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Where else would Harvard President Derek C. Bok and a beer-besotted Michigan St. booster identified only as Ponzie forget their differences and join ranks--simply to cheer...
...strongly forging ahead in space exploration. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia, the Soviets launched the first in a projected series of supply missions to their new manned space station called Mir (Peace). The unmanned cargo vessel Progress 25, boosted into orbit by a workhorse Proton rocket booster, hooked up on Friday with Mir, bringing food, fuel, water and other supplies to Cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev, whose own Soyuz T-15 spacecraft docked with the orbiting space station on March...
...evidence suggests that Rockwell's drug situation had anything to do with the Challenger tragedy. The solid rocket booster that is suspected of causing the explosion was made by Chicago-based Morton Thiokol, and no reports of drug use among its employees have surfaced. Nonetheless, any drug abuse among production workers in the space program or the defense industry carries grave risks. Says Frankel: "In this kind of ultra-high-tech work, the guy who makes the little adjustments, the screwer-on of parts, the bolter of nuts, is just as important as the project's chief engineer...
NASA, meanwhile, continued to defend itself in the commission's public hearings at Cape Canaveral. NASA technicians speculated on a variety of reasons--other than the cold weather--why a joint in Challenger's right solid- fuel booster began leaking, spewing superhot gases and probably triggering the catastrophe. The commission seemed unimpressed. Chairman William Rogers urged NASA to include independent experts in making its evaluations. Otherwise, he protested, "The people running the tests, if successful, can prove that they were right all along...
Understandably, the Rogers commission wanted to know what had caused the switch at Thiokol. Testified Lund: "We got ourselves into the thought process that we were trying to find some way to prove to them it (the booster) wouldn't work. We couldn't prove absolutely that it wouldn't work." When Mason was asked whether telling Lund to put on his management hat did not amount to pressuring his subordinate to change his mind, he replied, "Well, I hope not, but it could be interpreted that way." Both Hardy and Mulloy insisted that they had exerted no pressure...