Apr 2 1986
From The Space Library
In a data gathering activity in support of the Challenger accident investigation, destacking of solid rocket motors to gather information and assess the pre-flight conditions in and around the field joints was scheduled for early April. Inspections would focus on the field joint o-rings, putty used in the joints, rocket motor case ovality or "roundness," with any assembly damage, clevis gap-opening resulting from stacking, and the degree of propellant slumping that occurred as a result of vertical stacking. Any relevant data from the destacking inspections that might be useful to the investigation was to be assembled by the NASA 51-L Data and Design Analysis Task Force and provided to the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. (NASA Release 86-37)
NASA and the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Inc. announced plans to build a memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to astronauts who lost their lives while flying, training, or awaiting assignment to fly for the space agency. The memorial would honor the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger crew-Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Jarvis; the 1967 Apollo crew – Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee; Charles Bassett and Elliott See, killed in 1966, Theodore Freeman killed in 1964, and Clifton Williams killed in 1967-a11 killed in T-38 trainer aircraft accidents; and Edward Givens, killed in 1967 in an automobile accident. (NASA Release 86-38)
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