The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 29, 1986 - Page 5 Shuttle crew had experience, diversity SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON (AP)-The crew of the Challenger in- cluded three trained pilots, an expert on lasers, the second American woman to fly in space, a Hughest Air- craft Corp. engineer, and a Concord, N.H., schoolteacher flying as the first citizen-in-space. Francis Scobee commanded the flight and was making his second space shuttle mission. "SCOBEE was born and raised in Washington state, and enrolled in the Air Force after high school graduation. He trained first as a mechanic, but attended night school to acquire two years of college credit. Later, he earned additional credit and a degree from the University of Arizona. The Air Force then gave him a pommission and trained him as a jet pilot. Scobee flew combat missions during the Vietnam tour and then at- tended the Air Force test pilot school. He was selected as an astronaut in 1979 and made his first space flight in 1984. Scobee married the former June Kent of San Antonio, Texas. They have two children, Kathie and Richard. CHALLENGER'S pilot was Mike smith, 40, a commander in the U.S. Navy. "'Smith was born and raised in Beauford, N.C., and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He also ear- ned a master's degree from the Navy Postgraduate School. After a combat cruise in Vietnam, Smith trained as a test pilot. He was selected as an astronaut in 1980 and the Challenger flight ws his first space External tank mxay be to blame,, officials say .-mn m meMM E x missions. SMITH married the former Jane Jarrell of Charlotte, N.C. They have three children, Scott, 17, Alison, 14, and Erin, 8. Ronald McNair, 36, was doing research on lasers at the time he was selected as an astronaut. McNair was born and raised in Lake City, S.C. He received a doc- torate of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was selected as an astronaut in 1979. HE made his first space flight in 1984. McNair married the former Cheryl Moore of Jamaica, N.Y. They have two children, Reginald, 3, and Joy, 1. Air Force Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka was a former aerospace engineer and pilot who taught courses at the elite Air Force test pilot school in Califor- nia. HE was born in Kaelakekua, Hawaii, and earned two degrees from the University of Colorado. NASA selected him as an astronaut in 1978. Onizuka was crew member on a secret Department of Defense space shuttle flight last January. The Challenger mission was his second space flight. The astronaut married the former Lorna Leiko Yoshida of Pahala, Hawaii, and the couple has two children, Janelle, 16, and Darien, 10. ASTRONAUT Judy Reznik was a classical pianist who earned a doc- torate in electrical engineering from the Univeristy of Maryland. She was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and earned a bachelor's degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. After college, Reznik was a resear- (Continued from Page 1) flight. John Glenn, the former astronaut, recalled that three astronauts died in a launch-pad training accident 19 years ago and said the history of pioneers is often one "of triumph and tragedy." The explosion followed an apparen- tly flawless launch, delayed two hours as officials analyzed the danger from icicles that formed in the frosty Florida morning along the shuttle's new launch pad. "There were no signs of abnor- malities on the screens" as flight con- trollers monitored Challenger's liftoff ch scientist for RCA, then the National Institutes of Health and later for Xerox. She was selected as an astronaut in 1978 and made her first flight in 1984. Resnik was single. Gregory Jarvis was a Hughes Air- craft Co. engineer who was flying on Challenger to conduct tests on the ef- fects of weightlessness on fluid carried in tanks. JARVIS was born in Detroit and graduated from high school in Mohawk, N.Y. He earned degrees from State University of New York in Buffalo and from Northeastern University in Boston. He served as a satellite engineer in the Air Force and achieved the rank of captain before resigning to become a Hughest engineer. Jarvis married the former Marcia Jarboe of Spring Valley, N.Y. where the couple made their home. SHARON Christa McAuliffe was a Loncoro, N.H. high school social studies teacher who was the first private citizen selected in national competition to fly on the space shut- tle. She was born and raised in Far- mingham, Mass. and earned a bachelor's degree from Farmington State College in 1970. She later earned a master's degree from Bowie State College in Bowie, Md. McAuliffe was selected from 11,146 teachers who applied in NASA's first citizen-in-space competition. In preparation for the flight, she has un- dergone 120 hours of training at the Johnson Space Center. Her husband, Steven McAuliffe, is a lawyer in Concord. The couple has two children, Scott, 9 and Caroline, 6' and ascent, a source said. The source, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the blast occurred "unexpectedly and with absolutely no warning," YESTERDAY'S launch was to be the second of 15 this year - by far the most ambitious schedule in NASA's four-year-plus shuttle program. Garn said the obvious -- that operations must be frozen for as long as it takes NASA to investigate and understand what went wrong. Challenger, the second of the agen- cy's four ships to fly, was making its 10th flight, more than any of the other shuttles. Associated Press The seven member crew killed in yesterday's Challenger explosion. From left, front: Michael Smith, Francis Scobee, Ronald McNair. From left, rear: Ellison Onizuka, Sharon McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik. Challenger disaster stuns America (Continued from Page 1) retired to his chandeliered office across the hall. THE SENATE met at 2 o'clock for a round of prayers and tributes to the fallen space heroes. A little more than an hour later, the House voted to ad- journ as a "mark of respect to the memory of the valiant crew mem- bers.," Sen. Jake Carn, (R-Utah) who last year became the first non-astronaut to fly the space shuttle, seemed un- nerved by the news. "I don't know any time when I was more shocked or moved since my first wife was killed," he said. Rep. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who returned to the Capitol recently from a space shuttle flight of his own in early January, was watching the Challenger launching with staff aides in his office, "IT WAS really just dead silence in the room," said Nelson spokesman David Dickerson. "Frankly, no one said a word. The TV spoke for itself, There was not much to say." At the Cape Canaveral launch site were McAuliffe's parents, Ed and Grace Corrigan, of Framingham, Mass. They stood silently during the launch, arm in arm and remained standing together as the loudspeaker brought the bad news and a NASA of- ficial climbed a couple of rows into the bleachers, walked to them and said: "The vehicle has exploded." A stunned Mrs. Corrigan looked back at him and repeated his words as a question, "THE VEHICLE has exploded?" He nodded silently and the Corrigans were quickly led away. Meanwhile, a blast of party horns and cheers turned quickly to silence and stunned disbelief as 1,200 Concord High School pupils watched the space shuttle Challenger rise into the sky and explode into pieces. "It's just awful, Just too awful even to contemplate," Concord High Prin- cipal Charles Foley said as he fought back tears. "I hope God will be good. I hope he'll be good to all of us," Local reaction reflected national sympathy. CAPT. HARVEY from the Univer- sity's Air Force Officer Education Program admired the astronauts' courage on their mission, "I have only praise for those people. They have my prayers," he said, Aerospace engineering Prof. Charles Kauffman said that NASA should find the cause of the problem because of the large amount of in- formation at its disposal. "THEY HAVE more than just wreckage and a black box that are left after a plane crash. However, two to three years would not be an unreasonable time for them to take," he said. Kauffman also felt that the ac- cident's effect on future NASA fun- ding would be minimal. "When you get involved in risky business, things like this happen," he added. PROFESSOR Paul Hays, Director of the University's Space Physics Research Laboratory, said he feels like anybody else does about the disaster. "Space is the last frontier. We ex- pected it would happen one of these days," he said. When asked what he believed the ef- fects of the accident would be, Hays replied that he did not think that future flights would be delayed for long, "I do not think that civilian par- ticipation should be affected, and I do not think that it will be affected for long," he said. Student returns from Peace March (Continued from Page 1) neutral slogans to have but right- winged groups apparently felt, threatened." VIOLENCE and tear gas greeted them when they arrived at a youth hostel in San Jose, Costa Rica. Police rode with them on their buses and escorted them to the Nicaraguan bor- der, Weinstein said. About 12 mar- chers were injured because of the iolence in Costa Rica. Weinstein spent about three weeks in Nicaragua, a country he says '"welcomed us with open arms." The group waited for six days at the border of Honduras but was not allowed to enter. "When we got to the border there were about 20 men wearing gas masks and holding guns during that time, Weinstein said the group "sang songs, gave speeches and held mass." "AT SOME point we made an emotional breakthrough to the soldiers. When we were holding mass, one of the soldiers took off his helmet and we saw tears rolling down his face," Weinstein said that most soldiers tended to be teenagers. El Salvador also refused entrance to the group, but about 15 members, including Weinstein, flew separately into the country. He said they split up into smaller groups for safety. "ONE OF the most amazing things is that life still goes on in countries like El Savlador," Weinstein said. "Walking down San Salvador looks like walking down any city in the U.S. except that it's a little poorer." He said that war is a constant fact of life there. "It's almost that they are so accustomed to war that they are lear- ning to deal with it," "The message I got from all of El Salvador is 'there is so little hope.' he said, He noticed however, an in- credible spirit of cooperation among the people. AFTER leaving El Salvador, Wein- stein's small group caught up with the other marchers in Mexico. About 50,000 people attended the final rally in Mexico City. Looking back, Weinstein says that the march had positive effects in the countries he visited. "In all the countries it helped strengthen international ties and the peace movement within the coun tries," Weinstein said. "The reason the international ties are so important is that sometimes th only way change occurs is by pressure from the outside," he said. E? 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