Dr. Charles $en. Jake Gam, R-Utah, who flew a shut- Reshick, *ho teaches at the Medical Col- tle mission last year, traveled to the Ken* lege .of Virginia in Richmond. • • '• »V«V ' ' *m$•.•,mt---f?. %>*&.m . ' • • nedy Space Center with Vice President His sister, Judy, was to take a signet ring George Bush and met with the families of and heart looket into space for her 5-year- Challenger's crew. old nephew, Randy, and 2-year-old niece, Ljate Tuesday night, Gam emerged from Becky, said Dellana O'Brien, a principal at the;meeting and said Scobee's wife, June, Randy's kindergarten. ".,*'"' speaking for all of the families, asked that • -^•^ • . • *\ . ~ ^ • , rt-v "The kindergarten children were not ^^'•S-^SM^if-^f^ the tragedy not be allowed to harm the •-W .... ' ••' -.:*.. told (of the crash) before they left at 12:30," future of the space program. •Xv:->:. :-x->:*.tt:£x*:-;> -:>x-:v:v l&rlier in the day, Gam fought back the principal said. "It happened so close to dismissal time we didn't have time to help tears at the news of the Challenger explo- them work through their grief," sion. _ i [It's a bit difficult for me, to say the Matthew Brown, McNair's sixth-grade least. These were my friends," Garn told math and science teacher and now a school reporters. , official in his hometown of Lake City, &C., The Rev. Wilbur Teachey of Beaufort, said hejearned of the accident while listen- N,Cf., who knew Smith as a parishioner, ing to the radio on his way home to lunch. .-'.:• • ¥ • said the risks never dissuaded Smith from "Everybody is at grief right now," he v:;::.y<Ai.x::::-:^.V"..: being an astronaut. "This had been his am- said. bition, a dream of his. He dearly loved it no The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a friend of mmsmfa. ,*• master what." McNair's, said, "While we may not under- teachey said, his parishioners "have a stand the,^eaninjg^of'_thte:;crisis,: we are tremendous grief and sorrow." sustained1 iiy o^r-fattlrthat God never "I'll tell you exactly how I feel. I don't makes a mistake." have.any,.regrfits about Mike.doing „ this/' In. Washington st^te, flags were lowered . " -~•'.'•'.-'-*•'•'•'m'. "•' •'.• °. .'•%"•: _ _• . said Patrick Smith, Michael Smith's youn- to honor shuttle'commiander Scobee, who ger'brother. "He was doing exactly what he graduated from Auburn High School in wanted to do. There aren't too many people 1957 and went to night school to earn his whp've .done exactly what they wanted to degree in aerospace engineering. do with their careers. But he's done that." School counselor Ed Bean described Sco- .JNlcAuliffe's husband, Steve, and their bee as "very humble and very accommo- children, Scott and Caroline, were with dating, a very-warm man who could be their father and other family members in a your next-door neighbor/' nek'rby observation building when the di- Math teacher Donald Nutter, who taught saster occurred. But McAuliffe's parents, astronaut Judith ReSnik during her years mm^m Ed and Grace Corrigan, saw the tragedy at Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio, from the grandstands. said news of the explosion stunned the AP Loserphoto The Framingham, Mass., couple stood in school Tuesday morning. shocked silence as a loudspeaker broadcast Resnik, he said, was a "very quiet young Members of Christa McAuliffe's family react in horror Tuesday after the space shuttle explosion. From left are the terrible news. A National Aeronautics lady, but an outstanding student/' McAuliffe's sister Betsy and McAuliffe's parents, Grace and Ed Corrigan. House Panel World Shares Americans' Sorrow said. :.X United Press International !«>:-..••,. >,Vi ' World leaders expressed shock and sorrow over the explosion Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said he asked U.S. Plans Probe of the space shuttle Challenger Tuesday, and videotape of the Ambassador Thomas Niles to convey Canada's "great grief at fiery blast was broadcast on television networks around the the tragedy that has just struck the Unked States, a terrible loss globe. Newspapers Wednesday threw out domestic news to ban- in remarkably tragic circumstances." ner the disaster. In Paris, the state-run television network interrupted national Disaster "Space Horror," the Sydney Daily Mirror bannered in a black broadcasts for about 10 minutes to show videotape of the explo- headline spread across the page. The Daily Mail in Britain sion. Staff and News Service Reports headlined: "Spaceship disaster — Teacher dies living the Ameri- French President Francois Mitterrano, K a telegram to Rea- ; WASHINGTON - While shaken by the can dream" over a half-page picture of civilian victim Christa gan, said, "The French people felt, at the announcement of the space shuttle tragedy, congressmen frdm McAuliffe. explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, a profound emotion Central New York reaffirmed their com- "This is a black hour for manned space flight," West German's and sincere compassion for the astronauts aboard." mitment to the nation's space program Minister of Research and Technology Heinz Riesenhuber said.
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