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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA officials, increasingly confident they can identify the cause of Challenger's disaster and fly again soon, believe a rupture in the right rocket booster may have triggered the explosion that destroyed the shuttle and killed its crew...
Photographs released by NASA show a tongue of flame apparently lashing upward from the exhaust of the right booster rocket into an area that films of previous launches showed to be clear of fire or flame. The flame appeared in the last 15 seconds of flight...
...pointed to a "field joint"--the seam between the lowest segment of the right booster and the second segment. The name comes form the fact that the segments arrive here individually and are put together at the center...
...booster, which NASA officials are now saying may have caused Tuesday's disaster, nearly caused a disaster during the eight shuttle mission in October 1983 as well...
Experts had not studied the electronic control panel to see from which part of the shuttle it might have come. There are many such panels on the flight deck and middeck and also on the fuel tank and booster rockets...