Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Medicine Arnold S. Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, will moderate a panel discussion on the cause of AIDS and the methods by which the disease spreads...
...report, ABC cited an internal National Aeronautics and Space Administration memo by Arnold Aldrich, manager of the shuttle project in Houston, that said an operator at Cape Canaveral inadvertently dumped 18,000 pounds of liquid oxygen from the shuttle's external fuel tank...
...after Cook sent his. On any one flight, his memo warned, it was "a jump ball" as to whether the seal would hold, and if it did not, "the result would be a catastrophe of the highest order--loss of human life." One month later, yet another Thiokol engineer, Arnold Thompson, urged his company to ask NASA to suspend all flights until the seal problem was fixed. Thiokol management apparently did not convey these warnings to NASA...
...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...
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...