![]() Another decade passed and, now a teacher myself, I returned to my school one cold Monday morning to explain to my pupils what had happened to Challenger's sister ship, Columbia, a few days earlier. Five years later, I gave a speech on the STS-51L disaster to my teacher as part of my GCSE English assessment. In September 1988, aged 11,1 came home from school to watch STS-26 return the Shuttle fleet to orbital operations. Admittedly, my fascination with rockets and astronauts, stars and planets had begun several years earlier, but Challenger's destruction turned it from an occasional hobby to a fascination which has remained with me ever since. I watched the entire horror unfold live on all of the network stations. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic items still to be packed. Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. "Major malfunction" Ultimate field trip The golden age ends A preventable tragedy Missed warnings A full plate "The Sun kept on rising" The Untouchables Unequal partnership 'Routine' flights Seven men, two monkeys and two dozen rats "They left out the 'wow'!" Gravity gradient Going to Spain "We don't have time to talk about this" Solar observatory Particle 'sniffer' Multi-disciplinary mission Coming of age Suspended in a gondola Quiet timeġ61 161 167 170 175 179 193 198 202 211 216 218 223 227 "At the peak of readiness" A touch of superstition Human satellites Lost, immovable and burst in space A bittersweet mission 'Lucky' thirteen? Deployment of LDEF Repairing Solar Max Fire on the pad An experimental crew Earth watching Hazardous hydrazine "Five plus two equals seven"ĩ5 95 98 104 112 114 117 123 135 137 139 151 155 Weightlifters Funtime Off to work An eye on the future Night flying ![]() Ride, Sally Ride Astronauts wanted Four become The new guys deliver Orbital ballet Scientific bounty A successful mission Cover design: Jim Wilkie Project management: Originator Publishing Services, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK Printed on acid-free paperįlight of the Geritol Bunch Space cowboys Unexpected change Birth of Challenger Workclothes Time to operate The butterfly and the bullet Clean and spacious Hydrogen leaks Mental simulations Ride of a lifetime Switchboard in the sky "Extraordinarily exciting" Five-day high in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. © Praxis Publishing Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2007 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. ISBN 10: 5-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 13: 978-5-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Springer is part of Springer-Science + Business Media () Library of Congress Control Number: 2006935328 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. ![]() SPRINGER-PRAXIS BOOKS IN SPACE EXPLORATION SUBJECT ADVISORY EDITOR: John Mason, M.Sc, B.Sc, Ph.D. Fiction? We were killing time on the Atari until the real 21st century arrived.Space Shuttle Challenger Ten Journeys into the Unknownīen Evans Space Writer Atherstone Warwickshire UK We drank Tang from Apollo commemorative glasses and ate Space Food Sticks and rolled our eyes at the quaint reruns of Buck Rogers and his fictional 21st century. What had been a primal myth for all previous generations of humanity was presented to us on the same gently curved screen as Ernie and Bert. As children, we had seen a man walk on the moon. The assassination attempt on President Reagan a few years before played on constant repeat, and Tiananmen Square a couple of years later got the full info-tainment ride.īut there was something more with the Challenger. ![]() That "coverage of the coverage" was a new phenomenon but hardly restricted to the Challenger. More: Teachers who sought to fly in space look back at Challenger disaster (A thousand soap opera fans called ABC to complain about their shows being pre-empted.) The Beacon Journal's coverage that week included an article specifically about television's treatment of the disaster.
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