The Air Force’s Titan rocket was a staple of the US space program from 1959 to 2005, but its early flights were rocky. Launch by US Delta rocket. After the accident, NASA attempted to aim at a more realistic shuttle flight rate: it added another orbiter, Following the day of the accident, press interest remained high. Contemporary press accounts did not contain much information on the cause of the explosion until several months later. The nose cone containing the The launch attempt of the Delta 3914 carrying the GOES-G, ends in failure 71 seconds later, May 3, 1986.American Pacific Corporation, Las Vegas, NV USA, 89169, parent company of the former PEPCON subsidiary and current parent to the WECCO division which manufactures perchlorate chemicals, including Human Resources, employees on site 5-4-88.Freeman Dyson, 2011, "The Dramatic Picture of Richard Feynman" New York Review of Books, July 14, 2011. At about one minute after liftoff, a friend of Boisjoly said to him "Oh God. European Space Agency satellite. Some of those gathered to watch this final launch of the HEXAGON actually wept at the sight of their last baby falling in pieces back to the Earth rather than sailing into space. If there was any overarching cause, like a loss of systems engineering competence, or laziness and inattentiveness among American space program managers who had become over-confident, it was never identified by a single high-level review.
"NASA claimed that it did not know of Thiokol's earlier concerns about the effects of the cold on the O-rings, and did not understand that According to Ebeling, a second conference call was scheduled with only NASA and Thiokol management, excluding the engineers. A letter written to the base commander a week after the explosion captured some of the drama. There were no more KH-9s left, although the bones of one of them (actually a test model) still remains in a classified warehouse and may someday be displayed in a museum, like some ancient dinosaur that once orbited the Earth.The liftoff of the ill-fated Titan 34D carrying the last KH-9 reconnaissance satellite.
A Delta rocket with the GOES-G weather satellite, NASA's first mission after the Challenger accident, destructs shortly after liftoff when the vehicle's main engine - providing all the steering - shuts down prematurely (look for the flameout), sending the payload (seen coming off first) into the Atlantic ocean off the Florida coast on May 3, 1986. According to William Russelr, Delta project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, data beamed.down