Word: grahams
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Editor for This Issue: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '87 Night Editors: Michael D. Nolan '88 David S. Graham '88 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Matthew A. Saal '87 Editorial Editors: Gary D. Rowe '88 Feature Editors: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '87 Copy Editor: Louisa C. Lund '89 Photo Editor: M. Jeremy Yamin '87 Sports Editor: Jonathan F. Putnam '88 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Business Editor: Marc N. Diker...
...bird?" shouted a space engineer at Cape Canaveral. "Oh, my God!" cried a teacher from the viewing stands nearby. "Don't let happen what I think just happened." Nancy Reagan, watching television in the White House family quarters, gasped similar words, "Oh, my God, no!" So too did William Graham, the acting administrator of NASA, who was watching in the office of a Congressman. "Oh, my God," he said...
...take weeks or even months for federal investigators to be certain of the answer, and perhaps they will never know for sure. At least ten separate teams of investigators are now probing every aspect of the mystery of why Challenger exploded; and Acting NASA Administrator William Graham vowed they would "provide the best national capability to study this, to analyze it, to find out how to correct it, and to ensure that it will never happen again...
...Graham, asked how soon shuttle flights might resume, replied that there was "no way to say what time we can go forward...
...Graham said yesterday that the boosters were at first heavily instrumented to monitor their performance. But he said the rockets worked so successfully that there were "no credible failure modes that we could identify" and most of the sensors were removed early in the program...