FACE THE NATION, 3/16/86

Young, John, 1930-2018

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John Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He flew on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle. Before becoming an astronaut, Young received his Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the U.S. Navy. After serving at sea du...

Hall, Bruce

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Ride, Sally, 1951-2012

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Sally Ride (b. May 26, 1951, Los Angeles, CA–d. July 23, 2012, La Jolla, CA) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983; Ride was the third woman in space overall. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for Inter...

Garn, Jake

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Salt Lake City, Utah mayor, 1968-1974, U.S. Senator from Utah. From the description of Mayoral papers, 1968-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122623572 ...

Challenger (Spacecraft)

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Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983 and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before breaking up 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 killing all seven crew members. It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. Challenger was c...

Hartsfield, Henry W., 1933-2014

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Henry Hartsfield (b. Nov. 21, 1933, Birmingham, AL-d. July 17, 2014, Houston, TX) was an Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut. He served as pilot on the Columbia (STS-4), commander on the Discoery (STS-41-D), and commander on the Challenger (STS-61-A). Hartsfield further served in different roles within NASA at the Johnson Space Center, DC Headquarters, and Marshall Space Flight Center before joining Raytheon in 1998....

Weitz, Paul

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