Mar 28 1986
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
James E. Kingsbury, director of the Science and Engineering Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama, was named to manage an ad hoc group formed to requalify the motor of the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Booster for flight. The booster rockets, said NASA, could be ready in one year. Kingsbury said that all of the current hard-ware could be modified and re-used, a comment that surprised outside engineers. (NASA Release 86-36; W Post, Mar 28/86; NY Times, Mar 28/86; NY Times, Mar 30/86)
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