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...system -- the solid rocket boosters, the orbiter's three liquid-fuel engines and the huge external fuel tank. What is more, each of the modifications or changes was laboriously reviewed by the Discovery astronauts. "NASA went far beyond our recommendations and fixed all that we wanted," says Robert B. Hotz, a member of the Rogers commission. "There was a whole series of potential accidents waiting to happen. I'm pleased with what NASA has done...
...always backs his editor. "They never question our facts," says Hotz, "only our right to print them...
...industry and opposes Defense Secretary McNamara's attempts to economize on aerospace purchases. Prone to be overexcited by Soviet technical achievements, the magazine supports the establishment of an anti-ballistic missile system. An Air Force intelligence officer in World War II, later public relations director of United Aircraft, Hotz is a superhawk to the point of suggesting that the Sino-Soviet split may be a ruse to lull the U.S. into a false sense of security...
From a spacious Washington office crowded with hundreds of scale models of aircraft and rockets, Hotz directs his growing magazine. He already has bureaus in London and Geneva; this fall he plans to open another in Bangkok. "With 27 airlines providing service," he says, "this city is an aerial crossroads of the world, just as Singapore was a naval crossroads in the past...
After running searching accounts of the Viet Nam air war, the Israeli victory and the causes of Boeing 727 crashes, Hotz aims to investigate the "sociological implications" of aerospace technology. "As an industry that embraces the spectrum of modern technology," he wrote last week, "the aerospace industry has a special responsibility to respond to the challenges of a Newark or Detroit. It has technology that could be applied, from new and less lethal methods of riot control to systems planning and management capacity. This technology could redesign urban complexes, create effective regional transportation systems and provide the jobs that would...