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...Cape, Huntsville and in Utah to discuss the O-ring problem. Before it began, Lovingood got the impression that Thiokol was concerned enough to seek a flight delay. He asked his boss, Stanley Reinartz, shuttle projects manager at Marshall who was then at the Cape, to tell Arnold Aldrich, the overall shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, who was also in Florida, that a flight delay was likely. But Reinartz decided to wait until he had "a full understanding of the situation" before informing Aldrich...
Reinartz testified that he had never told Aldrich, his launch-command superior, about the discussion with Thiokol or about that firm's original opposition to the flight. He argued that since the issue had been resolved, there was no need to do so. When Mulloy took the same position, a commissioner, Air Force Major General Donald Kutyna, observed bitingly, "If this was an airplane and I just had a fight with Boeing over whether the wing could fall off, I think I'd tell the pilot." Reinartz explained that he had informed his boss, William Lucas, director of the Marshall...
There was a stunned silence in the commission's closed hearing room at the cape after Robert Sieck, shuttle manager at the Kennedy Space Center, Gene Thomas, the launch director for Challenger at Kennedy, and Arnold Aldrich, manager of space transportation systems at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, all testified that they had never before heard that Thiokol engineers had objected to the launch. Rogers ordered everyone except the commissioners out of the room and declared, "We must advise the President as soon as possible." Explained one commission source: "We did not want the President to be blindsided...
...Arnold Aldrich, the number-two man in the shuttle program, said he rejected an objection on the morning of the January 28 liftoff by Rockwell International that ice on Pad 39B made conditions "not safe to launch...
...case came into my office today," says Aldrich, "I wouldn't touch it." Berg's was one of the last major settlements reached before the California Supreme Court upheld portions of a new law that put a cap on court awards for pain and suffering and on contingency fees. That rule applied to Insurance Salesman Harry Jordan when he sued because surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy left kidney instead of his cancerous right one. Unable to work, he requires eight hours of dialysis three times a week. A jury awarded Jordan $5.2 million, but the cap law compelled the trial...