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Friday, January 30, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Brother says NASA exploited McAuliffe
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FRAMINGHAM Mass
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Christa McAulife's brother accused the National Aeronautics and Space Administration yesterday of exploiting his sister for the sake of publicity and called on the government to abandon programs to put civilians into space.
"They shouldn't be using the public for something that's mainly for the government," said Christopher Corrigan, whose sister was chosen to be the first private citizen in space.
Corrigan also said he thought his sister was used by the space program because she thought it was more safe than it was.
His comments ended a year of almost complete silence from relatives of the Concord, N.H., schoolteacher, who was killed along with six fellow astronauts when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986.
Corrigan, who made similar comments Wednesday to a local newspaper after a memorial service for his sister, said he thought his parents shared some of his feelings. They declined to comment on the accident that killed their daughter.
He said the program did boost the morale of teachers and improve the way the public viewed them, but he said he still thought
the space agency took advantage of his sister.
"I think these teachers and journalists are being used for publicity in a negative way," said Corrigan, 35, of Framingham.
Corrigan said he thought perhaps ordinary people could be sent into space if NASA resolved the many safety issues that came to light after the explosion. Corrigan said he also believed the space program should direct more attention to discovery rather than to commercial and military projects, like Star Wars.
NASA has the space program on hold and no ordinary citizen will be on any of the next five shuttle flights and perhaps not on any of the first 20, said Edward Campion, a spokesman in Washington.
"They're not going to put civilians in space until we are comfortable with the design changes that have been made," he said.
The astronauts were told a risk was involved in space flight, said Campion. But, he said, he did not know whether they had been told about any of the previous technical problems with the shuttle.
He said the "teacher in space" and "journalist in space" programs were not public relations stunts. NASA thought sending an ordinary person in space would help other citizens appreciate the space experience, he said.
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Lawson said soldiers escorted by Mexican military officials went to Juarez to pick up the rockets, but Mexican army officials ordered them to leave the rockets until Mexican officials granted permission for their removal.
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EL PASO, Texas — Twenty-three highly explosive U.S. air-to-ground rockets were sold unknowingly to a junk dealer in neighboring Juarez, Mexico, and are in the possession of the Mexican army, a Fort Bliss spokesman said yesterday.
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Salas said that he was angered by the attitude of the Army personnel
Officials said Salas began unloading the crates and tossing them to the ground off his pickup truck when he noticed the boxes seemed heavy.
Lawson said the crates should have been empty. The Criminal Investigation Command and the directorate of logistics at Fort Bliss are investigating and the person responsible for the sale of the empty boxes could be punished if it is determined he was negligent. Lawson said.
Lt. Col. James Lawson of the Fort Bliss public affairs office said the rockets, which are 2.75 inches in diameter and 4 feet long, apparently were left accidentally in wooden crates sold to a Mexican junk dealer. Mexican army officials have possession of the rockets, he said.
U. S. Consul Imogene Karawi in Juarez said the U.S. Army's attempts to have the rockets returned from Mexico have been unsuccessful but were continuing through diplomatic channels.
"The system of Reaganomics and the race-conscious spirit of Reaganism as espoused by Reaganites must be challenged." Jackson said.
Pedro Salas of Juarez, who regularly salvages items from Fort Bliss, said he was rebounded by civilian employees of the Army last week when he discovered the rockets in crates
Jackson blames economy for racism
"There is no indication that there was any criminal action in this incident," Lawson said.
Bob Brandon, Washington-area director of Citizen Action, said the group brought Jackson and other politicians together to get ideas on how to be more successful in electing progressive leadership and attracting disaffected voters for the 1988 campaign.
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WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that recent racial events in New York and Georgia were direct results of the race-conscious spirit and economic injustices of the Reagan administration.
Jackson told a citizens group they must not lose sight of the problems of unemployment, low wages and despair that he said led to racial confrontations in the Howard Beach section of the New York City borough.
of Queens and at a civil rights rally in Forsyth County, Ga.
Jackson, a presidential candidate in 1984 and a likely candidate in 1988, called on the group to be liberal voters in 1988. He said that 6.7 million were possible for Walter Mondale to win the nomination in 1984 and that the progressive coalition was capable of producing 10 million voters.
Jackson, who is head of the multi-racial Rainbow Coalition, said that he is committed to creating a diverse society.
the Democratic Party over delegate selection and that he did not intend to engage in any more public protests
Jackson said he planned to lead demonstrations in the next few months outside a closed industrial plant, on a troubled farm, near a missile site and at a drug exchange point to show concern about all four
Jackson was upset about the Democratic delegate selection process that denied delegates to any of the eight candidates, a percentage of the vote in a primary.
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