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...concern mounted over NASA's handling of the doomed space shuttle Challenger, the space agency's astronaut corps had stayed stoically tight- lipped. When beleaguered NASA officials trotted out four shuttle veterans for a press conference last week, the astronauts expressed concern about the agency's conduct, but not condemnation. In particular, they reserved judgment on reports that NASA had failed to heed warnings that the weather on Jan. 28 was too cold to launch, leading to Challenger's destruction and the deaths of its seven crew members. "I'm not sitting here angry," said Astronaut Vance Brand. "If there...
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...
...astronaut, who has flown more shuttle missions than anyone, wrote the memo Jan. 6, six days before the launch of Columbia on the last successful shuttle mission and 22 days before Challenger exploded...
...what Texas Air skippers receive. Eastern has slipped repeatedly into the red, and its comebacks never seem to last. After managing a $73 million profit for the first nine months of last year, the airline lost $67 million in the final quarter. Many employees fault Borman, the former Apollo astronaut who became chairman in 1976; they feel that he has never earned his wings as a successful business executive...
...Johnson Space Center. Although the move had been in the works before the Challenger disaster, the speedy transfer permitted Graham to bring in a new and wholly untarnished leader for the shuttle program. He is Rear Admiral Richard Truly, 48, who had spent 14 years as a NASA astronaut and whose last duty before leaving the agency in 1983 was to command a flight of the Challenger. Departing from his post as head of the Naval Space Command, Truly vowed last week to "find the cause and fix it," and get NASA "back in business...