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...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...
...10th and 20th replay of the shuttle explosion? Because we couldn't pull our eyes away. Not from the fireball, not from the eerie pre-flight scenes of the astronauts, not from the sight of grieving family members confused by the evil twist of emotions in the moments after launch. They couldn't believe it, and neither could we. Still harder to accept is that man's vulnerability was bared by the failure of the Challenger, a technological miracle designed to shield man from the most hostile of elements, and from death itself...
Both at the Florida launch site and in Houston where the ascent to space is directed, engineers studied computer tapes that recorded performance of the shuttle's systems every one one-thousandth of a second...
...suspension of space flights pending the shuttle investigation may well disrupt plans to launch two unmanned space probes from shuttles in May. If the May launches are delayed the probes won't be feasible again until mid-1987, said Frank Bristow, JPL's chief spokesman...
...national decision is that the launch vehicle for all spacecraft will be the shuttle, therefore we are part of the manned program, we are dependent on the manned program," said JPL director Lew Allen...