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...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...
...reason we are doing it is that if we get into testing and we should have a test failure that shows our design analysis was inadequate, we'd have head start on an alternate approach," Truly said. "However, everybody that's been involved in the redesign believes there is a design available with the present hardware...
...August release, about a cigar-chomping duck from another planet who crash- lands near a punk bar in Cleveland. Also in the works are Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, due out at Christmas; The Golden Child, an adventure-comedy starring Eddie Murphy; and--something new for ILM--a redesign of the rocket- ship ride at Disneyland, using Star Wars-like effects...
...sees his short-term priorities as fixing the shuttle ("Ironically, that's the easiest part," he said), improving NASA's management practices, and then rejuggling a backlog of shuttle payloads. He intends to set up a panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences to oversee the shuttle redesign, and has already appointed other outsiders to review the agency's management. On his return to his old post, he says, he was surprised to discover that top officials "didn't seem to be talking to each other." He intends to "get to the bottom" of the communications problem...
...expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could not reach the handle to "open" the umbrella. Another redesign was needed. It was now August...