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...testimony before a congressional subcommittee on science and technology last week, Air Force Lieut. General James A. Abrahamson, NASA'S associate administrator and boss of the shuttle program, said that discovery of the defect was a tribute to the space agency's quest for safety. He might have added that it was also because of an odd bit of luck. In late January, only days before Challenger's originally scheduled liftoff, NASA inspectors discovered that hydrogen was leaking from the No. 1 engine...
Determined to get the suits in working order for the maiden voyage of the new orbiter Challenger in January, the chief of the shuttle program, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, ordered a panel headed by NASA Engineer Richard Colonna to examine the suits, literally stitch by stitch. Its provisional finding: "Egregious oversights"-to use the words of one of the investigators-by the prime contractor, the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp., and by a key subcontractor, Carleton Controls Corp., a subsidiary of Moog Inc. By implication, the report also faulted the space agency...
...tiles showed pits and bruises. Dark streaks lined the fuselage, and a tire was flat, apparently worn down by the friction of a wheel that locked on landing. Casting a baleful eye on the craft that has logged 10.8 million miles on five voyages, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of NASA'S shuttle program, commented, "It's beginning to look more like a used spaceship all the time." But his words were more of a compliment than a criticism. By successfully completing its first operational flight, Columbia showed convincingly that the often maligned $10 billion shuttle...
Challenger the next ship in the fleet, is being readied at Cape Canaveral to take the next three flights, beginning with flight six. Jan. 24 James A. Abrahamson, NASA's associate administrator for space flight said the space walk scrubbed on Monday because of malfunctioning space suits may be take then "if we are certain we understand exactly what wheat wrong and have corrected...
...space walk scheduled for mission specialist Lenior and Allen was abandoned when both their 52 million suits malfunctioned. If it can't be worked into flight six it will be scheduled for flight seven, Abrahamson said...