European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse U c.5. Tuesday. May 6. 1936 the stars and stripes Page 5 to Cri Delta Titan and shuttle systems All grounded Washington not the nation s ability to lift commercial scientific and military satellites into place is crippled us least Tor the near future space Agency of is said sunday after the third consecutive failure of a major space Mission in 14 weeks thai assessment from mystified and demoralized officials of Ihu National air Paulics and space administration came a Flor a Delia rocket currying u we Allier satellite lost Power and spun out of control saturday evening Over Cape canaveral. Al i. Forcing controllers to destroy the Craft and its s57.s million payload. Oil sunday the Agency announced thai in was suspend Delta launching until the causes of the la list mishap War determined. In a scr statement issued from Nasa Headquarters rear adm. Richard ii. Truly who took Over a Mon Lomigo As the Agency s associate administrator for space flight unpainted an eight member investigation Board and told it to report by july 2, the Delta failure comes on the heels of the explosion of an air Force Titan rocket the chief vehicle for propelling spy satellites aloft and the disintegration of tic space shuttle challenger which killed seven Crew members. Analysts begun to question whether something More than bad Luck was at work. ". Marc e. Vaucher a program manager ill the Center for space policy inc., a consulting group said you have to question whether something is fundamentally wrong with Nasa s Quality Eon i Rol and maintenance procedures. Obviously you can t have three widely different hardware systems go bad and blame in Only on the hardware. It s got to be an Issue of Quality control and Nasa officials predicted thai the causes of inc Tilan explosion on april in and the Delia failure on saturday would ultimately be traced to improperly manufactured or installed components rather than a design Law which is the leading suspect in the shuttle disaster of Jan 28. With All three programs suspended experts agreed inc Delta Rochet explodes at Kennedy space Center. Country has virtually no capability to wide Ranee of payloads including vital weather and communications Sale Llilas military equipment and scientific instrument perhaps even in an emergency. Many suspect the remarkable siring of failures will Benefit trance. Japan and China All if which Are moving in Dickty to take Over launching contracts thai the american space Agency is now increasingly unable in fulfil either with inc shuttle
