Word: florida
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...encrusted Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, killing all seven of its crew. But on one point the testimony already seemed conclusive: so many doubts had been expressed about the safety of the flight that Challenger should not have been launched on that frigid Florida morning. As one source privy to the commission's thinking said, "This was an absolutely preventable thing. This accident never should have happened. Never...
Last week's testimony also provided distressing new detail about the weather- related worries that developed as a cold front hit the Cape on Jan. 27. After hearing forecasts that the Florida temperature might fall to as low as 18 degrees F that night, Robert Ebeling, a Thiokol engineer at the company's plant in Brigham City, Utah, telephoned McDonald at the Cape about 4 p.m. He said that he and other engineers at the plant were worried about the seals. McDonald then got the latest prediction, about 22 degrees , and, finding this "very serious," called Robert Lund, the vice...
...impression that Thiokol was concerned enough to seek a flight delay. He asked his boss, Stanley Reinartz, shuttle projects manager at Marshall who was then at the Cape, to tell Arnold Aldrich, the overall shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, who was also in Florida, that a flight delay was likely. But Reinartz decided to wait until he had "a full understanding of the situation" before informing Aldrich...
...contractors had warned that Challenger should not fly that day. One, apparently under pressure from NASA's middle managers, had changed its mind. The other had not. But NASA's highest decision makers had either not heard about the contractors' fears or ignored them. So Challenger blasted into the Florida sky on its brief, one-way flight to oblivion...
...enlisted as an informant, Burnett was granted a deferred sentencing on his parole violation, and went back to work for S.R.S.--and the bureau. To keep their man available, the FBI even stonewalled South Florida investigators inquiring into the suspected murders of two women and a man who had engaged in financial dealings with Burnett...