Jan 14 1987
From The Space Library
A National Research Council panel, set up to monitor the Shuttle redesign, informed Administrator James C. Fletcher that NASA would not be able to make safety changes in time to meet the February 1988 target date for the resumption of Shuttle flights. The panel, headed by retired Air Force General Alton D. Slay, praised NASA's top-to-bottom review of hundreds of items and procedures that could cause another disaster. It added, however, that several analyses of possible equipment failure and of items considered critical to safety would not be completed until the summer of 1987. The panel recommended that NASA rank the most critical safety items, based on the likelihood of their failure, and that it closely link the engineering changes and the hazard analyses. (NY Times, Jan 15/87; W Post, Jan 16/87; UPI, Jan 16/87)
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