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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Feb. 21, 1986
Commander leads shuttle inquirv
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Former shuttle commander Richard Truly took over the space shuttle program yesterday and will direct the space agency's internal investigation into the explosion of the shuttle Challenger and the deaths of its seven crew members Jan. 28.
Truly, a rear admiral who left the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $2_{1/2}$ years ago to head the Naval Space Command, vowed to ensure that NASA's decision-making process is working properly before another shuttle is cleared for flight.
The presidential commission investigating the accident already has found that NASA's top shuttle managers were not aware that engineers at Morton Thiolok, builder of the booster rocket suspected of
causing the accident, raised strong launch objections because they feared that record-cold weather might harm critical rubber seals.
"This tragic accident is going to cause a review — and if nobody else does it, I will — to make sure that the organization and the process that NASA has is proper," Truly said at a news conference announcing his appointment.
Truly, 48, replaced Jesse Moore as associate NASA administrator in charge of the shuttle program. Moore was named director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston five days before the shuttle disaster and was to have held both positions until June.
In Brigham City, Utah, the hometown of Thiokl rocket operations, Mayor Peter Knudson said he talked with several reputable Thiokl engineers and thought NASA might
have bullied them into the final launch decision.
In Chicago, chief Thiolok spokesman Tom Russell said. "I'm not aware of any pressure of that sort. I don't think that NASA brought any pressure to bear. Anything they said did not affect our decision-making process."
National Public Radio, quoting unidentified Thiolok engineers, reported that Lawrence Mulloy, chief of NASA's booster rocket program, argued with Thiolok and said, "My God, Thiolok, when do you want me to launch, next April?"
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., a member of the Senate subcommittee reviewing NASA's budget, called for the resignation of NASA's acting administrator, William Graham, saying Graham misled the subcommittee Wednesday about NASA's knowledge
of the launch objections.
Truly, who commanded Challenger during an August 1983 flight, said it would take him some time to review the details of what happened. He said he had the "utmost confidence in our ability within NASA to deal with this situation."
Graham, who took over the helm of NASA in November when James Beggs took leave to fight federal fraud charges, said Moore would take over direction of the Houston space center immediately. It was headed by an acting director at the time of Challenger's loss.
Graham said Truly's appointment was not made in response to the Challenger commission's request last Saturday that NASA's own probe not be conducted by officials who might be put in the position of having to investigate themselves.
New orbiting station launched by Russia
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MOSCOW — The Soviet Union launched a sophisticated orbiting space station yesterday, ushering in a third generation of technology that brings the Soviets closer to establishing a permanent home for man in space.
The space station, named "Mir," or "Peace," was operating normally after being launched with no passengers aboard early yesterday, the official Tass news agency said.
It was not known when the first cosmonauts would be launched to board the station or how many people the craft would hold.
The station has six docking ports, four more than the Soviet's Sulayut-7 station presently in orbit, and four modules for research and living quarters that can operate independently, Tass said.
The launching of the station marked the first time in the history of the Soviet space program that two stations were in orbit simultaneously.
The Peace station has an increased energy supply than earlier stations and more comfortable living quarters, including special cabinets equipped with desks, arm chairs and sleeping bags. Tass said.
The station also is equipped with advanced electronic and computer technology. Tass said.
Alexei Leenov, deputy chief of the cosmonauts training center and a member of the U.S.-Soviet space mission in 1975, told the news agency the station was a third-generation Soviet space laboratory.
The station will function as a base for assembling a multi-purpose permanently-operating manned complex for scientific and economic research, Tass said.
"The module is a kind of unmanned large-volume craft which has life-support and power systems and which is capable of performing independent maneuvers in outer space," Leonov said.
Senator asks officials from NASA to resign
WASHINGTON - Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., yesterday called for the resignation of acting National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator William Graham and James Beggs. now on leave from the post.
He said Graham had misled a congressional panel about knowledge within the space agency of engineers' objections to launching the ill-fated Challenger space shuttle in cold weather.
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that NASA made a high-level political decision to go ahead with a morning launch of the shuttle, despite strong objections from Morton-Thiolok engineers, who said the temperature was far too cold for a safe launch," Hollings said in a statement.
But Graham said he tried to make it clear to the committee
that the decision-making process was very complex.
Hollings serves on a Senate subcommittee monitoring the presidential commission investigating the Jan. 28 explosion of the shuttle Challenger.
Hollings was also critical of the investigating commission, headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers, saying the panel's investigation was flawed.
Morton-Thiokol, maker of the suspect solid-fuel rocket boosters, initially recommended against launching in cold temperatures, which could reduce the effectiveness of rocket segment sealing rings. But a top company official later signed off on a statement approving a launch.
"This looks like it was an avoidable accident, not an unavoidable one, as we had been led to believe," Hollings said.
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