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SPACE CENTER, Houston--Space shuttle Challenger Pilot Michael J. Smith exclaimed "Uh-oh!" at the moment the spacecraft exploded, and some of the crew apparently lived long enough to turn on emergency air packs, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said yesterday...
...NASA said the three "could monitor all voiceactivity but did not make any...comments...
After Smith's suit was reported last week, Mulloy announced that he was planning to retire from NASA at week's end. A 26-year NASA veteran, Mulloy, 52, offered no explanation...
Adding to all NASA's other woes, the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House appeared ready to prevent the Air Force from paying the space agency a scheduled fee of $566 million for military space launches that have now been put on indefinite hold. Both NASA Administrator James Fletcher and Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge hope to block this cut, which Fletcher contends would inflict "additional injury" on the U.S. space program...
...resumption of shuttle flights, moreover, will be delayed into 1988. NASA conceded that its optimistic target date of July 1987 will not be met because the redesign of the boosters is proving more complicated than expected. Explained John Thomas, manager of the rocket-design team: "With so much at stake, we're going to take all the time that's required...