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SPACE CENTER, Houston--A space shuttle accident on landing at Cape Canaveral is a certainty because the site is dangerous, says chief astronaut John Young in a memo written before the Challenger disaster...
...July 1985 NASA Budget Analyst Richard Cook had warned in an internal memo that unless the O rings were improved, a "catastrophic" failure might follow. Three weeks ago, he revealed that during every shuttle launch, some engineers had "held their breath" in fear of an O-ring failure. Last week Engineer Roger Boisjoly, Thiokol's top expert on the rings, testified that he had sent a similar memo to his superiors only days after Cook sent his. On any one flight, his memo warned, it was "a jump ball" as to whether the seal would hold...
...teleconference resumed and Kilminster announced the startling turnabout, Marshall's shuttle manager Reinartz asked if anyone on the network had any comment on the decision. There was no response. Thiokol was now on record as no longer opposing the launch, and the telephone hookup was ended. Kilminster telefaxed a memo to the Cape and Huntsville formalizing the change...
...think your engineering experience based on the short time you've been at NASA improved your ability to pass judgment on what others had decided?" Cook, who has no engineering experience, seemed stunned and did not reply to the question but forcefully defended the facts in his memo. Two days later, he told the press that NASA engineers had "whispered" in his ear that because of the O-ring problems they "held their breaths" during every shuttle launch. In other testimony, one of NASA's booster experts, Lawrence Mulloy, conceded that damage to the rings had occurred previously...
Although the list was entitled, "temporary list of available South African Internships," although the list was in the form of a memo from one member of the committee to another, although students requesting information about the internship program were referred to the list, and although members of the committee received copies of the list in their meeting packets, Steiner contends that the list was not connected with the work of the committee. Even though SASC believes that Steiner's statement strains credibility, SASC does not want the actual purpose of the list to be the crux of the debate...