European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2fl the stars and stripes tuesday june 10,1986 Shume tragedy blamed on Seal from Page 1 that either i he Crew or the ground control lers could in pc Dune to Avert the Carastro Phe,1 concluded the a incl. Although the commission called Tor Many changes in Nasa s practices the final report singled out the Marshall space flight pm Ltd the facility which oversees the Booster Rock i program. The report said Marshall suffers from management Isola Tion which needs to be eliminated who Tiv or by changes of personnel organization Indocci Rini a lion or All  the report said Nasa s highly Success Ful safely program a hallmark during the Apollo program was allowed to lapse and nowhere More than at Marshall. The panel also pointedly criticized Law rence Mulloy the Nasa official who was in charge of he solid rocket motor program at the time of the launch for providing testimony that was contradicted by other facts developed in the Case. The commission headed by former Secre tary of state William p. Rogers arranged to formally present its report to president Rea Gan. Nasa administrator James Fletcher already has implemented some of the commis Sion s recommendations. The panel went on to say that problem with the seat made the challenger explosion an Accident rooted in  la began with the faulty design of its joint and increased As both Nasa and con tractor management first failed it recognize it Ai a problem then failed to fix it and finally treated it a an acceptable flight risk the commission said. The commission has concluded that Nei ther Racket manufacturer Morton Thi Okol nor Nasa responded adequately to inter Nal warnings about the faulty Seal design the report said furthermore Thi Okol and Nasa did nol make a timely attempt to develop and verify a new Seal after the Ini tial design was shown to be  it added that Nasa should give full consideration to conducting lest firings on a redesigned rocket in a vertical configuration a plan that same Nasa officials have said previously could Dclay the return of the shuttle to space Well beyond the july 19b7 target Date. The commission report made these other recommendations Nasa should see to the formation of an Independent committee to oversee the redesign Effort on the Booster rocket. Nasa should overhaul its shuttle management system to give the program Man Ager now. As in january Arnold Aldrich of the Johnson space Center greater authority and set up a shuttle safely panel including representatives from the Astro naut corps. Establish a new safety organisation that would be Independent of other Nasa program responsibilities. Conduct a comprehensive review of All items whose performance Are deemed Crit ical to shuttle flights. It said the Orbilee s tires brakes and steering systems do nol have sufficient safely  recommended that Nasa make All Effort to provide a Crew escape system during the Ottmer i gliding descent from orbit As Well As provide for greater emergency Landing Dos Sibi Litka in the event that two or three of the Shutlak t main engines fail during ascent. Called on Nasa to establish a flight schedule More consistent with its re sources and top the practice of removing parts from one shuttle to Supply another. The conclusion that the shuttle Accident was caused by a breakdown in a Seal in the right rocket Booster was no Surprise hav ing been discussed in the commission s pub Lic hearings. It began with the faulty design of its joint and increased As both Nasa and con tractor management first failed to recognize it Ai a problem then failed to fix it and finally treated it As an acceptable flight risk the commission said. The commission has concluded that Nei ther rocket manufacturer Morton Thi Okol nor Nasa responded adequately to inter Nal warnings about the faulty Seal design the report said. Furthermore Thi Okol and Nasa did not make a timely attempt to develop and verify a new Seal after the Ini tial design was shown to be  the failure was due to a faulty design  sensitive to a number of fac tors the report said. Among those actors the report said was the effects of cold temperatures on synthetic rubber of rings de signed to Seal the joint to keep hot gases Fri m escaping. Challenger was launched when the temperature fas 38 degrees 15 degrees colder than it wan on any of the 24 earlier shuttle flights. The cold robbed the of rings of their resiliency reducing their ability to Cipani a and contain the gases the commission so id. There was plenty of warning from lower Levi engineers that the joints were badly de signed including one report that said they could cause a catastrophe that would destroy the shuttle and its Crew the report said. On launch Day some Morion Thi Okol engineers argued against lifting off in the cold weather. The commission said h considered the possibility of sabotage in detail and found no evidence either at the launch pad or during other processes prior to or during  the report said the first indication of a problem came a scant .678 seconds into the night when a Strong puff of Gray smoke spurted from the Vicinity of a Seal in the right Booster rocket. Eight More distinctive puffs of increasingly Blacker smoke were recorded Between .836 seconds and 2.5 seconds the report said. It said the Black color and dense composition of the smolt a suggest that the grease joint insulation and rubber of rings in the joint Seal were being bum cd and eroded by the hot wrap cant  at a Little More than 72 seconds into the flight. The lower strut linking the rocket to the main tank was severed or pulled away and the Booster rocket began rotating on its top attachment. The tank s main Hydrogen Lank gave Way. Releasing massive amounts of liquid Hydrogen. The solid Futi Booster rocket hit the main Lank Ai the nose. Very quickly challenger travelling at nearly twice the Speed of sound at 46,000 feet was totally enveloped in the explosive Burn. The orbiter. Broke into several Large Sec Lions which emerged from the  Wal Meimi from Page 1 Onzil circles resorted a a flagrant interference in the pre action struggle and launched a Campai. Attacks against wai1 influence the Oulom in Washington Man Larry up cart Waldheim. Asau would be elem pm in nazi persecutions it states. 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