Word: gehman
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...left wheel well began to increase when the shuttle was still over the Pacific, heading for California. That suggests the ship sustained damage in orbit, but began to feel the effects only when the temperature rose during re-entry. "In a large number of cases," says retired Admiral Harold Gehman, head of the investigation board, "what you find in the end has no bearing on what you thought you had in the beginning." That would include a problem that first bit NASA four decades ago--one that this time didn't just damage a robot ship but took seven lives...