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...Rogers commission has another three months to complete its investigation into Challenger's explosion only 73 seconds after blasting off from the ice-encrusted Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, killing all seven of its crew. But on one point the testimony already seemed conclusive: so many doubts had been expressed about the safety of the flight that Challenger should not have been launched on that frigid Florida morning. As one source privy to the commission's thinking said, "This was an absolutely preventable thing. This accident never should have happened. Never...
...solid-fuel boosters that are the main focus of the search for a cause of the disaster, and Rockwell International, which manufactures the orbiter. Officials and engineers of both companies insisted that they had opposed the launch, at least initially, because of the cold weather and ice at the pad. But the NASA officials who heard the complaints contended that the objections had never been raised as forcefully as the contractors now claim and that in the end the disagreements had been resolved. Thus the NASA experts felt no need to relay the concerns to their superiors. That put NASA...
Arnold Aldrich, the number-two man in the shuttle program, said he rejected an objection on the morning of the January 28 liftoff by Rockwell International that ice on Pad 39B made conditions "not safe to launch...
...inspection team that went to the pad three times on launch morning--the last time 40 minutes before listoff--told the launch control center that ice would pose no danger. Two men on the team told the commission that post-launch films showed that to be the case...
...Aquino campaign officials there was no way to stop Marcos from steamrolling to victory in the National Assembly tallies. Reason: he has complete political control in two important areas of the northern island of Luzon plus the central Visayan islands. In all those regions, he would be able to pad voting results with impunity, thus overcoming any Aquino lead at the polls elsewhere...