Shuttle launch put back
NZPA-Reuter Washington The American space agency told the President, Mr Ronald Reagan, yesterday that the next space shuttle launch would be delayed until 1988, White House officials said.
Mr Reagan had received the news from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s chief, James Fletcher, who had previously said he expected the next shuttle launch to be next year.
Dr Fletcher delivered a report to Mr Reagan at the White House on how N.A.S.A. planned to implement the recommendations of a Presidential commission that investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger moments after lift-off, killing all seven astronauts aboard, on January 29.
The report estimated that it would take N.A.S.A. until the second quarter of 1988 to assure the safety of future shuttle missions, said the officials. “Their attitude now is ‘look, we’d rather be safe and do it right.’ There’s no time pressure as far as • we’re concerned,” said one Reagan aide.
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