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...well as engineers from Morton Thiokol, the company that makes the solid-fuel boosters suspected of triggering the disaster. The commissioners could scarcely believe what they were hearing as they made some startling discoveries: 1) the engineers had adamantly opposed the launch because of the unusually cold weather at Cape Canaveral; 2) on the morning of the tragedy, an infrared temperature-sensing instrument had shown abnormal "cold spots" of 7 degrees and 9 degrees F on the lower part of the right-hand booster; and 3) most unsettling of all, neither of the first two findings had been conveyed...
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...
While investigators probed the possibility of human error, the search for evidence of the technical failure that caused the Challenger explosion continued off Cape Canaveral. A flotilla of four undersea craft and ten surface ships had located and photographed parts of the right booster, scattered on the ocean floor under about 1,200 ft. of water...
...Heimert unlike many other Americans tried to listen rather than prescribe to us what our political views should be," says James Moulder, director of Public Relations at the University of Cape Town of the master's trips to South Africa...
...enormously to Alan Heimert's credit that instead of being an imperial, colonial-minded American by interfering in our politics, he consulted with Black and white South Africans about what Harvard can do," says Moulder, who arranged Heimert's meetings in Cape Town...