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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...
...letter to NASA sent yesterday, Markey asked the agency for its assumptions in estimating lower risks and for factors on which those assumptions were based...
...Markey said the Air Force report, written by Teledyne Energy Systems Inc., based its estimates on "historically documented failure rates" in solid rocket boosters used for Air Force, Navy and NASA missile programs...
...Force estimates are true, they "strongly suggest that a catastrophic accident was a virual certainty and an accident waiting to happen," Markey wrote...
...letter, Markey asked for estimates of the explosive force needed to breach the generator, a list of ways in which that could happen and an estimate of the explosive force on the Challenger flight...