Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whenever tensions are running high on the international scene, all we'll have to do is launch a few million of the cameras into the main missile corridors. The Ruskies won't be able to get anything through that mess...
...engineering experience, seemed stunned and did not reply to the question but forcefully defended the facts in his memo. Two days later, he told the press that NASA engineers had "whispered" in his ear that because of the O-ring problems they "held their breaths" during every shuttle launch. In other testimony, one of NASA's booster experts, Lawrence Mulloy, conceded that damage to the rings had occurred previously. In the 171 joints from spent booster segments that NASA has examined, he said, six primary rings showed signs of erosion...
...Post source said after hearing about that last week in a closed session at the launch site, "We threw everybody out of the room and decided we had to tell the president...
Moore told the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee that the reading was recorded on a hand-held infrared scanner used by workers examining the shuttle for ice contamination on the morning of the launch. No word of the low temperature reading was ever relayed to officials charged with deciding whether to go ahead with the launch, he said...
Nevertheless, several senators indicated concern about the breakdown in communications and asked Rogers whether such breakdowns had led him to conclude that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's launch decision-making process was "flawed...