challenger

Bitterly cold night. NASA Select was showing icicles on the pad. WMEL news director Don Germaise and I debated whether we should even waste the drive to the Cape because we were certain NASA would scrub. All I had was a lined wind breaker and a thin sweater. I was 27. It was one day after the...

The dean of all journalists at the Cape. Was the very definition of acerbic to anybody new to the game, but I expected that coming in. If you were in his circle of friends, he was a bit more friendly. He covered every launch starting with the Vanguard 3 failure in 1957. Got himself hired by...