Exploration reaps benefits for all involved -- whether they go
on the trip or stay at home. Yet there are risks inherent in all
forms of exploration that accompany these benefits. You could argue
no one knows this better than June Scobee Rodgers, founding
Chairman of the Challenger Center for Space Education... and widow
of STS-51L commander Dick Scobee, who along with six other
spacefarers perished in the January 28, 1986 explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger.
Saying they need more time to work out a plan to deal with not
one but two power issues at the International Space Station,
mission managers at NASA postponed plans for a fourth spacewalk
Wednesday.
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