Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bone was found near Indialantic, 35 miles south of Cape Canaveral, and taken to a hospital at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said the bone and tissue fragment measured four inches by six inches by one inch...
...NASA officials did not know what kind of bone it was, and there nothing was to link it to an astronaut...
...pall of grief was understandable, but it hid the most devastating blow of all. When the head of NASA held a press conference, he couldn't say it. He simply refused to speculate about the causes of the events in the morning's media footage. When Reagan spoke to the nation, he refered to the day's human tragedy and canonized new heroes. One simply couldn't come out and say it: our rocket had blown up. The nation was emasculated, bewildered, dumbstruck as glorious pride turned to impotence in a blinding flash...
...NASA has always given great weight to both the manned and the unmanned part of the space program," said William Graham, acting administrator of the space agency. "We'll continue our program of people and machines working together...
...Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., which runs America's unmanned space program under contract to NASA, a Voyager 2 expert said the space shuttle program is needed to launch unmanned probes...