Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fatal explosion of the space shuttle Challenger was an accident waiting to happen if estimates of solid rocket booster failure in a 1983 Air Force report are true, says Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass...
...Force estimates are true, they "strongly suggest that a catastrophic accident was a virual certainty and an accident waiting to happen," Markey wrote...
...barely speak. "These were my friends," he said. "Mike Smith was my mother hen." Smith had been specifically assigned to help ready Garn for his flight. Garn explained that all the astronauts were fully aware of the risks. "We never talked about it. We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else." Recalled Ohio Democrat John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth: "We used to speculate, the first group of seven, how many of us would be alive after the program." (One of them, Gus Grissom, died in a 1967 fire on a launch...
...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...
...featured speaker. Said Senator Jake Garn, who trained with Smith for a 1985 shuttle mission: "He was my mother hen. They assigned him to me." One thing the two never discussed, says Garn, was the possibility of a disaster: "We always assumed that if it happened, it would happen to somebody else...