News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - September 1982

Youth Magazine Staff

Shuttle to the Final Frontier; The People's Republic's People Problem; Country In FOCUS: China; An Heir Is Born; Keys to the Future - A double sonic boom from the Space Shuttle Columbia and two T-38 chase planes brought a roar from the July 4th (U.S. Independence Day) crowd of about half a million people gathered at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The Columbia. carrying Shuttle Commander Thomas K. "T.K." Mattingly and Shuttle Pilot Henry Hartsfield, was ending its fourth test flight, logging more than nine million miles in its 314 orbits. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library