Nervous about NASA.I worry that NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. is again trying to move too fast, scheduling six shuttle launches this year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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 Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer who is a senior editor of The New Republic. His articles have appeared in Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Wired 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 warning NASA executives that the booster's O-rings would contract from the cold, resulting in escaping gas that would cause the rocket to explode. NASA executives ignored the warning, because, one has to suspect, they wanted Ronald Reagan to laud the flight in his State of the Union address “State of the Union” redirects here. For other uses, see State of the Union (disambiguation). The State of the Union is an annual address in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of Congress (the that night. Charles Peters is the founding editor of the Washington Monthly. |
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