Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIERY END of Challenger and her crew is history now, sealed forever into the most uncomfortable corner of our consciousness. Barely a week later, it is as though all of it happened long ago: the remarkably diverse crew walks to the NASA van, the spacecraft lifts majestically skyward, and disaster. A shower of smoke and debris and the booster rockets crazily flailing away, trailing a jagged streamer of cloudy exhaust and diverting us from staring at that ugly fireball. Seven people and man's most magnificent machine, gone in a second. From life to death to nothing. In a second...
This theory remained just that. NASA's acting administrator, William Graham, the only agency official speaking on the record, said yesterday that the agency still is looking for other causes for the explosion...
Photographs released by NASA show a tongue of flame apparently lashing upward from the exhaust of the right booster rocket into an area that films of previous launches showed to be clear of fire or flame. The flame appeared in the last 15 seconds of flight...
...first 20 years of the space age, solid rockets were considered too risky to use on manned flights. But they proved so successful early in the shuttle program that NASA confidently removed all but four sensors to measure their performance...
...booster, which NASA officials are now saying may have caused Tuesday's disaster, nearly caused a disaster during the eight shuttle mission in October 1983 as well...