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...Instead of saying we will fix things that the Rogers commission felt were wrong, we are in the position of saying we are fixing things the Rogers commission found wrong," NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher told reporters yesterday...
...Richard Truly, head of the shuttle program, held a news conference hours after Fletcher delivered to the White House a report on actions NASA has taken since the Rogers commission made nine major recommendations last month...
...Fletcher said the space agency had responded favorably to each of the recommendations but said "there is one negative piece of news that came out after studying the problem in some depth...
...Fletcher said he discussed the replacement shuttle extensively at the White House, but that there was no decision...
...NASA boss is noncommittal on proposals that the agency stop lifting payloads for other countries and for private commercial purposes. While conceding that "somebody's got to take some of the backlog," Fletcher expressed doubts that "there is a good way" for private industry to step in quickly and develop its own expendable rockets. Still, plenty of private entrepreneurs seem willing...