Ladd, saying, ''If anything happens this goes to John.'' Jarvis placed Challenger lapel pins in an envelope and gave them to Mrs. But they have this thing down to a routine.' '' We know we're sitting on a keg of dynamite. ''Greg had some reasonable apprehension about the flight,'' Mr. Bruce Jarvis collapsed and was hospitalized for the day for observation of a heart condition. Bruce Jarvis of Orlando, Fla., was in the viewing stand at Cape Canaveral with Marcia Jarvis and Edward and Grace Corrigan, the parents of Christa McAuliffe. Ladd said.Īs it was, she was at home alone watching the launching on television the next morning when the spacecraft exploded, he said. ''She has angina and we worried the stress was too much for her,'' Mr. 27 after two days of delays in the launching of the Challenger. Jarvis's mother, Lucille Ladd, had returned home with her husband from Cape Canaveral on Jan. Ladd spoke by phone from his home in Mohawk, an upstate New York community of 3,000 people where Mr. ''He knew there were no guarantees once they torched that ship up,'' said John Ladd, Mr.
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''When they had trouble opening the orbiter after Monday's hold and had to send for technicians to drill open the hatch to release the crew, Greg told Christa, 'I bet those guys are going to come up here with a portable drill and the batteries are going to be dead.' '' Dutcher recalled the other day in his office in the cluster of space and military research facilities at the eastern end of Los Angeles International Airport. ''Marcia told me that Greg was just super in the orbiter during the holds on Sunday and Monday,'' Mr.
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