Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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the bone could be that of an animal or remains from missing fishermen or
All but one of the 11 segments of the Challenger rocket casing that ruptured and shot out a jet of flame 15 seconds before Challenger exploded had been used before without incident, NASA said.
In Houston, sources said investigators were checking the theory that a tiny gap between the two lower segments of fuel in the right-hand booster may have let 6,000 degree gases burn through the rocket's steel seam.
Sources said such a gap might have been caused during assembly by
damage to the rocket casing or to the fuel, which has the consistency of hard rubber, or by misalignment of the rocket segments.
The booster casings, which parachute into the sea after a normal flight, were designed to be used repeatedly in an effort to save money.
After each flight, the casings are put under magnetic particle examination to look for cracks and defects, then are pressure tested and inspected once again before being filled with fresh fuel, a rubbery mixture of ammonium perchlorate and aluminum.
"It's something that has proved
itsself during the first 24 launches," Graham said of the booster reuse. "We have reused those cases again and again."
Photographs of the last 15 seconds of Challenger's flight showed a jet of flame shooting like a blowtorch out of the rocket at or near a seam between two casings that had each flown on one previous mission. Five of the other segments had been used twice.
The president, acting on the day the Challenger would have returned to Earth, gave the commission, which is headed by former secretary of state William P. Rogers and Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong, 120 days to report its findings.
In announcing the appointment of the investigation commission, Reagan said, "As we move away from that terrible day, we must divert our energies to how it happened and how it can be prevented from happening again."
Armstrong, who has participated in other accident investigations, said finding the precise cause of the Challenger disaster wouldn't necessarily be an easy job.
Killed in the explosion were Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis and teacher Christa McAuliffe.
A calculator, valued at $250, was stolen between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday from a backpack in the lobby of Naismith Hall, KU police said yesterday.
An AM-FM cassette stereo radio, valued at $300, was stolen between 7:30 p.m. Friday and 5:30 a.m. Saturday from a parking lot in the 2500 block of Redbud Lane. Lawrence police said thieves used a chunk of concrete to break the driver's side window to enter the car.
A bike, valued at $470, was stolen late Friday afternoon from a shopping center parking lot in the 900 block of Iowa Street. Lawrence police said.
Gas
As a safety precaution, the company planned to have the gas company and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment present when the machine was rested this morning. White said.
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White said company officials now think the incident was caused by a broken damper on the machine the
substances that might have been released. The Lawrence Fire Department and the Kansas Public Service Co. Inc. both tested the building thoroughly. Neither reported anything out of the ordinary.
White said he initially thought the workers might have succumbed to a combination of the high humidity outside, steam released from the machine and the fact that some of the workers affected recently had been ill.
A Toyota Corolla Hatchback, valued at $7,000, was stolen between midnight Friday and 2:30 a.m. Saturday from the parking lot of a bar in the 200 block of Locust Street, police said.
On the Record
Robert Graham, an operator at the company, said despite all that occurred he doubted that there was a serious problem.
three hospitalized employees were working with. The broken damper prevented the exhaust system from operating properly.
Golf bags and clubs, valued together at $800, were stolen between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. Saturday, from a parked car in the 2500 block of Redbud Lane, police said.
Graham knew of one person who said that he smelled something but he didn't experience anything out of the ordinary.
headache, said, "People just started dropping."
Graham said that many of the company's employees had recently been laid off.
Graham, who said he also had a
E & E takes good care of its employees, he said, and everyone affected was checked and given the rest of the day off.
Smith said E & E produces point-of-purchase displays for several companies such as Hallmark Cards.
A radar detector and cash,
valued together at $355, were stolen
between 10:30 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.
m. Friday from a car parked in the
1500 block of West 22nd Terrace,
police said.
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distributing drugs to minors but might affect college students who use drugs at parties.
A prosecuting attorney could technically charge a student who passed a marijuana cigarette to someone under the age of 18 with a class D felony, he said.
"The concern I have for Lawrence is that it could get relatively innocent people in a college setting charged with serious crimes," he said. "It could be very harsh legislation if
you had a prosecuting attorney who wanted to use it.
"The good public policy is that it gives the prosecuting attorney a much bigger hammer for distributing drugs to minors." Solbach said. "I don't oppose the prosecuting attorney having that as a tool."
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said the bill would help crack down on the sale of drugs to minors. It would be used on a case-by-case basis.
"I have no sympathy for anybody that distributes drugs to a minor," Flory said. "I think it's a justified provision. It could be well utilized to fit the particular case."
Solbach said a college student might want to ask the age of a person before he hands him a drug at a party.
"Make sure you check the L.D. of the person sitting next to you," he said.
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