Nervous about NASA.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration - Editorial

I worry that NASA is again trying to move too fast, scheduling six shuttle launches this year, according to the Washington Post's Marc Kaufman, twice the number of flights it has managed in each of the last two years. This reminds me of the pressure from NASA executives to launch the first shuttle against the early warnings from this magazine's Gregg Easterbrook of defects, including the danger that the booster rocket would blow up. That is, of course, what happened to the Challenger one cold morning after Thiokol engineers had spent the night desperately...

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