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...delight of the approxiamtely 250,000people gathered on river banks and highways and anecstatic NASA team in Launch Control, Discoverylifted off its seaside pad and streaked intocloudy skies. It remained in view less than a halfminute, but the tension was considerable and thesight was unforgettable...
...analysis that followed the Challengerdisaster led to 56 major and more than 400 minorhardware modifications--and a new, moreconservative launch procedure. Conservative ornot, NASA launch supervisor Robert Crippen granteda waiver of wind guidelines to move the launchforward. NASA said he met with his 21-personoversight team, reviewing an analysis of the windsituation, before approving the waiver
...successful launch of the space shuttle Discovery yesterday put NASA back on its feet, paving the way for important space research which had stalled following the Challenger catastrophe two years ago, Harvard science experts said...
...successful launch of the first American mission in more than two years provides a "tremendous boost to the agency. They can say that they are operational and optimistic about the future. It was a gutsy move that they had to do some time," said Steven S. Murray, associate of the Harvard College Observatory...
Holloway commented that it made her sick to seepeople so excited about the Discovery before itssuccessful launch. "They [were] setting themselvesup," she said