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...crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission Commander Hank Hartsfield: "We've got a good bird there...
...blamed for the crunch. But according to the Federal Aviation Administration, the airlines themselves are the most culpable. They prefer to schedule flights early in the morning and in the evening to coincide with the business day, and to bunch their operations on the hour. At Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport, 42 takeoffs and landings are scheduled between 8 a.m. and 8:09, though the airport is capable of handling only about 20 of them...
...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...
...week's end engineers had yet to figure out whether a part of the valve had failed or whether an intermediate computer had missed a command. In any case, the master computer performed right on cue. Said Mission Commander Henry Hartsfield: "The system detected a problem and shut down the engines. That's exactly what we had been told all along it would do, and I'm glad...
...Denise Hartsfield...