05:08The throttle's down to 67% to the experience of maximum dynamic pressure.
05:18Take my throttle back up, pass to the speed of sound.
05:26Go at the slot lock.
05:32Have to now 21 miles.
05:37Distance 23.
05:45Velocity 5400 feet per second.
06:02And a normal separation of the solid rocket boosters.
06:11The reason for all the secrecy is the no longer not-so-secret payload.
06:17An electronic eavesdropping satellite, better known as an upgraded signals intelligence surveillance satellite.
06:32Launched from the shuttle's 60-foot cargo bay in the same fashion as earlier communications satellites,
06:38the military spy satellite is expected to be boosted to a 22,300-mile orbit above the Earth and to be positioned over the equator south of the Soviet Union.
06:52At that height, the satellite will orbit once every 24 hours, thereby appearing to remain stationary over the same spot on the Earth's surface.
07:01From its vantage point, the Syngat is expected to intercept a broad spectrum of electronic signals, including radio transmission,
07:10teletype and telephone communications, and data on missile tests and launches,
07:16information that could determine if the Soviets are in compliance with arms control agreements.
07:20All right, six steps to a mile.
07:23A spectacular day over Florida.
07:25The flight had been delayed by 24 hours because of the freezing temperatures,
07:28they were worried that the ice at the base of the rocket would damage in some way those fragile instruments there
07:35and possibly damage the heat protection tiles that are on the space shuttle we're so familiar with by now.
07:41The reason for canceling Wednesday's scheduled lift-off was the fear that large pieces of ice would form on the external tank
07:48as it was filled with a half million gallons of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen.
07:53With sub-freezing temperatures at the Cape for the third straight night, the chances of such ice formation were sufficient to delay launch for at least 24 hours.
08:02The concern was that large chunks of ice would break off during launch and damage the heat shield tiles on the shuttle's fuselage,
08:08the same tiles that protect the space vehicle during its fiery re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
08:14This super-secret Defense Department mission with a reported spy satellite aboard designed to listen in on the Soviet Union
08:21has attracted a handful of protesters from the Florida Coalition for a weapons raise.
08:26A small vigil was held outside the gates to the Kennedy Space Center to dramatize protesters' fears
08:32that a once peaceful space shuttle program is being taken over increasingly for military purposes.
08:39The Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center at Kona International Airport in the Kona district where he was born and raised was dedicated to him.
08:48The center closed in March 2016 and was unable to find a suitable location to reopen.
08:55Select items from the center's collection have been put on permanent display at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii in Moelili on the island of Oahu.
09:05They not only feature Onizuka's personal items, but also the only moon rock in Hawaii in the space suit from Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Hayes.
09:18In Star Trek The Next Generation, a shuttlecraft carried aboard the USS Enterprise.
09:23NCC-1701-D bears Onizuka's name as seen in the three episodes, The Ensigns of Command, The Mind's Eye, and The Outcast.
09:33Well, the weather keeps playing tricks at Cape Canaveral.
09:36Yesterday, NASA said conditions looked right to launch the space shuttle Challenger today.
09:40And last night, the forecast turned sour and they called it off until tomorrow.
09:44But this morning, the sun was shining and they could have launched it after all.
09:48Bruce Hall reports.
09:50It was another embarrassing postponement for NASA as weather conditions were ideal this morning at the scheduled 936 launch time.
09:59Space agency officials called off the launch late last night after Air Force meteorologists said they expected rain and thunderstorms during the entire three-hour launch window.
10:09Make sure you stay six feet away from me. I'm in quarantine.
10:13Quarantined or not, a restless Krista McAuliffe could not pass up the nice Florida sunshine.
10:18She spent the morning riding a bicycle around Kennedy Space Center rather than riding the shuttle into space.
10:24Are you disappointed?
10:26Oh, sure. We're just going to go tomorrow.
10:29Yeah?
10:30Now, there is some concern about the weather tomorrow as the rain finally moved over the Space Center this afternoon.
10:36Launch delays have become a major problem for NASA, with more than half of the shots being postponed.
10:42The countdown is continuing smoothly, and the shuttle crew is preparing for the mission, but the forecast may get in the way of a successful liftoff.
10:49A cold front from Texas is expected to move through Florida at just about launch time. It may bring clouds and rain.
10:56If Challenger does get off the ground, it will be a history-making voyage carrying the first teacher in space.
11:02Officially, Krista is now in quarantine, only allowed to see members of her family, and only after they have first seen a doctor.
11:09How's Krista doing?
11:10She is so excited and happy and relaxed, and the whole good feeling.
11:16Do you have a little bit of trepidation?
11:18A little bit, yeah. As the day comes closer, I feel a little bit more of it, particularly now when the Columbia went up.
11:25I have watched them all go up and thought it was wonderful, got excited, but when I saw that take off, my stomach just came up and went back down.
11:32That never happened before.
11:34The space shuttle Challenger itself is now out on pad B, surrounded by a revolving service structure.
11:39When the actual launch takes place, Krista's husband and children will watch from the roof of the launch control center.
11:44Krista's backup, teacher Barbara Morgan, taught one of the live PBS mission watch programs for children.
11:50As for Krista herself, she went flying on an STA, a shuttle training aircraft, which simulates landing.
11:57He said flying was a dream he had since childhood.
12:00You know, as far back as I can remember, all I ever wanted to do was fly.
12:03And when I was a young kid coming up, of course, the space program was just getting started.
12:09And my interest just naturally from the flying aspects went over to wanting to fly into space.
12:15And this is something that I've wanted to do all my life.
12:17And I don't know how I got interested. I can't tell you.
12:20I just have always been interested in doing flying.
12:24The lasting part is going to be the idea that she puts in the head of both teachers and students to expect to be in space.
12:35In other words, their future, space is part of their future.
12:38I expect to live and work there.
12:40And if she can do that, she's doing a lot for mankind.
12:43You know, I think that there is a need for, you know, what we did on our first mission.
12:48And I fully believe that, you know, it's something that this country needed, the rest of the free world needed it.
13:01She knows where we're going to be standing, how busy it's going to be, where she can help, where we need our space.
13:09And she has learned an awful lot and become a team member.
13:13Judith Arlene Resnick was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.
13:26Her father was the son of a rabbi, and he had been born in Preluk in Ukraine.
13:32His family had immigrated to mandatory Palestine in the 1920s and then to the United States after the 1929 Hebron massacre.
13:42He had hospitalized for sure, I'm not showing up.
13:45Oh yeah!
13:46Of course, this is a battle for Wuhan.
13:49My name is Paul Arlene Resnick.
13:51If you don't know what I was aiming for, somebody has Movie International baseline sola法 to fly behind me during this,
13:54they might see how people actually live together in the 1929'TGpox.
13:59This is a trip since the 1929th, when I was in the 1929th, in the 1929th forever.
14:04It's a holiday season you can see the previous prosperous 여자 agreements.
14:09He was fluent in eight languages and served in the U.S. Army during World War II in military
14:26intelligence, conducting prisoner of war interrogations and aerial reconnaissance
14:32in the Pacific Theater and the subsequent occupation of Japan.
14:39The first women astronauts, there are now eight out of the 81 members of the astronaut corps
15:00based in Houston.
15:01One of the first half dozen to be accepted is Judy Resnick, now 32 years old, a native
15:05of Akron, the holder of a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
15:10She is single.
15:11When you're a little girl growing up in Akron, Ohio, did you say, gee, I'd like to be an astronaut
15:14someday?
15:15No, I really didn't think about it until right about four years ago when NASA announced
15:19that they were looking for astronauts who would be engineers and scientists on a space shuttle
15:24and it was accidental that I heard about it and I just took a chance and applied.
15:27Resnick grew up in an observant Jewish home studying at Hebrew school at Beth El Synagogue
15:34in Ekron and celebrated her bat mitzvah in 1962.
15:39The bat mitzvah was not common at this time.
15:43Recognized while still a child for her intellectual brilliance, Resnick was accepted at Carnegie Institute
15:50of Technology after becoming only the 16th woman in the history of the United States to
15:55have attained a perfect score on the SAT exam.
15:59She graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon before attaining a Ph.D.
16:06in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
16:09Resnick worked for RCA as an engineer on Navy missile and radar projects as a senior systems
16:16engineer for Xerox Corporation and published research on special purpose integrated circuitry.
16:23She was also a pilot and made research contributions to biomedical engineering as a research fellow
16:30at the National Institutes of Health.
16:33At age 28, Resnick was selected by NASA as a mission specialist.
16:39She was part of NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women.
16:44Yay, ladies, ladies, can I get a hell yeah?
16:50Well, you have to learn how to survive in case you have to get out of an airplane in a parachute
16:55and they teach you step-by-step how to fall, how to be dragged, that's the impact you feel
17:00if you go through an ejection seat.
17:03They show you how to fall into the water by, instead of letting you fall the first time,
17:07they let you slide down a slide wire, like I say, they break you into it gradually.
17:12Were you a tomboy when you were a kid?
17:13No.
17:14You weren't?
17:15And you took to this right away?
17:16You like it?
17:17It was.
17:18While training on the astronaut program, she developed software and operating procedures
17:24for NASA missions.
17:25She's so cool.
17:26Her first space flight was the STS-41D mission in August and September 1984, the 12th space
17:35shuttle flight in the maiden voyage of space shuttle Discovery, where her duties included
17:40operating its robotic arm.
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17:43Rrrrrrrrrrrr.
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26:39Her second shuttle mission was STS-51L in January 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger.
27:04I've got about 40 on B.
27:073rd and 5 on A actually drifted aft a little bit.
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