Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Also found were two cone-shaped objects described as "about 10 feet" in diameter. One had an attached parachute, indicating it came from one of the solid rocket boosters blown up. Each booster is 12 feet in diameter and contains four parachutes designed to lower the spent rockets to the ocean for retrieval...
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...
...tainted," complained Gladys Roost, 80, a Dodger fan in Los Angeles. Shirley Murphy, 33, a secretary in Baltimore, agreed. "It is a damn shame that these guys can't depend on their talent to see them through," she said. Declared Ralph Bass, 63, a Texas Ranger booster: "Making that kind of money, they ought to set a better example...