Sen. Orrin Hatch has made the pitch countless times to Utah voters: Send him back to Washington for another term, and he’ll become chairman of the mighty Senate Finance Committee. But first ...

So in the immediate aftermath, someone at NASA, probably within the crew office, initiated the capability of a commander to lock the hatch if he or she felt uncomfortable about a crew member.

Jeff Hatch wasn’t happy with the first impression he made on the Giants in late April and he was determined not to let it happen again. That’s why the third-round pick was “ecstatic ...