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Questions surround NM slayings as family, church community prepare to bury former pastor, kids
• ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Fifteen-year-old murder suspect Nehemiah Griego grew up in a family deeply rooted in the Christian faith.
• His father, a gang member turned pastor, helped others turn their lives around. There were missions to Mexico, prayer sessions with former jail inmates and weekly Bible study gatherings. For Griego, there were jam sessions with the Calvary Albuquerque's youth band and pickup basketball games at the church.
• That all changed last Saturday when his parents and three younger siblings were slain at home and Griego was arrested and charged with the killings.
• On Friday, family and friends will gather at the church to mourn the deaths -- a tragedy that just doesn't make sense to surviving family members or the church community that has watched him grow up.
• Griego was just a normal teen to Vince Harrison, a former police officer who had known the family for about 10 years through his security work at the church.
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NASA testing vintage engine left over from Apollo 11 rocket to improve for future missions
• HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond.
• Young engineers who weren't even born when the last Saturn V rocket took off for the moon are testing a vintage engine from the program.
• The engine, known to NASA engineers as No. F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts to the moon for the first time. The flight went off without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine -- it was grounded because of a glitch during a test in Mississippi and later sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.
• Now engineers are learning to work with technical systems and propellants not used since before the start of the space shuttle program, which first launched in 1981.
• Nick Case, 27, and other engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Thursday completed a series of 11 test-firings of the F-6049's gas generator, a jet- (Continued on page 38)
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