Ladue Horton Watkins High School - Rambler Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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lllui Men and women help To find survivors On SepTember 49, 4985 an earfhauake sfruck Mexi- co CiTy in souThwesTern Mexico killing more Than 20,000 people. EarThquakes along Mexico's wesTern coasf generally resuIT from The movemenT of The oce- anic plaTes. Tremendous sTress buiIT up and The final resulT was an erupTion. Thousands of Mexicans were IefT homeless. Many losT loved ones because of buildings col- lapsing from The quake. Many people were buried alive or res- cued by The many people who in The rubble of The Mexican earihquake. came To Mexico CiTy To help in Time of disasTer. The governmenT seT up dwellings To shelTer The homeless, buT only a fracTion of The people could be accomo- daTed. lnTernaTional relief funds from WashingTon and The Ameri- can Red Cross were readily ad- minisTered To The homeless Mexi- can people. UnforTunaTeIy, due To Mexico's poor, inflaTed econo- my people felT This money was being misappropiaTed. ScienTisTs conTinually Try To learn how To predicT fuTure earThauakes. They hope To learn enough abouT The auakes so The effecTs will noT be as disasferous. This year Halley's comeT appeared in mid-February. Edmund Halley calculaied The orbiT of The comeT in 4682. He sTaTed The comeT was The same one ThaT appeared in 4534, 4607, and predicTed iT would appear in 4758. The comeT appears every 76 years. A rupTure in The righT rock- eT boosTer of The space shuTTle was suspecTed To be The cause of The explosion ThaT desTroyed The Chal- lenger and killed iTs crew Jan. 28, 4986. Space officials suspecTed ThaT whaT apparenTly was a rupTure in The rockeT causing had The ef- fecT of poinTing a Torch aT The side of Challenger's fuel Tank. The explosion killed seven crew members: Dick Scobee, Michael SmiTh, JudiTh Resnik, Ellison Oni- zuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, and ChrisTa McAuliffe. Sco- bee was The shuTTle commander. Resnick was The second woman in space and on board for her eIecTrical equipmenT back- ground. Onizukafs mission would have been To deploy a saTelliTe To sTudy Halley's ComeT. McAu- liffe, a school Teacher from Con- cord, N.H., was selecTed To be The firsT Teacher in space. Her job was To describe space flighT in or- dinary language and Teach saTel- liTe classes from The Challenger. The disasTer, The worsf in The 25-year hisTory of manned space flighT, could force a revaluaTion of The human crews in space. 5 World

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