Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The temperature on the morning of the Jan. 28 launch has been a focus of a presidential commission's investigation into the shuttle accident because of concern that the cold might have affected the performance of critical O-ring seals between segments of the shuttle's two rocket boosters.
"At this junction it seems to have been an avoidable accident, rather than an unavoidable one," said Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.).
William Rogers, chairman of the presidential commission investigating the accident, called Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, and said he was "appalled" to learn that key information about the shuttle's condition hadn't reached top NASA officials, according to the Post.
The presidential commission has been given four months to report on its findings to both NASA and Reagan. Its investigators, as well as those of NASA, will examine the more than twelve tons of debris recovered from the Atlantic Ocean east and north of Cape Canaveral. The partly intact casings...
This one year required withdrawal is counter-productive from all perspectives. It prevents these two from contributing in any way to the Harvard community. It prevents them from facing their mistake; rather it forces them to escape it. They lose direction and purpose. Essentially, they get to spend 12 months...